Bangkok Dangerous

Five grenades were fired from M79 launchers at BTS Saladaeng station last night from unknown launch sites, killing one Thai woman and injuring 75 others, including three foreigners. Five grenades were fired from M79 launchers at BTS Saladaeng station and nearby areas last night from unknown launch sites, killing one Thai woman and injuring 75 […]

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Anti-Red demonstrators, Red Shirts skirmish in capital

BANGKOK, April 22 (TNA) – Projectiles — rocks and marbles, launched from schoolboy slingshots and homemade rockets –streaked across Bangkok’s Saladaeng intersection as the Thai capital’s Silom Road local business community and the so-called ‘Multi-Coloured Group’ skirmished with anti-government ‘Red Shirt’ activists at Saladaeng intersection outside the Dusit Thani Hotel late Wednesday night. Homemade rockets […]

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Red shirts, soldiers ready

Barricades set up as both sides armed to attacked The red shirts barricaded all six entrances to their protest site on Rajprasong intersection yesterday after the government made it clear that it was waiting for the right opportunity to use force to disperse the tens of thousands of protesters. However, Saladaeng intersection, adjoining Silom Road […]

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Thai army ‘ready to use live fire against red-shirts’

The Thai army has made explicit its determination to use live ammunition against “red-shirt” anti-government protesters in certain circumstances. An army spokesman told a regular news briefing that troops were ready to use their weapons “decisively”. The red-shirts later called off plans to march on the city’s Silom business district, saying they wanted to avoid […]

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Anti-government protesters call off rally in Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Anti-government protesters called off a rally they had planned for Tuesday because of an immense military presence on the streets of Bangkok. “We are not going to mobilize to anywhere because there are too many soldiers on the street,” said Nattawut Saikua, a leader with the United Front for Democracy Against […]

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