BKK News Feed Archive Q2/09/II

BKK News Feed for Week 27 in 2009, June 29th – July 05th:

BANGKOK POST – Crushing By-Election Defeats: Democrats Should Abandon Their Aloofness
NOT THE NATION – Da Torpedo’s Speech Kills 12, Injures 344, Destroys Rice Harvest
PRACHATAI – Khun Thong Daeng as Prototype of Thai Dogs
AFP – Thai Minister Faces Charges Over Airport Seizure
BANGKOK POST – The Girl on a Motorcycle
THE NATION – “Wasters”: Is This the Toughest Cop in Thailand?
! BANGKOK POST – Airport Closure Goes to Court, Foreign Minister Charged
TAN – Thai Happiness Index Below Target (betting on “Thai folk wisdom”)
BANGKOK POST – Politicization of Monarchy: Govt Launches a Broadside
BANGKOK BUGLE/ECONOMIST – “Treason in Cyberspace”: Again no Economist for Thailand
AFP – Thai Foreign Media Club Faces Royal Slur Probe
BANGKOK POST – Puea Thai: End Double Standards
KHMERIZATION – Looking @ the Preah Vihear Conflict in the Light of History
THAI CRISIS – Labor Union Wants Ministry to Pay Electricity Bills

DISPATCH – Illegal Ivory Sold Freely in Thailand
BANGKOK POST – Imagine a 1,000-Baht Bills Pile 1.5 Kilometers High:
BANGKOK POST – Consumer Prices Hit 12-Year Low (not so the stuff I consume it seems)
THE NATION – Thaksin Pardon: Reds Hunt a Million Signatures
BANGKOK POST – Thailand’s Foreign Policy: Principle, not Profit, Foremost in Foreign Affairs
CSM – Panda-Monium for Newest Thai Superstar
THE NATION – FCCT Board Faces Lèse Majesté Probe
XPRESS – On the Edge: Teens’ Worrying Levels of Alcohol Use, Sexual Promiscuity & Suicide Thoughts
PHUKET WAN – Phuket Crash Wreck Still on Show @ Airport
BANGKOK POST – Inappropriate Pardon Petition
THE NATION – Time’s Right for Political Witch Hunt
BANGKOK POST – Dubai Turns on Thaksin
! ASIA TIMES –
People’s Power & Manipulated Masses
BLOOMBERG – Thailand’s Industrial Output Falls for Seventh Month

! FORBES/AP – Discounts Abound as Tourism to Thailand Drops
ASIA SENTINEL – Thailand’s Supachai: Squabble Over a U.N. Position
NYT – Suspected Arms Dealer Challenges U.S. Tactics
M&C/DPA – Analysis: Thai By-Election Boosts Fugitive Former Premier
GLOBAL POST – You’ve Been Punk’d. Thai-Style
FORBES – Vacation Paradise Continues to Churn With Political Upheaval
BANGKOK POST – Stiff Opposition to Royal Pardon for Thaksin
BANGKOK POST – Thais OK With Corrupted Govt
MSNBC/REUTERS – Thai Navy Gives Sea Turtles Some Protection (turtles …? south?)
WSJ – Thaksin Backers Rally in Bangkok
BANGKOK PUNDIT – Sri Saket By-Election Result: What Does It Mean?
WSJ – Thailand Records First Swine Flu Deaths
BANGKOK POST – Things That Make You Go “Arai Wa”!
BANGKOK PUNDIT – The Red Rally

BKK News Feed for Week 26 in 2009, June 22nd – 28th:

BBC – Thaksin Demands Fresh Resistance: Blasts Abhisit for 3 Things: “Borrowing, Hiking Taxes & Hounding Thaksin”
BANGKOK POST – Huge Red Rally
STRAITS TIMES/AFP – Thailand Warns Red Shirts
BANGKOK POST – When Michael Played Bangkok
ASIA TIMES – Thai Government’s Great Gambit
BANGKOK PUNDIT – Newin & Thaksin
DAILY MAIL – Thais Paint Elephants to Look Like Pandas … Because They Like Pandas Better
BBC – Concern @ Secret Thailand Trial
REUTERS – Amnesty Urges Thailand to Open Lèse Majesté Trial
WLT – Google’s Virtual Thai Keyboard
! BANGKOK POST – 110 Years of Pridi Banomyong
ASIAN SWEETHEART – Today’s Thai Coeds in Uniform
BANGKOK POST – Suthep on the Loose Again Ahead of Red Rally: Plots & Power Plays
REUTERS – How to Win Hearts & Minds in Thailand’s Muslim South?

