The Civil Court last night ordered the People's Alliance For Democracy (PAD) to immediately move out of Government House and its grounds, at the request of the Secretariat of the Prime Minister. Nine PAD leaders also face arrest warrants approved by the Criminal Court on four charges, including treason.
Army commander Gen Anupong Paojinda has put about 1,000 soldiers trained in riot control on standby to back up police if the People's Alliance for Democracy demonstration gets out of control.
Foreign Minister Tej Bunnag yesterday urged the international community to understand the current political situation in Thailand saying it was part of the democratic process.
Police yesterday confirmed all 82 people arrested for breaking into the state-owned television station NBT on Tuesday were members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). They said they were not members of a third party as the PAD had tried to claim.
POLITICS
The five core leaders of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), now facing arrest, are pinning their hopes on three successors carrying on their efforts to bring down the government.
People's Alliance for Democracy protesters blocked roads to Hat Yai airport in Songkhla yesterday afternoon. The blockade lasted a few hours. Some flights were delayed.
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief Siriwat Tiptaradol, who was transferred to an inactive post by the previous health minister, has been promoted to deputy permanent secretary of the Health Ministry.
SEX CRIME
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Appeals Court's nine-year jail sentence for a former railway worker who raped a train passenger in a sleeper car in 2001.
CONSTITUTION
House Speaker Chai Chidchob yesterday gave five House sub-committees studying charter amendments another 30 days to work.
SUVARNABHUMI
Airports of Thailand (AoT) has agreed on the rent King Power International Group must pay for the use of additional commercial space at Suvarnabhumi airport, but revenue sharing is still being negotiated.
EDITORIAL
All credit to the Bank of Thailand for its decision to raise short-term interest rates. This not only affirms its determination to keep inflation in check for the long-term health of the economy; it is confirmation, for the benefit of the financial markets, of the central bank's independence from the fickleness of political and public will. The decision by the Monetary Policy Committee to raise overnight rates to 3.75% must be put into context _ the central bank this year has faced its toughest policy-making challenges since the economic crisis of a decade ago.
THAI POLITICS
The raid on the headquarters of NBT on the morning of Aug 26 by a group of anti-government protesters alleged to have carried guns and long knives, has struck alarm among human rights and media freedom groups.
COMMENTARY
How will this end? Will there be blood? If you did not go to sleep with these questions the day the People's Alliance for Democracy plunged the country into political turmoil, then you are blessed with a steely spirit.
POWER GAMES
Two days into the "Final Battle" and the People's Alliance for Democracy appears to have failed to gain full advantage from its opening salvo. With the storming of the National Broadcasting Service of Thailand (NBT) television station and laying siege to Government House and several ministerial offices, the alliance has alienated numerous non-core supporters.
ABOUT Politics
An unguarded conversation between television anchor Tuangporn Assawawilai and deputy government spokesman Nattawut Saikua which was broadcast two days ago was an eye-opener for many.
PostBag
With inevitable, cyclical regularity the university students of Thailand have been at the forefront of popular movements to oust corrupt regimes and install a more trustworthy alternative, in pursuit of an actual embodiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people.
InMedia
Political temperatures cooled a bit last week after the Election Commission deferred its decision on the fate of the People Power party for two weeks.
