THE NATION: Central Group is considering an insurance policy covering terrorist &riot for all its hotel chains nationwide. Translating @wannasiri_tv

TAN Network: Red-shirt protesters to shut down more business venues on Monday April 19th to put more pressure on the PM to dissolve Parliament.

MCOT: Arrest attempt against UDD leaders at SC Park Hotel on Friday was not considered failure: Metropolitan Police Bureau

Red-shirt leader Chat says he will not report to emergency command

BANGKOK: -- Pol Lt Gen Chat Kuldirok, a red-shirt leader, said Saturday that he will not report himself to the Emergency Operations Command.

Chat, a former commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau, said he received the summon order of the EOC Saturday morning but he would not meet EOC officials at the 11th Infantry Regiment as summoned.

Chat said he feared that he would be arrested and taken to be detained at a military camp in Chon Buri.

He said he preferred to wait for the court issue an arrest warrant against him instead.

-- The Nation 2010-04-17

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CRES Adjusts Structure; National Police Bureau to Handle Police Force in CRES Operations.

Metropolitan Police Bureau Spokesman Police Major General Piya Uthayo announced that the Center for the Resolution of Emergency Situation (CRES) has transferred full authority over the police force under CRES control to the National Police Bureau. Acting National Police Chief Pateep Tanprasert is to head operations command during CRES operations in the future. Piya said the police's main goal is peacekeeping by using negotiations to avoid clashes.

-- Tan Network 2010-04-17

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