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Red Shirt Marchers Enter Forbidden Zones Thousands of Thai red-shirt marchers moved into no-go zones proclaimed by the government on Tuesday afternoon, reversing an earlier pronouncement to stay away from the areas to avoid possible clashes with security forces A red fleet made up of motorcycles and trucks moved into Silom and Sathon roads in [...]

Ratchaprasong Red Shirts get Raucous Thai Red-shirt activists pushed against the lines of police and soldiers positioned to prevent them leaving Ratchaprasong junction to stage protests on banned roads throughout Bangkok on Tuesday morning. Demonstrators pushed and shoved and pelted police with eggs and plastic water bottles. The short clash occurred around 11am near the [...]

Red Shirts Plan to Enter Forbidden Zones Thai Red-shirts will on Tuesday move to 11 areas where they are forbidden from entering, group leader Nattawut Saikua announced on Monday evening. He made the announcement after the Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) announced on Sunday that the demonstrators are proscribed from entering [...]

Government Seeks Removal of Red Shirt Demonstrators from Shopping District The Thai government is seeking a court injunction to force the red shirt protesters to depart from Bangkok’s central commercial and trade district. The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship persisted last night in claiming it would not move from Ratchaprasong, the capital’s major shopping [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thai Stock Exchange Rises The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) composite index on Tuesday increased 17.37 points or 2.36 per cent to end the day up at 752.20 points. The share value was 27.39 billion baht, with 4.54 billion shares traded. The SET100 index closed the session at 1,142.48 points, up 28.08 points or 2.52 [...]

RULING TODAY The Thai Supreme Court will rule today on whether to seize 76 billion baht in assets from former Prime Minister Thaksin. Come back later to see the results.