One killed, 9 injured in explosion at Makkhawan, an explosion damaged Constitution Court Judge Jaral's house, gunfire heard near Government House, one man found dead near Metropolitan police head office
The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) is wrapping up 32 cases on lese majeste, including the alleged insult involving former PM's Office minister Jakrapob Penkair, bureau commissioner Lt-General Worapong Chewpreecha said yesterday.
Hotline phone numbers opened by a "third way" group that wants to see political reconciliation came under heavy attack yesterday from members of the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), who inundated the lines with angry and even abusive messages.
The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has received donations amounting to more than Bt35 million for those injured and killed in the crackdown on protesters by police on October 7.
After waiting for months, the Thai negotiating teams finally got the mandate from Parliament to enter into talks with Cambodia to settle the border dispute and demarcate the land boundary.
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).
As photographs of fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his family attending a Buddhist ceremony showed up in people's e-mails last week, many desperately wanted to know what they were up to, where and when.
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.