UDD | Simon Roughneen

Protesters begin Bangkok ‘shutdown’ calling for Yingluck to step down – The Irrawaddy/BBC World Service: Outside Source

http://www.irrawaddy.org/asia/protesters-begin-bangkok-shutdown-calling-yingluck-step.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01p2pd7 BANGKOK — Hundreds of thousands of protesters seeking an unelected council to run Southeast Asia’s second biggest...

Thai electoral fraud case dismissed – Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a1f7a72a-fb99-11df-b79a-00144feab49a.html By Simon Roughneen in Bangkok A Thai court has dismissed an electoral fraud case that could have seen...

Thailand defends continued emergency rule – Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/90873458-8b26-11df-a4b4-00144feab49a.html By Simon Roughneen in Bangkok The Thai government on Friday defended its move to extend a state of...

Thai premier cools hopes for early poll – Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/547da710-6c06-11df-86c5-00144feab49a.html By Simon Roughneen in Bangkok Thailand’s prime minister said previously proposed November elections are not feasible “in the...

Thai army moves in for the kill – ISN

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots591=4888caa0-b3db-1461-98b9-e20e7b9c13d4&lng=en&id=116392 Much of central Bangkok is a no-go area after recent street fighting. A senate mediation proposal has fallen...

Bullets over Bangkok – The Irrawaddy/CBS Radio

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18478 BANGKOK – Thailand’s capital has been a warzone since late Thursday night, as soldiers and police do battle...

Sunlight creeping through the Bangkok gloom? – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18376 Redshirt protestors have conditionally-accepted the Government’s new peace plan. However, looking at these developments in the context of...

Confrontations and Conspiracies in Thailand – ISN

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=115676 The next steps in Thailand’s political face-off are becoming increasingly hard to predict. After seven weeks of occupying...

Thailand not smiling anymore – The Sunday Tribune

http://www.tribune.ie/news/international/article/2010/apr/25/the-land-of-smiles-has-little-reason-to-be-cheerfu/ Bangkok – It was the third evening of a tense face-off between red shirt anti-Government protestors and a...

Violence looms as Thai PM refuses compromise deal – RTÉ World Report

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0425/worldreport.html As the Thai Prime Minister snubs a red shirt offer to end their protest – if their demand...