Thailand Freezes Accounts to Hit Reds Despite public promises of compromise by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thailand’s military-backed government is continuing to tighten the screws on protesters, most recently freezing bank accounts belonging to 83 wealthy suspected supporters of the two-month insurrection which ended in May. “I insist that the government has never intended to persecute anyone,” Abhisit told reporters [...]

PHUKET: Three foreign suspects were arrested in Krabi yesterday for the theft of 12 million baht from a vehicle in the headquarters parking lot of one of Thailand’s largest commercial banks, the state-run media has reported. The suspects – one American and two Colombians – allegedly smashed a car window in a pick-up truck and lifted the cash in a [...]

Thailand’s government said Saturday that two foreigners were involved in arson attacks on major buildings, unleashed after a crackdown on “Red Shirts” protests in Bangkok. Thailand’s biggest shopping mall, Central World, was left gutted and partly collapsed in Wednesday’s mayhem that saw 36 buildings torched, including the stock exchange and bank branches. “A white Westerner was involved in the arson [...]

BANGKOK — Anti-government protesters shut down parts of the Thai capital on Monday but appeared to be a long way from achieving their goal of forcing the government to step down. Banks, shops and government offices in the northern outskirts of the city closed for the day as convoys of red-shirted protesters converged on a military base that has become [...]

BANGKOK, Mar 11 (TNA) – The number of foreign arrivals in Thailand will drop below what many expected if the anti-government Red Shirt protests during March 12-14 turn violent, according to a leading economist. Siam Commercial Bank Executive Vice President Sethaput Suthiwart-naru said the SCB Economic Intelligence Center (EIC) earlier projected that the number of foreign tourists in Thailand would [...]

March 10 (Bloomberg) — Thailand kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a seventh meeting, refraining from following neighbor Malaysia in raising borrowing costs as political protests threaten the nation’s economic recovery. The government plans to invoke the Internal Security Act to control anti-government protests this weekend, amid concerns political unrest will hurt an economy that emerged from a recession [...]

Police yesterday arrested a man whose YouTube video had warned of bomb attacks and armed struggle in Bangkok. Phornwat Thongthanaboon, who is also known as “K Thong”, was seated inside a military van that Army expert Maj-General Khattiya Sawasdipol had taken to the Crime Suppression Division to ask about arranging for Phornwat’s surrender. Police had taken out an arrest warrant [...]

Pattani, Thailand – A spate of bombs planted at bank automatic teller machines in Thailand’s violence-wracked southern province of Narathiwat exploded Tuesday, injuring two people. Bombs were detonated at four ATM booths and one beauty parlour in the province, which is 800 kilometres south of Bangkok and borders Malaysia, said Internal Security Operations Command southern region spokesman Colonel Banphot Phoolphian. [...]

Grenade attack in nightclub district Police tightened security at all branches of the Bangkok Bank in the capital after an M26 hand grenade exploded at its Silom Road branch last night and another grenade was defused at the bank’s Rama II branch. Deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau Pol Maj Gen Anan Srihiran last night ordered police to step [...]

Wife comes home and sees a man in blood and a knife in his hands. She tries to call the cops but the phone is out because she has not paid the bills. Turns out the man was her husband who was besmeared with ketchup. He could now wash himself because he had not paid the water bill. Also the [...]