Latest News in Thailand

Purchase of Armored Limos Approved for Big Shots
The Prime Minister’s cabinet voted on Tuesday to approve a proposal to have the Armed Forces Security Centre of the Royal Thai Armed Forces Command to buy 20 armored limousines for use by VIPs at a cost to the government of 122.8 million baht.
The purpose of the armored [...]

Burma Continues Preparing for Aung San Suu Kyi Trial
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winner, who will turn 64 this Friday, is currently being held at Rangoon’s infamous Insein prison on charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest after an incident where an American man swam to her lakeside house in May [...]

Thai Community Radio to Come Under Government Supervision
About 1,200 owners and operators of small community radio stations have hurried to submit an application for advance registration so they will be at the top of the line up when the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issues licenses and frequencies designations
The NTC has informed more than 5,000 neighborhood [...]

The 13 Day History of the Red-shirt revolution
Red-shirt revolution
Timeline: How the red-shirt protest developed and ended
BangkokPost.com, AFP
March 26: Thousands of Thaksin supporters in trademark red shirts begin rallying in Bangkok, calling on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government to resign and allow fresh elections.
They are spurred on by Thaksin Shinawatra, who starts a series [...]

Attn: Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts of Thailand
If we divide into two camps, even into violent and the nonviolent, and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of [...]

Thailand’s Democrats take control of House
The Thai Democrat Party and defectors from the government coalition have majority control of the House and will form a government with Abhisit Vejjajiva as prime minister.
On Saturday the Democrat Party revealed the new coalition Thai government with reps of smaller parties and defectors from the disbanded People Power [...]

New POLL in Thailand says that new Prime Minister must be Loyal to King
Thailand’s ABAC Polling asked teenager students about the future PM’s reverence towards the His Majesty The King of Thailand. The poll revealed that almost 100% of students said the next prime minister must be truly loyal to the King.
1,925 Thai students were [...]

Thailand’s Constitutional Court Dissolves PPP party today.
The Thai court has also banned Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics for 5 years.
Thailand’s Constitutional Court said the PPP, the country’s ruling party has been dissolved due to voting fraud.
The Constitutional Court banned 109 members of PPP, Chart Thai and Matchimathipataya executives from entering politics for 5 years.
“The [...]

Latest Travel Warning in Thailand
24 countries have issued travel warnings about traveling to Thailand, 10 of the 24 countries have raised the level of alarm of travel warning following the government’s violent and abusive crackdown on PAD anti-government protesters. The 10 countries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Japan and the UK, ten counties [...]