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This afternoon’s protest march from Victory Monument to Government House has a high probability of experiencing violence, according to the Thai police. Authorities said they received intelligence that the demonstrators include people known to use violence at rallies. They said that the protesters are likely to use weapons or objects to provoke officers. Police warned ...

The Ratsadon pro-democracy group has called for a protest march in Bangkok on March 13. The march begins at the Democracy Monument and will end at the Government House. It has called on people to gather from 2:00 PM (local time). The protest is over the various demands the anti-government movement has, including rewriting the ...

Tens of thousands of people participated in protests against the military coup at multiple locations across the country today. Protests are ongoing as security forces have ordered a harsh clampdown on anti-coup protesters. Several people defied the military-imposed night curfew orders yesterday and took to streets to demonstrate in Yangon and other major cities. Several ...

Timor Leste imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in Dili from yesterday at midnight until 11:59 PM (local time) on March 15, amid fears of its first local outbreak. The National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) established checkpoints in at least five locations in Dili yesterday to verify the implementation of the ‘sanitary fence’ and ‘mandatory confinement’. Several ...

The government has announced that it will enforce lockdown measures in Dili from midnight (local time) tonight due to the detection of three COVID-19 cases in two parts of the city. Two were detected in the Madohi area near Tasi Tolu, while one was detected in Bebonuk. Two of the cases were civil servants, and ...

Trade unions in Myanmar called on the general public to go on strike starting today to support the “Civil Disobedience Movement” organized against the military coup. The campaign is an attempt to put pressure on members of the military junta. The calls to shut down the economy came after another violent crackdown on protests by ...

Pro-democracy groups announced two separate anti-government protest rallies that are scheduled to take place in Bangkok tomorrow. They will be organized by the pro-democracy groups, “Free Our Friends” and “Free Youth”. The details about the protests were announced on social media platforms yesterday. The Free Our Friends group invited all Red Shirt movement or the ...

Over 2,000 anti-government protesters and police clashed outside the base of the 1st Infantry Regiment in Bangkok yesterday. The protest started at the Victory Monument and demonstrators marched towards the military barracks in Phaya Thai District where the violence occurred. Protesters threw bottles at the police, who used tear gas and water cannons to disperse ...

At least two people were killed when police used live ammunition to disperse anti-coup demonstrators at a shipyard in Mandalay yesterday. About 30 others were injured. Hundreds gathered for the rally at Yadanarbon shipyard in Myanmar’s second largest city. People in much of the country have been protesting daily since the military deposed the civilian ...

Thousands of people rallied on the streets of Yangon and Mandalay yesterday to protest the military takeover. The demonstrations were the biggest since the coup on February 1. There were also anti-coup protests in Melbourne, Australia and Taipei, Taiwan yesterday. The civil disobedience campaign is growing and it has been joined by student activists, teachers, ...