PM Abhisit declared today a national holiday due the disruptive nature of the protests. I'm sure that this is an attempt to keep people from driving to work. Additionally, next Monday through Wednesday are national holidays, so some people might get an early start and leave the city.
Not everyone gets to celebrate an extra day off. Some banks have stated that they have work and transfers that need to be performed, and they cannot honor the holiday. Even closer to home is ISB, which sent out a text message saying that there will be school today. When I woke up Jacob this morning, I told him that the good news was that today was a national holiday, but the bad news was that he still had to go to school. He didn't find this particularly amusing.
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