wsj, 2011.01.09
BANGKOK—The date for Thailand's next elections hasn't been set, but Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's campaign showed signs of beginning Sunday as he announced a series of welfare spending projects aimed at bridging the country's gaping social divides.
Meanwhile, antigovernment Red Shirt protesters, so named for their choice of clothing, regrouped in Bangkok for the latest in a series of monthly protests. Around 20,000 people gathered in the city center to press for early polls and demand the release of Red Shirt leaders detained in the aftermath of last May's Bangkok street clashes between protesters and security forces that claimed 91 lives.