Anti-Thaksin rallies grow as frustrations threaten to boil over. Political tempers rose to near the boiling point yesterday when the military, kept at bay from politics since 1992, issued a veiled threat to leading anti-government critic Sondhi Limthongkul, who responded with an explosive allegation concerning one of the prime minister’s sisters, Monthatip Kovitcharoenkul.

Modern media subverts Sondhi ban

Hundreds of thousands of people who could not make it to Lumpini Park in downtown Bangkok yesterday to listen to Sondhi Limthongkul’s rally against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stayed home and watched the ASTV1 cable channel broadcast via satellite.

PM’s sister accused of misuse of air force plane

Media tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul yesterday accused a younger sister of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of having used a state aircraft to carry relatives and friends from Bangkok to Chiang Mai to attend a party celebrating her birthday and inauguration of her new house.