Bangkok - Anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok threatened Thursday to descend on this weekend's summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) unless the Thai administration resigns.
Tens of thousands of supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra prolonged their demonstration in the centre of the capital after a call by Thaksin for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and three advisers to the king to resign from their posts.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong dropped more than 3 per cent Wednesday on more worries over the economy and first-quarter earnings.
The blue-chip Hang Seng Index fell by 454.11 points or 3.04 per cent to end the day at 14,474.86. Turnover was 60.8 billion Hong Kong dollars (7.8 billion US dollars.)
Losses were across the board, with market heavyweight HSBC losing 5.57 per cent to close at 48.35 Hong Kong dollars.
Bangkok - More than 50,000 red-shirted anti-government protestors swarmed Bangkok's government quarter Wednesday in a demonstration of support for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
At midday the masses of people were calm, enjoying a break from recent rains, but many protestors were moving towards the home of chief royal advisor Prem Tinsulanda who they blame for hatching the military coup that toppled Thaksin in September 2006.
Bangkok - Thai police have arrested three men who they claim were plotting to assassinate an advisor to King Bhumibol Adulyadej at a time of rising political tension in the country, a news report said Wednesday.
The suspects allegedly told investigators that some military officers wanted to create turmoil ahead of Wednesday's mass rally by supporters loyal to fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the Nation reported.
Bangkok - A royalist mass movement that closed Bangkok's two airports last year and besieged parliament will regroup this week if current anti-government protests turn violent, one of their leaders said Sunday.
Protesters who want fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra back in power claim that 100,000 people will gather Wednesday to protest the September 2006 coup that ousted him.
Bangkok - Two short, sharp border clashes with Cambodia that left at least two Thai soldiers dead last week will not sour essentially good relations between the two neighbours, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Sunday.
Thai and Cambodia troops engaged in at least two brisk shootouts Friday that killed two Thai soldiers and wounded a dozen more on disputed ground near the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple, located 350 kilometres north-east of Bangkok.
Bangkok - Anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok threatened Thursday to descend on this weekend's summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) unless the Thai administration resigns.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong dropped more than 3 per cent Wednesday on more worries over the economy and first-quarter earnings.
Bangkok - More than 50,000 red-shirted anti-government protestors swarmed Bangkok's government quarter Wednesday in a demonstration of support for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Bangkok - Thai police have arrested three men who they claim were plotting to assassinate an advisor to King Bhumibol Adulyadej at a time of rising political tension in the country, a news report said Wednesday.
Bangkok - A royalist mass movement that closed Bangkok's two airports last year and besieged parliament will regroup this week if current anti-government protests turn violent, one of their leaders said Sunday.
Bangkok - Two short, sharp border clashes with Cambodia that left at least two Thai soldiers dead last week will not sour essentially good relations between the two neighbours, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Sunday.
