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 […]
A Bangkok terrorism alert issued by the American embassy in Bangkok and at least 14 other nations which has been continually downplayed and criticised by Thailand officials is gaining credibility day-by-day, while proving to be […]
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 […]
Almost 100 years after the League of Nations (LON) first law on narcotics (drugs), the International Opium Convention of 1912, a report released yesterday, June 2, 2011, says the global war on drugs is a […]
Patee Sarasin, chief executive officer of Thailand regional airline Nok Air (Nok), has confirmed that none of the 737-400 series aircraft the airline operates are affected by an emergency safety directive issued by the US […]
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 […]
Tens of thousands of anti-government red-shirt protestors yesterday (March 16) lined up to donate blood on the fourth day of street rallies in Bangkok. Organisers of the rally, which comprise multiple groups including supporters of […]
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 […]
A Bangkok monk says claims by the Thailand government that the army only fired blanks at red-shirted pro-democracy supporters at Din Daeng last Monday (April 13) are not true and that those shot include a […]
The ongoing political protests in Thailand and the hasty cancellation of the 14th Asean Economic Summit yesterday (April 11) that saw 14 heads of state hurriedly evacuated from a Pattaya hotel rooftop by helicopter will […]