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Thailand tightens security ahead of Thaksin ruling The Boston Globe BANGKOK-Thailand has started deploying about 20,000 security forces to brace for protests ahead of a widely anticipated court ruling on the $2.2 billion fortune of deposed leader Thaksin Shinawatra, a spokesman said Monday. Supporters of Thaksin have stepped up...
Bomb hits trucks carrying Thai soldiers; 7 wounded The News & Observer BANGKOK -- Police say suspected insurgents detonated a bomb as two truckloads of soldiers passed, wounding seven troops in Thailand's restive south. Police Lt. Heraman Jehdee says the attack happened Monday afternoon soon after the vehicles with 38 soldiers left a camp in Bo-ngo sub-district in...
Thai "red shirts" rally to warn against coup The Star BANGKOK (Reuters) - Supporters of toppled Thaipremier Thaksin Shinawatra held small, symbolic rallies at military bases nationwide on Thursday in what analysts see as a prelude to a bigger showdown with Thailand's fragile ruling coalition. Hundreds of the fugitive billionaire's red-shirted...
Thailand sharpens security ahead of protests The Star BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hoping to avoid a repeat of violent riots last year, Thailand has strengthened crowd control and security ahead of an anti-government protest planned for this month, a deputy prime minister said on Wednesday. Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thuagsuban gives an interview at the Government House in Bangkok February 3, 2010. Suthep said the government believes it will be able to handle...
Thai PM: There won't be a coup d'etat The Boston Globe DAVOS, Switzerland-Thailand's prime minister said Saturday he saw no threat of his government being ousted in a coup despite speculation back home, insisting that the rule of law would triumph over intimidation. Abhisit Vejjajiva said in an interview with The Associated Press that any talk of his government being overthrown was linked to the February court decision on whether to confiscate more than $2 billion in...
AP Interview: Thai PM Abhisit says he's not worried about coup speculation KDVR DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Thailand's prime minister said Saturday he saw no threat of his government being ousted in a coup despite speculation back home, insisting that the rule of law would triumph over intimidation. Abhisit Vejjajiva said in an interview with The Associated Press that any talk of his government being overthrown was linked to the February court decision on whether to confiscate more than $2...
Tanks in the night spark coup talk The Star Military coups have been part and parcel of Thaipolitics - friendly coup, judicial coup, TV coup, silent coup - and the nation may yet see a coup to get rid of the Opposition TWENTY-TWO V-150 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) rumbled into the streets of Bangkok on Monday night. And - not surprising for politically-jittery Thailand - the immediate assumption was the military had launched a coup. It turned out that...
Mobius: Lending curbs may help economy China Daily China's lending slowdown may benefit the domestic economy by reducing risk and investors should still buy shares of the nation's banks, investor Mark Mobius said in Sydney. "I don't see a slowdown in lending as a bad thing," Mobius, who oversees about $34 billion in emerging marketsfunds as chairman of Templeton Asset Management Ltd, said yesterday. "It moderates risk to some degree because people don't go...
Signs of cracks in Thai army Arab News Martin Petty | Reuters A grenade attack on the office of Thailand's army chief this month is stoking fears of a worst-case scenario in Thailand's political crisis — a possible fissure in the military along fault lines that have divided the country. Analysts, diplomats and military sources say it is premature to talk of a split in Thailand's powerful and politicized army but that festering ideological differences show...
Are cracks appearing in Thailand's military? The Star BANGKOK (Reuters) - A grenade attack on the office of Thailand's army chief this month is stoking fears of a worst-case scenario in Thailand's political crisis -- a possible fissure in the military along fault lines that have divided the country. Analysts, diplomats and military sources say it is premature to talk of a split in Thailand's powerful and politicised army but that festering ideological differences show...
