Thailand Monday escalated its response to red-shirted protesters as their anti-government rally entered its second week, extending a tough security law and arming military guarding key sites. The "Red Shirts" loyal to deposed former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, buoyed after staging a carnival-like parade through Bangkok on Saturday, have rejected offers of talks with the government and called for immediate elections ...

Thailand was mired in political deadlock on Sunday as demonstrators used their own blood to create a giant piece of protest art and rejected the government's offer of talks designed to end their rally. The "Red Shirts" painted poems, pictures and political slogans on white canvas with remains of the blood they had donated and splattered on the prime ...

Thailand was mired in political deadlock on Sunday as demonstrators used their own blood to create a giant piece of protest art after refusing talks with the government. Buoyed by a huge parade a day earlier, the defiant "Red Shirts" painted and wrote poems on white canvas with the remains of the blood donated by supporters and splattered on the ...