A grenade attack on the car of a journalist working for the state run broadcasting system in Bangkok, Tuesday underlines that the civil unrest continues in Thailand. In the latest of what is believed to be a grenade attack none was injured. Grenades targeted sites in Bangkok on August 27, July 30 and a week earlier in which one person [...]

BANGKOK, 31 August 2010 (NNT) – The military will try to make understanding with people regarding frequent gathering and forums of discussion organized by the anti-government United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) or red-shirt group. Permanent Secretary for Defense, General Apichart Penkitti admitted that it would be difficult for the police to take action against the UDD since the [...]

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 [...]

A key leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy asks the government to be aware of new moves by ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra to instigate chaos Core leader of the People Alliance for Democracy, Sondhi Limthongkul, said current low profile of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra may contrarily suggest he is engineering a new campaign against the government. Sondhi believes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

An Australian man got Friday got one-and a-half-month jail term after he pleaded guilty of having violated the emergency law in Bangkok. Conor Purcell pleaded guilty of joining the protest of the red-shirt people and violated the ban of political gathering from March 14 to May 19. The Pathumwan District Court sentenced him to be one and a half months [...]

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 [...]

THAILAND – Sirisak Tiyaphan, chief public prosecutor for foreign affairs, said yesterday that since 19 red-shirt leaders were indicted earlier this week over acts of terrorism as well as inciting unrest, public prosecutors would file formal requests with the countries that the defendants are believed to be living in. He added that some of these red-shirt leaders were believed to [...]

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 [...]