Net surfers flood news websites
The number of visits to news websites by people looking for information on the coup reached a record high, 429 per cent higher than normal yesterday.
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No bid to seize Thaksin's assets yet: BOT boss
Bank of Thailand Governor MR Pridiyathorn Devakula warded off speculation yesterday that officials had seized assets belonging to ministers from ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Cabinet by blocking international money transfers.
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Army had no choice: Kanin
An architect of the People's Constitution of 1997 yesterday empathised with the Administrative Reform Council (ARC) that seized power from the caretaker government, saying former premier Thaksin Shinawatra gave the military no choice.
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Army in show of force in Chiang Mai
Armoured personnel carriers rolled along major roads in Chiang Mai yesterday and were parked outside the houses of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his leading supporters.
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Kraisak set for Foreign portfolio
Former senator Kraisak Chonhavan has been approached by the coup leaders to serve as foreign minister in the interim government expected to be formed soon, one of his aides told The Nation yesterday.
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ANALYSIS
Perfect plot ousts great manipulator
When it came to the final showdown, Thaksin Shinawatra, the great manipulator, was outsmarted by a military coup executed to an almost perfect script.
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Perfect plot ousts great manipulator
When it came to the final showdown, Thaksin Shinawatra, the great manipulator, was outsmarted by a military coup executed to an almost perfect script.
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Activists, former MP detained after protest
A group of democracy activists led by Chalard Vorachat became the first people to be arrested for defying the Administrative Reform Council's (ARC) order banning political assemblies and gatherings by five or more people.
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Thailand gets its 15 mins of fame
Thailand grabbed world attention on Tuesday, stealing the thunder from the UN General Assembly in New York where ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was due to give a speech..
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Military takes full control of media with power to censor reports
The coup leadership yesterday used its power to control information and the media by authorising the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) to censor reports that could harm its effort to reform politics.
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'Tanks' a million, say fascinated fans
It should have been a day of fear and tension, but many people in Bangkok found the military hardware parked at city intersections yesterday a cause for enjoyment. They stopped, looked over the tanks and troops, chatted with the soldiers, even brought their kids for photographs in front of the machines of war on the day after the coup.
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COUP AFTERMATH
Politicians 'free' until charter amended
Thai Rak Thai faction leader advises former MPs to go back to their constituents until next election
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