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Hun Sen Visit Requires Special Securuty Special safety protocol will be supplied for Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during his visit to Thailand to be present at the first Mekong River summit next month, Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said on Thursday. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Hua Hin, Prachuap [...]

Red Shirts Claim New Rally Will be Different than Others This upcoming Saturday’s rally of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship will see a good deal bigger figure of demonstrators taking part than last Saturday’s motorcade, Jatuporn Prompan announced on Thursday. Mr Jatuporn, a UDD leader and opposition Puea Thai Party MP, said at [...]

Telecommunications Law Passes with Opposition Absent The Thai House of Representatives, currently being boycotted by the majority of opposition MPs, on Wednesday enacted a bill to set up a regulatory bureau for the allotment of radio and television frequencies and the management of radio, television and telecommunications. The new bill, which had long been delayed [...]

Thai Police have confiscated a huge amount of heroin and methamphetamine pills worth possibly more than 380 million baht during several raids in Chiang Rai and Pathum Thani. Law enforcement authorities portrayed one haul yesterday in Chiang Rai’s Muang district as huge in terms of the resale value of the drugs. Four supposed drug sellers [...]

Local administration associations are planning to stage a protest if the government declines to give them enough money to manage rising cost in the 2011 fiscal year. Local municipalities, provincial administration groups and tambon management organizations, say they will scrutinize state subsidy allotments to see whether the government gives them 25% of tax collected as [...]

Abhisit, Red-Shirts Willing to Talk Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva stated once more on Friday that he is prepared for direct talks with organizers of the red-shirts without a go-between, on the stipulation that the gathering stays peaceful and no threats are issued. “I am willing to talk but it should not be under this [...]

Clash of the Morons Rites carried out during the red shirts’ blood pourings were not conducted according to exact Brahmin teachings and standards, the head of Thailand’s royal Brahmin priests announced yesterday. Phra Ratchakru Wamadhepmuni claimed that the rites normally executed by Brahmin priests would help to encourage the happiness of people at various stages [...]

Air Bad in North, Real Bad Mae Hong Son District Chamber of Commerce spokesperson Supoj Klinpraneed said flight cessations greatly affected the economy of the region because tourists, fearing the smog and the lengthy trip by car, chose to visit other tourist spots. Mae Hong Son measured Wednesday fine particles smaller than 10 microns (PM10) [...]

Thai Police Officer in Trouble for Addressing Rally The uniformed Thai policeman who spoke at the redshirt gathering on Tuesday will face a corrective examination, city police spokesman MajGeneral Piya Uthayo announced on Wednesday. The Police Aviation Division’s Pol Senior Sergeant Major Ubon Suwanklang’s behaviour was the one who was reported to his boss by [...]