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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Government Offers Debt Relief to Appease Farmers The Thai government is initiating a debt suspension scheme for farmers worth 80 billion baht which is seen as a plan to mollify grass roots organizers as political divisions persist in worsening. The plan was made public as tension mounted after a second round of give and take [...]

Thai Army Disputes Cambodian Claims A higher-ranking Cambodian army official said Wednesday that his troops have killed 88 Thai soldiers during the past two years in conflicts in the vicinity of an ancient temple on a disputed boundary. General Chea Tara, a Cambodian deputy commander-in-chief who supervises military operations in the area near the Preah [...]

Civilized Talks Mark Thai government Negotiations The second day of talks between the Thai government and the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) finished in a deadlock on Monday night as they could not agree on the timeframe for disbanding the House of Representatives. The two-hour confrontation began around 6.20pm at King Prachadipok’s [...]

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. [...]