The ‘Red Shirt’ protesters in Bangkok, Thailand say they represent the poor. Many are from the country’s poorer regions in rural northeast Thailand. Simon Montlake went there to learn what is fueling the deadly political tensions in the capital.
Viktor Bout is a Russian businessman who’s suspected of being one of the world’s biggest weapons traffickers, and right now, he’s in custody in Thailand, as Simon Montlake reports from Bangkok.
There were dire predictions for the fate of Myanmar’s cyclone survivors after the military government there kept out international aid, but it appears that the situation for the survivors may not be as bad as originally feared
