Pro-Thaksin people seizes Thai PBS station in Chiang Mai

A group of over 100 red-shirt members of the pro-government camp yesterday laid siege to the Chiang Mai office of Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS).

Police urges PAD to make way for Royal Family
The metropolitan police Monday called on the People's Alliance for Democracy to stop blocking a section of the Rajadamnone Road to make way for members of the Royal Family.

Thaksin call fails to sway critics
Reference to royal mercy seen as 'presumptuous, disrespectful'

Senator targets politicians' taxes
Outspoken Senator Ruangkrai Leekitwattana yesterday urged the government to amend the Constitution to make politicians declare tax payments on their assets and identify how they obtained their wealth- or face having their assets impounded.

PAD's Chamlong seeks talks with Govt to tackle divisions
The People's Alliance for Democracy wants bilateral talks with the government to try to bridge the political divide, PAD co-leader Chamlong Srimuang said yesterday.

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Political reality isn't pretty, deal with it
From 2005 to the present, Thailand has been plagued with polarisation, which has brought about unprecedented volatility and a myriad of political woes, the likes of which have never been seen before.
Onus on negotiating teams to settle the border row
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.

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Will making merit save them?
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.
Thin veil separates daad, govt
Apparently the longer the Democratic Alliance against Dictatorship (DAAD) survives, the more powerful it gets.

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Reason to hope for calm tomorrow
How much should we be worried about tomorrow? The planned mass gathering of Thaksin supporters has triggered intense speculation and another red alert for Thai politics.The volatile prelude to the event does not help. And we have crossed many lines on political confrontations.
Winning ugly is name of the game
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.

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