BANGKOK, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's State Enterprises Workers' Relations Confederation (SERC) called on Friday for a nationwide strike by employees of all 43 state enterprises next week, in response to what the group alleges to be the government's violent means in dealing with demonstrators.

    SERC Secretary-General Sawit Kaewwan was quoted by local newspaper Bangkok Post's website as saying that his group wants to pressure Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and the government to resign.

    State enterprise employees throughout the country should rally behind the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), starting on Nov.24, and go on strike indefinitely beginning the next day, until the government steps down.

    Sawit claimed SERC has concluded that the government repeatedly used violence and brutality to suppress demonstrators, with the most recent example being the Thursday grenade attack, which killed one PAD demonstrator at Government House and wounded more than 20.

    The PAD have been staging anti-government protests since May 25in Bangkok and have occupied the Government House for rally since Aug. 26.

8 injured in bomb blast near Thai Government House

    BANGKOK, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people were injured when two unidentified assailants on Saturday's early morning launched a grenade at the Misakawan Intersection outside the Thai Government House which was seized by the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD).

    The attack occurred at 2:10 a.m. (1910 GMT, Friday), just two days after a bomb was triggered inside the Government House complex which killed one and injured 20 others on Thursday.  Full story

Thailand's anti-gov't PAD to hold mass gathering Sunday

    BANGKOK, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) will organize a massive anti-government demonstration on Sunday.

    After a bomb went off at the demonstration site at Bangkok's Government House early Thursday, which left one death and 24 injuries, PAD leader Sondhi Limthongkul claimed that the government was behind the incident. Full story

Bomb blast in Thai Government House kills 1,injures 26

    BANGKOK, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The early morning bomb blast in Bangkok's Government House has killed one protester and injured 26 others from the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) which occupied the complex since mid-August. Full story