Latest News in Thailand

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 [...]

Red Shirts on the March to Bangkok Thai Red-shirt followers of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) from all over the nation are departing their places of origin to come together in the Bangkok and unite with the giant anti-government gathering on Sunday. Many Thousands of motor vehicles carrying UDD followers from the [...]

Chiang Mai Woman Walks for Peace in Thailand A 63-year-old Thai lady on Tuesday afternoon began walking from Chiang Mai to Bangkok, to call on all groups to renounce the use of violent ways to end social conflicts. Fahngam Kham-asoke initiated her long-distance hike for peace from Chiang Mai’s Doi Suthep locality. She has stated [...]

Hot, Dry, in Thailand During Hot Dry Season Thailand’s dry period is anticipated to be harsher and last longer than normal this year, the chairman of the Foundation for National Disaster Warning System of Thailand (NDWST) Smith Dharmasaroja told reporters on Friday. Mr Smith held that the effects would be felt all over the country. [...]

Visitors to Chiang Mai and Phukett are being warned of the existence of vacation club scams where tourists agree to attend a 90 minute presentation by a “vacation club” where they are given presentation offering to save them money on future hotel and resort bookings. The sales people seek to get the tourists to immediately [...]

Thais Not Overly Concerned About Political Violence After Thaksin Ruling Next Friday February 26, the Thai Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for holders of Political Positions will give its judgment on whether 76 billion baht in frozen assets held by exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his relatives should be seized by the state. The [...]

Karen Refugees Deportation Halted The plan to deport about 1,700 Karen refugees back to Burma has been halted temporarily because of mounting domestic and global pressure. Activists, led by the Friends of Burma and the Karen Women’s Organization (KWO), yesterday put forward a letter of request to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva subsequent to an earlier [...]

Raucous Red-Shirts Rant and Riot in Chiang Mai A small skirmish broke out for a short time between Chiang Mai police and the red-shirts of the Rak Chiang Mai 51 Group who held a protest rally in front of the Provincial Police Region 5 office in Muang district of Chiang Mai on Monday demanding the [...]

Internal Security Act to be Enforced in Chiang Mai Thai internal security authorities are being asked to implement the Internal Security Act in Chiang Mai because of apprehensions about death threats allegedly made by red shirts against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, a government source says. The act has been imposed in Bangkok in the Bang [...]