XPRESS – Thais Finding Fountain of Youth
GLOBAL POST – Teachercide in Thailand
! BANGKOK POST – Fear the Farang
BANGKOK POST – Yet Another “Red” Newspaper
AP – Thailand Attacks Raise Threat of Sectarian War
GUARDIAN – Wimbledon’s Aficionados of Aural Torture Have Plenty to Scream About (completely un-Thai topic, but too good to miss)
BANGKOK PUNDIT – Can PAD Win the Rural Vote?
NOT THE NATION – Thaksin Phone-In Sways Academy Fantasia Voting
XPRESS – Alcohol: No ID, no Problem
ASIA TIMES – All Aboard the Trans-Asian Railway
THE NATION – Round One to Thaksin, but Newin’s Undaunted
BANGKOK POST – “DMagazine” Joins Red Shirt Cause
! NEW MANDALA – Signs of the Thai State
LEOSIA – A Tale of Two Clubs

BLOOMBERG – Thailand May Extend Sharia Law in Violence-Ridden South
PHUKET GAZETTE – Immigration Crackdown Announced (yet again?)
BANGKOK POST – More State Enterprises Join Protests (why don’t the reds join in …)
THE NATION – Coalition Plods Along the Potholed Path of Thai Politics
BANGKOK POST – Siam to Thailand: A Historian’s View
THE NATION – Chaovarat Told: Blind not Legally Incompetent & Eligible to Vote (why am I not surprised?)
BANGKOK POST – Nationwide Rail Strike (another nail in the coffin?)
XPRESS – Calling All Gays
ASIA SENTINEL – Asean & Rapid Global Change
BANGKOK PUNDIT – Succession: The White Elephant in the Room
BBC – Asia Takes First Step on Modern “Silk Route”
NEW MANDALA – Thaksin Trounces The Populists
NYT – Southern Insurgents Recruit From Schools
BBC – Laos Tackles Transgender Taboos

BKK News Feed for Week 25 in 2009, June 15th – 21st:

WATERTOWN DAILY – Absurdity Abroad: Songkran & a Beauty of a Contest
! TIME – In Thailand, A New Party Tries to Take Back the Swastika
THE NATION – Govt Urged to Waive Import Duty on Luxury Goods
BANGKOK POST – How to Make Thailand Fit for Democracy
THE NATION – Politics Returning to the “Bad” Old Days
ASIA SENTINEL – Asia’s Sorry Human Rights Record
BANGKOK POST – Carradine “Died Alone”
THE NATION – PM Admits Govt Is Vulnerable
BANGKOK POST – DNA Clears Military (go figure)
ECONOMIST – Fading Colors: Thai PM Tries to Spend His Way out of Trouble
BLOOMBERG – Thai Exports Tumble Most in 17 Years
STRAITS TIMES – South: A Generation of Bitterness (via BP)
BANGKOK POST – Porntip: All Containers Must Be Opened (see?)
BANGKOK PUNDIT – Photo of the Year

THE NATION – Panda Fan Club, Shame on You!
BANGKOK POST – Political Reform Through People’s Power
! M&C/DPA – Bangkok’s Vietnam-War Era Hotels Still Offering Cheap Thrills
BANGKOK CRIMES – Abhisit, in Retrospect, Is a Fan of BangkokDan (twitterians see image 6)
WP – Anti-Government Fervor Persists Among Thailand’s Rural Poor
THE NATION – The New “Gang of Four”
BANGKOK POST – No News Is Flu News
XINHUA – Thais Told to Wear Facial Masks Amid Rising Flu Cases
MUST READ: TANN – The Evolution of Jakrapob Penkair
THE NATION – Tourism Needs a Japanese Panda (couldn’t refrain from some pandaitis)
NOT THE NATION – Carradine Murdered By Secret Shaolin Masturbation Sect
BANGKOK POST – Foreign Ownership Debate Intensifies: No Witch Hunt?
! THE NATION – Chang Noi: What’s in a Name? A Lot
STRAITS TIMES – Trawling the Seas for Trouble

BKK News Feed for Week 24 in 2009, June 08th – 14th:

