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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 [...]

Government Seeks Removal of Red Shirt Demonstrators from Shopping District The Thai government is seeking a court injunction to force the red shirt protesters to depart from Bangkok’s central commercial and trade district. The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship persisted last night in claiming it would not move from Ratchaprasong, the capital’s major shopping [...]

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 Stock Exchange Rises The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) composite index on Tuesday increased 17.37 points or 2.36 per cent to end the day up at 752.20 points. The share value was 27.39 billion baht, with 4.54 billion shares traded. The SET100 index closed the session at 1,142.48 points, up 28.08 points or 2.52 [...]

Thaksin Explains Wealth To World Leaders Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra preparations to send letters to heads of countries internationally to clarify his asset confiscation case, Manit Chitchanklab, a past lawyer for the disbanded Thai Rak Thai party, announced yesterday. Mr Manit has just come back from a stopover to visit the convicted former [...]

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 [...]

Further Fighting Futile for Former PM Thai Government organizations are taking steps to commence further legal action against toppled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his links in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s judgment on Friday. The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions on Friday conveyed the judgment which found Thaksin guilty [...]

Thailand’s Consumer Prices Increase Thailand’s consumer price index (CPI) for February 2010 increased from the same month last year by 3.7 per cent and by 0.56 per cent over January to stand at 106.88, the Ministry of Commerce announced on Tuesday. The groceries and beverage index for February 2010 was 120.39, up 5.1 per cent [...]

Thaksin Says His Assets Should be Returned Thailand’s Fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in his website www.thaksinlive.com at 4am on Friday that all of his money and assets were resultant from years of working hard, not from corruption as charged. Thaksin claims that he had more than 60 billion baht in assets in [...]