'Red Shirts' set for another rally

BANGKOK: Thai Red Shirt protesters geared up on Wednesday for another weekend of mass rallies, ignoring Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s offer of a third round of talks to negotiate early elections. Red Shirt leaders said that Saturday’s gathering would be their biggest since their rally began with more than 100,000 protesters on March 14, after the country’s top court seized most of Thaksin’s fortune. “All Red Shirts across the country are ready to return to fight on, as our goal has not yet been achieved,” Reds’ leader Jatuporn Prompan told reporters.