BANGKOK POST – Thailand’s Political Pandemic Called Bhumjaithai
MANILA TIMES – King Kurt & Thailand’s Onwards & Upwards
BANGKOK POST – Erotic Political Scandal: Politics in the Age of YouTube
BANGKOK POST – Thailand, Unfit for Democracy?
BANGKOK POST – Intellectual Arthit Talks About His Political Dream
TNA – Flu Cases in Thailand Rise to 106, Difficult to Contain
THAIVISA – Thai Public TV Is Trash!
HUFFINGTON POST – Poipet: Where Cambodians Are Trafficked Into Thailand
THE NATION – 10,000 Could Catch Swine Flu
BANGKOK POST – Menace on the Campus
ECONOMIST – The Thai Insurgency
BLOOMBERG – Thai Consumer Spending May Help Offset Export Drop
BANGKOK CRIMES – No Bodies: Container Only Holds Seawater (weeks after the discovery of skulls & bones …)
THE NATION – Saxena’s End Near?

GLOBAL POST – The Yellow Shirts Button Up
! BBC – Thailand’s Fearless “Dr. Death”
REUTERS – Thailand Sees Jump in H1N1 Cases, Many in Pattaya
BLOOMBERG – Thai Confidence Falls to Seven-Year Low on Recession
DIGITAL JOURNAL – Bangkok’s 300,000 Stray Dogs
TNA – Planet Ocean
ANN/STRAITS TIMES – A Fatal Lapse in Thailand’s South
DAYLIFE – Just Another Gory Thai Photo
WSJ – The East, the West & Sex
BANGKOK POST – Carradine Pics: The Resurgence of Gore
THE NATION – Are We Grooming Our Own Tigers?
WSJ – Buddhist Monk Faces Worldly U.S. Immigration Bureaucracy
BANGKOK BUGLE – Thai Newspapers Warned Over Pics
ABC – Carradine Body Photos Show Fishnet, Wig

BANGKOK PUNDIT – FEER on Thaksin, UDD, PAD & Issues
AP – Germany Bans Thaksin
UPI – Thai Military Denies Involvement in Mosque Massacre
ASIA TIMES – Old & New Massacres in Thailand
THE NATION – Carradine: Murder Theory “Unbelievable”
THE NATION – Sorry, David, if We’re Denying You Peace
USA TODAY – THAI May Cancel A380 Superjumbo Order
GLOBAL POST – The Benefits of Being “Farang”
GLOBAL POST – Pattaya: Moscow in the Tropics
BANGKOK POST – Thaksin’s German Visa Illegal
REUTERS – Q&A: Thailand’s Shadowy Insurgency
! XPRESS – Brutal Student Initiations: Beaten, Bruised & Burnt
BANGKOK BUGLE – Is Thai Rath Carradine Photo Fake?
BLOOMBERG – Thailand Is Over the “Worst” as Spending Kicks In

BANGKOK PUNDIT – Smell Test: A Mercedes for Every Family!
WP – Carradine U.S. Investigation Begins
THE NATION – No Reports of Thaksin Changing His Name
BANGKOK POST – New Politics Needs Rethink
BANGKOK POST – Mosque Massacre
AFP – (Buddhist?) Gunmen Kill 10 @ Mosque in Southern Thailand (I doubt that Muslims shoot Muslims)
BANGKOK POST – FBI Told “Hands Off”: FBI not Allowed to Intervene in Carradine Probe
THE NATION – Gang of Robbers Targeting Foreign Tourists Busted
BANGKOK POST – Wings Clipped? Jet-Setting Parliamentarians
ABC – A Cancer Drug From Sunny Thailand?
THE NATION – Thaksin’s Net Becomes Steadily More Tangled
THE NATION – Thaksin Using Different Names
BANGKOK POST – Carradine Family Upset by Thailand
NYT – Lands of Erotic Fantasy & Their Complex Reality

BKK News Feed for Week 23 in 2009, June 01st – 07th:

TNA – Thaksin Traveling Under False Names
THE NATION – Guide for News Reporters Falls Short of Its Goals
THE NATION – Coalition Allies Attack Govt
THE NATION – 10 Reasons Why New Politics Just Is not Possible (how do “new politics” sound after two decades?)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS – Family Wants FBI to Investigate Carradine Death (nobody seems to trust the Thai police)
RICHMOND TIMES/AP – Rift Takes Toll on Buddhists, Muslims in Thailand
THE NATION – Red’s Paper Sells Out on First Day
BANGKOK POST – And the Most Corrupt Are … the Police
! BANGKOK PUNDIT – Health & Rumors
NOT THE NATION – Steven Seagal’s Career Found Dead in Bangkok
BANGKOK BUGLE – Red News Hits the Streets
NOT THE NATION – Thai Media Agree to Focus All Coverage on Cute Animals
FROGBLOG THAIDINGS – Which One Is Your Thailand?
THE NATION – Thaksin in Germany Triggers Fury

