BKK News Feed Archive Q2/10/I

BKK News Feed for Week 19 in 2010, May 10th – May 16th:

NYT – Thai Officials & Protesters Fail to Agree on Talks (“Nattawut … offered to withdraw militant fighters from the streets”)
REUTERS – Thai Troops Battle Defiant Protesters as Crisis Deepens
! GLOBE & MAIL – Interview With Thaksin’s Lawer: Defending a Controversial Figure Against “the People With Bayonets”
TAN – Countdown to Endgame
CSM – Thailand King & I: Why the Protests in Bangkok Put a Spotlight on the Monarchy
TIME – Photo Report: Showdown on the Streets of Bangkok
BANGKOK POST – Who Hit Seh Daeng?
CNN – Battle Zone Bangkok, Foreign Journalist Shot (video)
ASIA TIMES – Bullets Shatter Fragile Thai Peace
! ANDREW MARSHALL – Bangkok Safety Tips
GUARDIAN – Thailand’s Unrest May Unsettle Region
AL JAZEERA – Deadly Clashes Erupt in Bangkok
BANGKOK POST – Thaksin Calls for Peace Talks

REUTERS – Thai Troops Advance on Red Shirt Protest Checkpoint
CNN – Thai Army Says It Did not Shoot Protest Leader
BANGKOK POST – Veera Leaves Red Shirts (read the comments)
BANGKOK POST – Seh Daeng Before Being Shot: “Snipers Will Never Get Me”
ECONOMIST – Thaksin’s Harvest, Thailand’s Northeast
NYT – Thomas Fuller’s Full Report: Rogue General Shot During Interview With NYT/IHT
BANGKOK POST – Jatuporn: Reds Will Fight to the End
BLOOMBERG – Thai Renegade General Shot as Army Begins Siege of Protest Area
CSM – Thai General Shot While Aiding Red Shirt Protesters
CNN – Seh Daeng Video Right After Being Shot
VOA – (Radical) Thai General Aligned With Red Shirts Shot

CNN – Thailand Sets Exit Deadline for Protesters
BBC – Deadline Looms for Thai Red Shirts
BANGKOK POST – Army to Seal Off Rally Site
AP – Bangkok Protests Devastate Shopping Paradise
THE NATION – Noose Tightening
NYT – Bangkok Protest Leaders Appear Divided
CNN – Thailand Delays Cutting Off Protesters
BANGKOK POST – Residents Fume @ Rachaprasong Utilities Cut Plan
ASIA TIMES – Thai Power Grows From the Barrel of a Gun
! BANGKOK POST – Triumph of the Shrill, Rhetoric of the Reds (“worst are the thaksin clones”)
BANGKOK POST – Kasit: “We Are not a Failed State”

THE NATION – Banned Politician: Foreign Mediator Should Broker Peace
TAN – Minister Believes Rally to End Today
BANGKOK POST – Rally Area Being Isolated (read the comments
BBC – Abhisit Gives Reds “Final Ultimatum”; to Cut Water, Electricity, Food Supply, Access
BANGKOK POST – PM: Rally Must End Today
THE NATION – PM to Red Shirts: Leave Today
REUTERS – Will the Stalemate Continue in Thailand?
CNNGO – Thais Among the World’s Friendliest People (an overdue bit of good news!)
CSM – For Some, Thailand’s Red Shirt Protests Amplify Calls for Justice
THE NATION – Time the Red Leaders Bit the Bullet
BANGKOK POST – Rally to End When Suthep Charged

BBC – Thailand Awaits Red Shirts’ Roadmap Response
! KHI KWAI – The End of the Beginning
BANGKOK POST – PM’s Monday Ultimatum
THE NATION – Govt: No Bail Deal
THE NATION – U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Meets Red Key Protesters
JAKARTA GLOBE – Thailand’s Multiple Revolts
BANGKOK POST – UDD now a “Red Tiger” Thaksin Can no Longer Ride (he can, don’t worry, he will)
MUST READ: ASIA TIMES – Why Thailand’s Reds Beat a Retreat
REUTERS – Violence Raises Tensions as Thai Protests Drag On
BBC – Bangkok Double Attack Targets Policemen
BANGKOK POST – Seh Daeng Faces Dismissal (wanna see that)

BKK News Feed for Week 18 in 2010, May 03rd – May 09th:

REUTERS – Wrangling as Thai Protesters Refuse to Quit
! ANDREW DRUMMOND – The Reds Are Right. If not You Can Kiss My Welsh Arse (lovely read)
TIME – A Royal Dilemma
WSJ – Thai Protests Will Leave Deep Scars
NEWSWEEK – Roots of the Thai Conflict: It’s not Just Red & Yellow
THE NATION – Not too Many Alternatives to the Roadmap
BANGKOK POST – UDD Must End Protest @ Once
REUTERS – Thai Protesters Subdued as Political Limbo Drags On
! BANGKOK POST – Web Block Adds Controversies to Laws
! TIME – “Statesman” Abhisit Gains Upper Hand in Protest Crisis
BANGKOK POST – PAD Slams Roadmap

