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...Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva defied the demands of his opponents Monday morning, telling the country in a televised statement that he would neither resign nor dissolve the House of Representatives, as tens of thousands of red-shirted demonstrators laid siege to the army base where government and security officials are monitoring the protests...
...have been posted to the capital to maintain order. Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said that some red shirts want to provoke the military into responding with violence so the majority of the public would turn against the Prime Minister. "I wouldn't predict the outcome," says Chris Baker, a Thailand-based political and economic analyst...
...trying to incite their followers by playing a doctored tape in which Abhisit supposedly told military leaders to shoot demonstrators during disturbances last April. Abhisit's government came to power in December 2008 in a coalition that was reportedly stitched together with help from military leaders. (See pictures from Thailand's April 2009 protests...
...name the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), and called the red shirts for their garb and flags, also contain groups who oppose military intervention in politics, some members of the business élite who benefited under Thaksin's rule and some republicans who want an end to Thailand's constitutional monarchy. (Read a Q&A with Thaksin...
...Thailand's recovery from the world recession has recently picked up steam, with Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij garnering the Finance Minister of the Year Award from British-based magazine the Banker. But farmers have been complaining that rice prices have been falling and that they have not been benefiting from the recovery as a result...