Chris Beale could you possibly expand on the following remark (a similar observation I recall you making in a previous post) ‘His Royal Highness The Crown Prince – have (sic) a tremendously typically Thai sense of humour’?
First, what do you consider to be a ‘typically Thai sense of humour’? It’s a subject that could certainly do with some explication. And secondly, can you provide us with some instances of the prince exhibiting his indigenous Thai wit and/or comedic sense? BTW I ask these questions in all seriousness and look forward to reading your response. Many thanks in advance.
It is the existence and ruthless application of the Lese Majesté law that makes the “rumours” of murders by, or on behalf of the Thai royal family credible. History shows us that that is how dysfunctional families at the top of absolutist régimes typically behave.
Chris, there are two facts about Thailand’s lese majeste laws that make them unique in world history. The first is that the truth of a statement is irrelevant or possibly more damaging to the defendant. The other is that the Royals, who are allegedly being defamed, are not allowed to offer evidence, opinions or other forms of participation in the legal process. By doing that, they become enmeshed in politics. Only those with no legal standing in a case can file charges!
The one that shows brother and sister fighting while Dad cowers behind the couch may be a reference to the “incident” in the mid-1980s (or thereabouts) when the lad supposedly shot at his sister, killing her bodyguard. Dad was paralyzed, did not act, and people thought it represented Mama’s protective favoritism towards her son.
I’d rather have a country that is in its way of functionalizing democracy than a country that is not a democracy at all. Sir/Ma’am Vichai N, pardon me but there is such a thing as a country that is still a work in progress in functionalizing its democracy. Afterall, the Philippines is just a “young” nation in terms of historicity and we’re not trailblazers but merely joining the bandwagon of nations that have long practiced democracy.
Correct. This article is obviously and completely one-sided.The author also failed to establish comparison between Aquino and Marcos family on who’s better.
The Aquinos have the Hacienda (NOT Dona) Luisita killing, yes, that’s true. But the no. of extrajudicial killings and tortures and desaparacidos and political imprisonments committed during the Marcos regime dwarf the little dirt of the Aquinos. During Martial law I was a kid when my parents and our neighbors talk about the Marcoses’ ills at midnight to dawn–in hushed voices–for the fear that the military will pick them up and “salvage” them. The oppressed poor also has a voice but, of course, the elite who fought the Marcoses have the resources to be heard more and better.
Pwedeng paki-explain kung bakit ang buhay ng bawat pilipino ay hindi parin umuunlad ngayon DALAWA hindi lang ISA na AQUINO ang umupo sa pwesto ng pagkapangulo. Panay ang turo mo sa martial law pero parang nakalimutan mo na ang mga MASSACRES bakit hanggang ngayon wala parin hustisya diyan at kailan lang may panibagong massacre nanaman. Sabi ng lola mo ” My memory of the Marcos days were different. There was peace and order and our country was respected by others.” so sinungaling lola mo? family mo sinungaling? Have you ever asked why Martial Law is declared in the first place? Did you know during that time that there’s cold war on going at ang communismo ay laganap ng panahon na yon. Isabay mo pa na gusto ng mindanao na gusto maging isang state. Did you know that? Did you even know that before martial law that there are several attacks against the goverment?
1969-1970, naging talamak ang pangingidnap at pagpatay ng NPA
January 1970, Binomba ang Joint US Military Advisory Group Headquarters sa Quezon City
January 30 1970, may 50,000 mangagawa at mga estudyanteng aktibista (na naimpluwesyahan na ng ideolohiyang komunismo) ang lumusob sa malakanyang ,at sinunog ang ilang bahagi ng medical bldg. Gamit nila ang isang Fire truck na kanilang pilit na kinuha upang madaling makapasok.
October 1970, may mga kaso ng karahasan ang naitala sa ilang campus sa maynila. May pagsabog din ng mga pillboxes na naganap sa ilang paaralan.
December 1970, pinasabog ang dalawang Catholic school at dalawang government buildings sa Calbayog City .
December 11 1970, napatunayan sa Supreme Court na ang mga karahasang nagaganap sa bansa ay kagagawan ng mga Komunista na nais agawin ang pamamahala sa bansa.
December 29 1970, sinalakay ni NPA Commander na si Victor Corpuz ang Armoury ng PMA.
June 1971, binomba ang Constitutional convention hall
August 21 1971, binomba ang Plaza Miranda, ayon kay dating senador Jovito Salonga, Jun Alcover (dating NPA officer) at victor corpus( dating NPA commander), si JOMA SISON ang may pakana.
1971, May mga pinasabog na Oil firms sa maynila. Pinasabugan din ang main pipe ng NAWASA, Meralco substation sa Q.C, congress building, comelec building, Meralco main office premises sa ortigas at doctors pharmaceuticals inc building sa Caloocan.
