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Government Offers Debt Relief to Appease Farmers The Thai government is initiating a debt suspension scheme for farmers worth 80 billion baht which is seen as a plan to mollify grass roots organizers as political divisions persist in worsening. The plan was made public as tension mounted after a second round of give and take [...]

Thaksin Taunts, Thumbs Nose at Government Ousted Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra told his devotees on Tuesday night that he is in Russia on company business and has not been ejected from Sweden as had been rumored. He derided the Foreign Ministry, which is endeavoring to track him down, by telling his red-shirt supporters at Phan [...]

Thai Army Disputes Cambodian Claims A higher-ranking Cambodian army official said Wednesday that his troops have killed 88 Thai soldiers during the past two years in conflicts in the vicinity of an ancient temple on a disputed boundary. General Chea Tara, a Cambodian deputy commander-in-chief who supervises military operations in the area near the Preah [...]

Civilized Talks Mark Thai government Negotiations The second day of talks between the Thai government and the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) finished in a deadlock on Monday night as they could not agree on the timeframe for disbanding the House of Representatives. The two-hour confrontation began around 6.20pm at King Prachadipok’s [...]

Thai Troops Withdrawn form Area of Red Shirt Demonstration Thai Troops were withdrawn from eight stand-by bivouacks in the inner locale of Bangkok on Saturday under increasing demands from the red-shirts, who had threatened to move in to the camps. The soldiers’ extraction came after the red-shirts rallied at the eight places in the morning [...]

Thai Soldiers Will not Return to Barracks Thai Soldiers camped at support locations in Bangkok cannot meet the terms of the anti-government demonstrators’ request to return to their barracks, mediation operations centre spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said on Saturday. “It’s not possible for the troops to leave their stations, because their job is to prevent violence. [...]

Killer Confesses to Massacre A recently fired police officer who jumped bail on a murder charge has confessed to killing his friend, a police lieutenant, alonf with his wife and two children, in a roadside slaughter in Pathum Thani, police investigators said. Former Pol Lt Montree Kaewrat, a former detective at Bang Bua Thong district [...]

Drought Disaster Strikes Thailand Thailand’s Interior Ministry’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department on Friday declared that 53 provinces – 382 districts, 2,499 tambons and 1,9,704 villages – throughout the country have been proclaimed disaster areas because of water scarcity. Of the 53 regions, 16 are in the North, 15 in the Northeast, eight in the [...]

Thaksin Lawyers Back Again Lawyers for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will today present what they claim is new substantiation to the Supreme Court in an effort to win a new trial over the confiscation of the bulk of the former prime minister’s Thai monies. Noppadon Pattama, Thaksin’s legal adviser, said yesterday that the [...]