Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Hope for stranded Thai tourists



http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7750000/newsid_7757900/7757914.stm
  • There is a protest taking place in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Those protesters had took control of 2 airports, and the airports had to shut down.
  • Because of the shut down, there were many tourists stuck in Thailand.
  • About 40 airplanes had took off from Bangkok, but without any passengers on board.
  • The planes were headed to other airports to pick up stranded people.
  • Because of the protest, there were thousands of passengers been stuck in Thailand for a week.
  • What did those protrsters want? They want the government to resign.
  • There was a deal had been agreed to let 88 planes left Suvarnabhumi Airport.
  • And some governments were arranging special flights to get their people home.
  • Because of this incident, had very bad influence to the holiday business, they think that the number of people planning to go to Thailand would drop 50% in 2009.
  • However, this incident was not the only one protest, there were thousands of people who think the government was doing a good job, marched through Bangkok to show their support.

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