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… Thailand’s Scariest
Bogeyman’  The Atlantic’s Patrick Winn provides
backstory on “Thailand’s scariest bogeyman.” He’s “not the sort of
man you want to make angry. General Khattiya maintains his own
gun-toting militia. He accurately predicts grenade attacks against
government targets. And though he’s vowed to defend the anti-government ‘Red Shirt’ [...]

For the last two months, anti-government protesters in Bangkok have shut down the city’s commercial heart in a mostly non-violent effort to get the prime minister to leave office. But the government has just given them a deadline of midnight Thursday to leave the streets.…When I first went into the camp, I was surprised by the orderliness and [...]

For the last two months, anti-government protesters in Bangkok have shut down the city’s commercial heart in a mostly non-violent effort to get the prime minister to leave office. But the government has just given them a deadline of midnight Thursday to leave the streets.…When I first went into the camp, I was surprised by the orderliness [...]

BANGKOK Three dancers in tasseled bikinis have their boredom lit by neon at the nightclub’s door. It is Saturday night and Bangkok’s infamous Pat Pong district should be crawling with drunk, drooling, and paying customers.…Businesses are losing millions of dollars each day the Red Shirt protesters occupy much of one of Bangkok’s ritziest streets. [...]

Bangkok street protestsPublished: April 26 2010 10:30 | Last updated: April 26 2010 10:30…Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters have taken over a key intersection in the Thai capital Bangkok to press their demand for the resignation of Abhisit Vejjajvia, the prime minister, who they believe came to power illegitimately…Many of the protesters come from the [...]

BANGKOK: I first heard the explosion from my room at Dusit Thani hotel.I had asked for a room facing the Sala Daeng intersection to clearly see and hear the Red Shirts’ noisy protest by the side of the road into Silom.All the time I had kept the balcony door open even at night to be [...]

MediaWATCH: Bangkok Blasts Kill Three, Peace Hopes Perish…japantoday.com Five people were detained by Thai police Thursday night in connection with five explosions in Bangkok’s Silom Road area. After the attacks, the government ad hoc emergency operations group set up to deal with weeks-long protests in the Thai capital convened an urgent meeting to discuss the [...]

Mark MacKinnon Bangkok — From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Apr. 21, 2010 10:53PM EDT…More than 40 countries have issued travel warnings regarding Bangkok. While the Canadian embassy in Bangkok is not yet telling tourists to avoid the city, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website warns that “Canadians [...]

Jarrett Wrisley – Jarrett Wrisley hails from Allentown, Pennsylvania. For the past seven years, he’s been working as a writer in Asia, though he still dreams of greasy cheese steaks. About Wrisley Jarrett Wrisley hails from Allentown, Pennsylvania. For the past seven years, he’s been working as a writer in Asia, [...]

If George Orwell were alive today, he might find the battle for democracy now playing out in Bangkok reminiscent of his masterpiece, Animal Farm.…In Bangkok, he was considered by many as an outsider and a usurper. He seemed a direct threat to the long established balance of power. Worse, with his growing base in the [...]