BANGKOK POST – PM’S Roadmap Allows Both Sides a Measure of Victory
REUTERS – Scenarios: How Will Thai Crisis Pan Out After Peace Moves?
THE NATION – Abhisit’s Dilemma: Pacify Your Foes, Offend Your Friends
THAILAND LAND OF SMILES – Sex in Thailand’s Universities
AP – Politics Cast Aside, Thais Honor Their Ailing King
THE NATION – How to Avoid a Politically-Induced Mental Breakdown
! WSJ – Bangkok Faces Risks in November Vote Offer
TIMES – Red Shirts to Stay Until Deal Hammered Out
THE NATION – Thanong: The Great Pretender (no more love for abhisit?)
BANGKOK POST – Army Forced PM’s Hand (is that so?)
REUTERS – Thai Protest Leaders Object to Election Timing

VOA – Thailand’s Uneven Democratic History Continues
BANGKOK POST – Red Shirts (Conditionally) Accept PM’s Reconciliation Roadmap
THE NATION – Thaksin Says Timing Good for Reconciliation
THE NATION – Last Chance for Peace
TIMES – Election Offer May End Red Shirt Deadlock
THE NATION – PM Announces Roadmap, Sets Election on Nov 14
! BANGKOK POST – The Seedy Side of Bangkok’s Love Motels
BANGKOK POST – Armored Cars on the Way
BLOOMBERG – Abhisit Works on Political Roadmap to End Thailand Protests
CNBC – Relaxed Abhisit Interview
CNNGO – Chulapost: Reminding Us Why We Love Bangkok

BBC – Thai PM Promises “Roadmap” to Solve Protests
NEW MANDALA – Thongchai Winichakul on the Red Germs
NOT THE NATION – Red Shirts Purge Weng for Wearing Glasses
THE NATION – With Red Shirts on Back Foot, Thaksin Is Back
NYT – Message Battle Heats Up in Thai Crisis
BANGKOK POST – PM Hatches Reconciliation Plan
BANGKOK POST – Where Lies the Truth Amid the Mendacity?
EMERGING MARKETS – Thaksin Interview: Maybe He’ll Be Back This Year
AL JAZEERA – PM Warns Thai Reds Face “Losses”
AP – Abhisit: No Plan for Martial Law (that’s anyway not up to him to decide)
BANGKOK POST – Voranai: Abhisit, Time to Be a Man

BKK News Feed for Week 17 in 2010, April 26th – May 02nd:

BANGKOK POST – The Red Homeless Aussie Military Veteran on the Red Stage
THE NATION – ICG Warns Thailand’s Political System Has Broken Down
BANGKOK POST – The State of Being Color Blind
AFP – Thai Man Arrested for Facebook Post About Monarchy
REUTERS – Thai Hospital Near Red Protest Site Evacuates Patients
ECONOMIST – Head to Head in Bangkok (read the comments)
GLOBAL VOICES – Thailand: Online Censorship Amid Protests (via BP/AC)
TIMES RECORD – Peace or War in Thailand?
BANGKOK POST – Police Frustrate PM
THE NATION – Reds Storm Hospital
CSM – Can Foreign Mediators Defuse Thailand’s Red Shirt Protests?
BANGKOK POST – Wanted M79 Cop Arrested

MERCED SUN-STAR – For Lessons in Democracy, Thailand Should Look @ Its Neighbors
AP – Yellows Return to Thailand’s Color-Coded Protests
BANGKOK POST – Expert: Wear Reds Down
BANGKOK POST – Red Shirts’ Demonstration of Defiance Fails
BANGKOK PUNDIT/AC – Reds Have Outgrown Thaksin (wishful?)
BANGKOK POST – Rally Site Isolated
ASIA TIMES – Sukhumbhand, Revelations of a Thai Crisis Mediator
THAIVISA/AFP – One Dead, Ten Injured in Thai Protest Clashes
TIMES – Red Mist: Speedy Elections Could Rescue Thailand From Mob Politics & Civil War (comments give a different picture)
REUTERS – Scenarios: How Is Thailand’s Crisis Likely to Play Out?
REUTERS – Who Are Thailand’s Mysterious Black-Clad Gunmen?
BANGKOK POST – Seh Daeng to Lead the Battle

