BANGKOK: Thailand’s premier called a snap election to try to defuse the kingdom’s political crisis, but protesters kept up their fight to topple the government with an estimated 140,000 demonstrators flooding the streets of Bangkok.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has faced more than a month of sometimes-violent demonstrations by boisterous protesters storming key state buildings in a bid to unseat her government and replace it with an unelected “People’s Council”.
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