Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has vowed not to resign despite growing pressure from anti-government protesters.
Samak made the statement during a televised ceremony in honour of Thailand's royal family in Bangkok. The opposition People's Alliance for Democracy has already staged five days of protests aimed at toppling Samak's seven-month-old government. Demonstrators have occupied government buildings in Bangkok and disrupted air and rail traffic throughout the country. The conservative PAD accuses Samak of being an illegitimate proxy of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who was Anti-government protests shake Bangkok ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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