Thai Protest Continues Despite PM's Call for New Election

Thailand's prime minister dissolved the government and called for new elections Monday, but that did little to appease the more than 150,000 people who took to the streets in the capital, demanding she resign. As demonstrators began converging again on the seat of the Thai government's power, a conciliatory Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra announced she would ask the crown to consent to dissolve parliament and hold snap elections. In a brief, nationally televised address, the...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - dimanche 8 décembre 2013