Bangkok Travel Blog

Bangkok: Together We Can Bangkok’s downtown streets received a serious cleaning Sunday. Seemingly borrowing on an Obama slogan (“Together We Can”), Bangkok Metropolitan Authority put out a call for volunteers to help city employees clean up the mess left behind by the Red Shirt protesters and the...

In Bangkok, after a violent and chaotic clash between military and Red Shirt protesters and subsequent looters/arsonists, it appears that a bit of normalcy has returned. The crackdown and dispersal happened so fast one might almost think this was a brief nightmare after the long, drawn-out sit-in. For...

And you thought the political situation was volatile in Thailand? The death total from the clashes between Red Shirt protesters and government security forces went up by 2 today as a soldier and a protester succumbed to their injuries. So now officially 23 died – 5 of them soldiers, one of them a journalist....

After a month of protests by the UDD “Red Shirt” protesters, the situation this past weekend in Bangkok came to the point of widespread violence. In the week leading up to it, protesters had stormed the parliament grounds and ThaiCom where the government had shut down the UDD party’s TV broadcast....

While estimates are that over 100,000 protestors known as Red Shirts, supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), took to the streets in Bangkok over the March 13 weekend, those numbers have dropped significantly but remain in the thousands. The Red Shirts made a bloody showing,...