CentralWorld in Bangkok announces it is closing as of 3pm, to resume normal operation on Sunday after Red Shirt gathering at Ratchaprasong ends. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, May 18 – Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said on Friday it has concluded that 16 deaths during the 2010 political riots might have been caused by state officials, while 12 other deaths may be caused by red shirt protesters. DSI Chief Tharit Pengdit said there is solid evidence proving state officials were […]
Police revealed yesterday that the case of the Italian journalist, who was killed in the government crackdown on red shirts in 2010, would be heard in court from July 23. The late journalist Fabio Polenghi’s sister, Elizabeth, visited the Metropolitan Police Bureau yesterday to ask about the progress of the investigation into her brother’s death. […]
BANGKOK, 18 May 2012 (NNT) – Bangkok police have been stepping up security measures to make sure that this weekend’s gathering of the Red shirt supporters in the center of the city go smoothly. Metropolitan Police Bureau spokesperson Police Colonel Preeda Sataworn said that the city police have been instructed to prepare for the rally […]
Thousands of protesters are to mark the second anniversary Saturday of a crackdown on anti-government demonstrationsin central Bangkok, which left up to 102 people dead. “You will see about 100,000 people coming to Ratchaprasong Road in memory of those who died,” Thida Tavornseth – chairwoman of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also […]
The village pavilion of a new redshirt village in Songkhla province was burnt down early Tuesday, hours after its opening by redshirt leaders and supporters in the South. On Monday evening redshirt leader Thida Tavornset Tojirakarn and supporters held an opening ceremony for a red-shirt village near the now-burnt-down pavilion in tambon Bangkae, in Songkhla’s […]
A famous Thai actress was ran out of town by a group of angry Red Shirt’s on Saturday Night. They were responding to comments she made in the Thai press concerning the recent death of a man whilst in prison, who was serving a 15 year sentence for a “Lese Majeste” conviction, a law which […]
BANGKOK, 12 May 2012 (NNT) – Police and business operators in Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong area discussed security and traffic management plans ahead of the commemoration gathering by Red Shirt members. Shop owners in Ratchaprasong area asked police to persuade Red Shirt members to perform their activities in peace and keep the roads passable for the sake […]
