Search results for ‘Shinawatra’
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Thai police use tear gas on protesters
Thai police use water cannon and tear gas on protesters who continue to demonstrate in Bangkok against the premiership of Yingluck Shinawatra. Rubber bullets are reported to have been used.
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Thailand protests erupt in violent clashes with police
Thousands of protesters descend on Bangkok in an attempt overthrow the prime minister, resulting in fierce skirmishes with police.
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Gay rights to austerity: protest pictures that made 2013
As protesters in Thailand march to the ruling political party’s office in Bangkok in a bid to topple the government, Channel 4 News looks back at a year of demonstrations.
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Thai protesters storm army HQ
Around 1,000 anti-government protesters, calling for Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down, break into the Royal Thai Army headquarters in Bangkok and stage a protest rally.
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Thai protests: a very mild-mannered coup?
Traffic is at a standstill, buildings occupied and an arrest warrant has been issued for the protest leader. But no-one seems in any hurry to detain him, writes John Sparks in Bangkok.
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Thailand: thousands protest against prime minister
Thousands take to the streets in Thailand to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra amid fears she is acting as a proxy for her brother, Thaksin, who was ousted in 2006.
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Iran behind Thai bombings, says Israel
An Iranian man has been badly wounded after a bungled bombing in Thailand. Israel’s defence minster described it as an attempted terrorist attack.
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'Extreme Animal Rescue'
The calls began in early October with panicked sounding ‘pet’ owners begging Dr ‘Ning’ Natarika to do something. Millions of Thais were evacuating their homes, taking only what they could carry. Everything else was left behind – and ‘everything else’ happens to include snakes, monkeys (including an endangered capuchin), wild boar, hundreds of deer, a couple of black panthers, Siberian tigers, black bears, a pride of lions and so on.
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Thailand braces itself for disease threat
Thai officials say central Bangkok has escaped the worst of Thailand’s most severe floods in half a century, but aid groups are now warning of the threat of water-borne diseases.
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Bangkok ‘fighting the forces of nature’
Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra almost breaks down as she warns that Bangkok is “fighting against the forces of nature” amid heavy flooding.
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Bangkok braced for flooding
The Thai capital Bangkok is under threat from the country’s worst flooding in 50 years.
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Crisis looms as flood waters encircle Bangkok
As flood waters encircle Thailand’s capital of Bangkok, John Sparks observes the government’s change in tune.
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Thai PM defends floods response
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra defends her government’s response to the worst floods in 50 years as Bangkok braces itself for a deluge.
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Thailand’s floods threaten Bangkok
As authorities in Bangkok attempt to defend Thailand’s capital from severe flooding, Channel 4 News Asia Correspondent John Sparks reports from north of the city where swathes of land are inundated.
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Thailand's future is a family affair
John Sparks blogs from Bangkok on a remarkable comeback for the Shinawatras – the Thai family who are turning into a political dynasty.
