A Thai female reporter for France 24 TV was nearly lynched while she was interviewing a woman inside the Pathumwanaram Temple at noon Tuesday. Nice Pojanametbalsatit had to run away from the angry protesters and rescued by guards before she was taken to the are area behind the Rajprasong rally stage. She was interviewing a […]
May 18 (Bloomberg) — Thailand’s government said it is willing to reopen talks on holding an early election to help avoid bloodshed after six days of gun battles in Bangkok that have killed at least 36 people. “We are willing to renegotiate the election,” Korbsak Sabhavasu, the government’s chief negotiator and a former deputy prime […]
Hospitals in Bangkok were preparing for bloodshed tonight, after anti-government Red Shirt protesters ignored an ultimatum to abandon their occupation of central Bangkok, and the leaders of the demonstration promised to die rather than give in to the authorities. An aeroplane dropped leaflets urging protesters to leave immediately and warning that anyone caught inside the […]
The crisis in Bangkok has spread from Bangkok to the provinces outside the capital, worsening the country’s already precarious political crisis and sending reverberations through the Thai markets. The Thai baht has dropped to a seven-week low, the main stock index fell 2 per cent at a two-week low, and credit default swaps on government […]
Amid intensifying Thailand protests, antigovernment ‘red shirt’ demonstrators ignored a deadline Monday to leave their fortified downtown Bangkok camp, now ringed by troops. Bangkok, Thailand Thailand’s red shirt protesters defied a government deadline Monday to abandon an anarchic rally ringed by heavily armed security forces as the toll rose from five days of street fighting. […]
Key red-shirt leader and rogue army officer Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol, who was shot in the head immediately after giving an interview to foreign reporters on Thursday night, died on Monday morning. Dr Chaiwan Charoenchokthawee, director of Vajira Hospital, said Maj-Gen Khattiya, better known as Seh Daeng, was pronounced dead at 9.20am. Seh Daeng sufferred an […]
Thai troops faced stubborn resistance from anti-government protesters in Bangkok and several northern provinces Monday as the death toll from four days of clashes in the capital rose to 35. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Erawan Emergency Centre said another 244 people had been wounded in the clashes since Thursday night. The shooting Thursday night of […]
Thailand’s government has set a deadline for opposition protesters to surrender women and children before it mounts a final assault on the Red Shirt encampments in central Bangkok. Red Cross workers were told they would be given safe passage through a “live firing zone” until mid afternoon Monday to remove the vulnerable from the 3,000-strong […]
