Archive for September, 2007
WTF Thaksin Are You …?!
First divorcing your wife? Then traveling around the world and to sunny Cambodia, as a state guest, producing headline after headline, accusing your old homeland of false patriotism – and then this?! Your hand on a hot blonde’s scantily clad waist. Traitor! Holding a farang! What a life. And he was arriving by private plane.
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Thailand – Cambodia 0:3
You remember the Abhisit – Hun Sen 0:0 post. I was very polite to Abhisit because he looked so nice in the Asean chairman suit. A month later it is a whole different game. Our dear deputy premier Suthep obviously didn’t set Hun Sen straight on Thaksin, as claimed. Hun Sen is talking, and boy
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Blame The Demon
Exorcizing Thaksin? Why doesn’t the Thai government relocate demons. As irrationality is not uncommon around here. Black magic, demons, the power of Phra Rahu – if you’re familiar with Thailand you’re familiar with the powers that be. They are very real. Which is why twelve “demon statues” at bad-lucked Suvarnabhumi airport believed to have brought
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Machiavelli Personality Test: Are We A Better Thai Politician?
Boring politics? Boring Thai politics? There is no such thing. Thailand politics by now have become a textbook for modern-day machinations and intrigue. Any dethroned leader anywhere in the world longing for a comeback should just have a look at Thailand. Thaksin’s the past you’d think. Emailed a reader: “In any other place on earth
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Quo Vadis Prathet Thai
Call me a coward. Ain’t no sacrificial lamb. Yes, I take this very personally. For the sake of peace of mind and good night’s sleep I avoid an analysis of The Times’ Thaksin interview that created a furore the moment it was published. According to the interviewer the Thai government warned not to report the
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Of Rankings, Mediocrity & Quality Of Life
Well, there’s always an exception that proves the rule. According to a recent poll Bangkok was voted the no. 1 most attractive city in Asia. Thai media hailed the headline. But the poll was conducted in Bangkok, among 500 foreign tourists. As if 500 interviewed tourists in Tokyo would have chosen Bangkok. That’s not what
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The Vongthip Letter Nov 09
Long live our king! Since HM the king has checked into the hospital some six weeks ago, his loyal have been worried sick about the state of his health until they saw him healthy and smiling again as he made two impromptu tours of the hospital on his wheelchair on 23/10/09 and again on 2/11/09.
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Thitinan’s Rakesh Saxena Encyclopedia
After one of the longest extradition battles in the history of Canada, fugitive Thai banker Rakesh Saxena recently arrived back home, in a Thai prison cell that is. A spokesman for Thailand’s attorney general said Saxena, an Indian national and a little man who was a big pest, has over 20 cases pending against him
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Dangerous Ground
This topic is speculative, but in these times when even bankers can get arrested who acted on the basis of information that was available to them, then everything becomes speculative. Remember, a lot of information available in Thailand is not officially available. Call it a new, not yet seen interpretation of a LM-like approach. The
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