REUTERS – Photo Essay: Life Inside “Red” Bangkok
ETN – Tourism Veteran Expresses His Indignation With Events in Thailand
CNN – Video Interview: Thai PM Seeks Political Solution to Opposition Standoff
BANGKOK PUNDIT/AC – Conspiracy to Overthrow the Monarchy
BANGKOK POST – PAD Backs Off
TELEGRAPH – Thai King Speaks for First Time Since Protests Began (a clear message for all)
NTN – Thaksin Denounces Govt Media Censorship as “Amateurish” (oh so true again)
TEAKDOOR – Been Staying Inside the Red Barricades the Past Week (quite a read)
TNA – Yellow Shirts Won’t Rally; Call for Martial Law to End Protests
BANGKOK POST – Thaksin Denies He’s Dead (sounds like NTN)
BANGKOK POST – Not the Same Silom Anymore
BLOOMBERG – Thai Premier Calls for Inclusive Talks, Rejects Intimidation

BKK News Feed for Week 16 in 2010, April 19th – 25th:

WP/AP – No Exit Seen From Thailand’s Very Un-Thai Crisis
NYT – Thai Prime Minister Stands His Grounds
MUST READ: JAPAN TIMES – Romanticizing the Red Shirts
GLOBAL POST – Is Thailand Headed for Civil War?
ORIENT EXPAT – I’m Tired of Living in Thailand
MONGERSEA – Red Vs. Yellow = More Pink
CNN – Thai PM: “I Did not Expect Protesters to Use Weapons”
ASIA TIMES – Fortress Bangkok Targets Business
BBC – Thai PM Warns Protesters
BANGKOK POST – Voranai: Thaksin, Where Are You?
BANGKOK POST – Investigative Report: Dark Influences, Those Men in Black
BBC – Why Red Shirts Have so Much Staying Power

DAILY TELEGRAPH – Thailand Close to Civil War
ABC NEWS – Thai PM Rejects Red Shirts’ Compromise
TAN – True Voice of Isaan People
REUTERS – Thai Govt Considers Red Shirts Compromise
BANGKOK POST – This Has Gone too Far
NYT/AP – Guarded Hope Rises for Peaceful End to Thai Crisis
XINHUA – Military Top Brass: Thailand’s Tensions Expected to Ease Soon
BBC – Red Shirts Offer Conditional Talks With Govt
! ECONOMIST – Bloody Shirts in the City of Angels (via BP)
BBC – Riot Police Face Thai Protesters After Violent Night
THE STAR – Bizarre Mayhem in Thailand
BANGKOK POST – Suranand: No Other Option but a Deal to End Conflict

BANGKOK POST – Danger of Civil War
THE NATION – Terror Strike
THAIVISA/THE NATION – Thanong: A Simple Guide to Anarchy & Chaos
BBC – Deadly Blasts Hit Silom Protest
CNN – Tense Standoff Continues in Thailand
SIN CHEW/AFP – Thailand Postpones Decision on Yellow Shirt Prosecution
BANGKOK POST – Reds Ask for U.N. Intervention
STRAITS TIMES – Blog: Flashpoint Silom
REUTERS – Red Shirts Open to Talks to Avoid Crackdown
REUTERS – Spokesman: Thai PM Open to Talks With Red Shirts
JOHN BERNS – The Thai “Shirt” Problem & Why Elections Won’t Solve It
NOT THE NATION – Soliders on Patpong Distracted by Shirtless Movement

NYT – For Former Thai Premier, Exile but not Irrelevance
AP – Hotels in Bangkok Sending Tourists Packing
TAN – Silom Vendors Support Harsh Anti-Protest Measure
THE NATION – Stephen Young: Gini Coefficient
! WSJ – Lèse Majesté: Breaking a Thai Taboo
NYT – Whiff of Rebellion Spreads in Thai Hinterland
FACEBOOK/THE NATION – Thanong Talks
ASIA TIMES – Dissolution Threat Compounds Thai Crisis
BBC – Thai Army “Will Use Live Rounds”
BANGKOK POST – Thaksin Slams “President” Posters
DAYLIFE – Reds’ Bamboo Forest (photos)
TAN – Protesters @ Standstill as Military Beef Up Presence

NYT – Month of Unrest Hits Thai Economy
BANGKOK POST – No Room for Intimidation
THE NATION – Soldiers Welcomed on Silom (propaganda?)
THE NATION – Silom March Cancelled, Reds to Defend Rajprasong
TAN – Korea Criticizes Thaksin as Root of Thai Problems
CNN – Rural Poor Determined to Paint Thailand Red (with video)
REUTERS – Thaksin Urges Snap Poll to End Thai Crisis
THE NATION – Seh Daeng’s Priceless English Interview
CFR – Unrest in Thailand (audio)
ASIA SENTINEL – Thailand’s Thin Blue Line Starts to Disintegrate
BBC – Thai Army Moves Into Bangkok Business District
NYT – Govt of Thailand Is Promised Support (“red shirts are quite aggressive”)

