BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha declared a state of emergency early this morning to ban protests and sensitive news, a clampdown that will give ammunition to protestors baying for his military-aligned government’s ouster and monarchal reforms. The decree was implemented in response to Wednesday’s student-led street demonstration in Bangkok that at one […]
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