Since rolling Humvee’s and trucks laden with armed troops through Bangkok in the early hours of Tuesday (May 20) Thailand’s National Peace and Order Maintaining Council (NPOMC) has gradually withdrawn the majority of soldiers from […]
An attempt by a small number of predominantly right-wing Bangkokians supported by Thailand’s second oldest political party*, the Democrat Party, to suspend democracy in Thailand and install their own unelected “people’s committee” under the guise […]
Just a little more than two-and-a-half years after anti-government street protests brought the centre of Bangkok to a stop for 64 days ahead of a bloody military crackdown, Bangkokians are again living under the Thailand […]
After just 106 days in office the coming days promise to be a tense period for the government of Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, with conditions approaching ideal for the Royal Thai Army (RTA) to […]
For the past three years one of the most familiar faces at red-shirt rallies across Thailand has been that of United Front for Democracy (UDD) co-leader and former Pheu Thai Party (PTP) MP Jatuporn Prompan, […]
The culmination of more than three years of political unrest which have cost at least 150 lives are due to come to a head next Sunday (July 3) in Thailand when the government of Prime […]
One year after the violent military crackdown against red-shirt anti-government protesters in the heart of the Bangkok business district more than 10,000 of the groups faithful gathered at the Ratchaprasong intersection today, May 19, 2011, […]
One year ago today as red-shirt (เสือ้แดง) protesters hunkered down behind fearsome looking bamboo and tire barricades blockading about 8 sq.km (about 3 sq.miles) of the central Bangkok business district, one of the protest movements […]
These are my entries for the The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand and OnAsia Fourth Annual FCCT Photo Contest. It was only after entries had closed and judging finalised that the FCCT announced that it […]
An estimated 100,000 red-shirt protesters took to the streets of Bangkok yesterday (March 20) in a 46 kilometres (29 mile) cavalcade stretching more than 10 kilometres-long (6 miles), and which took more than nine hours […]
Bangkok red-shirt rally March 14, 2010 photo slide gallery With access to Bangkok by road and rail blocked, red-shirts in Ayutthaya descended on Bangkok by boat, in journey that took some nine hours. Photos […]