Look for real reasons before condemning
April 12, 2009
As a Thai citizen, what I wish is that there should not just be condemnation and possible legal action against the red-shirt leaders, but that the authorities analyse why there is such rage and rampage. There can be no rage without a cause. The more their grievances are ignored, the more problems there will...
Pattaya chronology
April 12, 2009
12.45am Red-shirt leader Arisamun Pongruengrong tells press conference inside hotel Newin is behind blue-shirts.1pm Red-shirts break past guards into press centre.1.20pm Red-shirt press conference demands PM Abhisit Vejjajiva step down for ordering shooting of two red-shirt taxi-drivers.1.30pm Government postpones Asean Summit in Pattaya...
What happened in Pattaya
April 12, 2009
As a result, the bilateral talks between Asean, Japan and South Korea were also delayed. As the red-shirt protesters moved closer to the entrance of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort, PM Abhisit Vejjajiva decided to postpone the rest of the summits.At 11am, he met the Asean leaders and diplomats from India, Australia...
Must Thailand sink further
April 12, 2009
We were saddened by their short-sighted and selfish action, which has turned Thailand and its role as chair of Asean into an international embarrassment. The Abhisit government had no choice but to declare a seven-hour state of emergency in Pattaya and Chon Buri.The image of Pattaya as a resort destination...
PM: reds
April 12, 2009
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva last night called the red-shirts
Blot on Thailand
April 12, 2009
Asst Prof Dr Wichai Kanchanasuwan, a lecturer at Prince of Songkhla University, said the red-shirt invasion of the summit's venue had been broadcast worldwide, not just shaming the government but also damaging the country."The government should not have underestimated the situation. It should have been better...
A telling blow has been delivered to country and premier
April 12, 2009
The red-shirts were able to break into the Royal Cliff, which is in the far pocket of South Pattaya, because the police and the military were standing idly by, practising paak waa taa khayip
Red
April 12, 2009
Thailand's tourism industry will lose at least Bt200 billion in revenue this year as the consequence of political unrest sparked by both yellow- and red-shirt protesters, according to Kongkrit Hiranyakit, chairman of the Tourism Council of Thailand."After the Suvarnabhumi Airport closure
Many opportunities lost as political strife returns
April 12, 2009
More importantly, the damage to the Kingdom's image as a tourist destination was devastated after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva decided to cancel the event for security fears. Only a minor outcome was achieved. A
politics
Red-shirt forces closure of Summit
April 12, 2009
Pattaya - The summit of Asean leaders with dialogue partners has been cancelled after a clash of red-shirts and blue-shirts outside the venue and a subsequent invasion of the hotel. Angry protesters stormed into the Pattaya Exhibition and Convention Hall, the media centre of the Asean summit, after they learned an...
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