Amid the protests happening in Thailand now, Singaporeans who are staying and working there are staying calm and keeping in touch with family and friends since the protest happened from the start.
40—year—old Gilbert Lim, who has been working in Bangkok for 16 years, told MediaCorp in a telephone interview that the situation was still very fluid.
"Even with this state of emergency declared, it hasn’t dawned on me that it’s something really urgent or very, very unsafe," he said.
"We still haven’t seen what the government is going to do further. So far, they’ve really taken a subdued stance on the protesters. We’ll see whether it’s going to get worse or not."
Mr Lim said Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Ministry alerted him of the state of emergency via e—mail at about 9pm local time.
The Singapore embassy in Bangkok is also closely monitoring the situation.
The Singapore embassy in Bangkok is also closely monitoring the situation.
However, Singaporeans in Bangkok have been calling home to assure family members of their safety.
However, Singaporeans in Bangkok have been calling home to assure family members of their safety.
She is also taking precautions.
"I guess we will be taking care of where we are going, and not to venture to other places other than going to work and coming back. Other than that, everything looks normal," she told MediaCorp in a telephone interview.
The emergency rule bans public gatherings of more than five people and gives broad powers to the police and military.
It was enforced after protesters stormed Parliament in a dramatic escalation of their bid to topple the government.
