Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai court issued a warrant Tuesday against the country’s ousted prime minister on terrorism charges connected with the violent clashes that crippled Bangkok for weeks, the former prime minister’s lawyer said. Thai investigators claimed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a bloodless military coup in 2006, helped […]
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 […]
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra made a phone call to the meeting of Pheu Thai Party MPs, saying the timing is good for the red-shirt movement to accept the prime minister’s offer for political reconciliation. But Thaksin quickly added that it would be up to the red-shirt movement itself as to whether it would accept […]
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has emerged to deny rumours that he is dead. Rumours have swept the internet in recent days that Thaksin, who has been living in self-exile, mainly in Dubai, is suffering from terminal stage cancer. One version said he died during a chemotherapy session on Friday. Panthongtae, his eldest son, earlier […]
(RFE/RL) — Thailand’s red-shirted protesters started dressing in different colors today to avoid being arrested, as the government tried new measures to stop the protests from growing. The red-shirted supporters of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra have occupied Bangkok’s main shopping area of Ratchaprasong for three weeks. They are seeking to pressure the government […]
Anti-government protesters want the Thai prime minister to step down from his job within 30 days, a proposal that comes as the so-called Red Shirts continue to occupy a major commercial district in Bangkok. After holding unofficial talks with the Thai government this week, the Red Shirts said Friday that they want Thai Prime Minister […]
THAKSINISM is back in Thailand. Almost four years after Thaksin Shinawatra’s ousting, while he shuttles by private jet from one haven to the next, under threat of jail at home, with 76 billion Thai baht ($2.5bn) of assets seized or frozen, his disciples are poised to reclaim government with huge popular support. Failing another coup […]
THE LATEST political crisis in Thailand is a particularly tragic instance of political blowback. Three times in the past four years, Thais opposed to the populist movement of Thaksin Shinawatra precipitated the downfall of democratically elected governments by creating chaos in the streets of Bangkok. Now the current government, backed by that same alliance of […]
