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Red Shirts Face Arrest and Confiscation of Vehicles Fleets of many varieties of vehicles will take the red shirts to 10 different spots in Bangkok on Friday which has been set by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship for another large mobile anti-government gathering, UDD leader Nathawut Saikua announced on Thursday. He declined to [...]

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Red Shirts Temporarily Enter Thai Parliament Building Thai “Red shirt” demonstrators briefly took over the grounds of Thailand’s legislature on Wednesday as they stepped up demands on the government to call an election. Hundreds of marchers, who have already forced the capital’s main shopping area to close since Saturday, shoved through a thin line of [...]

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 [...]

Rowdy Red Shirts Enter Government Buildings Thai Red-shirt activists forced their way into the building where the Election Commission has its offices in the government compound on Chaeng Wattana Road on Monday afternoon after their demand to convene with EC secretary-general Apichart Sukkhakanont was not met by their 2pm time frame. They later pulled out [...]

Abhisit Offers to Disband House and Hold Elections in Nine Months The Thai government’s offer for a House disbanding in nine months is open to discussion, but there must be an improved political climate and clear election regulations before the country goes to the polls, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told reporters on Thursday. He maintained [...]

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 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. [...]

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 [...]