Emergency To Be Lifted In 6 Thai Provinces, PM Abhisit Says

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AFTERMATH

Emergency to be lifted in 6 provinces : PM

The state of emergency will be lifted next week in six provinces, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday in a television interview with CNBC during his US visit.

He did not name the six provinces, but Bangkok is assumed not to be one of them. Since the red-shirt protests in April and May, the state of emergency has remained in effect in Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, the Korat area in Nakhon Ratchasima, Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and the capital, after it was lifted in many other provinces.

Abhisit told the US media that tourism and the economy had been recovering as there had not been no political turmoil after the end of the violent protests.

In Bangkok, meanwhile, a bomb exploded yesterday evening in a trash bin in a soi off Rama III Road, causing injuries to three people.

Siamseng sae-Tia, owner of a small convenience shop, said she found the package near her home on Tuesday morning. She later opened the box and saw a mobile phone tied with a battery pack in it. She later left it at the back of her house after her daughter expressed fears that it could be a bomb.

The elderly woman said a neighbour discarded it in the bin about 30 minutes before it went off, after she had tried for a second time to open it yesterday but stopped after her daughter's protest.

Two female teenage students and a man sustained injuries from the blast and were admitted to hospital.

Meanwhile, Lop Buri police identified two more people suspected of involvement in the theft of war weapons from an Army arms depot - Sergeant-Major Prawit Chernkheeree, who was on active duty, and Anek Okman, a retired sergeant-major who police said had offered to turn himself in soon.

-- The Nation 2010-09-25

[asiawatcher]

Ah the state of emergency! Did a fat lot of good when the reds defied law last week and no one did anything about it! But don't worry - gives the stringers something to write about!

[chantorn]

Bangkok SOE must not be lifted because here is where the political prisoners are kept. lifting it will mean releasing them. No way.

[rubl]

Bangkok SOE must not be lifted because here is where the political prisoners are kept. lifting it will mean releasing them. No way.

this reminds me, didn't k. Jatuporn say

"RED shirts members will hold a campaign to lay roses at prisons nationwide every week until all detained RED shirts are freed, Pheu Thai MP Jatuporn Prompan said Friday." (17th of Sept 2010)

Anyone who knows if this really happened on the 24th ?