The messages Thai Government would like to convey to all the tourists who are in Thailand or planning to visit the Kingdom. TAT Fact sheet as of 11th April 2010 GOVERNMENT TO RESTORE NORMALCY IN THE VARIOUS AREAS OF BANGKOK Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva reaffirms that the Government is duty bound to resolve the present […]
The red shirts are rallying in 17 provinces in the North and the Northeast to support their fellow protesters in Bangkok, Interior Minister Chaovarat Chanweerakul said on Thursday. “Although protests are sprounting up, there are no reports of any danger,” he said, reaffirming the authorities can control the situation. Provincial governors are under instruction to […]
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva conceded the enforcement of Internal Security Act (ISA) had failed to deter the protests by the red shirts. Abhisit then deemed it necessary to invoke the emergency decree over Bangkok. Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban has been appointed to supervise the emergency rule. “We want to facilitate other actions to restore […]
BANGKOK, April 6 (TNA) — Two police officers were wounded Tuesday when a grenade exploded near the headquarters of the ruling Democrat Party, while a motorcade of anti-government protesters passed by the building on motorcycles and in cars and pickups, police said. The incident took place despite heavy security, with a combined force of 1,000 […]
Thousands of protesters from rural northern Thailand have begun arriving in Bangkok for a rally aimed at toppling the government of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajhiva. Trucks and other vehicles filled highways into the capital city Saturday as security forces searched them, ahead of a protest scheduled for Sunday to restore ousted Prime Minister Thaksin […]
SPECIAL REPORT: The city is on a knife’s edge as tens of thousands of protesters gather in a bid to overthrow the government Expectation hangs thick in the air as the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship begins its protest today – with security forces not predicting any increase in tensions until the red […]
BANGKOK, Mar 11 (TNA) – The number of foreign arrivals in Thailand will drop below what many expected if the anti-government Red Shirt protests during March 12-14 turn violent, according to a leading economist. Siam Commercial Bank Executive Vice President Sethaput Suthiwart-naru said the SCB Economic Intelligence Center (EIC) earlier projected that the number of […]
BANGKOK – Thailand’s government yesterday agreed to impose the Internal Security Act ahead of protests this weekend, vowing to use “all means” to stop violence by backers of ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra. The security act will be imposed from March 11 to 23. Among the security measures is the banning of farm vehicles from the […]
