BANGKOK, August 1 – Police revealed photographs of several men suspected of involvement in the bombing at a bus stop at Big C department store in Ratchadamri Road last Sunday evening saying they are close aides of the late Red Shirt military strategist army Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol. The suspects are believed to be linked to […]
BANGKOK — Several hundred Red Shirt protesters defied a state of emergency in the Thai capital to stage a symbolic protest Sunday, with hundreds of people sprawling on the ground and chanting, “People died here!” The demonstration at the city’s Democracy Monument was peaceful, but it was the latest sign of simmering discontent since the […]
Two journalists died and several others were injured during the country’s political unrest. A CPJ investigation has found that both security forces and protesters engaged in reckless behavior—and in the aftermath, the government has done little to bring anyone to account. A CPJ special report by Shawn W. Crispin. After Thai security forces and antigovernment […]
A grenade exploded near a Bangkok shopping mall early Friday, wounding one person in the second explosion in a week in the Thai capital still rattled by deadly political clashes and living under emergency rule. Also Friday, a top leader of Thailand’s Red Shirt protest movement, whose street demonstrations were violently suppressed by the army […]
BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Tuesday that the authorities would maintain emergency rule in the capital following a deadly bombing over the weekend. “I think Bangkok will remain under the state of emergency while the government will gradually lift the law in other provinces,” he told reporters after meeting security officials. The […]
Sunday’s by-election in Thailand offer a window on the continuing divide, and hints at the enduring strength of the red shirt opposition. Bangkok, Thailand Two months after security forces put down violent street protests, a by-election held Sunday in Thailand offered a small window into public opinion in a divided nation. The result – an […]
Thailand’s deposed leader Thaksin Shinawatra marked his 61st birthday Monday with tweets from exile that called for peace, a day after a grenade exploded in downtown Bangkok that left one person dead and 10 wounded. There have been no claims of responsibility for Sunday’s blast at a bus stop in a busy shopping district, which […]
The bombing, amid protests and an election, risks a crossfire of finger-pointing. BANGKOK, Thailand — A mysterious bombing has returned unease to Bangkok, still on the mend from wild riots and urban army raids. One man is reported dead and eight wounded after explosives stashed in a trash bag erupted near a bus stop, charring […]
