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Chula prepares for Uthenthawai rally

Chulalongkorn University on Thursday said it will operate normally on Friday when students and alumni of Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok's Uthenthawai campus hold a large rally to protest Chulalongkorn’s move to reclaim a 21-rai site where the campus is located.

In a message posted on its website and Facebook homepage, the university said all of its activities will function normally Friday during the Uthenthawai campus protest rally. 

However, it advised students, lecturers and staff to avoid commuting around Phaya Thai Road from 9am until the end of the protest and divert instead to Bantadthong and Henry-Dunant roads.

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  • highlander

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    Discussion 3 : 15 Mar 2013 at 00.103

    The university should not be involving any students to rally on their behalf. Students are at university to study and learn. This land issue needs to be handled by the people in charge of the universities and the government treasury because it's tax payers money that built these university grounds.

  • ricardo

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    Discussion 2 : 14 Mar 2013 at 23.442

    “Many” of the so called students of Uthenthawai are hooligans at best. Anyway they have been given a campus elsewhere so there should be no issue. This is bullying clear and simple. Now is a good time for this government to show they can make a decision to ensure no violence takes place, because if it does what type of signal does that send to other groups who want to threaten the peace to get what they want.

  • thegabster

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    Discussion 1 : 14 Mar 2013 at 22.221

    For the sake of the the Thai tourist industry, vacate the land owned by Chulalongkorn University and move on, Thailand does not need these type of issues in the news at the moment.

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