On Friday, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced he would dissolve Parliament in the first week of May, paving the way for Thailand’s next general election, to take place in June or July. Last year’s red shirt protests, which resulted in the deaths of 91 people and injuries to at least 2,000, aimed to force Abhisit […]
BANGKOK, 14 March 2011 (NNT)—Four red-shirted leaders who have been in hiding for nearly a year turned themselves in to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) this morning to face terrorism charge. They have been granted bail and barred from joining any political rally. According to Tharit Pengdit, the DSI chief, the four leaders who […]
BANGKOK, March 12 – Thailand’s anti-government Red Shirt movement on Saturday held a mass rally to mark the one year anniversary of the beginning of the group’s demonstration to oust the Democrat-led coalition government with the seven protest leaders expected to join the crowd for the first time after their temporary release. Supporters of the […]
BANGKOK, 11 March 2011 (NNT) – The Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) has expected that about 30,000 supporters would show up in the upcoming mass gathering of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD). CAPO and National Police Spokesperson Police Major General Prawut Thavornsiri admitted that the CAPO is worrying […]
BANGKOK, March 10 – Leading Red Shirt activist Adisorn Piengket, charged with terrorism, turned himself in to police on Thursday after being on the run for nine months, and was released on bail after reporting. The former deputy agriculture and cooperatives minister in the Thaksin Shinawatra administration surrendered to the Department of Special investigation (DSI) […]
BANGKOK, 10 March 2011 (NNT)-Deputy Prime Minister for Security Mr. Suthep Thaugsuban is confident the government will be up against the distortion of information from the Opposition during the no-confidence debate while also planning to respond by revealing a photo of a black masked man at the time Central World was burnt down. He denied […]
The public prosecutors on Wednesday filed a criminal suit charging Police Sergeant Parinya Maneekot for illegal possession with the intent to trafficking of 62 40mm grenades produced for M-79 grenade launchers. Parinya, of the Kukot police station in Pathum Thani, was arrested on April 28 last year at a checkpoint near Don Mueang Airport on […]
BANGKOK, 8 March 2011 (NNT) – The Democrat Party has expressed concern over the upcoming demonstration of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) on 12 March, which will be held only days before the censure debate. Spokesperson of the ruling Democrat Party Buranaj Smutharaks disclosed that the party had convened to assess the […]
