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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 in the Hot Seat Thai Attorney-general Chulasingh Vasantasing announced that he will without delay ask the Supreme Court to give an order seizing 46.37 billion baht of Thaksin Shinawatra’s assets, as outlined in Friday’s verdict; even though the ousted prime minister’s legal representatives say they will offer fresh facts mitigating a new trial within [...]

Red Shirts Set Date to Rally The Red Shirted United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship will arrange a mass public meeting in Bangkok on March 14 to insist that the government disband the House of Representatives and call a general election, Veera Musikhapong proclaimed after a meeting of UDD senior members on Wednesday. Mr Veera [...]

Thai Army and Police Being Mobilized Against Red-Shirts A Combined force of Thai police, armed forces and civilian forces will be posted to 38 prefectures starting Feb 15, where the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) is anticipated to step up actions in the lead-up to Feb 26 verdict on whether to confiscate the [...]

Puea Party Demands Dubious MPs Depart Democrat Dominated Coalition Thailand’s opposition Puea Thai Party called on the Democrats’ alliance partners to show their position on charter changes by extracting themselves from the government. The ruling Democrat Party last week come to a decision not to join the five other coalition parties in their bid to [...]

Song and Dance Performance Leads to Nullified Election The Supreme of Court of Thailand’s Election Division Thursday called for a new election in Constituency 1 of Maha Sarakham region as recommended by the Election Commission. The EC suggested the new election after finding that Khachit Chainikhom, a Puea Thai Party candidate in the Jan 11 [...]

Cambodian Government Seizes Thai Owned Company The Cambodian government has seized control of Cambodian Air Traffic Services (CATS), a subsidiary of Thailand’s Samart Corporation, and has appointed a senior Civil Aviation official as its provisional custodian, Samart announced in a statement on Thursday. Cambodian authorities expelled all Thai employees from CATS offices on Wednesday after [...]