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Red Shirt Marchers Enter Forbidden Zones Thousands of Thai red-shirt marchers moved into no-go zones proclaimed by the government on Tuesday afternoon, reversing an earlier pronouncement to stay away from the areas to avoid possible clashes with security forces A red fleet made up of motorcycles and trucks moved into Silom and Sathon roads in [...]

Ratchaprasong Red Shirts get Raucous Thai Red-shirt activists pushed against the lines of police and soldiers positioned to prevent them leaving Ratchaprasong junction to stage protests on banned roads throughout Bangkok on Tuesday morning. Demonstrators pushed and shoved and pelted police with eggs and plastic water bottles. The short clash occurred around 11am near the [...]

Abhisit Politely Requests Red shirts to Leave Bangkok Commercial District Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva asked the red-shirt demonstrators to abide by the constitution, leave Ratchaprasong crossroads and return to their main protest site at Phan Fa Bridge. “Staging a mass demonstration in the middle of the road violates the rights of others and is [...]

Mass Arrests of Red Shirts Possible Thailand’s Red Shirted United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) Saturday night disobeyed the government’s order to leave the Ratchaprasong intersection at 9pm, raising the possibility of mass arrests under a harsh security law. The Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) last night proclaimed that red [...]

Shopping District Suffers Losses Due to Rally Bangkok businesses could lose two or three hundred million baht in income today because of the anti-government gathering blocking Ratchaprasong intersection, Thanawat Polwichai, director of the Economic and Business Broadcasting Center at the University of Thai Chamber of Commerce, announced on Saturday. “Ratchaprasong is a key business center [...]

Red Shirt Rally Riles Retailers Many thousands of Thai red-shirt protesters blocked a major crossroads in the capital’s business area on Saturday, stopping traffic and closing shopping malls, as they persisted in their crusade to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to immediately disband the House of Representatives. Leaders of the United Front for Democracy against [...]

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 [...]

Dramatic Tactics from UDD United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) foundation organizer Natthawut Saikua has proclaimed that he will take one thousand liters of blood contributed by activists and spill it around Government House on Tuesday, in reprisal for the government’s choice not to disband the House. The drawing of blood will commence about [...]