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 […]
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 […]
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors without Borders as they are otherwise known, runs the risk of creating a humanitarian crisis if it goes ahead with plans to withdraw from a refugee camp in Northern […]
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. […]
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 pro-democracy “red-shirts” protests in Bangkok, Thailand culminated in a violent confrontations between protesters and the Thailand military on April 13, 2009. Following a stand-off between protesters and the Thai army at Din Daeng during […]
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 […]
Tonight Thailand sits on the edge. After weeks of small-scale pro-democracy rallies throughout the country, a mass march and the surrounding of Government House by red-shirted pro-democracy protesters, and nightly video calls from deposed prime […]
If it is true that elephants never forget then elephants in Thailand should be starting to get excited as the annual elephants birthday celebrations draw closer and closer. Originally the backbone of the Thai military […]
Less than three months after thousands of yellow-shirted anti-government protesters seized Thailand’s main international airport stranding hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists, protesters are again on the streets of Bangkok. More than 10,000 red-shirted pro-democracy […]
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, […]