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• Police fear guns linked to protests

  19 May 2014 : The seizure of two assault rifles from a car at a resort in Nakhon Nayok's Muang district on Friday has triggered concerns the weapons may have been intended to stir up political violence in Bangkok.
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  Red shirts to mark May 19 violence

  19 May 2014 : Red-shirt members will commemorate the May 19, 2010 crackdown today on Aksa Road in the Phutthamonthon area instead of Ratchaprasong intersection in central Bangkok as during the past three years.
  

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• Lessons from 1992 massacre ‘should be heeded’

  19 May 2014 : Lessons from past political strife in Thailand should be heeded to prepare solutions to the current political tension, a seminar which marked the 22nd anniversary of the Black May massacre was told.
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  SRT, BMTA chiefs: Strike unlikely

  18 May 2014 : The heads of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) and the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) on Sunday said they are confident most employees will not join a work stoppage campaign announced by the State Enterprises Workers' Relations Confederation (SERC).
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  Govt, Senate to meet tomorrow

  18 May 2014 : Representatives of the caretaker government and the Senate will meet tomorrow at an undisclosed location to discuss political problems, acting Senate Speaker Surachai Liangboonlertchai said.

• UDD to commemorate May 19 crackdown

  18 May 2014 : Things will be different from previous commemorations of the May 19, 2010 crackdown when red shirts gather on Monday to remember the violence at Ratchaprasong and pay respects to the Italian photographer who was shot dead.
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  State unions to stop work; Capo on 'high alert'

  18 May 2014 : State enterprise labour unions will stop work from May 22 to show disapproval of the Thaksin regime and those government officials that "serve as its lackeys", State Enterprises Workers’ Relation Confederation secretary-general Komsan Thongsiri said on Sunday.
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  State unions stop work from May 22

  18 May 2014 : State enterprise labour unions have agreed to a work stoppage from May 22 to show disapproval of the Thaksin regime and those government officials that "serve as its lackeys", State Enterprises Workers’ Relation Confederation secretary-general Komsan Thongsiri said Sunday.
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  PT: Suthep won't succeed

  18 May 2014 : People's Democratic Reform Committee secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban will not be successful in his bid to hunt down acting caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boongsongpaisan and other ministers to force them resign, Pheu Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparit said Sunday.

• PT: No senators went to see Thaksin

  18 May 2014 : A claim by Uttaradit Senator Peerasak Porchit, the acting second Senate deputy speaker, that some members of the Upper House went to Singapore last week to meet former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was not true, Pheu Thai spokesman Nopporn Nopparit said on Sunday.

• Capo to go on high alert until May 26

  18 May 2014 : The Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order will be on high alert until May 26 and will keep a close eye on the activities of the People's Democratic Reform Committee and the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, Capo deputy spokesman Krisana Pattanacharoen said on Sunday.

• PDRC to ask acting PM, others to quit

  18 May 2014 : The People's Democratic Reform Committee will set up teams to pursue acting caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan and other caretaker ministers and ask them to resign, according to a message posted by PDRC secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban on his Facebook page on Sunday.