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Thai PM appeals for calm

Intercultural Resources wrote 6 hours ago: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has appealed for calm as tension continued to mount over a c … more →

Tags: SOUTH EAST ASIA NEWS, Thailand, Bangkok, People's Alliance for Democracy, Yingluck Shinawatra, Democrat, Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand

Thailand's 'yellow shirts' block parliamentary debate

Intercultural Resources wrote 1 day ago: Protesters in Thailand have blocked parliament to postpone debate on a reconciliation bill designed … more →

Tags: SOUTH EAST ASIA NEWS, Thailand, Bangkok, People's Alliance for Democracy, Yingluck Shinawatra, Democrat, Thai Rak Thai Party, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra

More official nonsense on monarchy and lese majeste

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 3 days ago: During the period of the Abhisit Vejjajiva regime, it was reasonably common to see various Thai dipl … more →

Tags: Lese majeste, yellow shirts, Monarchy, abhisit vejjajiva regime, Royalists, Surachai Danwattananusorn, Ampol Tangnopakul, Yingluck Shinawatra, The King Never Smiles

Sombat: the Dubai tycoon has left us

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 6 days ago: PPT has had a busy time of late as we try to keep up with interesting news stories. Hence we are lat … more →

Tags: Red Shirts, Puea Thai party, Yingluck Shinawatra, Sombat Boonngamanong

Updated: Royal visit and the martial message

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 6 days ago: PPT concludes its series of posts on the hugely expensive and much hyped royal visit to Ayutthaya. A … more →

Tags: King, Monarchy, ultra-royalists, Yingluck Shinawatra, Prayuth Chan-ocha, Army, Royal Family, impunity

Yingluck’s 20 million baht polishing cloth

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 1 week ago: PPT momentarily missed a most significant story in the Bangkok Post that is related to two earlier p … more →

Tags: Monarchy, Yingluck Shinawatra, Jakrapob Penkair

Finkelstein's wacky world of football

Nathan wrote 1 week ago: I was going to write something last week about Manchester City’s late triumph and their winnin … more →

Tags: Football, Chelsea, Football League, Champions League, Man City, roman ambramovich

No settlement in sight for southern Thailand Islamic issues

iranaware1 wrote 1 week ago: PATTANI – Thailand‘s security forces have clearly been unable to gain an upper hand in t … more →

Tags: Islam, Thailand, Bangkok, Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin, Yingluck, Pheu Thai, Surayud Chulanont

Elite warned (all of them?)

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 1 week ago: At the Jakarta Globe, Nirmal Ghosh says that “Thailand’s red shirt movement is flexing its muscles a … more →

Tags: Red Shirts, Yingluck Shinawatra, Thida Tawornsate Tojirakarn, Nirmal Ghosh, Somsak Jeamteerasakul, Weng Tojirakarn

Success for Chelsea and Manchester City comes at a high price | Dave Boyle

haa912005 wrote 1 week ago: Football’s billionaire owners are part of the global elite only too keen to distract us from h … more →

Tags: Sport, Chelsea, Champions League, champions league 2011-12, Premier League, premier league 2011-12, Football, Manchester City, Russia

Ji on Thaksin’s political narcissism

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 1 week ago: Giles Ji Ungpakorn on Thaksin Shinawatra’s inability to distinguish himself  (me, me, me) from the b … more →

Tags: Red Shirts, Yingluck Shinawatra, Giles Ji Ungpakorn, republicanism

On the anniversary of Abhisit’s crackdown II

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 2 weeks ago: As the anniversary of the violent 2010 military crackdown against red shirts is observed, it is wort … more →

Tags: Democrat Party, Red Shirts, Prayuth Chan-ocha, South

On the anniversary of Abhisit’s crackdown I

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 2 weeks ago: As the anniversary of the Abhisit Vejjajiva regime’s army-led crackdown on red shirts draws closer, … more →

Tags: Red Shirts, abhisit vejjajiva regime, Department of Special Investigation, Robert Amsterdam, Tharit Pengdit, Fabio Polenghi

Putin's Wealth: No 'smoking gun' but some 'smoking watches'

scoronel wrote 2 weeks ago: Certificate showing that the wife of the Russian first deputy prime minister is the sole shareholder … more →

Tags: Asset tracing, corruption, Vladimir Putin, Patek Philippe, Blancpain, Joseph Estrada, Ivan Shuvalov

The terrain of lese majeste

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 2 weeks ago: It has been an emotional and (potentially) defining week in Thai politics, with the sad and unnecess … more →

Tags: Abhisit Vejjajiva, Democrat Party, Lese majeste, Monarchy, Royalists, Ampol Tangnopakul, Yingluck Shinawatra, Prayuth Chan-ocha, military

Challenging a supine Yingluck on lese majeste

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 3 weeks ago: A few days ago at The Nation, Pravit Rojanaphruk had an article that is part of a lese majeste chall … more →

Tags: Lese majeste, Red Shirts, Monarchy, Prem Tinsulanonda, Privy Council, Somyos Prueksakasemsuk, article 112, Surachai Danwattananusorn, Ampol Tangnopakul

Economist not distributed (again)

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 3 weeks ago: Under the horrid Abhisit Vejjajiva regime of royalist repression, several issues of the Economist we … more →

Tags: Lese majeste, Prem Tinsulanonda, Privy Council, Ampol Tangnopakul, the ECONOMIST

The royalist elite has lost

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 3 weeks ago: Thitinan Pongsudhirak has an op-ed at the Wall Street Journal that will get some attention, not leas … more →

Tags: Democrat Party, Lese majeste, Monarchy, Prem Tinsulanonda, Privy Council, Yingluck Shinawatra, Prayuth Chan-ocha, Army, Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Chamlong on Prem and Yingluck

Political prisoners of thailand wrote 3 weeks ago: If the meeting between Yingluck Shinawatra and three of her deputies has caused angst for red shirts … more →

Tags: Lese majeste, People's Alliance for Democracy, Prem Tinsulanonda, Privy Council, Puea Thai party, Yingluck Shinawatra, Chamlong Srimuang


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