Govt start deploying forces to keep security around country

The government started deploying several thousands of security forces in 38 provinces across the country - as many as 54 companies of them in Bangkok alone - ahead of the verdict in the assetsseizure case against fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra on February 26, the government spokesman said Monday.

Panitan Watanayagorn said that almost 200 checkpoints would be set up in Bangkok and the surrounding provinces, particularly at "the points of entry and exit" and important state agencies, as well as the transport networks.

He said the monitoring was in the "normal level" at present but that it the degree of intensity would be gradually increased after Feb 15.

The Nation

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