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Red Shirts Deliver a Letter to Clinton A leader of Thailand’s United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), Weng Tojirakarn, submitted a correspondence to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through a political affairs administrator of the United States embassy on Friday. In the note, the UDD thanked Mrs Clinton for saying she respected the [...]

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 [...]

Yellow shirts, Red shirts, Here Come the Pink shirts A large number of Thai citizens wearing pink shirts, including tour operators, assembled at the entry to Lumpini Park on Friday and issued a statement calling on campaigners on all sides to stick to peaceful means in promoting their various causes. Led by Pol Gen Vasit [...]

Red Shirts Getting Rowdier, Invade Government Buildings Red-shirt demonstrators 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 limit. They later left the [...]

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 [...]

Civilized Talks Mark Thai government Negotiations The second day of talks between the Thai government and the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) finished in a deadlock on Monday night as they could not agree on the timeframe for disbanding the House of Representatives. The two-hour confrontation began around 6.20pm at King Prachadipok’s [...]

Thai Troops Withdrawn form Area of Red Shirt Demonstration Thai Troops were withdrawn from eight stand-by bivouacks in the inner locale of Bangkok on Saturday under increasing demands from the red-shirts, who had threatened to move in to the camps. The soldiers’ extraction came after the red-shirts rallied at the eight places in the morning [...]

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 [...]