Posts Tagged ‘ tuesday ’

The red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will organise another mass anti-government rally on Tuesday.
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China kept the world guessing Tuesday on whether it would back new sanctions on Iran over a disputed nuclear program as Western powers banked on Beijing to step up pressure on the Islamic republic.
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China is ready to discuss "new ideas" on Iran, a Chinese official said Tuesday amid growing global pressure to slap a fourth round of UN sanctions on Tehran.
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French men and women by a large majority contend that capitalism is unjust, benefiting only a small number of people, and want to see a better alterative, a poll published Tuesday showed.
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A 47-nation summit in Washington agreed Tuesday to lock up the world's most vulnerable nuclear materials within four years to prevent terrorists from setting off a global "catastrophe."
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Twitter unveiled a plan Tuesday to use advertising to turn its massive popularity into cash.
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BANGKOK : The Thai government accused ousted former leader Thaksin Shinawatra of stoking deadly weekend unrest as pressure mounted Tuesday on the embattled prime minister over the crippling political crisis.
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Al Qaeda-linked militants in police uniforms set off bombs and fired at civilians on a strife-torn Philippine island Tuesday in violence that left 15 people dead, officials said.
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BANGKOK : The Thai government said it was seeking to negotiate an end to the nation's bloody political crisis as pressure was mounting Tuesday on beleaguered Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiv.
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Flooding from torrential rains has claimed at least 50 lives in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, leaving streets submerged and prompting authorities Tuesday to raise an alarm over potentially deadly mudslides.
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Maoist rebels ambushed and killed 75 policemen in the jungles of central India on Tuesday in the worst ever massacre of security forces by the left-wing extremists, officials said.
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Maoist rebels ambushed and killed 75 policemen in the jungles of central India on Tuesday in the worst ever massacre of security forces by the left-wing extremists, officials said.
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A group of red-shirt protesters on Tuesday afternoon entered Silom road - one of the 11 main roads in Bangkok declared off-limits by the government.
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A bomb was placed at a gate of Chulalongkorn University on Tuesday morning but it failed to detonate, police said in the afternoon.
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Red-shirt leaders on Tuesday afternoon reversed their decision and ordered the protesters to mobilise to 11 banned roads in a total defiance of the government.
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Police on Tuesday morning agreed to the anti-government group's demand for security personnel to move further away from the red-shirt rally at Ratchaprasong intersection.
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Red-shirt protesters pushed against lines of police and soldiers who tried to prevent them from leaving Ratchaprasong intersection to stage protests at banned areas on Tuesday morning.
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Additional riot police were deployed at Ratchaprasong intersection on Tuesday to prevent the red-shirts camping there from moving to banned roads around the capital.
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WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday voiced support for talks to resolve Thailand's political turmoil, and urged protesters to avoid violence.
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Vietnam and the United States signed a pact on Tuesday described as a key foundation for development of peaceful atomic power in the communist country.
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Up to 100 Indian sailors have been captured by Somali pirates who seized seven or eight boats in one of their biggest raids yet, a shipping body told AFP Tuesday.
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The 2010 Tour de France from July 3-25 will have 22 teams competing for the top prize in cycling, race organisers announced on Tuesday.
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The 2010 Tour de France from July 3-25 will have 22 teams competing for the top prize in cycling, race organisers announced on Tuesday.
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Google said Tuesday that many searches at its Chinese-language site failed to return results due to a glitch that misled China censors into thinking queries were for Radio Free Asia.
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Google said Tuesday that a deeper look at trouble with results at its Chinese-language search engine indicated the cause was "The Great Firewall of China" erected by censors there.
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The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will hold another major rally on Saturday to pressure to oust the government after the talks between it and the government failed, Jatuporn Prompan announced on Tuesday.
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The government is advised to amend the 2007 constitution in six to seven months from now, Chart Thai Pattana chief adviser Banharn Silpa-archa said on Tuesday.
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Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has flown out of Sweden after the Foreign Ministry asked that country not to shelter him, Panich Vikitsreth, asstant to the foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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The room booking rate of hotels in Bangkok, particularly those on Khao San road, was down by 30 per cent because of the impact of the red-shirts rally, chairman of Thai Hotels Association Prakij Chin-amornpong, said on Tuesday.
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The opposition Puea Thai Party disagrees with the government's proposal to amend the 2007 constitution on six issues as proposed by the parliamentary committee for national reconciliation, but wants the 1997 constitution to be reinstated, opposition chief whip Witthaya Buranasiri said on Tuesday.
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