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For Elusive National Reconciliation to Happen, Justice Must Have Been Seen to be Done…But Will it in Thaksin’s Case…?
Monday, November 21st, 2011
Bangkok
Opinion/Analysis
Burin Kantabutra
In Sunday’s recent Bangkok Post political opinion article by Voranai Vanijaka, ‘Trample on Democracy and it Will Trample on You,’ (Nov. 20) stating that if Thaksin returns now, is ‘taken into custody’ for a few minutes in Suvarnabhumi’s VIP lounge while toasting his return with the new Corrections...
For True Reconciliation, Justice Must Be Seen to Have Been Done?
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Bangkok
Opinion/Analysis
Burin Kantabutra
I have no problem with Thaksin returning- if done above board and if justice is seen to be done, and thus being in full accord with democracy. But Prime Minister Yingluck’s/Pheua Thai’s methods don’t meet either criterion. On transparency: First, his former brother-in-law (by ex-wife Pojamarn Na Pomberja, a Pheua...
Yingluck Resign…? Think Thrice….
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Bangkok
Opinion:
Burin Kantabutra
There are cries that Prime Minister Yingluck should resign because she’s proven completely inept over her management of the flooding crisis, as Japanese PM Naoto Kan did in the wake of the March 11th triple disaster from the earthquake, tsunami, and the nuclear reactor crisis…
Nobody should blame PM Yingluck for the rains themselves....
Welcome to Thailand….! Hmm,… It’s Not Love, Actually….(More Like Love- Hate)
Sarah Carter's Image Famously Linked to 'Mysterious' Deaths at DownTown Inn
Tuesday, Aug. 30th, 2011
Bangkok
For those of you wishing to visit LOSTIOS, aka the Land of (un)Smiling Thai Immigration Officers on Tourist Visas, you now need to jump through several additional hoops, courtesy of the same people who brought you the same tighter immigration policies every time the same leadership...
New Clashes Erupt Hours After Cease Fire Deal Amid Fresh Fighting on Thai Cambodian Border….
April 29th- 30th 2011
Surin / Prasat near the Thai- Cambodian border
Weekend Update:
… As the eighth straight day of conflicts ensued despite an earlier declared cease fire agreement that has soured hopes of a return to peaceful negotiations on the newly tense border standoff. So far reports estimate the number of people displaced in surrounding areas of both borders is now approaching 100,000....
The Lord of the 3 Ring Circus is Baaack ….Thaksin pushes his ‘Ying- luck’ ….
Apri 13th, 2011
Bangkok
While Thaksin is pushing for his younger sister Yingluck to be Puea Thai’s candidate for PM, and the first Thai woman Prime Minister, the former prime minister turned fugitive (for escaping a 2 year sentence for corruption) was concerned that some MPs, particularly those led by list MP Mingkwan Saengsuwan – another possibility for prime minister – might...
Thailand Heading For a Breakdown: Life on the Cutting Edge of a Fight (Part 2)
Friday June 18th, 2010
Bangkok / Southern Thailand
Can Thailand ever ‘win’ in the South? … What are they up against?
… Life on the cutting edge of a fight for their survival as an unsubjugated Mulim people willing to fight, kill and die for their ‘emancipation’ from what they viewed as brutal strong –arm tactics under Thaksin … While the government and Thai will...
Death Toll, Injuries Soar In the Face of Red Shirts’ Defiance, Army Operation Rajprasong Clashes
Monday May 17th, 2010
As Many as 35 to 40 People Dead, Over 270 Injured as Fighting, Anti –Government Red Shirts Intensify Resistance…
Thaksin & Others Call for International, U.N. Mediation
Updated: Over the Last Several Days…
At least 37 people reported killed and 266 injured since Thursday night: Erawan Emergency Medical Center
Fighting near the Rajprasong Red Shirts…
… bastion was...
Thaksin: The Reports of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
“I’m Not a Ghost”…. and Other Related News
In a series of well reported phone calls and interviews it appears Thaksin Shinawatra isn’t dead after all and the reports of his death were perhaps greatly exaggerated, to quote a famous line.
Recently, he joked with reporters both here (Naya Jaikawang), and abroad, (the Straits Times) and had also conducted...
Dr. Doolittle, CRES, Tradition and the Civil Court Speaks as Thai Crisis Drags On…. Schizophrenically
Sunday April 25th, 2010
Bangkok
Saturday turned to Sunday as the continuing political saga drags on in Bangkok, the pace at times resembles a’ Push me –Pull me’–a fantasy animal sort of creature popularized by Dr. Doolittle, which looked like a llama with heads on each end. It could go forward or backwards while appearing to head straight either way depending on which side was doing...
