BANGKOK, Sept 1 – Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said on Wednesday a grenade attack at a state-operated television station may have a connection with earlier grenade incidents at Yellow Shirt demonstrations at Government House two years ago. Mr Suthep said he has ordered tightened security measures at both media and government offices. The deputy prime minister, who supervises [...]

BANGKOK, THAILAND – A second British man has been arrested in Thailand for alleged involvement in violent anti-government “Red Shirt” protests earlier this year, police said Thursday. Keith Wayne Bush, 49, from Manchester was arrested on arson charges at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on Wednesday after arriving on a flight from the United Arab Emirates, according to immigration police. His Thai [...]

BANGKOK, Aug 23 — Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has not yet concluded its investigation into the deaths of 91 people, including the Italian photographer and Japanese cameraman, killed during the ten-week street protests by anti-government Red Shirt protesters. Pol Col Narat Sawettanant, deputy DSI chief and spokesman, told a news conference on Monday that the agency has received [...]

Thailand says it will resume diplomatic ties with Cambodia after Phnom Penh announced the resignation of ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra as its economic advisor. The two countries recalled their ambassadors in November 2009 amid a row over the controversial appointment. The Thai military removed Mr Thaksin in a coup in 2006, and he has since been jailed in absentia [...]

On Sunday, about three hundred members of Thai United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), gathered in Chiang Mai in an anti-government rally. The demonstrators lay down on the ground and staged a theatrical play to mock the military who clamped down on red shirted protesters in Bangkok earlier in 2010. Most of the demonstrators are women and elderly residents [...]

BANGKOK—Criticism over Thailand’s efforts to curb political debate online is mounting, as the government restricts thousands of websites following deadly protest clashes earlier this year. Thai authorities say they have blocked at least 40,000 Web pages this year, according to the government’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, which monitors the Internet. Free-speech activists say authorities are blocking at least [...]

BANGKOK, Aug 16 – Seventeen of the 19 indicted and detained leaders and supporters of the anti-government ‘Red Shirt’ movement United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) on Monday appeared in Thailand’s Criminal Court for their first hearing on terrorism cases, and all of them denied all charges. The Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) on August 11 indicted 19 of [...]

The personal chauffeur of the late red-shirt military strategist Maj-General Khattiya Sawasdipol is being held at an undisclosed army camp for interrogation over his alleged involvement in anti-government protests from March to May, Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Tharit Pengdit said yesterday. Jakchalat “Pol” Khongsuwan, 37, could be detained for up to 30 days without the presence of lawyers [...]

Prosecutors indict key red shirts. Cases against Thaksin and others to follow Public prosecutors have indicted 19 red shirt leaders and supporters on terrorism and other charges stemming from their street protests from late February to mid-May. The indictment was issued at the Criminal Court yesterday on the last day the suspects could be held legally in detention. They were [...]

Despite claims of restored order, Thailand remains bitterly divided between rich and poor, writes DAVID McNEILL in Lamphun Thailand IN NORTHERN Thailand, the world has been turned upside down. Men branded terrorists are heroes, the police are the enemy and children wear T-shirts hailing anti-government rebels. Driven from power, branded a criminal and hounded by prosecutors, exiled former prime minister [...]