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• PDRC ally supports interim PM call

  17 May 2014 : A group campaigning for political reform has thrown its support behind calls for the Senate to install an interim prime minister, insisting the constitution permits such a move.
  

• Niwattumrong denies Senate talks plan

  17 May 2014 : Acting caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan on Friday denied a report that he will meet with a Senate committee on Saturday to discuss the political crisis.
  

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  Capo praises army threat to intervene

  17 May 2014 : The Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (Capo) yesterday welcomed the army's threat to intervene if the political violence persists.
  
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  A case for self-interest

  17 May 2014 : The recent election of Surachai Liangboonlertchai as the new Senate speaker delivered a double surprise.
  
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  UNREST

  DSI pounces on 2 anti-govt protest bosses

  17 May 2014 : Police arrested two co-leaders of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) in Bangkok on Friday.

• Cop cameras shed no clue

  17 May 2014 : Police retrieved no video footage from near the scene of Thursday's shooting and grenade attacks at Ratchadamnoen Avenue because power to their closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras was cut.

• Premiership claim irks Gen Prayuth

  17 May 2014 : Army commander Prayuth Chan-ocha on Friday challenged red-shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan to "accept responsibility" for accusing him of wanting to be interim prime minister.
  
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  Senators fail to end deadlock

  17 May 2014 : An informal Senate session has failed to come up with any concrete means to install an interim prime minister, dashing the hopes of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) that a so-called "neutral" premier would be appointed by their deadline of yesterday.
  
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  Senators seek solution, military admits martial law an option

  16 May 2014 : The Senate on Friday called for cooperation from the caretaker government and vowed to push for a prime minister with full authority to solve the country's political turmoil.
  
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  PDRC co-leader Sombat free on bail

  16 May 2014 : The Criminal Court on Friday released anti-government protest co-leader Sombat Thamrongthanyawong on bail of 600,000 baht and rejected a request by the Department of Special Investigation to detain him.
  
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  Hua Hin to PDRC: Stay away

  16 May 2014 : Protest monk Luang Pu Buddha Isara has reportedly postponed a plan to stage an anti-government rally in Hua Hin, where His Majesty the King resides, in the face of local opposition.
  
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  PDRC co-leader Sombat arrested

  16 May 2014 : Police arrested Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, a co-leader of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) and former rector of the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida), at the university in Bangkok on Friday