BKK News Feed Archive Q2/09/I

BKK News Feed for Week 20 in 2009, May 11th – 17th:

NOT THE NATION – All Future Govt Announcements to Be Made by Girls in Space Boots
BANGKOK POST – Container Saga: Camera to Be Used in Search for Remains (Abhisit’s statement is simply shocking)
AFP – Tiaras @ Thai Transsexual Beauty Contest
RELIGION, SEX & POLITICS – In the Land of Smiles
! TIME – The Dark & Light Side of Thai Art
BANGKOK POST – “Land of the Thais” Is Siam
! THE NATION – “Dr. Death” Porntip Seeks Quick Move on Container
BANGKOK POST – Manliness & Its Role in Thailand
! MONSTERS & CRITICS/DPA – Thai Hotel Industry Runs Into Perfect Storm
UPI – Thailand Facing Mosquito Virus Outbreak
PHILIP GOLINGAI – There’s a New Awakening in Thai Society
BUSINESSWEEK – A Q&A With Abhisit
! FORBES – Elections? Wish List From Thailand’s Leader
BANGKOK POST – The Red News Cometh (who can find their website?)

WSJ – PM Abhisit Seeks Thai Dialog
BANGKOK POST – No Containers of Bones on Seabed (giving up the search after one day?!)
THE STAR – Reputations @ Stake as Thailand Plans for Next Summit
THE NATION – PAD @ Crossroads
BANGKOK POST – PAD Party Will Lose Clout
! BANGKOK POST – Watching Pattaya’s Decline
ORIENT EXPAT – Thai Girls & Oral
BANGKOK POST – Reality Check: Another Fiasco Isn’t What Asean Wants
ASIA TIMES – How to Bridge Thailand’s Divide
BLOOMBERG – Thai Confidence Falls to Seven-Year Low on Protests
YARMOUTH MERCURY – Real 100% Women Vs. Bangkok Lady Boys (via WiseKwai)
! TELEGRAPH – Fishermen Catch Human Skulls off Thai Coast
THE NATION – DSI to Check on Skeleton Containers
BANGKOK POST – Ball Set Rolling in Charter Rewrite Bid

THE NATION – The PAD Dilemma: Party Time or not?
GLOBAL POST – Thailand’s Front Page Horror Show
MERCURY NEWS – Cowboy Matthew McDaniel, Savior of the Akha (met him once, a guy as peculiar as his old car)
NICARAGUAN POST – Thaksin to Buy Nicaraguan Post
! ROAD JUNKY – The Onion Asian-Style: Satire Alive & Well in Thailand
BANGKOK POST – Magic, Mobs & Millennialism (had missed this one)
BANGKOK POST – Summit Off Again (even the Asian partners don’t seem to trust Thailand’s security forces any longer)
THE NATION – Asean Summit Postponed to October (it’s getting ridiculous, but I’m sure the major powers cancelled for good)
THE NATION – Oriental’s Wachtveitl Remembers (Elizabeth Taylor, mainly)
BANGKOK POST – Fugitive Thaksin Eyes Balkan Hawaii
! GLOBAL POST – Red Shirts Membership Application (fill in the mock application)
! ANN/STRAITS TIMES – Better That Thailand Pass Up Asean Meeting
THE NATION – PM Battles Rivals on Many Fronts
BANGKOK POST – Not Your Average Game of Golf

AFP – Thailand Confirms First Two Swine Flu Cases
BANGKOK POST – Bring Your Own Bodyguard: Image of Thai Integrity in Tatters
TIME – South: Anatomy of a Forgotten Conflict
BANGKOK POST – Thailand Spurns Cambodia’s Damage Claims
THE NATION – Army Chief Should not Waste Potential as Peace Broker
STRAITS TIMES – Tourists to Thailand Halve (and they blame the swines)
CNN – Mystery Thai Tourist Deaths From Food?
AFP – Cambodia Tells Thailand to Pay Border Damages
THE NATION – Thaksin Bids for Montenegro Island
BANGKOK PUNDIT – Thailand Turns Into Indonesia – & Vice Versa
STRAITS TIMES – Uncertainty Over Summit
PHUKET WAN – Mysterious Tourist Deaths: Why Pursuing the Truth Matters for Tourism
THE NATION – White Shirts not so White
THE NATION – Chaturon’s New Book to Tell the Truth …

