Foreigners are warned by the US Embassy, Bangkok, to use caution in Bangkok and in and around Chiang Mai as the Red Shirts begin yet another demonstration which could turn violent as the 4th Anniversary of the ousting of Prime Minister Thaksin and the fourth month anniversary of the end of the Red Shirts protests […]
BANGKOK, Sept 16 – Thailand’s CentralWorld shopping complex –thecountry’s largest– will reopen for shoppers September 28, according to Central Pattana president and chief executive officer, Kobchai Chirathivat. CentralWorld, Thailand’s largest shopping complex and the second largest in Southeast Asia, was set afire by allegedly disgruntled Red Shirt protesters after their protest leaders surrendered to police […]
Red Shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will stage a brief rally for only two hours on Sunday and will not prolong their campaign, according to a senior police officer who negotiated with a leading Red activist ahead of Sunday’s activities. Pol Maj-Gen Vichai Sangprapai, commander of Metropolitan Police Division 1, who also […]
BANGKOK, 16 September 2010 (NNT) – A group of black-clad men believed to be plotting an assassination against the prime minister Abhisit have been identified by police while a team of officers have been tailing the perpetrators closely to prevent possible attacks. Speaking of the report on killing attempts against public figures, police revealed they […]
CHIANG MAI, Sept 15 – Anti-government protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) in the northern province of Chiang Mai, a major Red Shirt stronghold, on Wednesday promised a peaceful demonstration to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 19 coup which toppled prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power. Pichit Tamool, secretary […]
BANGKOK, 15 September 2010 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has confirmed that the Government has no policy to pardon any wrongdoer in political rallies for the sake of national reconciliation as proposed by the coalition Bhumjaithai Party. Prime Minister Abhisit dismissed the policy to issue an amnesty bill for all wrongdoers in the past […]
The Metropolitan Police Bureau will deploy 400 anti-riot police to keep security at the Rajprasong Intersection when the red-shirt movement organises activities to mark the 4th coup anniversary, the bureau chief said Monday. Pol Lt Gen Santhan Chayanon, the metropolitan police commissioner, said the 400 police would prevent the red-shirt people from moving from the […]
The army chief warns the red-shirt group against exploiting the recent chaos to frame others during its Sunday rally to mark the fourth anniversary of the 2006 military coup. He believes the group’s activities will not spin out of control. Army chief General Anupong Paochinda stated the red-shirt group will coordinate with the police on […]
