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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 Northeast and [...]

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 that she will [...]

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. He attributed [...]

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 analysis, conducted [...]

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 call seeking [...]

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 Khun Phrom [...]

Red Shirts Deny Threatening Abhisit
Chiang Mai’s red-shirts have no plan to assassinate Prime Minister Abhisit, the group’s leaders Kanyaphak Maneechak maintained on Saturday.
Mrs Kanyaphak asserted that a DJ of the red-shirts’ community radio station, Petcharawat Watthanapong, was only joking when he said he would bomb Mr. Abhisit during an upcoming visit to Chiang Mai.
She claimed [...]