BKK News Feed for Week 19 in 2009, May 04th – 10th:

FTN NEWS – Thailand’s First “Adults Only” Resort Hotel
BANGKOK POST – Red Rally in the Rain
! BANGKOK POST – Perpetual Puzzlement: Bangkok Continues to Baffle, Bewilder & Bewitch Foreigners
BLOOMBERG – Thailand Says Economy Improving After Contraction
BANGKOK POST – Patpong Piracy Raid Hypocrisy
BANGKOK POST – Thanphuying Speaks Out on Sondhi & Thaksin
THE NATION – Police to Probe Officers’ “Complicity” in Patpong Piracy Trading
WSJ – Travel: 48 Hours With Kids in Bangkok
THAI CRISIS – Sin Taxes: Govt Gives 20 Billions, Then Takes Back 20 Billions
THE NATION – More Factions Emerge to Widen the Political Divide
ASIAN SWEETHEART – Why Are so Many Thai Men Worthless?
BANGKOK PUNDIT – Media Caught in the Middle of Thai Political Crisis
! GLOBAL POST – Waterworld in Thailand
BANGKOK POST – Patpong Pirate Attack

THAI CRISIS – Panic Mode: Govt Needs to Borrow 800 Billion Baht
BANGKOK POST – iPhone Apps for Thailand: A Mixed Bag
AEI – Thailand & the Drug Patent Wars
PHUKET GAZETTE – Mystery Illness Kills Foreigners on Phi Phi
PHOTOJOURN – Patpong Piracy Traders Riot, Tourists Scurry for Cover as Shots Fired
! XPRESS – Back-to-School Hell: Most Parents Don’t Have Enough Money
! SLATE – A Mother & Daughter Find Life in Bangkok
THE NATION – MPs & Military, a Long but Uneasy Mix
ASIA TIMES – My Friend Is My Enemy in Thailand
FRONTLINE – Thailand’s Power Play
ASIA TIMES – On the Trail of Thaksin in Cambodia
NYT – Excerpts From the Abhisit Interview
INSIDE STORY – Sondhi Plot Thickens (penned by New Mandala’s co-owners)
HUFFINGTON POST – The Underperformers: How Key U.S. Officials Are Making a Tribal Crisis Worse

THE NATION – No. 1 Duty of Thai Citizens: Living With Yellows, Reds & Blues
! NYT – Thai Leader Struggles @ the Center of a Storm
BANGKOK POST – Jakrapob, Man on a (Misguided) Mission?
FT – Fatal Flaws That Wrecked Thailand’s Promise
TIME – A Traffic Jam (applies to BKK)
WPR – Opposition Raises Specter of Civil War
BANGKOK POST – Fresh Moves to Arrest Thaksin
WSJ – Thai Finance Minister: Govt to Soon Ease Fiscal Policy Restrictions
THE NATION – Reds to Set Record Straight on Sunday
DAYLIFE – Bangkok Sees Peace Rally
ASIA TIMES – Insurgents Defy Thai Military Surge
STRATEGY PAGE – South’s Anger Fatigue
WSJ – Thitinan: Scape Goat Sondhi?
BANGKOK POST – PAD Readies for New Protests

BKK News Feed for Week 18 in 2009, April 27th – May 03rd:

