Posts Tagged ‘ monday ’

There were 3,516 road accidents during the 'seven dangerous days' of the Songkran holiday, resulting in 361 deaths and 3,802 injured, the Natural Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Monday.
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Hundreds of troops, many of them armed, were deployed on the streets of Bangkok early Monday to protect the city's financial heart from anti-government rallies, witnesses said.
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The Election Commission decided on Monday evening with majority vote to dissolve the ruling Democrat Party in connection with donation cases.
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The death toll in a train derailment in northern Italy on Monday has been revised downward from 11 to nine, a provincial governor said.
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Three defence volunteers and one villager were wounded in an explosion at the parking lot of the Muang district office in Narathiwat on Monday morning.
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BANGKOK : Thai anti-government protesters have released a group of soldiers taken hostage in Bangkok during deadly weekend clashes in the capital, a police spokesman said Monday.
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Anti-government supporters attend a funeral procession on Monday April 12, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Red Shirts protesters paraded coffins and portraits of victims through the Thai capital Monday following a weekend of savage street fighting. (AP) Anti-government protesters paraded coffins and portraits of victims through… Edited by: Suthee "Phong" Buayam Read more: Red...
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Argentina on Monday summoned the Chinese ambassador to complain about restrictions imposed by Beijing on Argentine soybean oil, officials said.
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The Civil Court on Monday refused to issue an injunction to force red-shirt protesters to leave Ratchaprasong intersection as requested by the government.
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Red-shirts will on Tuesday mobilise to 11 areas where they are banned from entering, group leader Nattawut Saikua said on Monday evening.
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The Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) on Monday applied to the Civil Court for an injunction ordering the red-shirt leaders to leave the Ratchaprasong area.
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Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on packed metro trains in Moscow on Monday, killing at least 38 people near the ex-KGB headquarters and Gorky Park, in attacks blamed on Islamists.
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MOSCOW : Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on packed metro trains in central Moscow's morning rush hour Monday, killing 36 people in the deadliest attacks in the Russian capital for over a decade, authorities said.
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Two explosions occurred in Chiang Mai in the North on Sunday night in what were seen as an attempt to create disturbance, police said on Monday.
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BANGKOK : Red Shirt leaders were defiant as they prepared to meet Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday for a second day of televised talks to press for elections following weeks of disruptive protests.
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The country's economic growth could contract by 0.2 to 1.8 per cent this year if the political situation worsens, the Finance Ministry reported on Monday.
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A village headman was shot to death by a gunman in a broad daylight while attending a wedding in Yala's Muang district on Monday, police said.
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SUVA : A UN disaster official expressed fears Monday of a typhoid and cholera outbreak in Fiji following a cyclone last week that killed three people and destroyed more than 370 homes.
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The EU's consumer confidence indicator for the 16 countries that share the euro showed only slight progress in March, official figures showed on Monday.
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US soft drink and snacks giant PepsiCo unveiled plans Monday to cut sugar, fat and sodium in its products as part of a broad initiative to address health, nutrition and environmental concerns.
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Representatives of the government will meet leaders of the red-shirts Monday noon to discuss framework of the peace talks to settle political conflict, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Saturday afternoon.
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The grenade attack at a battalion compound on Monday afternoon was not unexpected, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of security affairs Suthep Thaugsuban said on Tuesday.
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Burma on Monday condemned a UN expert's finding that human rights violations in the Southeast Asian country may amount to crimes against humanity and could warrant a UN inquiry.
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President Barack Obama's stuttering bid to rein in the largest US banks was to receive a boost on Monday, as a key Senate ally prepared to unveil a package of sweeping reforms.
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The Democrat-led government is good at distorting information and discrediting others, convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's legal advisor Noppadon Pattama claimed on Monday.
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BANGKOK : Grenade attacks on a Bangkok military base wounded two soldiers Monday as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters massed at another barracks in the Thai capital, a military spokesman said.
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Two soldiers were wounded when six M79 grenade rounds were fired into the First Infantry Regiment compound on Vibhabadi Rangsit road, Col Sansern Kaewkamnerd, spokesman of the peace-keeping operation centre, said on Monday.
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BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday rejected an ultimatum by tens of thousands of protesters to dissolve parliament or face further demonstrations.
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The Gold Traders Association on Monday announced the buying price at 16,797.28 baht per baht-weight for gold ornaments and 17,050 baht per baht-weight for gold bar.
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Chiefs of state security units on Monday Morning gathered at the 11th Infantry Regiment in Bangkok’s Bangkhen district to discuss measures to deal with red-shirt protesters, reports said.
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