BANGKOK, June 20 Asia Pulse - The anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) vowed yesterday to seal off Government House this afternoon and to stay put until the government resigns, even as Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej reaffirmed that
Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama on Friday brushed aside a suggestion by former prime minister Gen. Chavalit Yongchaiyudh that Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej dissolve the House and resign to end the ongoing political turmoil, saying the current
The organizers of Friday's protest, the People's Alliance for Democracy, said the demonstrators would stay and peacefully occupy the streets around Government House until Prime Minister Samak Sunadravej and his Cabinet step down. The alliance claims
IN HIGH SPIRITS: The protesters wore yellow to honour the King. Some media reports said the number of protesters at Bangkok's Government House was as high as 50,000. -- PHOTOS: AP BANGKOK - AN ALMOST festive atmosphere prevailed as protesters - many of
BANGKOK, Thailand The helicopter reported engine trouble before it crash-landed and exploded in Yala province, scene of a bloody Muslim separatist insurgency, said army spokesman Col. Akara Thiprote. There was no evidence the helicopter had been
BANGKOK, June 20 (TNA) -- Thailand's Transport Ministry has approved higher taxi fare rates in Bangkok which are expected to be implemented next week, a senior ministry official said Friday.
THAILAND: POLITICAL TENSIONS in Thailand grew yesterday when thousands of protesters, demanding that the fivemonthold government quit, pushed through police lines to lay siege to Government House.