Cambodia’s Interior Ministry has decided to withhold permission for holding the “Day of Anger” against Thailand in the nation’s capital. The Cambodian government is currently awaiting its Interior Ministry’s decision on whether to allow the nation’s largest labor assembly to hold an event in protest of Thailand’s alleged encroachment on Cambodian territory at the old parliament building in Phnom Penh. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

KENT NEWS: A former royal porter convicted of taking part in riots in Thailand will be deported back to Britain within days. Jeff Savage, 48, who is originally from Tonbridge, was filmed inciting people to burn down a shopping centre in Bangkok in May after the Thai army killed 59 anti-government protestors, who are known as the Red Shirts, in [...]

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, [...]

BANGKOK — The Thai government on Tuesday extended for three months a state of emergency in the capital and 18 provinces in the wake of bloody, anti-government demonstrations that pushed the country close to chaos. But the special law was lifted in five provinces. The Cabinet agreed that there remained “situations that require close monitoring and surveillance” in Bangkok and [...]

Thailand’s government has been urged to lift a state of emergency and drop terrorism charges against leaders of recent anti-government protests. The International Crisis Group (ICG) warned the “legitimate frustrations” of protesters were “being forced underground and possibly towards illegal and violent actions”. The decree has been in place since a bloody military crackdown on 19 May. Thailand’s prime minister [...]

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 [...]

Thailand’s politics are in turmoil, featuring mass demonstrations, a growing role for the military in Thai politics, and erosion of the country’s fledgling democracy. If the United States aims to construct a foreign policy which can adapt to the coming Thai tempest, we need to understand the players and the turf. The Conflict and Its Players At a fundamental level, [...]

BANGKOK – Lawyers for the family of ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra met with investigators in Thailand on Tuesday and denied accusations of having financed the recent anti-government protests that sparked bloody clashes with security forces. Thaksin, his ex-wife Pojaman, and two of their three grown children are among 83 people and companies suspected by the government of funding the so-called Red [...]