BKK News Feed for Week 15 in 2010, April 12th – 18th:

BANGKOK POST – From the Chaos May Emerge a New Thai Identity
THE NATION – Top Army, Navy Units Readied for Reds’ Dispersal
WP – Stopping Thailand’s Endless Battle of the Yellow & Red Shirts
FACEBOOK – “No Dissolution of Parliament” Group
JAKARTA GLOBE – Time for the People, not Their King or Military, to Guide Thailand’s Destiny
BANGKOK POST – Yellows May Show Up in 15 Days
! NEW AMERICA MEDIA – Thailand’s Elites Resist Democracy
TIME – Thailand Tourism Devastated by Political Unrest
BANGKOK POST – Govt Moves to Block New March
BANGKOK POST – Voranai: The Two Thailands
SMH – Focus on Thaksin as Protest Paymaster
REUTERS – Thai Protesters Boost Security @ Bangkok Base

MUST READ: ASIA TIMES – Thailand Mulls a Half Coup
REUTERS – Thai PM Gives Army Extended Powers
BANGKOK POST – Aussie Documentary on Thai Royals Sparks Outrage
GLOBE & MAIL – Thai Protesters’ True Colors
CNN – Red Leaders Escape (with video)
BANGKOK POST – Hotel Raid Bungled
TIME – Thailand’s Broken Democracy
BENZINGA – Stocks: Political Uprising Has Turned Thailand Into Buying Opportunity
ASIA SENTINEL – Thailand’s Uncertain New Political Equation (what if the reds take over?)
BBC – Thai Protesters Settle Into City Center
BANGKOK POST – Red Shirts Consolidate Forces Where Govt Cannot Crack Down
CNNGO – Bangkok Luxury Malls Brace for Final “Final Showdown”

CFR – Reform, not Revolution, for Thailand
BANGKOK POST – The Hunt for Red Assasins
EPOCH TIMES – Thai Democracy Threatened by Organized Subversion
ASIA SENTINEL – Thailand’s Chaos: No Way Out
NYT – Govt Distances Itself From Thai Monarchy Comments
REUTERS – Citizen Thaksin to Boost Montenegrin Economy
BANGKOK POST – On the Fast Track to Becoming a Failed State
ASIA TIMES – The Anatomy of a Thai Protest
NOT THE NATION – Southern Insurgents Place Bomb on Bomb
THE NATION – “Strategic Move” by Red Shirts
BANGKOK POST – Palette of Political Anarchy Has Only One Color
WSJ – Pasuk: Thailand Runs Out of Room for Compromise

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April 1, 2010 | Filed Under NEWS ARCHIVE 

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3 Responses to “BKK News Feed Archive Q2/10/I”

  1. MongerSEA on April 26th, 2010 12:10 pm

    Thank you for taking the MongerSEA feed. But might a correction be requested? The spelling for the site and title of the feed is “MongerSEA”; all one word, capitalizations as given.

    (BD: It’s all capital letters in the News Feed I’m afraid.)

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  2. yokkie on May 6th, 2010 5:19 pm

    Think this TIME Magazine article by Robert Horn should be added to this week’s News Feed. The article calls Abhisit a “statesman” in this conflict.

    http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1987118,00.html

    (BD: Thanks, done.)

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  3. Surie on May 20th, 2010 7:38 pm

    I would like to recommend the following article for your newsfeed as an alternative reading for Andrew Walker’s “Thailand’s farmer has stood up”.

    The article is written by Duncan McCargo, a well-known expert on Thailand:

    http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Bangkok+battles+rehearsal+civil/3050637/story.html

    Here are some of the key points he makes:

    “This has been portrayed as a struggle between poor farmers from the countryside and an undemocratic Bangkok elite. Yet despite the sympathetic coverage for the Redshirts in much of the international media, this is not a classic “pro-democracy” struggle between good guys and bad guys. It is a savage and dispiriting civil conflict, from which nobody emerges with much credit.”

    “At the election in December 2007, the ruling Democrat Party took 39.63 per cent of the party list vote – almost exactly the same as the 39.6 per cent of the People’s Power Party, from which the Redshirts are largely drawn. Neither side has had a monopoly on popular support; both have some valid arguments and positions; and neither has been playing by the rules.”

    “The central problem is that Thailand is torn between two rival camps, each led and directed by rich and powerful factions. Though ostensibly divided by ideological differences, the anti-government Redshirts and the pro-government Yellowshirts are best characterized as competing patronage networks, bound together primarily by personal loyalties and emotional attachments. Supporters on both sides have been mobilized by intermediaries playing on local and family ties.”

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