From foreign embassies to social media to spartan signs in communities, calls for peace echoed yesterday ahead of Friday's major rally of the red shirts.
The Cabinet yesterday resolved to impose the Internal Security Act in Bangkok and seven other neighbouring provinces from tomorrow ahead of the upcoming mass rally by the red shirts.
British Ambassador Quinton Quayle yesterday expressed his concern over the red-shirt demonstration urging all parties to exercise utmost restraint, not using violence against each other since it would damage Thailand as a whole.
A Nakhon Phanom man was arrested after trying to throw two bags of cow dung into the Prime Minister's residence on Sukhumvit Road yesterday morning. He was later sentenced to a 10-day detention.
Of late, a lot of number-crunching has been going on, especially before and after the court decided to confiscate Bt46 billion of former PM Thaksin Shinawatra's Bt76-billion frozen assets. A lot of people, be they trained in economics, law or even fields that are not remotely related to this subject, came up with different figures. In fact, some even said that Thaksin's greed and corruption had cost the country more than Bt100 billion in damages.
Pheu Thai MP Chalerm Yoobamrung on Tuesday claimed that a political group set up its command centre in London to stir up trouble coinciding with the red-shirt rally.
The People's Alliance for Democracy on Tuesday issued a statement accusing ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his army of red shirts of trying to incite insurrection.
The Senate on Tuesday voted not to impeach former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat for charges related to his involvement in the botched anti-riot operation on October 7, 2008.
The stolen weapons in Phatthalung were smuggled out of an Army's arsenal over time but culprits made it appeared like a break-in, Army chief General Anupong Paochinda said on Tuesday.
Statesman General Prem Tinsulanonda Foundation is under his name but the chief royal adviser has no management position nor linkage to its land sale in Sa Kaew in 2006, foundation secretary general Pongthep Thesprateep said on Tuesday.
An indentified man threw a bag of excrement passed a security cordon to hit the fence of the prime minister's residence on Sukhumvit 31 Road, police said on Tuesday.
The red-shirt movement, in its last ditch effort to topple Abhisit Vejjajiva's government and its back-up forces, are mobilising a huge protest march from four regions to paralyse the capital on Friday.
Schools in Phra Nakhon, Dusit and Pom Prab districts in Bangkok were ordered yesterday to complete the term's final exams and shut down for the summer vacation by Thursday - before the red shirts begin their mass rally on Friday.
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