BANGKOK POST – Bizarre Sex Theory in Actor’s Death
MUST READ: THE SHARK – David Carradine’s Thai Death by Masturbation
ETN – Bangkok Tourism: Desperately Seeking Smile
ECO WORLDLY – Venice of the East? Pollution Chokes Bangkok’s Canals
WSJ – Populism Erodes Thailand’s Old Order
WISE KWAI – David Carradine Found Dead in Bangkok
NOT THE NATION – Japanese Father to Return to Thailand to Reclaim Long-Lost Photograph
THE NATION – Puea Thai Campaign: Thaksin Shall Return
XPRESS – Thailand’s Navy Seals: Only 30% Survive
BANGKOK POST – Bus Crisis: Govt Buys Survival Time
! THE NATION – Judgement Day for “Buses From Hell”
CNN – Dan Rivers’ Report on Thai Rohingya Abuse Wins Award
BERNAMA – Conflict In Southern Thailand Driven by Pattani Malay Nationalism
ECONOMIST – Thailand in Recession

REUTERS – Thai Court Upholds (Massive) Borrowing Decree for Stimulus
! ASIA SENTINEL – Thailand’s Politics: Back to Normal?
ASIA SENTINEL – Giles: Thai Govt Gets Away With Murder (that’s standard procedure worldwide under martial law)
IRRAWADDY – Thitinan Interview: Living in a Pressure Cooker (via Bangkok Pundit)
BANGKOK CRIMES – Sattahip Mystery Container Updates
BANGKOK POST – Somsak Named “New Politics” Party Head
THE NATION – Abhisit, Democrat Party @ Crossroad
IRRAWADDY – Hints of Burma-Thailand Tension Appear in State-Run Media
THE NATION – PAD Names New Party: “New Politics”
BANGKOK POST – Red Shirts Warned They May Lose Bail
BLOOMBERG – Thai Economy Further Contracts
XPRESS – Credit Crisis: Sharp Cards
ORIENT EXPAT – The Sorry State of Thailand’s Internet
THAIVISA – Immigration Crackdown on Border Runners

BKK News Feed for Week 22 in 2009, May 25th – 31st:

THE NATION – Chang Noi: Voting With the Wallet
THE NATION – New Red Protests: Democrats Enter Panic-Mode
BANGKOK POST – Only Self-Interest Holds the Govt Together
THE NATION – Abhisit Loses Temper With Ruling Yokemates (we warned him of exactly that, didn’t we)
MALAYSIAN INSIDER/SCMP – Royal Law a King-Sized Task Facing Thai PM
NEW STRAITS TIMES – Village of Hope for Widows of War
RADIO AUSTRALIA – New Laws to Tackle Thai Corruption
THE NATION – Chaturon: Democracy Trend Has Elite on the Run
! BANGKOK POST – Quietly, the Khunying Remains in Charge
CNN – Thailand Tourist’s Lung Tissue “Gone” After Mysterious Death
BANGKOK POST – Fighter Jets: And yet Another Coalition Dogfight
REUTERS – Chiang Mai Cheers a Family Legacy, & Its Own History
THE NATION – Suthep in Hot EC Water
TIME – From Bangkok to Berlin, Hard Times Hit the Sex Trade

VOA – Thailand Pins Hopes in Corruption Fight on New Legislation
BANGKOK POST – Suranand: Will the PAD Be a Viable Political Party?
IPS – New Probe Into “Drug War” Killings Takes a Stab @ Impunity
THE NATION – Thai Drug Prices Ten Times the Cost Americans Pay
FROGBLOG THAIDINGS – That Old Chestnut … Farang Men, Thai Girls
LEOSIA – How to Be a Spy in Bangkok
NOT THE NATION – Divers Open Mystery Containers; Discover 20 Million Unsold Thailand Elite Cards
BANGKOK POST – Thai Girls: Sexual Slavery Tolerated in Decent Singapore (she’s a friend’s friend, too sad)
BANGKOK POST – Chavalit, Thaksin’s Successor?! (now that would make it easy for the yellows)
EXAMINER – Travel: Top Spas in Thailand
! TIME – Is the Party Just Getting Started for Thailand’s Yellow Shirt Protesters?
BANGKOK POST – Our Love Affair With Soaps
BANGKOK POST – Growing Rifts: Coalition Peace Talks Over Dinner
XPRESS – Death of the Lotus Farm