THE NATION – Sondhi Drops Names, Leaves Everyone Guessing
STRAITS TIMES – Nearly-Dead Sondhi Speaks Out: Reds & Yellows Desire Change
! BANGKOK POST – Sondhi Vs. Thanpuying: Lady-in-Waiting Denies Plotting to Kill Sondhi (Sondhi becomes a danger to everyone it seems)
THE NATION – Thai Press Needs Improving
BANGKOK POST – Buddhism: Losing Faith
BANGKOK PUNDIT – Sondhi Speaks
THE STAR/GOLINGAI – Politics Take a Murky Turn
UPI ASIA – Thailand’s Odd Approach to Human Rights
BANGKOK POST – Thitinan: The Politics of Charter Amendment & Amnesty
BANGKOK POST – Thailand on Washington’s Most Watched List of IP Offenders
BANGKOK POST – Stricter Flu Vigil @ Airports
BANGKOK POST – PM: House Dissolution After Amendments
NYT – Travel: Problems, & Deals, in Thailand
BANGKOK POST – Military Opts for Thaksin Purge

NEW MANDALA – Ritual, Black Magic & Astrology in Thai Politics
THAI 101 – Thai Literature as Social Activism
GUARDIAN – After Thailand’s Bitter Feud, an Uncertain Future (“stability of the old order over”)
RSF – Censorship Lifted on Some Websites
XPRESS – Students Offer Romance Service
TAN – Govt Urges Thai People to Celebrate Coronation Day
NYT – Turmoil Stalls Phuket Vacation Home Boom
ASIA TIMES – A Thai Lesson for the U.S.
! BANGKOK POST – The Bhikkhuni Question: Fully Ordaining Buddhist Female Monks?
THE NATION – Puea Thai: “Rats” Waiting to Jump Thaksin’s Sinking Ship
IPS – Swine Flu Deadlier Than Bird Flu, Sars?
! NOT THE NATION – As Tensions Mount, Prostitutes Report Rise In Political-Color-Fetish Sex Requests (reds bone yellows, v.v.)
BANGKOK POST – Thaksin Backs Peaceful Protest
NEW MANDALA – Thai Monarchy & Political Stabilization

THAI POLITICAL PRISONERS – Beating the Communist Drum
BBC – Thai Militant Attacks Intensify
THE NATION – Thai Hotels Step Up Discount & Promotion Packages
! ROANOKE TIMES – Thai Family’s Family Ties (via 2Bangkok)
BANGKOK POST – Krue Se Remembrance Attacks
KUWAIT TIMES/DPA – Thailand’s Famed Resiliency Sorely Tested
GLOBAL POST – Don’t Be Salty. Hillary’s Coming.
XPRESS – Thai Youth’s Worrying Trends: Prostitution, Addiction Instead of Love for Thai Culture
TELEGRAPH – Thailand’s Gay Monks Given “Good Manners” Guide
THE NATION – Govt Using All Means to Corner Thaksin
PHUKT WAN – A Visit to Phuket’s Putrid Pile
BLOOMBERG – Korn: Thailand May Hold Elections in 12 Months
THE NATION – Swine Flu: Thermal Scanners Installed @ BKK Airport
BLOOMBERG – Red Shirt Leader Says Violence This Month a “Mistake”

BKK News Feed for Week 17 in 2009, April 19th – 26th:

THE NATION – Chamlong Interview: Abhisit Govt not in Actual Control
WSJ – Thai Businesspeople Join Ranks of Politically Discontent
REUTERS – Thais Pine for Political Fix as Unrest Hurt Economy
2BANGKOK – Thai Hairstyles
MALAYSIAN INSIDER – Human Trafficking: Malaysians Extort, Thais Ignore
! ASIAN SWEETHEART/THIS IS SO GAY – Toms & Dees Explained
REUTERS – Thaksin’s Red Shirts Gather Again
STRAITS TIMES – Unhappy With Foreign Media
! RGE MONITOR – Can Thailand Afford Another Political Crisis?
THE STAR/GOLINGAI – Sondhi: One Week on, Bangkok Still Has no Answers
THE NATION – The Day Abhisit Made Thais Hold Their Breath
THE NATION – Reds Rally @ Royal Plaza
BLOOMBERG – Mobius Says Thai Stocks Cheap, Currency Undervalued (said the same thing a year ago)
DAVE THE RAVE – Liagra, Pattaya Bar Girls’ New Drug

