Former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij yesterday disputed ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's claim that an independent central bank was Thailand's problem in the face of a strengthening baht.

Three years on, The Nation asked six people what they learned from the bloody end to the red-shirt protests in Bangkok on May 19, 2010. The crackdown followed 10 weeks of an anti-government rally. Ninety-one people were killed and about 2,000 others injured during the period of unrest and riots. Here are the reflections of the six people interviewed.

Apiwan will also be appointed next month, party source says

Training for moderators who will organise 108 reconciliation hearings nationwide begins today, the PM's Office permanent secretary said yesterday.

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra warned yesterday that a lack of cooperation between the central bank and the Finance Ministry in reining in the strengthening baht could lead to a new financial crisis for Thailand.

The Thai Patriotic Front boasted yesterday that up to 50,000 people would join its rally at Sanam Luang today to demand the Pheu Thai-led government resign.

The speech Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra delivered in the Mongolian capital recently has sparked widespread discussions nationwide.

The UK's Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire will be in Bangkok on Sunday for a three-day official visit during which he will participate in the Thai-UK Strategic Dialogue.

Almost 10,000 people have joined the Thai Spring campaign against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's speech in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The Democrat Party has set up a panel that will spend 30 days considering measures to reform the party, party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva announced at a press conference yesterday.