Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has told a Thai newspaper that he is not sick and has been doing business in Africa. Thaksin gave a phone-interview to a Thai Rath Online reporter after his lawyer Noppadon Pattama distributed media pictures of Thaksin to disprove rumours he is sick or in critical condition, as some rumours […]
BANGKOK: The media have become a new target in Thailand’s political turmoil. Since their protest was crushed by troops, furious demonstrators have turned their anger on the most visible messengers in their conflict. Largely drawn from the rural poor of north and north-eastern Thailand, the Red Shirts resent what they regard as the Bangkok-centric Thai […]
Arsonists rampaged in downtown Bangkok on Wednesday afternoon, setting fire to buildings and shopping centres, after the core leaders of the United front for democracy against Dictatorship surrendered and announced an end to the protest rally at Ratchaprasong intersection. Fires were reported at Central World department store in Ratchaprasong, Siam Theatre at Siam Square, the […]
Amid intensifying Thailand protests, antigovernment ‘red shirt’ demonstrators ignored a deadline Monday to leave their fortified downtown Bangkok camp, now ringed by troops. Bangkok, Thailand Thailand’s red shirt protesters defied a government deadline Monday to abandon an anarchic rally ringed by heavily armed security forces as the toll rose from five days of street fighting. […]
