Thai court issues arrest warrants for 36 more protesters

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- Thai court issues arrest warrants for 36 more protesters
- Singapore’s Banyan Tree raises 1st China hotel fund
- Ex-pm’s passport revoked by Thailand

Thai court issues arrest warrants for 36 more protesters
Xinhua
Pramote Pathumwong deputy commissioner of Provincial Police Region 2 said arrest warrants were issued for 14 red-shirted protesters who stormed into the hotel in the resort of Pattaya on April 11 which was hosting the ASEAN summit and related summits scheduled on April 10-12. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva decided to cancel the summit immediately after the incident. Warrants were also issued for 12 UDD protesters who attacked Abhisit’s car on April 7 after he left a Cabinet meeting at the same Pattaya hotel. The prime minister who had just finished the Cabinet meeting there was unhurt. The court issued arrest warrants for the remaining 10 UDD protesters on charges of attacking the prime minister’s car inside the Interior Ministry compound on Sunday and severely injuring Nipon Prompan Secretary-General to the prime minister Thai News Agency quoted Gen. All the suspects above were charged with illegal assembly of more than ten persons inciting unrest in the country and trespassing on and damaging government property.

Singapore’s Banyan Tree raises 1st China hotel fund
Reuters
SI) has completed amulti-hundred-million-dollar investment fund to finance itsplanned projects in China sources said on Thursday. Singapore-based Banyan Tree which has hotels from Thailand’sPhuket to China’s Lijiang originally targeted raising $700million for the China fund said the sources familiar with thesituation. “We have plans to launch a fund to support our projects inChina but have not officially launched it yet” a Banyan Treespokeswoman said in response to Reuters inquiry. She declined to comment further. ne industry source said Banyan Tree raised at least $500million for its China Development Fund which will have an officein Shanghai to support five or six hotel projects across Chinaincluding a new hotel in Tibet.
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Ex-pm’s passport revoked by Thailand
Scotsman
The passport was issued in January when Thaksin visited the country and was given to him in February when he met Nicaraguan President Daniel rtega. President rtega had “asked the foreign ministry to accredit him (Thaksin) as an ambassador of Nicaragua on a special mission in order to facilitate his efforts to bring investments to our country” the government statement said. Thaksin’s Thai passport was recalled on Sunday a day after his red-shirt followers stormed the summit venue at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort hotel.

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