The Confederation of Thai Journalists, the Thai Journalists Association and the Thai Broadcast Journalists Association yesterday issued a joint statement, expressing concern about the ongoing political conflict and calling for all sides to adhere to peace.
They also made the following appeals:
The Mental Health Department yesterday called on people to send SMSs or post the message "don't use violence against each other" on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to echo public consensus that government and red-shirt protesters should maintain peace.
Yala- A senior policeman, known for his honesty and expertise in anti-insurgency warfare, died from wounds sustained in a bomb attack and ensuing gunfire yesterday that also wounded three other officers.
Individual Thais are invited to call the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) at 02-565-7007, to get updates on traffic conditions related to the demonstrations.
The Public Health Ministry has built up a store of blood and oxygen for emergency medical treatment in the event of violence during the upcoming redshirt mass rally in Bangkok, Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said yesterday.
Out of concern about the huge redshirt rally, all state secondary schools in eight provinces will postpone the application period that was initially scheduled to run from tomorrow to next Wednesday.
Bangkok Deputy Governor Taya Teepsuwan was in the blue Volkswagen van that tried to cut into Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's motorcade on Wednesday evening.
Nang Lerng and Din Daeng residents still shudder at recalling the street violence of the last mass red-shirt rally and plead for no violence this weekend.
Southern insurgents yesterday shot three telephone-company employees to death on the Pattani-Yala Highway in Pattani's Yarang district and burned their bodies.
As part of contingency plans and emergency measures taken to cope with the pro-Thaksin Shinawatra group's mass rallies from Friday, text messages will be sent to tell members of the Secretariat of the Cabinet on early Sunday as to whether they would be excused from work on Monday.
Her Majesty the Queen was concerned over Thailand's drought problem and has urged the Agriculture Ministry to do what it can to relieve the impact, Agriculture Minister Theera Wongsamut said yesterday.
In a sting operation yesterday, four members of the Lahu hilltribe were arrested with 6.65 kilograms of heroin in their possession, Chiang Rai Governor Suthep Saengnimnuan said yesterday.
An independent academic who monitors social issues yesterday filed a lawsuit in the Central Administration Court against the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation and top health officials for failing to have human trials to test the type-A (H1N1) influenza virus vaccine following reports that six people had died after receiving the vaccine.
The Public Health Ministry found that nearly 100,000 people had fallen ill from the smog shrouding eight provinces in the North and warned that more would be affected if the situation persists.
Rangoon - Burma's new election laws have barred opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 other political prisoners from contesting polls planned this year, state media said Wednesday.
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