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in the early hours of Tuesday (May 20) Thailand’s National Peace and Order Maintaining Council (NPOMC) has gradually withdrawn the majority of soldiers from […]
Something is lost in translation in Thailand where armed anti-government protesters are able to readily access bullet-proof vests and other ballistic and personal protective equipment (PPE), in addition to guns, yet journalists and volunteer medical […]
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 […]
Thailand teachers have gone on strike closing 332 southern Thailand schools in the provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat in response to the shooting death of a female school director last Friday. The closures are […]
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 […]
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 […]
Less than 24-hours after Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva removed the state of emergency decree for Bangkok and five other Thai provinces, red-shirt pro-democracy supporters have rallied at Sanam Luang, a traditional political rallying ground […]
One week after Thai soldiers clashed with rioting pro-democracy “red shirt” protesters on the streets of Bangkok the country is still governed under the state of emergency decree imposed by Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. […]
Thailand’s long running political crisis appears to be worsening, with the question no longer being whether the military will step in and oust the government of embattled Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat with a coup d’état, […]