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Prime Minister (PM) Abhisit Vejjajiva today announced the revocation of the rules of the curfew imposed in Bangkok and 23 provinces in the country. Cancellation of the curfew was done because the situation is now under control.

But Abhisit added, there are no plans to lift state of emergency followed the end of demonstrations during the two months by protesters ‘red shirts’.

Day curfew began to set Wednesday, May 19, when troops ended the occupation of parts of the city center by anti-government demonstrators Bangkok.
The military operation has caused riots and arson in Bangkok and in other cities in northern Thailand. Soldiers and other security officials later managed to control the situation.
Only in two months 85 people were killed and more than two thousand people were injured in Thailand as a result of political violence.
“Curfew will be lifted but emergency status remains valid,” said Abhisit to wartawan.Dikatakan Abhisit, security officials have proposed an end to the curfew rule over the current situation was under control.

Thus Nightlife in Bangkok has started squirming. Some nightclubs have started to operate again. Tourist nights have started to live again.

Welcome back to Bangkok.

For those of you who are planning a holiday in Thailand do not be afraid, for Bangkok and other tourist attractions in Thailand remains safe with the strict vigil of the military.
Prepare yourself and your family vacation to Bangkok along with equipment.

The political situation in Thailand that are not conducive and led to riots, causing the reluctance of foreign tourists visiting the country epithet ‘white elephant’ that. Apparently, it affected the transfer of foreign tourists visiting trip to West Java, Indonesia

Just last week around 300 foreign tourists who visit the city of Bandung. They divert travel from Thailand to Indonesia and went on vacation to the west of Java.

These tourists come through the airport Hussein Sastranegara. This increase is supported also by the existence of a direct flight from Singapore to Bandung,

From January until May 2010, the number of foreign tourists visiting West Java reached around 50 thousand people. the majority of tourists came from the Netherlands and Malaysia.

Office of the local culture and tourism target 700 thousand foreign tourists and 30 million domestic tourists coming into the west of Java until the end of this year.
local government also hopes that tourism actors in west Java, may take advantage of these opportunities in a way to intensify the locations of tourist attraction.

Most tourists who switched from Thailand to Indonesia is a tourist from Australia who will do the MICE (Meeting Incentive Conference and Exhibition). Australian tourists in Bali is a majority vote as a major tourist destination.

Therefore, the period of January-March 2010 arrivals of tourists from Australia into the island experienced an estimated growth of 62.8 percent due to the transfer of one of them foreign tourists travel from Thailand to Bali.

The conflict spread to Thailand’s rural northeast, where the four governor’s offices were burned and about 13 000 anti-government protesters demonstrated. Red Shirt protesters in the area ignored the emergency laws imposed in 23 provinces and the capital city of Bangkok, said Manit Wattansen, permanent secretary at the interior ministry. “The fire destroyed four provincial offices almost simultaneously Wednesday evening, including in Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, Mukdahan and Ubon Ratchthani,” said Manit told AFP. The buildings where the offices of provincial governors and agencies such as taxes and education been seriously damaged by the attacks. Sunsern Kaewkumnerd military spokesman said the Red Shirt 13 000 protestors demonstrated in 20 provinces, Wednesday night after their protest camp in Bangkok’s army invaded. Performance-fixed protests occurred despite a curfew imposed after an angry protestor’s rampage in the capital Bangkok after their protests closed the base in a military operation. There are fears that an attack on the group Red Shirt, who occupied Bangkok’s main shopping center that they occupied for six weeks, will trigger unrest elsewhere in the country. Pairoj Saengpoowong, Vice Governor of Chiang Mai Province, said the Red Shirt Team also conducted arson attacks and other governor representatives. “They burned two fire truck Wednesday night and throwing grenades,” he said. Pairoj said on Thursday the provincial authorities forbade any meetings or actions to incite riots, and the situation has been calm and protest leaders into hiding. Thailand was split in two between the Red Shirt Group, which his supporters come mainly from rural and urban poor population, and rivals Yellow T-shirt Group, which pro Bangkok elite. (HTR) this is a travel warning for tourists and foreign businessmen who wanted to travel to Thailand. Only event of sports and games night that could still ongoing