BANGKOK( REUTERS)-Thai authorities have detained at least 11 leaders of the country's anti-government protest movement and deployed hundreds of police ahead of a planned demonstration on Tuesday( Aug 10) involving a convoy of cars congregating in the centre of Bangkok. Thailand's youth-led protest movement has seen a recent resurgence over anger about the government's handling of the pandemic after demonstrations last year attracted hundreds of thousands of people before a crackdown by authoriti

Pro-democracy supporters wearing face mask march on the road during a demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand, on June 24, 2021.... The government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is facing widespread criticism that it botched pandemic recovery plans by failing to secure adequate vaccine supplies.... On June 24, 1932, a group of progressive army officers and civil servants proclaimed constitutional rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy, ending Thailand's absolute monarchy....