Topic: Bangkok
Anti-government demonstrators vowed Sunday to march on military barracks housing Thailand's top leaders as their icon, deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra, urged them from exile not to give up. The red-clad protesters -- assembled amid tight security in public spaces near government offices in Bangkok -- have vowed to step up their campaign if the government does not dissolve parliament within 24 ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - More than 100,000 protesters converged in Bangkok on Sunday and gave Thailand's military-backed government an ultimatum to call elections within 24 hours or face crippling demonstrations across the capital. Singing pro-democracy songs, dancing, hooting horns and waving placards, red-shirted supporters of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra flooded streets in Bangkok's historic heart and threatened to stay ...
