Time Magazine Lists Thailand Red Shirt Protest In Top Ten News Events

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Time Online Lists Red Protest in Top Ten News Events

Time Magazine has listed the riots and the red-shirt protest in April and May on its Top 10 World News Stories, as the event shows a wide gap between the rich and the poor in Thai society.

Time mentioned the many events that arose in April and May in Thailand when a large group of red-shirt protesters assembled in the business district in the heart of Bangkok in an attempt to call for a House dissolution and fresh elections.

Time said the group believes the government is made up of elite members of society who rose to power by undemocratic means.

The renowned magazine said the group has fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as its leader-in-name.

Several analysts termed the demonstration a symbol of the gap between urban and rural, rich and poor.

The protests turned into a violent scene with clashes between the government and demonstrators, leading to 91 deaths and more than 2,100 injuries.

The events attracted foreign press worldwide, with round-the-clock reports and broadcasts from the battlefront in Bangkok.

Time said that although there is now peace in Bangkok, the previous sentiment and emotion still lingers.

In November, protesters gathered in Bangkok to remember the events that took place six months ago.

The international magazine also suggested that such problems tend to re-emerge.

Other top news events on the list deal mainly with natural disasters and international politics such as the Wikileaks story, North Korea's rouge behavior, planned terror attacks in Yemen, the major earthquake in Haiti, devastating floods in Pakistan, and the rescue of trapped Chilean miners.

The situation in Europe is the only economic news on the list, and the World Cup final in South Africa is the sole sports news.

-- Tan Network 2010-12-15

Related link: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035311_2035675,00.html

[whybother]

It came in at number 10.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035311_2035675,00.html

It's worth reading the original, since it doesn't match the above article in some respects.

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Top 10 World News Stories

10. Thai Red Shirts

For much of April and May this year, thousands of anti-government protesters occupied a central commercial distract in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. Dubbed the "red shirts" for the color of their political movement (their rivals are "yellow shirts"), the activists sought to a bring down a government they saw as elitist and undemocratic. […more]

Full article: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035311_2035675,00.html

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[AZBill]

What a proud moment

[SomTumTiger]

Congrats to Thaksin, for finally cracking the Top Ten list (list of all time wanke_rs)

[jayjay0]

It came in at number 10.

http://www.time.com/...2035675,00.html

It's worth reading the original, since it doesn't match the above article in some respects.

It would have been nice if they had done some research on it first. Seemed to be a little biased in my opinion.

That being said dosen't really matter that is what the world saw and the press will always give it what it wants.

Number 10 good spot. In spite of the fact that they were a little misguided in the reporting of facts.

[asiawatcher]

More accurate reporting by Thailand journalists.

[Buchholz]

Congrats to Thaksin, for finally cracking the Top Ten list (list of all time wanke_rs)

tut tut... how can you overlook the even more prestigious award he received earlier when he made the Top 5 of the Worst Former Leaders List:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/01/bad_exes?page=0,4

Congratulations are in order for his second award this year.

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[SamritT]

Well done Thailand. We have made headline again.