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Should you travel to Thailand?

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Following up on yesterday's story on the bloody Bankok protests, would you still travel to Thailand?

There have been constant violent clashses as demonstrators protest the elitist government. DFAT has advised Australian travellers to reconsider their need to go there.

Phoebe Roth asks a traveller who was all set to head over, and a local travel agent, if it will affect the thousands of Aussies that go there every Summer.

 

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Blood in Bangkok

35 people have died in the past week of street battle on the streets of Bangkok and 244 have been wounded. More than 5000 protesters have been calling for the PM to resign.

Panorama's Alison Hickerson asks a Bangkok resident what's going on.

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