By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI PARTY leader Anutin Charnvirakul today (June 17) shrugged off tomorrow’s planned recruitment of Red Shirt activists as Pheu Thai Family members in certain parts of Sisaket, considering it as a commonplace campaign tactic. Anutin who concurrently acts as deputy prime minister-cum-public health minister referred to the fresh popularity-wooing campaign launched
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Nattawut tasked with turning Red Shirt members into Pheu Thai voters
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER RED SHIRT leader Nattawut Saikua is being named “director” of a Pheu Thai Family project with apparent intent to recruit pro-democracy activists nationwide as supporters of Pheu Thai Party in the next general election, partisan sources said today (June 14). Paetongtarn Shinawatra, leader of Pheu Thai Family and daughter
Read moreRed shirts gather downtown Bangkok to mark crackdown in 2010
MEMBERS of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), aka the red shirts, gathered at Ratchaprasong intersection at 4.30 p.m. today (May 19) to mark the violent suppression of their protests by the military on this same day in 2010 in which at least 80 civilians and six soldiers were killed and over
Read moreCocaine use charge against Red Bull heir expiring this year
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL has issued a statement expressing concern that the statute of limitations on cocaine use charge against Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya, who is wanted in a hit-and-run incident that led to a policeman’s death in Bangkok on September 3, 2012, expires on September 3 this year and it will no longer
Read morePolice say Red Bull heir hiding in Austria
THE HOUSE Committee for Police Affairs was today (Nov. 25) told by senior police officers that Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya, who wanted in a hit-and-run incident that led to a policeman’s death in Bangkok on September 3, 2012, is believed to be hiding in Austria but budget problems prevent the sending of a
Read moreEx-red shirt leader freed from jail, vows to resume anti-Prayut moves
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER RED SHIRT leader Jatuporn Prompan was freed from prison today (Oct. 14) and vowed to resume fighting against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Speaking to reporters outside Bangkok Remand Prison, Jatuporn said he will consult with friends and associates and get himself updated with the current political situation before he
Read moreChilli sauce shop sells out after evicting red-shirt TV host
THE Thai spicy chilli sauce shop at the centre of a drama with political undertones that erupted yesterday (Sept. 21) after the owner evicted a red-shirt TV programme host despite an appointment for a shoot a month in advance is now raking it in having sold out most of her products overnight, TV Channel 7
Read moreRed-shirt TV programme host evicted from chilli sauce shop
GOING VIRAL on the Thai social media today (Sept. 21) is the eviction of a TV programme host who is a red-shirt suporter from a well-known Thai spicy chili sauce shop even though she had made an appointment a month in advance to go in for a shoot, Matichon newspaper said. Ms Kham Phaka,
Read moreCourt rejects arrest warrant for anti-Prayut protest leaders
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN ARREST WARRANT sought by police against leading political activists in protest of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was today (Sept. 8) denied by court. The Bangkok South District Court turned down the request by Thong Lor police station for the arrest warrant for Red Shirt leader Nattawut Saikua and political activist
Read moreAnti-Prayut demonstrators march to Govt House
THE People’s Unity Group for Thailand led by red shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan joined by other groups encamped at the Government House after marching there from Phan Fa Lilat Bridge at 6 p.m. this evening (June 26) in a demonstration to pressure Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to resign, Thai Rath newspaper said. The march was
Read moreRed shirts temporarily halt rally over Covid outbreak
THE red shirt protesters rallying at Santiporn Park on Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue for the fourth day today (April 7) to pressure Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to step down decided to disband and meet again at a later date amid a new flare up of coronavirus, Siam Rath newspaper said this evening. Mr. Jatuporn Prompan, head
Read moreRed shirts continue rallying for second day
RED-SHIRT followers assembled at Santiporn Park on Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue for the second day today (April 5) as they continued pressuring for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to step down while also calling the release of protest leaders detained under Section 112 of the Criminal Code, known as the lese majeste law, Thai Rath newspaper said.
Read moreRed shirts gather to pressure PM Prayut to resign
RED-SHIRT followers gathered at Santiporn Park on Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue where the Black May 1992 Memorial is located at 4 p.m. today (April 4) with their leaders taking turns to giving speeches on their objective that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha step down, Thai Rath newspaper said. The key leaders said the gathering, entitled “Thais won’t
Read moreProtesters write messages on red cloth at Democracy Monument
A demonstration called by the People’s Party kicked off at Democracy Monument this afternoon (Feb. 13) with a large 30×30-metre red cloth spread out on the road for participants to write their grievances and demands, Thai Rath newspaper said. The rally was announced on the webpage of the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration calling
Read moreRed shirts cheer as Nattawut is freed from prison
THERE was overwhelming joy among those who had assembled outside Bangkok Remand Prison today (Dec. 18) as Mr. Nattawut Saikua, a former leader of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (“Red Shirts”), was set free, Amarin TV reported. Aside from his wife, Sirisakul Saikua, who is also a leader of this political pressure group, two
Read moreRed shirts ‘will be joining October 14 rally’
A FORMER Pheu Thai MP and one of the leaders of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship said today (Oct. 9) that the majority of red-shirt supporters will be joining a demonstration called by students on October 14 despite the government saying otherwise, Siam Rath newspaper reported. Mr. Worachai Hema, a former Pheu Thai
Read moreInterpol to be asked to reissue Red Notice for Red Bull heir’s arrest
THAI POLICE are moving to ask Interpol to again issue a Red Notice for the arrest of Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya in the hit-and-run case that led to a policeman’s death on September 3, 2012 on two charges that the Office of Attorney General has listed, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (Sept. 23, 2020). Pol. Col.
Read moreThai Pakdee leader: Guards didn’t punch man wearing red shirt
IN A Facebook post today (August 31) Dr. Warong Dechgitvigrom, leader of right-wing Thai Pakdee group, clarified that the group’s guards had not assaulted a 60-year-old man who was wearing a red shirt near Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Centre where yesterday’s gathering had taken place as has been reported online, Naewna newspaper reported this afternoon. Dr.
Read moreProsecutor who dropped charges against Red Bull heir resigns
AMID the furore over the withdrawal of the charges against Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya in a hit-and-run incident that led to a policeman’s death in 2012, the Deputy Attorney-General who signed this order resigned today (August 11), INN News reported. Mr. Net Naksuk is due to retire from management level service on September 30
Read morePanel wants Red Bull heir case reexamined for speeding plus cocaine use
By Bhuva Chira, Sanook.com THE PUBLIC prosecutors working group has cleared the Deputy Attorney-General of any wrongdoing for ordering the withdrawal of charges against Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya but also opined that the case be reexamined on grounds cocaine use and new evidence on speeding, Sanook.com reported today (August 4, 2020). Wichian Klanprasert, a police officer
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