Bracing for a very fiery year after Songkran


  • Opinion
  • Saturday, 28 Apr 2007

The wet fun of the Thai new year has given way to fire in the bellies of protesters. 

AS THAILAND celebrated the beginning of a New Year, Bangkok turned into a battleground that pitted mothers against daughters, Thais against tourists and pedestrians against policemen.  

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