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Yellow shirts, Red shirts, Here Come the Pink shirts A large number of Thai citizens wearing pink shirts, including tour operators, assembled at the entry to Lumpini Park on Friday and issued a statement calling on campaigners on all sides to stick to peaceful means in promoting their various causes. Led by Pol Gen Vasit [...]

Hun Sen Visit Requires Special Securuty Special safety protocol will be supplied for Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during his visit to Thailand to be present at the first Mekong River summit next month, Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said on Thursday. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Hua Hin, Prachuap [...]

Yellow Shirts Will Keep Shirts in the Closet Thailand’s People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) will acknowledge the upcoming Supreme Court ruling and will not stage any gathering even if the court rules not to seize assets of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his relatives, PAD central leader Phiphob Dhongchai maintained. “PAD will accept the [...]

Thailand Vows to Ignore International Court It is useless for Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to request the International Court of Justice to help resolve the border disagreement around Preah Vihear between Phnom Penh and Thailand, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced on Wednesday. Mr Abhisit said the dispute cannot be solved in the International Court [...]

Hun Sen Touchy About His Appearance in Uniform A fresh barrage of insults by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen aimed at Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is expanding the diplomatic gulf among the two countries. Thailand and Cambodia had been struggling to find ways to mend fences after a series of quarrels but Hun Sen [...]

Thaksin Not Taking Trip to Temple Ousted former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is still in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and not in Cambodia as several people have asserted, and still holds Thai citizenship, according to Noppadon Pattama, a legal consultant to Mr Thaksin. Mr. Noppadon disagreed with prior declarations by Veera Somkwamkid, a [...]

Raucous Red-Shirts Rant and Riot in Chiang Mai A small skirmish broke out for a short time between Chiang Mai police and the red-shirts of the Rak Chiang Mai 51 Group who held a protest rally in front of the Provincial Police Region 5 office in Muang district of Chiang Mai on Monday demanding the [...]

Council of State May Decide Fate of Fired Police Chiefs Acting Thai police Chief Pateep Tanprasert will ask for the Council of State’s ruling on the Police Commission’s decree to restore the positions of three senior police officers discovered by the National Anti-Corruption Commission to have engaged in criminal offences and breached discipline, Prime Minister [...]

Red Shirts Rally to Demand Elections Thailand’s Red-Shirted United front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will rally from Nov 28 to Dec 2, UDD core leader Natthawut Saikua said on Thursday. The UDD is demanding an election. Mr Natthawut said red-shirts would gather at the Democracy Monument on Ratchadamnern road from about midday starting Nov [...]