The People's Alliance for Democracy has raised over Bt35 million of donations for those injured and killed in the police's crackdown on protesters on October 7.
Initial findings by a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel have pointed the finger at Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and Chavalit Yongchaiyudh over the huge casualties on October 7, an informed source said yesterday.
Ruling party MP Karun Hosakul was accused yesterday of threatening to kick outspoken Bangkok Senator Rosana Tositrakul following her verbal spat with another government MP during a parliamentary meeting.
Deputy Interior Minister Prasong Kositanon yesterday rejected as "groundless" reports from his own party colleagues that he had resigned for health reasons.
Recently, two prominent members of the Democrat Party were invited to join a panel discussion at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) on the "new politics" proposed by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD).
The buzz of anticipation about his phone-in from London may prove more exciting than the actual message of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, scheduled for Saturday.
The turnout at last Sunday's by-election in Bangkok was perhaps the lowest ever in Thai politics. Only 99,123 or 29.29 per cent of the 338,433 eligible voters in Constituency 11 cast their ballots.
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.
What ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra has been doing to rouse the crowds, like his phone-in, is nothing out of the ordinary. Desparate times call for desparate measures.