Razor wire along Silom Road

Red shirt protests: Barbed wire barricades and singing soldiers

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April 30th 2010
April 26 - April 30 It's most disconcerting to travel around a city and encounter armed military at every turn. This is the second time we have been in Bangkok during the red shirt protests and the mood is very different now to what it was over the Songkran festival when we were last in the city. Silom Road which was the scene of the great water fight to celebrate Thai new year is now un ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more