This message alerts U.S. citizens traveling to or residing in Thailand that media reports indicate that the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (aka UDD or red-shirts) will hold a demonstration on Sunday, December 19, 2010 scheduled from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm in Bangkok’s Rajaprasong area (around Central World) to mark the 7 month […]
Red Shirts and violent uprisings may have dominated the news from Thailand in the first half of 2010, but it seems it will take more than two months of bloody protests to put tourists off visiting. The southeast Asian nation is celebrating after announcing a 12.6 per cent rise in visitor numbers for the year […]
BANGKOK, 16 December 2010 (NNT)-Center One Shopping Center is due to re-open its door on December 24th, seven months after the bloody May which saw the greater part of the center torched to ashes. Only part of the shopping complex will be open to the public, while the rest of the areas are still undergoing […]
BANGKOK, Dec 15 — A senior Japanese embassy official on Wednesday met National Police Chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree to ask the Thai authorities to speed up their investigation into the death of a Japanese cameraman killed during Red Shirt protest. Cameraman Hiroyuki Muramoto of the Reuters news agency was shot dead while filming the […]
The head of the Department of Special Investigation disputed claims yesterday by a Pheu Thai MP adisputed claims a red-shirt activist made to the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok on the death of a Japanese photographer during the anti-government rallies earlier this year. DSI director-general Tharit Pengdit, as chief investigator into the shooting, said initial verification […]
Leaked investigation contradicts Thai Prime Minister, who had blamed six gunshot deaths on protesters taking sanctuary An official investigation into the deaths of protesters taking refuge in a Buddhist temple that had been declared a safe haven during Thailand’s Red Shirt demonstrations in May this year has found that special forces were probably responsible. This […]
Members of Thailand’s anti- government “Red-shirts” group on Friday morning started to gather at Khok Woa intersection on Bangkok’s Ratchadamneon Avenue. They will hold activities in remembrance of the passing of eight months since their rally against the government at Phan Fa Bridge and to mark the 78th year of the constitution. The rally organisers […]
According to a new report, yes. The Bangkok Post: Red shirt detainees are being tortured, forced to confess to crimes and jailed without any chance to defend themselves, a damning report reveals. … The National Human Rights Commission subcommittee on civil and political rights concluded its study into the red shirt detentions in June but […]
