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		<title>The Top 10 Things To Do In Bangkok</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Top 10 list of things to do for first time travellers to Bangkok. I have tried to cover just the most popular, however just being in Bangkok is an experience on it&#8217;s own, and you will know this the from the moment that you arrive at the airport. Top Ten Things to Do in <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/the-top-10-things-to-do-in-bangkok/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/the-top-10-things-to-do-in-bangkok/' addthis:title='The Top 10 Things To Do In Bangkok ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Yingluck Shinawatra Thailands First Woman!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ending all puzzles, predictions, calculations, and perhaps fears in at least some quarters, the Thai People have elected their first woman Prime Minister. Welcome to Yingluck Shinawatra. The Prime Minister to be, in her own words has admitted that this victory can be just the beginning and lot needs to be done for the Thai <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/yingluck-shinawatra-thailands-first-woman/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/yingluck-shinawatra-thailands-first-woman/' addthis:title='Yingluck Shinawatra Thailands First Woman! ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Carpetbaggers Or Else!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a terrifying sight, once respected minds voicing support for mayhem and death &#8211; for rather selective, hardly sane reasons. The leaders of the red shirts were successful at inciting hatred and violence in society, but not that the red cause lost support. The reds are dead. Long live the reds. Now even the &#8220;real <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/carpetbaggers-or-else/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/carpetbaggers-or-else/' addthis:title='Carpetbaggers Or Else!!! ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Bangkok&#8217;s 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The events of the passed few weeks, days and hours will be burned deeply into Bangkok&#8217;s psyche. Our Bangkok will be back. Not tomorrow, not next week &#8211; and any other attempt to hold a colored mass protest masqueraded as peaceful will ring alarm bells. Warning, graphic, this is what happened on May 19th, 2010. <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/bangkoks-911/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/bangkoks-911/' addthis:title='Bangkok&#8217;s 9/11 ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Stockholm Syndrome &amp; Kraisak Choonhavan&#8217;s Letter To ACHR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most amazing observations these days is the hardening of hearts and minds. Have to find yet a red shirt supporter or an opponent of the red shirts who changed to the other camp. Yes, there was a coup once, but we were way beyond that. And no, Thaksin is absolutely not out <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/the-stockholm-syndrome-kraisak-choonhavans-letter-to-achr/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/the-stockholm-syndrome-kraisak-choonhavans-letter-to-achr/' addthis:title='The Stockholm Syndrome &#38; Kraisak Choonhavan&#8217;s Letter To ACHR ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the best of possible outcomes to avert further mayhem. It&#8217;s no guarantee against further mayhem, but no side can claim victory and no side can pretend total defeat after the Thai Supreme Court&#8217;s handing down of a partial seizure of fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra&#8217;s frozen 76 billion baht. The state gets 46 billion plus plus, <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/golden-verdict/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/golden-verdict/' addthis:title='Golden Verdict ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten Commandments Of Thai Politicians</title>
		<link>http://absolutelybangkok.com/the-ten-commandments-of-thai-politicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://absolutelybangkok.com/?p=7342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I rarely do this, but this &#8220;field manual&#8221; for Thai politicians written by Prophessor Stephen B. Young for The Nation is worth to be mirrored in full. You may remember The Nation&#8217;s telling interview back in September last year with the man. Young introduces his helpful rules for Thai politicians with this: &#8220;Having tasted of <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/the-ten-commandments-of-thai-politicians/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/the-ten-commandments-of-thai-politicians/' addthis:title='The Ten Commandments Of Thai Politicians ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Making Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thai people attend a religious floral offering Saturday, January 9th, 2010, during a religious ceremony at an old military prison, known as Tuk Din, in Bangkok, Thailand.&#8221; &#8220;The prison believed to be haunted with the spirits of the dead, is being demolished to make way for several 20 story apartment blocks for senior military officials. <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/making-way/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/making-way/' addthis:title='Making Way ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Nostitz: Photographer, Documentarian, Communicator</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s the &#8220;most Thai foreigner&#8221; I know. After years of work in the twilight of Bangkokian nights and his recent front line coverage of Thailand&#8217;s political conflict he has become something of a celebrity around here. Thai Politicians of all sides and the top brass know him. He recently published Red vs. Yellow: Thailand&#8217;s Crisis <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/nick-nostitz-photographer-documentarian-communicator/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/nick-nostitz-photographer-documentarian-communicator/' addthis:title='Nick Nostitz: Photographer, Documentarian, Communicator ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Siam, Cradle Of Humankind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bangkok Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, this topic has been briefly touched upon by readers&#8217; comments in the earlier post Earful of Nonsense. Main question arising was &#8211; this being Siam &#8211; how to gauge the intellect of a people. Now we have proof. Siam is the cradle of humankind. Forget the Romans, forget the Greeks, <br /> <a href="http://absolutelybangkok.com/siam-cradle-of-humankind/">Read more...</a><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://absolutelybangkok.com/siam-cradle-of-humankind/' addthis:title='Siam, Cradle Of Humankind ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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