BANGKOK, 30 June 2011 (NNT) – The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has issued a declaration terminating its prolonged street-protest at Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge and Chamai Maruchet Bridge nearby Government House on Friday night (1 July). PAD Spokesperson Panthep Puapongpan declared that PAD demonstrators will disperse as their demand has been met after Thailand withdrew […]
Bangkok – Thai protesters massed outside the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Bangkok office Wednesday to demand that a Cambodian temple be removed from the world heritage list. About 1,000 members of the ultra-nationalist People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) gathered to demand UNESCO delist the Preah Vihear temple, which lies on Cambodian soil […]
BANGKOK, June 21 – The so-called yellow shirt People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) on Tuesday petitioned the Election Commission (EC) to dissolve the Pheu Thai Party, claiming the active role of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra as grounds for its disbandment. PAD spokesman Panthep Puapongpan and Samdin Lertbut, secretary-general of the Puea Fa Din Party, submitted the […]
Thailand’s royalist Yellow Shirts have protested outside the United Nations Cultural agency in Bangkok, urging it to withdraw world heritage status for a Cambodian temple near disputed territory. They also paraded through the Thai capital encouraging people not to vote in July 3 elections. The nationalist movement has stopped supporting the current government, saying it […]
The People’s Alliance for Democracy will on Friday’s morning organise a march from Lumpini Park to Silom Road in order to raise awareness on the no vote campaign, police said, warning motorists to avoid the route from 11.00 am to noon. “The traffic from Rama IV Road to Silom will be partially closed by two […]
BANGKOK, June 6 – Sondhi Limthongkul, a core leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), also known as the Yellow Shirt movement, reported to police on Monday to acknowledge charges in relation to the seizure of Thailand’s two main airports in 2008. Mr Sondhi rejected all the charges, and the prosecutor set July 8 […]
BANGKOK, June 1 — Investigators from the Metropolitan Police Bureau in the Thai capital are inspecting the scene and combing through closed-circuit television footage for possible images of the bomber who hurled an explosive device into the Rajdamnoen Road rally site of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), the Yellow Shirts, wounding two. Led by […]
BANGKOK, May 26 – Encamped in the surroundings of Thailand’s Government House since early this year, the yellow-clad People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) movement on Thursday pledged to prolong its protest against the Democrat-led coalition government until the end of June awaiting the result of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting regarding the Preah Vihear […]
