Archive for the 'The Thai Mind' Category
Yingluck Shinawatra Thailands First Woman!
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
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Is Sex Tourism Bad For Bangkok?
If you have 53 minutes to spare, dedicate them to this episode of BBC World Have Your Say: Is Sex Tourism Bad For Bangkok? The topic has been talked to death, but even so the moderator and guests make these some worthwhile 53 minutes. Guest insiders are the Bangkok Post’s columnist Khun Voranai who has
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From Million Man To Billion Baht March
Do the math, and it doesn’t look good for either the government and the opposition with the red “class war” exposed as a “cash war.” Authorities claim Thaksin kin transferred the astronomical amount of some 15 billion baht to the red movement within a few days after April 28th, along with the real escalation of
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Marc Faber On Thaksin’s “Getting Hold Of The Money Pot”
Investment guru Marc Faber needs no introduction. He predicted the Japan bust and saw the gold boom arrive in time. Marc’s a regular on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and the likes. Faber has a reputation for being a contrarian investor and has been called “Doctor Doom” for a number of years. His Gloom Boom & Doom Report
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The Thaksin Cancer & Boycott
The final days of the red mayhem have shown the red revolution was not about the people it claimed to fight for. It was about the very narrow interests of a small group of already privileged people hijacking the downtrodden, hopeful and innocent. But a struggle armed to the teeth and not negotiating in good
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God Vs. Ghost
You’re well aware of the dark daylight and bright nights here in the land of illusion and camouflage. If you’re into the twilight world of protective tattoos and amulets, you know why Central World’s Zen burned down and Isetan survives without a scratch. Ratchaprasong is powerfully protected by seven deities and their shrines. In front
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Bangkok’s 9/11
The events of the passed few weeks, days and hours will be burned deeply into Bangkok’s psyche. Our Bangkok will be back. Not tomorrow, not next week – 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.
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Thailand: A Chinese Colony?
So what about that Thai identity. The kingdom has so far been spared the racial chasm that openly split Indonesia and still today Malaysia. Are ethnic Chinese the shadowy masters of Thais? Name a leader here. They’re all of Chinese descent. Except, yes. There is no Singapore without them. But what would Thailand today be
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Dr. Weng Talks: No Thaksin Protector?
Well am not really a fan of the current red tactics, no, there isn’t any real strategy for any betterment. What looks red could easily be yellow – hey both want democracy with the king as the head of state. But that doesn’t mean that one has to concrete-caste one’s head. So I took a
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The Unbearable Lightness Of Civil War
Considered myself to be in the middle, neither pro anyone nor against any party. But since that FCCT presser with the red shirts’ Khun Jaran speaking casually about the possibility of civil war I had to take a side. Made a turn, albeit reluctantly. Today’s headlines are dominated by the gloom and doom of a
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