Bangkok Post
Published: 31/03/2010 at 04:05 PM
A group of tourism business operators will converge in front of the King Rama VI Monument at 4pm on Friday, demanding the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to end its prolonged anti-government rally.
"More than 1,000 tourism operators will gather at Lumpini park to call on the government and the UDD to settle their political disputes.
"The red-shirts must stop protesting soon as the tourism industry has already lost more than 10 billion baht in revenue," Federation of Thai Tourism Associations (FETTA) spokesman Charoen Wangananon said on Wednesday.
Protest tegen de Red-shirts
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Re: Protest tegen de Red-shirts
Zijn dat niet diezelfde gasten die 2 weken geleden langs de route stonden in rode shirts en met rode vlaggen???
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RuudThai
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Ja, waar Ferwert zo enthousiast over schreef, die geweldige menigte die de roodhemden luid klappend en aanmoedigende leuzen uitend toejuichten.jumbo schreef:Zijn dat niet diezelfde gasten die 2 weken geleden langs de route stonden in rode shirts en met rode vlaggen???
Maar dat zal wel een andere groep zijn geweest. In een stad als Bangkok met iets van 10 miljoen inwoners zullen er vast wel 1 miljoen te vinden zijn die achter Thaksin en zijn UDD-aanhangers staan. En daarvan gaan er dan een paar duizend langs de route staan.
Die andere 9 miljoen laten zich misschien binnenkort gelden......
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Workers strip naked at Govt House protest
BANGKOK: -- Dissatisfied with the Thai government's failure to help them receive severance pay after their garment factory closed without advance notice, 10 laid-off women workers on Tuesday stripped naked in front of Government House where Prime Minister Gen. Surayud Chulanont was meeting with the Cabinet
BANGKOK: -- Dissatisfied with the Thai government's failure to help them receive severance pay after their garment factory closed without advance notice, 10 laid-off women workers on Tuesday stripped naked in front of Government House where Prime Minister Gen. Surayud Chulanont was meeting with the Cabinet
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BANGKOK: -- A group of naked foreigners dubbed the “no shirts,” have been rounded up by Bangkok police after they streaked nude down Sukhumvit Soi 4 yesterday in protest over the stalemate between the Red Shirts and the yellow shirted backed government.
“We love Thailand! We love Thai people! But we hate the color of their shirts, be they red or be they yellow,” shouted one of the portly streakers as chuckling Thai police dragged his naked form off the pavement.
The spontaneous protest of some 50 foreigners erupted after a group of drunk German tourists, swaggering from the balcony of the infamous Nana Plaza beer bar the Cathouse, inspired and rallied other Europeans and North Americans to strip and run naked down the street.
Witnesses heard chants of “no shirts! No shirts!” Others reported hearing variations of ‘I’m hot. I’m naked. And I’m not going to take it anymore.”
Earlier, the Germans had returned to Nana Plaza after attempting a sight-seeing tour that was delayed and eventually cancelled due to continuing protests around the city. They began to drink and in their drunken disappointment at not seeing the reclining Buddha, led a fierce protest out of the popular Bangkok nightspot.
The anti-government Red Shirts have taken to the streets twice in the last year. Their protests followed the sustained Yellow Shirt protest that brought down the former government.
One streaker who evaded capture by the Thai police said, “It’s time tourists, expats, and poverty packers voiced their displeasure at Thailand’s political situation. I feel like I am trapped in a go-go bar with a girl who is ready to go and nobody wants to collect my barfine.”
A spokesman from the Thai Culture Ministry, Boonlert Weng, said, “The Nana Entertainment Plaza is no place for foreigners to run naked and free. Foreigners should know Thai culture strictly forbids nakedness and nudeness and respect should be the order.”
Asked if his annoyance had anything to do with the fact that the majority of the nude foreign protesters were old, fat, and mostly bald, Somchai said, “Well, I don’t know.”
Police said each would be slapped with fines totaling whatever they had in their wallets.
No word as yet if the protests will continue
“We love Thailand! We love Thai people! But we hate the color of their shirts, be they red or be they yellow,” shouted one of the portly streakers as chuckling Thai police dragged his naked form off the pavement.
The spontaneous protest of some 50 foreigners erupted after a group of drunk German tourists, swaggering from the balcony of the infamous Nana Plaza beer bar the Cathouse, inspired and rallied other Europeans and North Americans to strip and run naked down the street.
Witnesses heard chants of “no shirts! No shirts!” Others reported hearing variations of ‘I’m hot. I’m naked. And I’m not going to take it anymore.”
Earlier, the Germans had returned to Nana Plaza after attempting a sight-seeing tour that was delayed and eventually cancelled due to continuing protests around the city. They began to drink and in their drunken disappointment at not seeing the reclining Buddha, led a fierce protest out of the popular Bangkok nightspot.
The anti-government Red Shirts have taken to the streets twice in the last year. Their protests followed the sustained Yellow Shirt protest that brought down the former government.
One streaker who evaded capture by the Thai police said, “It’s time tourists, expats, and poverty packers voiced their displeasure at Thailand’s political situation. I feel like I am trapped in a go-go bar with a girl who is ready to go and nobody wants to collect my barfine.”
A spokesman from the Thai Culture Ministry, Boonlert Weng, said, “The Nana Entertainment Plaza is no place for foreigners to run naked and free. Foreigners should know Thai culture strictly forbids nakedness and nudeness and respect should be the order.”
Asked if his annoyance had anything to do with the fact that the majority of the nude foreign protesters were old, fat, and mostly bald, Somchai said, “Well, I don’t know.”
Police said each would be slapped with fines totaling whatever they had in their wallets.
No word as yet if the protests will continue
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Re: Protest tegen de Red-shirts
Nu maar wachten op de protest groep tegen de anti protestgroep, kan nooit lang duren, maar in ieder geval tot ze een shirt kleur hebben gekozen en de meerderheid achter de kleur kan staan...
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