The number of hotel reservations has declined.
The Embassy of China in Thailand issued a reminder on 25th that the assembly activities in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, were mainly concentrated in the vicinity of political places such as democracy monument Square and Prime Minister's Office in Bangkok. The Embassy specially reminds China citizens who are in Bangkok or plan to go to Bangkok in the near future to avoid going to these demonstration areas, to raise their awareness of safety precautions and to protect themselves.
Li Yijun, Second Secretary of the Embassy in Thailand, suggested that China citizens with travel plans should pay close attention to the relevant information released by the Embassy.
As a tourist consultant, the reporter called China International Travel Service and Guangzhou Guang Zhi Travel Service. Both travel agencies said that they had a delegation to travel to Thailand recently. The operator of China International Travel Service said that the demonstration site is not in the itinerary, so it will not affect tourism at this stage. The operator of Guang Zhi Travel Agency said that the team had not been informed of the collision. Without receiving the notice, the tour group still took the flight from Guangzhou to Thailand via Bangkok.
Chang Tiantong, a correspondent of Xinhua News Agency in Bangkok, said that the current political situation has not had much impact on tourism, and tourist attractions such as the Grand Palace are still open to the public.
Evie Pingyou Tanotai, chairman of the Federation of Krabi Hotels, a tourist mansion, said that the demonstrations may impact the tourism industry and called on the government and relevant departments to talk with the demonstrators to solve the problem. He also said that after the demonstration, the number of hotel reservations declined, but many tourists still did not change their itinerary.
Demonstrators surrounded the government department.
Agence France-Presse reported that demonstrators ignored the government's special security law on the 26th and surrounded several government departments with the intention of paralyzing the government and dissolving the parliament.
Demonstrators surrounded the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports on the 26th, demanding that the staff of these departments leave.
Minister of Sports and Tourism Sonsa Prisisa said: "We had to leave because they cut off the power."
AFP reporters witnessed that the demonstrators issued an ultimatum to the staff of the Ministry of the Interior, asking them to leave within 1 hour.
The day before, suthep thaugsuban, one of the core leaders of the Democratic Party, instructed hundreds of demonstrators to break into the building of the Ministry of Finance, and then the compound of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was occupied by the demonstrators of the Democratic Party. However, the demonstrators subsequently withdrew from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In this round of rally, demonstrators demanded the government to step down, accused corruption and called for reform.
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on his arrival in Parliament on 26th that he would never use violence against demonstrators. But she stressed that "everyone must abide by the law, and the legal system cannot be replaced by mob rule."
The number of demonstrators exceeded100000.
This demonstration is the largest since 20 10, and some people worry that unrest may lead to street violence. According to the organizers of the demonstration, the organizers distributed stickers with serial numbers to everyone attending the rally, and by the evening of the 24th, 440,000 stickers had been distributed. However, the number of demonstrators counted by the Thai security department is 65,438+10,000. According to Thai media reports, this is the largest anti-government rally since the Yingluck government took office.
In the Thai Parliament, the Democratic Party bombarded the Yingluck government, criticized the government for corruption and accused some policies of undermining economic stability.
Abhisit vejjajiva, leader of the Democratic Party, also launched a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Yingluck, which was discussed at the parliamentary meeting on 26th and 27th as scheduled. The Democratic Party said that the reason for initiating the no-confidence motion was that the government's rice subsidy plan bought agricultural products produced by farmers at a fixed price far higher than the market price, which caused damage to the national finance. This edition is based on Xinhua News Agency.
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It is inevitable that demonstrations will spread "carelessly"
In recent years, Thailand's political structure seems to be caught in a "vicious circle": one faction is in power, while the other tries to oust the opposing factions, usually by taking to the streets to demonstrate. Analysts believe that Yingla's current situation is worrying. Although according to the domestic security law, the police can disperse the assembly, the chaos in Thailand will further escalate in the future because of the firm stance of the demonstrators.
As anti-government demonstrations intensified, more and more "red shirts" gathered in a stadium on the outskirts of Bangkok. Zhai Dupont, one of the leaders of the "Red Shirt Army", said on the 24th that the "Red Shirt Army" is ready to defend the security of the Yingluck government.
Political analysts believe that the current situation is exactly the same as the previous rally of "Red Shirt Army" and "Yellow Shirt Army". Although the "red shirts" claimed that they would gather quietly, as anti-government demonstrations continued to spread to many parts of Bangkok, it was easy for both sides to "brush off the gun".
In addition, although the organizers of the assembly led by Suthep have repeatedly reiterated that they will assemble in a peaceful way, if the police take tough measures such as tear gas against demonstrators in accordance with the provisions of the domestic security law, it will inevitably lead to bloody conflicts, and the consequences are unpredictable.
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Thai Prime Minister Announces Expansion of the Scope of Implementation of Domestic Security Law
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck delivered a televised speech on the evening of 25th, announcing that the scope of implementation of the domestic security law would be extended to all areas in the capital Bangkok and surrounding provinces in order to cope with the growing anti-government assembly and demonstrations.
Yingluck said in a televised speech that the government decided to extend the domestic security law currently implemented in some parts of Bangkok to all parts of Bangkok. In addition, warm Li Wu around the capital, Bangpari District of Beilun Province and Lalakao District of Baton Thani Province are also included in the scope of implementation of the domestic security law.
Thai court approves arrest of anti-government assembly leader
Thai police filed a request for the arrest of Suthep with the court on 26th, and the court subsequently approved the arrest warrant. Suthep said earlier that he was not worried about the legal sanctions that Thai Prime Minister Yingluck might take against him and other assembly leaders, and he would always stick to the assembly site.
After the anti-government organizations occupied the Budget Bureau of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the evening of the 25th, they took several government departments as new targets on the 26th. Demonstrators forcibly entered the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports and the Ministry of Communications, cut off the power supply of these departments and demanded that the staff leave the building immediately.
I suggest you not to travel to Thailand for the time being.