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State of Emergency as Thai Protestors Stom Interior Ministry

by Amitjha | April 10, 2009 at 11:03 pm

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Thailand Local politics is creating big hurdle for the Asian leaders to discuss the issues of relevance.The opposition led some 2000 protesters reached Pattya resort and disrupted the proceeding.

Update: Latest report says that thai governmant imposed emergecy to control the situation.

Anti-government protesters in Thailand have smashed into the venue of a Asian summit in the resort of Pattaya.

A Thai government government spokesman said leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) decided to postpone the talks.

It is not clear so far whether only the Saturday session or the whole two-day summit has been cancelled.

Thailand has been in turmoil for months, following the removal of allies of former PM Thaksin Shinawatra.

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gerrypopplestone

at 03:11 on April 11th, 2009

Fast reporting! I think the whole thing has been cancelled, though here in Bangkok it's a little uncertain. The Reds said they were not going to attack ASEAN: but thuggery got bthe better of them. I think it's irresponsible - they must know what a huge damage it does to the country. I used to support them: not any longer!