Thailand’s deposed leader Thaksin Shinawatra marked his 61st birthday Monday with tweets from exile that called for peace, a day after a grenade exploded in downtown Bangkok that left one person dead and 10 wounded. There have been no claims of responsibility for Sunday’s blast at a bus stop in a busy shopping district, which coincided with a parliamentary election [...]

Red shirts plan to test the government’s emergency decree in Bangkok again late today when hundreds are expected to gather at Lumpini Park to do “protest aerobic dance exercises”. Key red-shirt member Sombat Boon-ngam-anong – who made headlines by leading a group tying red ribbons at the Rajprasong intersection twice after he was released from two weeks of detention under [...]

The bombing, amid protests and an election, risks a crossfire of finger-pointing. BANGKOK, Thailand — A mysterious bombing has returned unease to Bangkok, still on the mend from wild riots and urban army raids. One man is reported dead and eight wounded after explosives stashed in a trash bag erupted near a bus stop, charring the sidewalk and slicking the [...]

A bomb has exploded at a bus stop in the Thai capital, Bangkok, killing one person and wounding 10 others. The blast occurred in an area occupied by “red-shirt” anti-government protesters for weeks until a crackdown by the security forces in May. It came as voting ended in a closely-watched by-election in the city. Unofficial results suggest the government’s candidate [...]

Democrat Party candidate Panich Vikitsreth would win Sunday’s by-election in Bangkok Constituency 6, according to Suan Dusit’s exit poll. The opinion survey on people who voted at the polling stations revealed that 52.77 per cent of 5,157 surveyed voters cast their votes for Mr Panich, while 40.93 per cent voted for Puea Thai Party candidate Korkaew Pikulthong. Bangkok Post Share [...]

BANGKOK, July 24 — After signing sister airport agreements with three leading global airports earlier, Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport is preparing to sign a similar accord with an American airport, Serirat Prasutanond, president of Airports of Thailand (AoT) said Friday. During a seminar Mr Serirat said that although Suvarnabhumi Airport, east of Bangkok in Samut Prakan province, ranks as the world’s [...]

Police have identified nine people injured in the bomb explosion in front of Big C Rajdamri Sunday evening. Thawatchai Thongmak, 51, was severely injured and rushed to the Police Hospital. The eight others were identified as Sompatchara Tangsiriphanit, 46, Somchai Iampracha, 37, Somjai Phanwima, 37, Chanu (surname unknown), 24, Puan Pornnithet, 37, and Wirasak Saetae, 40. The Nation Share var [...]

A second close aide of the late red shirt supporter Seh Daeng has been arrested, but he is denying all terrorism charges against him. The Department of Special Investigation said Rachata Wongyort, arrested yesterday, was a close aide of Khattiya Sawasdipol, or Seh Daeng, the core red shirt supporter who was shot at Sala Daeng intersection on May 13. It [...]

BANGKOK: The by-elections in Bangkok on Sunday could shed light on the political mood of voters in the Kingdom. Around 2,000 police officers will be deployed at polling places to maintain order. Democrat Party candidate Panich Vikitsreth stumps for votes in Bangkok’s Constituency 6 — a large and rather rural area made of up of four districts about 35 kilometres [...]

Bangkok – The Thai military plans to drop 25 Chinese-made tanks into the Gulf of Thailand to serve as artificial reefs, media reports said Friday. The T69-2 tanks, purchased from China in 1987 at a 50-per-cent discount, will be shipped to southern Thailand next week to be dumped into the sea off Narathiwat province, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok. Monsters [...]