The Metropolitan Police are poised to keep the peace today if former deputy police chief General Salang Bunnag leads government supporters to besiege Government House.
A pro-government group protested yesterday at the Supreme Command against "military interference" in politics, saying it would rally again today at Sanam Luang to "protect democracy from another coup."
King Prajadhipok’s Institute will organise an academic conference on November 5-to-7 to map out how to jump start the talks for reconciliation, its secretary general Bowornsak Uwanno said on Friday
Any hope that Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling on the Ratchadaphisek land deal, that handed Thaksin Shinawatra a two-year jail term, will put an end to the on-going political strife has quickly evaporated with the anti-Thaksin People's Alliance for Democracy declaring it will continue its marathon protest and Thaksin remarking from London that the verdict was "politically motivated".
Government officials say the situation along the border near the Khmer sanctuary of Preah Vihear has eased after a border skirmish last week, which claimed the lives of three soldiers on both sides and injured many others.
It almost looked like an anti-climax, didn't it? After Samak Sundaravej was pilloried for doing TV cooking shows that couldn't even pay his petrol bills and Pojaman Shinawatra received a humiliating lecture about moral and ethics, you must have expected Tuesday's court ruling against Thaksin Shinawatra to be the final, most spectacular firework.
With armed forces chiefs virtually telling Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat on television to leave office, a major National Counter Corruption Commission ruling which appeared so HUGE earlier yesterday would show up as a filler on today's front pages.