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Thai Troops Withdrawn form Area of Red Shirt Demonstration Thai Troops were withdrawn from eight stand-by bivouacks in the inner locale of Bangkok on Saturday under increasing demands from the red-shirts, who had threatened to move in to the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. [...]

Killer Confesses to Massacre A recently fired police officer who jumped bail on a murder charge has confessed to killing his friend, a police lieutenant, alonf with his wife and two children, in a roadside slaughter in Pathum Thani, police investigators said. Former Pol Lt Montree Kaewrat, a former detective at Bang Bua Thong district [...]

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 [...]

Red Shirts Claim New Rally Will be Different than Others This upcoming Saturday’s rally of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship will see a good deal bigger figure of demonstrators taking part than last Saturday’s motorcade, Jatuporn Prompan announced on Thursday. Mr Jatuporn, a UDD leader and opposition Puea Thai Party MP, said at [...]

Telecommunications Law Passes with Opposition Absent The Thai House of Representatives, currently being boycotted by the majority of opposition MPs, on Wednesday enacted a bill to set up a regulatory bureau for the allotment of radio and television frequencies and the management of radio, television and telecommunications. The new bill, which had long been delayed [...]

Thai Police have confiscated a huge amount of heroin and methamphetamine pills worth possibly more than 380 million baht during several raids in Chiang Rai and Pathum Thani. Law enforcement authorities portrayed one haul yesterday in Chiang Rai’s Muang district as huge in terms of the resale value of the drugs. Four supposed drug sellers [...]

Abhisit, Red-Shirts Willing to Talk Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva stated once more on Friday that he is prepared for direct talks with organizers of the red-shirts without a go-between, on the stipulation that the gathering stays peaceful and no threats are issued. “I am willing to talk but it should not be under this [...]

Air Bad in North, Real Bad Mae Hong Son District Chamber of Commerce spokesperson Supoj Klinpraneed said flight cessations greatly affected the economy of the region because tourists, fearing the smog and the lengthy trip by car, chose to visit other tourist spots. Mae Hong Son measured Wednesday fine particles smaller than 10 microns (PM10) [...]