Latest News in Thailand

Red Shirt TV to Remain on the Air
The Thai government will not close the red-shirts’ People’s Channel if the TV station does not break the law, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Thursday.
Mr. Abhisit acknowledged that tomorrow will be an important day as a great number of red-shirts and their vehicles would commence movement into [...]

Thai Government Asks UAE to Stop Shielding Thaksin
The government of Thailand has asked The United Arab Emirates not to permit former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawtra to carry on to living in Dubai and make it his support for political actions against the Thai government, the foreign minister’s secretary, Chavanont Intarakomalsut, told reporters on Wednesday.
Mr Chavanont [...]

Thaksin Sends SMS and Twitters to Followers
Thailand’s convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sent out an SMS message to his followers asking them to join in the mass anti-government protest rally this weekend by the United front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) in Bangkok.
The UDD plans a giant public meeting in Bangkok this weekend, [...]

Thaksin Family Leaves Thailand
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s immediate family has gone or is departing the country ahead of this weekend’s rally by followers of the exiled elected leader who was removed by a military takeover more than three years ago.
His former wife Potjaman na Pombejra and their son left for Hong Kong on [...]

Internal Security Act to be Enforced in Bangkok
The Thai Prime Minister’s cabinet on Tuesday concurred on a decision to bring into play the Internal Security Act (ISA) from March 11-23 to deal with with the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship’s (UDD) giant protest assembly, as advocated by the security monitoring commission, acting government spokesman [...]

Flying Cow Paddy Assault on Abhisit’s Home
A Thai man from Nakhon Phanom who flung a shopping bag containing cow manure over the railing of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s residence in Sukhumvit Soi 34 on Tuesday at sunup was sentenced by the Criminal Court to 10 days in confinement.
Khamphong Samart, 56, was captured shortly after the [...]

Accused Bombers Under Arrest
Two Thai men captured for alleged participation in last month’s grenade assault on a Bangkok Bank branch on Silom Road are not scapegoats and have acknowledged their guilt, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said on Monday morning.
Mr Suthep said they have come clean that they were hired by the United Front for [...]

Missing Weapons Worry Wattanayagorn
Thailand’s government has launched an emergency investigation into enormous losses of weapons and explosives stolen from an armaments storehouse of a armed forces base camp in the southern province of Phatthalung is ongoing, according to Panitan Wattanayagorn, acting government spokesperson.
The Theft was reported to police and anxious officials on Thursday, said Mr [...]

Bombers Called “Ill-Intentioned”
The recent bomb attacks in Bangkok after the Thai Supreme court decided to confiscate 46 billion baht of former PM Thaksin’s assets were the work of spiteful people hoping to stir up violent behavior, the rector of the National Institute of Development Administration, Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, told reporters on Monday.
“These groups want to discredit [...]