REUTERS – Thailand “Resets”? Plans Charter Reforms
BANGKOK POST – Emergency Lifted, Troops to Stay (red shirts mind your next steps, Abhisit reaches out)
JURIST/RULE OF LORDS – Thai Courts’ Use of Legal Double Standards Encourages Extralegal Means by Opposition
NOT THE NATION – Agitated Red Shirts: Nonthaburi Police Detain Liverpool Supporters
THAI AIRWAYS – Tales of the Daily Corruption
BANGKOK POST – Former FM Kantathi: Reset Thailand’s Domestic Politics
WP – Thai PM to Lift State of Emergency, Won’t Budge on Elections
TAN – Special Analysis: The Question That Anupong Has Never Answered
THE NATION – Two Sides to Every Story, no Winners
XPRESS – Still Smoking? The Nicotine Archipelago
WSJ – Travel: The Chao Phraya
MUST READ: BBC – Seeing Red in Rural Thailand
GLOBAL POST – Seven Reasons Why Thailand Is a Mess
THE AGE – Self-Exiled Aussie Dies in Bangkok Jail

BANGKOK POST – Reconciliation via an Amnesty
ASIA TIMES – The Roots of Thailand’s Tensions
REUTERS – Bangkok Beats London in Carbon Pollution
BBC – Jakrapob in Hiding: Thai Protesters “Plan New Action”
BLOOMBERG – Thai Parliament Debates Emergency Rule, Arrests of Protesters
SUTHICHAI YOON – Let’s Go Color Blind for a While
BANGKOK POST – The Dawning of New Realities
AFP – Thai Tourism in Dire Straits
THE NATION – Newin: The Real Man Behind the Scenes
REUTERS – Thai Govt Crackdown Seen Fueling More Protests
BANGKOK POST – Nattakorn Devakula: Resentment of Reds & the Challenge of Reconciliation
! SPIEGEL – Sukhumbhand Interview: “In Thailand, the Law of the Jungle Prevails”
! NEW MANDALA – Nick Nostitz: The Crushing of the Red Shirts (another outstanding Nick report)
PRACHATAI/AP – Thai Anti-Govt Leader Promises More Protests

CSM – Thailand Searches for a Political Exit Plan
VOA – Southeast Asia Struggles With Democracy
THE NATION – Jakrapob Running Red Movement From Secret Base
MUST READ: SPIEGEL – Thaksin Interview: “I’m Like a Rat”
! FOREIGN POLICY – Technology’s Dubious Role in Thailand’s Protests
IPS – With Censorship, Thais Turn to Websites & Foreign Media
REUTERS – Scenarios: Is There an Escape Route from Thailand’s Crisis?
THE NATION – PM Open to Amnesty Idea
THE SHARK – Ethnic Component of the Crisis Nobody Wants to Touch
NOT THE NATION – Former Employees Struggle to Come to Terms With Sondhi’s Survival
BANGKOK POST – Govt Spies Keep Watch on Group Spreading Red Lies
THE NATION – Police Offer Bounty for Info on Sondhi Suspects
CSM – A Thai Housewife Becomes a Human Rights Activist
KUWAIT TIMES/REUTERS – Can Thailand Break Out of Its Downward Spiral?

THE AGE – Assassination Plot Linked to Thai Military
SMH – Thai Army Linked to Summit Violence
! ASIA TIMES – Shooting the Messenger in Thailand
AP – Thailand Extends State of Emergency
BANGKOK POST – Where Thaksin Went Wrong
THE NATION – Political Turmoil an Expensive Lesson
PHILIP GOLINGAI – The Day the Streets Ran Red
RULE OF LORDS – The First Casualty
TNA – Police: Over 5 Gunmen Attacked Anti-Thaksin PAD Leader
! NYT – Thitinan: Why Thais Are Angry
BLOOMBERG – Thai Premier May Need to Do More to Regain Confidence
KOREA TIMES/ASIA SENTINEL – Thailand’s Troubles Growing
SIN CHEW/AFP – Thai Political Crisis Points @ Deep Divisions
BOSTON GLOBE – Thailand in Trouble