Looks like Thakshin Shinawatras MERCENARIES are jumping ship like rats. Thakshin is like a thai politician who was trained by a corrupt Indian politician. He HAS sold off parts of thailand to Cambodia when Cambodia bribed him by giving him a share in its off shore oilprojects. Thakshin had amassed 23384615 million dollars thru corrupt measures and now he is inciting violence in thailand using that money. Long Live the KING of Thailand. Impatiently awaiting an execution order for Thakshin Shinawatra and his family!
LAst time he paid each protestor1300 bhats to come to bangkok and then he left them there with no money and no food. The govt had to spend the money to send them back and protect them from the clutches of prostitution.
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Agnes Dherbeys for The New York Times A porter in front of Dusit Thani, one of the grand hotels of Bangkok, as it prepared to close temporarily on Monday amid clashes between antigovernment protesters and the Thai military.
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Charoen Wanganonanond, a spokesman for the Federation of Thai Tourism Associations, told The Bangkok Post: “It’s hard to say what will happen. What is certain is that the recovery process will be long and costly. This is the worst crisis ever faced in the history of the Thai tourism industry.”
Bangkok is already planning its clean-up operation once the protesters move out of the high-end shopping area they have occupied. The city administration said it would clean roads and sewers and water mains, remove garbage and bring in 1,000 monks to chant and accept alms.
Fear in Bangkok as bullets fly close to home
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Almost everything in the area is closed: restaurants, supermarkets, Bangkok’s ubiquitous massage parlors and even the go-go bars on Patpong Road, one of the city’s most famous sex-bar strips, which is now lined with water cannon trucks and military vehicles.
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Outside the city center, life goes on somewhat normally. People are buying groceries, taking their morning jogs and sipping lattes at outdoor cafes. But there are inconveniences — the elevated Skytrain will remain closed Monday for the third day and all schools in Bangkok were ordered closed for at least a week starting Monday.
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“You get a lot of calls from home, from people asking if you’re OK. They see the one shot on the news of a bus burning and they think all of Bangkok is the same,” said Dutch businessman Ruud van der Linden, 52, who has lived in Bangkok with his family for six years.
Even from relative safety, there are new rules to live by. Notably, stay away from the center of Bangkok.
Local residents avoid burning tire smoke as they evacuate an area where anti-government protesters stand off with government forces, Sunday, May 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand will impose a curfew Sunday and send Red Cross workers to evacuate women and children from Bangkok’s deadly protest zone where 25 people have been killed in four days of street battles between anti-government demonstrators and troops. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
… 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’ protesters encamped for nine weeks in downtown
Bangkok, even their leadership has disavowed him for openly
agitating violence.”
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Can The
‘Demographic Time Bomb’ Spread? The Japan Times’ Christopher Johnson worries,
“After two decades of migration from northern provinces which doubled
Bangkok’s population, these poor dark-skinned laborers — and their
city-bred offspring — have essentially held the government hostage and
pushed it to call for November elections a year ahead of schedule. This
demographic time bomb also exists in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Ho
Chi Minh City (Saigon), Manila and other cities with huge migrant
populations. If Thailand’s red shirt uprising is a revolution of rising
expectations among the servant class, then migrant laborers elsewhere
might also demand a greater share of political power.”
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.
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When I first went into the camp, I was surprised by the orderliness and the industriousness of the people inside, who’d set up shops to sell food and red-themed merchandise, pharmacies, and even a massage parlor within the tent city. But the area still resembles a refugee camp: dwellings made of plastic sheets and bamboo; garbage strewn across the ground; the smell of rotting food and unwashed bodies permeate the air. Conditions will only get worse, assuming the government shuts off the water and cuts off supplies after the Thursday deadline.
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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.
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When I first went into the camp, I was surprised by the orderliness and the industriousness of the people inside, who’d set up shops to sell food and red-themed merchandise, pharmacies, and even a massage parlor within the tent city. But the area still resembles a refugee camp: dwellings made of plastic sheets and bamboo; garbage strewn across the ground; the smell of rotting food and unwashed bodies permeate the air. Conditions will only get worse, assuming the government shuts off the water and cuts off supplies after the Thursday deadline.
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DEPUTY PM Suthep Thaugsuban turned himself in to Department of Special Investigation officials at 8am today, fulfilling a demand that red shirt leaders say will end the Bangkok protest.
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nationmultimedia.com The Chiang Mai Convention and Exhibition Centre is expected to bring three billion baht of revenue into the northern province each year when its opens in October 2011. It will be the first such venue outside Bangkok that is owned and developed by the government. The next project is the Phuket Convention Centre, now in the final phase of study and site selection.
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heraldsun.com.au A couple who operated a Sydney brothel forced five women to live in ”conditions of slavery,” making them work more than 100 hours a week even if they were sick. Trevor Frank McIvor, 62, and Kanokporn Tanuchit, 44, have each pleaded not guilty to five counts of possessing a slave and five counts of using a slave. Jurors also heard that the five women were recruited from Thailand by a third party, who arranged Australian visas for them.
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Thai police sought yesterday to push back anti-government “Red Shirts” from a confrontation zone in Bangkok after deadly grenade attacks further stoked tensions in the long-running political standoff.
Hundreds of riot police, unarmed but carrying shields and batons, moved on the heavily fortified barricades which form the front line of the Reds’ vast encampment that has paralysed the main retail district in the heart of Bangkok.
“Police asked protesters to move their barricade some 100 metres… to ease the confrontation but so far there is no agreement,” Major General Anuchai Lekbumrung of Bangkok Metropolitan Police told AFP.
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It was the latest bloodshed on the streets of Bangkok in the weeks-long standoff between the government and Red Shirts, and triggered alarm in the international community which issued urgent calls for for restraint.
Five grenades exploded in the heart of Bangkok’s business district on Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding 75 as rival groups of protesters demonstrated and insulted each another across a makeshift barricade.
The conflict has its roots in social divisions between the mostly poor and rural red shirts and an urban middle class that had not been active on the streets until about a week ago.
The antagonism between them was displayed by a pro-government protester who made a rude gesture towards the red shirts on Thursday as she stood in front of a misspelt placard in English reading “Uneducate people.”
The explosions, several of which occurred on the platform of an elevated train, scattered shrapnel through crowds that included foreign tourists, sending people fleeing in panic into shops and restaurants. They threatened to ignite wider violence after more than six weeks of protests that have sought to bring down the government and force a new election.
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