Thailand’s main opposition Puea Thai Party on Monday opened an exhibition highlighting the pain and struggle witnessed in the recent two-month long anti-government protests in Bangkok. The seven-day exhibition opened, marking the two-month anniversary of the end of violent protests in the capital. Bangkok, the 19th of July 2010: Open until the 25th of July, the exhibition marks the pain [...]

BANGKOK, July 17 (UPI) — Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told a visiting U.S. official he hopes to hold an election in early 2011, a spokesman says. Abhisit and Under-Secretary of State William Burns discussed Thailand’s political situation during a meeting Friday, the Bangkok Post reported. Panitan Wattanayagorn, the spokesman, said Burns told the prime minister the United States supports [...]

The petition by the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) asking the Constitution Court to dissolve the Democrat party not only set the ruling party on fire, but also aroused a widespread speculation that a back-up party will or has been set up for the Democrat. Abhisit Vejjajiva, the prime minister as well as the party leader, denied reports that members [...]

On July 6, the Thai government approved the extension of an emergency decree in 19 provinces, which includes many in the heartland of the pro-democracy Red Shirts in the country’s north-east. The extension came a day after the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) recommended the government immediately lift the decree and hold fresh elections. But Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajiva, who [...]

BANGKOK – Thailand’s Prime Minister has said that the nation’s powerful military and its revered monarchy should stay removed from politics as the country moves on from its worst civil unrest in decades. Both institutions have played active roles in the turbulent politics of the kingdom, which was rocked by two months of anti-government Red Shirt protests in Bangkok that [...]

The country’s military continues to build an overwhelming surveillance machine To prevent protesters unleashing another urban insurrection, new CCTV cameras will eyeball the Bangkok streets where 90 people died, most of them civilians, and 1,400 were injured when the military battled Red Shirts and crushed their bamboo barricades in May. Thailand’s army-backed government is now wielding overwhelming surveillance, imprisonment, censorship [...]

BANGKOK, July 7 (TNA) – Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Wednesday conceded that political demonstrators are likely to return to the capital’s streets later this year, but pledged his government will do its best to control the situation. The premier expressed concern after his cabinet revoked the state of emergency in five provinces but maintained the law in 19 [...]

The Thai government has once again shown its fear of the Red Shirts opposition by extending a state of emergency in 19 of the country’s 76 provinces. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, stated Tuesday that there would be a gradual lifting of emergency law but added that “we need to restore order now,” cited by the BBC. Under emergency rule, [...]

THAILAND- Abhisit Vejjajiva said the government would not stop Thaksin from entering the country, but, as a fugitive, the former leader must first come under the judicial process. “There is no problem. He is not prohibited from entering the country. After his entry, he will have to come under Thai law,” the PM said. In 2008, the Supreme Court sentenced [...]

The streets of Bangkok may be quiet again after the Red Shirt protests earlier this year that resulted in more than 80 deaths and thousands of injuries, but the country’s politics are still highly unstable. A state of emergency remains even as Prime Minsiter Abhisit Vejjajiva has proposed a “road map” to national reconciliation. The government has also filed terrorism [...]