PAUL Tan is director of studies at Genting Highlands’s Highlands International Boarding School. He studied in Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, where his contemporaries included Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz and tycoon Tan Sri Dr Francis Yeoh. Fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin was his senior in school. Paul Tan is also […]
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State of emergency in Bangkok lifted
BANGKOK, 24 April 2009: The Thai government today officially lifted the state of emergency in Bangkok and five nearby provinces, almost two weeks after it was imposed to contain street rallies by anti-government protesters. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said the lifting was effective from noon, adding that all the security agencies had given the green […]
Bangkok calm (Updated)
Updated 2:01pm, 14 April 2009 BANGKOK, 14 April 2009:Leaders of the anti-government protesters who turned the streets of Bangkok into a war zone and caused the recent Asean +6 Summit in Pattaya to be cancelled, have agreed to end their rally and disperse from the Government House. Natawut Saikua told thousands of supporters of ousted […]
77 injured in Thai clash
BANGKOK, 13 April 2009: Thais woke up today to celebrate their traditional new year or Songkran in a sombre mood after at least 77 protestors and troops were injured in a crackdown ordered by embattled Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. Soldiers fired shots and used tear gas in the early morning clash. Speculation has been rife […]
