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Thaksin confident pro-democracy forces would win election
Gary Boyle, Published on 19/10/2018
» HONG KONG: An alliance of pro-democracy parties would defeat pro-military parties in the upcoming general election if it is held freely and fairly, ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday.
Reformers devise game plan in police force rejig
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/04/2018
» A new battlefront is emerging after the government signalled it would drop the draft police reform proposals with time running out before the election and the government hoping to deliver on the reform promise.
Controversial ex-cop Salang dies in mall plunge
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 26/02/2018
» Former deputy national police chief Pol Gen Salang Bunnag died on Sunday after falling from the 7th floor of a shopping centre in Nonthaburi. He was 81.
Ex-PAD heads: We won't pay damages
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 08/01/2018
» Former yellow-shirt co-leaders say they cannot afford to pay damages worth more than 522 million baht resulting from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD)'s 10-day closure of Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports 10 years ago.
Appeal extension rejected: PAD leaders must pay bt522 million for airport closure
Published on 22/09/2017
» Thirteen yellow-shirt co-leaders will have to pay damages worth 522 million baht in total for the blockades of Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang nine years ago after they missed the appeal deadline and the Supreme Court refused to extend it on Thursday.
Somchai, Chavalit and 2 others acquitted
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 02/08/2017
» Former PM Somchai Wongsawat and three other defendants have been found not guilty over the forceful dispersal of yellow-shirt protesters in 2008.
Airport shutdowns case moves ahead, slowly
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 02/02/2016
» No, the yellow-shirt protesters who shut down Suvarnabhumi airport have not escaped punishment. Here is the latest on the slow-moving court process.
Academics keep the spirit of learning alive
Jon Fernquest, Published on 16/12/2015
» Facing creeping military intervention, to defend the spirit of critical inquiry at Thailand's universities academics have joined together.
Closing airports can be expensive – like 522m baht
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 24/06/2015
» The Appeals Court yesterday upheld a lower court's verdict that the 13 core members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) must pay 522 million baht to the Airports Authority of Thailand (AoT) for a 2008 protest which shut down the city's airports for more than week.
Jail for yellow-shirt leaders
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 28/05/2015
» The Criminal Court has ruled six yellow-shirt leaders must serve two years in jail for their role in leading followers to seize and then occupy Government House for over three months in 2008. They remain free on bail, however.