Tens of thousands of protesters pressed ahead with a rally on Monday after Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rebuffed their demand for elections.
Cheering and waving flags, thousands of protesters started moving on Monday towards a military base in Bangkok where the premier has his headquarters.
More than 100 000 protesters converged in Bangkok on Sunday and gave Thailand’s government an ultimatum to call elections within 24 hours.
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/ 3 February 2010
James Kamte is ready to defend Asian Tour International title this week despite facing the prospect of having to play with borrowed clubs.
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/ 26 December 2009
Saffron-robed Thai monks chanted and prayed for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Saturday as Asia marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.
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/ 10 December 2009
Thousands of supporters of Thaksin Shinawatra rallied in Bangkok on Thursday, turning up the heat on Thailand’s embattled government.
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/ 12 November 2009
Fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra accused his country’s rulers of ”false patriotism” on Thursday.
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/ 9 November 2009
Thailand on Monday accused Thaksin Shinawatra of offending the monarchy, stepping up pressure on the tycoon as he prepares for a trip to Cambodia.
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/ 10 October 2009
Bitter delegates say no agreement on money or emissions cuts means a deal at Copenhagen will be weak at best.
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/ 10 October 2009
A significant climate deal later this year is
looking less and less likely as developed and developing nations slug it out over emissions.
Time is running out for negotiating a binding, inclusive climate change treaty in Copenhagen, Denmark at the end of the year.
Poorer countries’ efforts to fight climate change are being stymied by rich nations’ lack of commitment, the UN said on Thursday.
Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators try to lay the groundwork for a successor treaty.
UN climate talks in Bangkok are the most constructive since the 2007 launch of negotiations, the climate chief said on Wednesday.
The United Nations’s scheme to protect the forests, Redd, is being questioned after critics pointed out that it could be open to corruption.
China and a top G77 official accused rich nations on Monday of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol.
Efforts to convince rich nations to toughen emissions cuts have failed to make much headway at climate talks in Bangkok, the UN said on Friday.
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/ 28 September 2009
The United Nations climate chief warned on Monday that time was running out to break a deadlock on a global warming pact.
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/ 28 September 2009
Delegates at the start of marathon climate talks in Thailand on Monday were told that the world expects action as they struggle to break the deadlock.
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/ 16 September 2009
Thailand’s premier urged lawmakers on Wednesday to resolve a seemingly intractable political crisis in a debate on constitutional reforms.
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/ 15 September 2009
The term “refugee” isn’t one governments want to talk about in the context of climate change
Supporters of former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra rallied in Bangkok on Monday, seeking a royal pardon for the fugitive billionaire.
A Thai court on Tuesday refused to extradite Viktor Bout to the US to face trial on charges of supplying weapons to Colombian rebels.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday warned about possible nuclear links between Burma and North Korea.
A Thai thief broke into a house but promptly fell asleep inside before stealing anything, police said on Friday.
Thailand’s army chief admitted on Thursday that bullets used in last week’s assassination attempt on Sondhi Limthongkul came from a military arsenal.
The Thai activist who led a blockade of the kingdom’s main airports last year was shot and wounded on Friday in an assassination attempt.
Thailand’s fugitive ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra now has a Nicaraguan passport, which complicates efforts to extradite him.
Thailand revoked the passport of Thaksin Shinawatra on Wednesday, escalating a campaign against the fugitive former premier and his allies for alleged
Leaders of anti-government demonstrations that created chaos in the Thai capital, Bangkok, called off their protests on Wednesday.
Anti-government protesters began streaming out of the grounds of Government House in Bangkok on Tuesday, ending a siege of the prime minister’s office
Thai troops fired repeatedly into the air in Bangkok on Monday after anti-government protesters torched a bus at a main junction.