THE NATION – Japanese Daddies, Come Home!
NYT – Beer Lao Takes the World (a nearly Thai topic)
THE NATION – Can PAD Resist the Heavy Pull of Old Politics?
VOA – Thailand’s “Third Sex” Wants Acceptance, Legal Support
NYT – Intl Real Estate for Sale in … Thailand
! REUTERS – In Northern Thailand, Food Gives a History Lesson
BANGKOK PUNDIT – Flying First Class on Thai Airways
WSJ – Abhisit Won’t Rule Out Early Elections This Year
NYT – Food Vendors: A Thai Tradition With a Twist of Innovation
BANGKOK POST – PAD Morphs Into Parliamentary Politics
THE NATION – PAD’s “New Politics” as a New Choice for Voters
NEW MANDALA – Yellow Shirts to Form Political Party
BANGKOK POST – PAD to Take 3 Months to Form Party
BLOOMBERG – Thailand Enters Recession

BKK News Feed for Week 21 in 2009, May 18th – 24th:

THE NATION – Coalition in Disarray
THE NATION – Suthep Interview: “I Underestimated the Red Shirts”
WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES – Bangkok Beckons With Grime, Grit & Many Opportunities
THE NATION – Sondhi to Lead PAD Party
EXAMINER – Travel: Thailand’s Remarkable No Matter Where You Go
BANGKOK POST – Who’s Paying for PAD’s Party?
XPRESS – The Truth About Transgenders
BBC – Thailand “Gets Tough” With Hmong
BANGKOK POST – The Six-Passports Man
BLOOMBERG – Thai Economy May Contract Most in a Decade, Entering Recession
NEW MANDALA – Suthichai Yoon on the State of Thai Journalism
THE NATION – Sondhi May Lead PAD Party
BANGKOK PUNDIT – PAD Supporters: Middle Class & Elite
THE NATION – Gloomy Outlook for Phuket Tourism

XPRESS – Thai Teens Hunt for Japanese Dads (what ’bout all the Thai kids with runaway Thai dads?)
! BANGKOK POST – Europe’s Lèse Majesté Laws & the Freedom of Expression
THE NATION – HM’s Words to Newly Promoted Generals
BANGKOK POST – Elite Officers Take Charge of Abhisit’s Security
TNA – Thai Exports Drop 26% in April
BLOOMBERG – Abhisit Confident Coalition Will Pass Budget
BLOOMBERG – Thailand Unexpectedly Holds Rates, Ending Series of Cuts
MY THAI FRIEND – Soapy Thai Massage From Lily Thai (you like gardening?)
BANGKOK POST – Buses, Politics & the Public Interest
! WSJ – Bangkok Building Boom: Trillion-Baht Infrastructure Binge Won’t Work
BANGKOK POST – Thai Post Editorial: Mafia in Military Uniform
NYT – Sriracha Sauce: A Chili Sauce to Crow About (via Newley)
NEWS IN BANGKOK – Abhisit’s Money Politics
THE NATION – Thaksin Gives Thais a Few Lessons in Geography

AP – Thais Put Off Alleged Arms Dealer’s Extradition (surprised?)
BANGKOK POST – Puea Thai’s Wrong Move (wrong move indeed?)
CITY WIRE – Country Risk Focus: Thaksin Still a Player in Troubled Thailand
BAHT&SOLD – Thailand’s Largest Ever Vehicle Auction
THE NATION – German Tourist Died of Pneumonia & Common Flu
THE NATION – Initial Test Shows Dead German Tourist Had H1N1
ABC – Aussie Tourist Jailed Over Souvenir Beer Mat
THE NATION – Puea Thai Scrambling for New Leader
BANGKOK POST – House Dissolution: Not Why, but When?
THE NATION – Container Saga: Rumors Abound, Truth Remains @ a Premium
THE NATION – Black May’s Black Boxes?
WA TODAY – Bangkok Feast Goes Ahead Despite Chef’s Protest
! BANGKOK POST – Summit Fiasco: Govt Bears the High Cost of Failure (blame the foreigners?)
BANGKOK POST – Reshuffle on Cards

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