December 1 – 2nd Attempt to seize Metro police, Government House, Dusit Zoo & Parliament House
(continues)
December 9 – 3rd Attempt to seize Government House, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolves parliament & sets February 2, 2014 as date for Thailand general election
December 22 – Another mass rally by the anti-democracy forces aimed at forcing the caretaker government of Yingluck Shinawatra to resign ahead of Thailand 2014 general elections
To be continued…
The death of Thai democracy: the removal of Yingluck Shinawatra in photos (galleries) added by John Le Fevre on
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He has spent extensive periods of time working in Africa and throughout Southeast Asia, with stints in the Middle East, the USA, and England.
He has covered major world events including Operation Desert Shield/ Storm, the 1991 pillage in Zaire, the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the 1999 East Timor independence unrest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, and the 2009, 2010, and 2014 Bangkok political protests.
In 1995 he was a Walkley Award finalist, the highest awards in Australian journalism, for his coverage of the 1995 Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) Ebola outbreak.
Most recently he was the Thailand editor/ managing editor of AEC News Today . Prior to that he was the deputy editor and Thailand and Greater Mekong Sub-region editor for The Establishment Post, predecessor of Asean Today.
In the mid-80s and early 90s he owned JLF Promotions, the largest above and below the line marketing and PR firm servicing the high-technology industry in Australia. It was sold in 1995.
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