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Abhisit Announces State of Emergency Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Wednesday evening announced a state of emergency under the executive decree for administration in crisis situations in Bangkok, Nonthaburi, and some districts of Samut Prakan, Pathum Thani, Nakhon Pathom and Ayutthaya. The state of emergency took effect directly after it was announced. Mr Abhisit [...]

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 [...]

Democrat Party Warns of Red Shirt Violence Thai Democrat Party deputy spokesman Warong Dejkijvikrom said on Wednesday afternoon that there is a strong likelihood of violent behavior during the red-shirt mass gathering against the Democrat-led administration on Saturday, Mr Warong said he based his forecast on a report that key members of the pro-Thaksin United [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thai Police Officer in Trouble for Addressing Rally The uniformed Thai policeman who spoke at the redshirt gathering on Tuesday will face a corrective examination, city police spokesman MajGeneral Piya Uthayo announced on Wednesday. The Police Aviation Division’s Pol Senior Sergeant Major Ubon Suwanklang’s behaviour was the one who was reported to his boss by [...]