February 1972, pinasabugan ang U.S embassy
March 1972, pinasabugan ang Greater Manila Terminal Food Market
March 15 1972 binomba ang Arca building
May 30 1972: binomba ang vietnamese embassy
April 23 1972 Binomba ang Filipinas Orient Airways board room sa Domestic Road, Pasay City
April 1972, pinasabugan ulit ang U.S embassy
June 23 1972, Binomba ang Court of Industrial Relations
June 24 1972, binomba ang Philippine Trust Company branch office sa Cubao, Quezon City
July 3 1972, binomba ang Philamlife building sa United Nations Avenue
July 18 1972 , bigong pagpapasabog sa kongreso
July 27 1972 binomba ang Tabacalera Cigar & Cigarette Factory Compound at Marquez de Comilas, Manila
July 1972 napigilan ng militar ang barko galing china “MV KARAGATAN” na magsusupply sana ng mga armas sa NPA na hiningi ni Joma Sison kay communist chairman mao tse tung.
August 15 1972 binomba ang PLDT exchange office sa East Avenue at ang Philippine Sugar Institute building sa North Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City
August 17 1972, binomba ang Department of Social Welfare building
August 19 1972, binomba ang water main sa Aurora Boulevard at Madison Avenue, Quezon City
August 30,1972, bigong pagpapasabog sa Department of foreign Affairs
August 30 1972, binomba ulit ang Philamlife building
September 5 1972, binomba ang Joe’s Department Store sa Carriedo
September 8 1972, binomba ang Manila city hall
September 12 1972, binomba ang watermains sa San Juan at Rizal
September 14 1972, Binomba ang San Miguel building sa Makati
September 18, 1972, Binomba ang Quezon City Hall
Clearly hindi mo sinama yan sa article mo. Bakit dalawang Aquino na ang umupo yet di parin nalalaman kung sino ang mastermind ng pagpatay kay Ninoy Aquino. Note ulit yung ASAWA at yung ANAK na ni Ninoy ang umupo pero sinisi parin kay Marcos. Siguro naman kayang malaman yun diba since malakas ang intel nila at sila ang pangulo ng pilipinas.O baka may nililihim lang? How about the EDSA people power ilang percent lang yun kumpura sa dami ng tao sa pilipinas yet napag desisyonan na si CORY ang uupo. Nasaan ang demokrasya dun kung duon palang hindi na pinagbigyan ng tao na mamili. Note housewife lang si Cory at that time and another note NASAAN si CORY DURING PEOPLE POWER? asa cebu ata noh? We kept relying on history books but how sure are we that the facts written on it are accurate? To answer your question ” How does a Filipino millennial remember an episode in this nation’s history that they did not witness? “UNLIKE YOUR GENERATION, WE DO NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE BLINDED BY WHAT MEDIA/REVISED TEXTBOOKS FEED US. WE AREN’T THAT GULLIBLE AS WHAT YOU THINK. Bruuhh did you even know the internet? where information is everywhere? Really? Do you even know what is google? Of course if we are not satisfied with the answer we can keep on researching. Unlike books that contains limited data. Lastly, kung si Marcos ay gutom sa kapangyarihan bakit di niya pinapatay nalang ang lahat ng threats sa kanya? Ngayong may kapangyarihan naman siya para manipulahin lahat? Bakit sa harap pa ng libo libong tao pa papatayin ang kaaway niya ngayon pwede naman palihim at sabihin nalang niya naaksidente o nalason o ewan? Pasikat lang? “ remember,There is always 3 sides to every story. Your side, their side and the TRUTH.” Mabuhay ang Pilipinas.
I think the “Thai elite” have managed to instrumentalize their contempt for ‘politicians’, in the more common sense of “people who compete for office in electoral systems of various kinds’, and have deployed it as an effective vaccine against democracy (in the sense of liberal-democracy) being able to infect the body politic. So they are highly unlikely to agree with your no doubt heartfelt insistence that they “need” to learn anything at all about what you prefer to believe the word “really” means in English.
My point is that in instrumentalizing that contempt they have successfully spread said contempt very widely throughout the populace, thus making it unlikely that many people who might in fact make halfways decent liberal legislators would deign to lower themselves to run for office.
But you’re right of course, RN. Those elites are really really bad people and if we just say it often enough in a wide enough variety of ways one day they will just disappear and we’ll be back in Kansas.
I’m clearly not the original poster, but I agree with him. I’m from a good family that did well enough, but I grew up around the slums and near enough to know that there are lots of poorly educated people.
Having seen both good and bad sides in person, I can conclude with certainty that unless a fair majority of voters are educated better, we’re bound to repeat this cycle.
The Thai elite need to learn what the word “politician” means. It means someone who determines government policy. The Thai military junta determine government policy, so they are the politicians now. Those members of the royal family who secretly influence government policy are politicians too.
Of course, when the elite refer contemptuously to “politicians”, they mean those elected by the Thai people. Their contempt for the Thai people’s elected representatives proceeds directly from their contempt for the Thai people themselves.
Jim#2 – that fatwa was proclaimed decades ago by General Sarit, when he struck his deal with Bumiphol. Ever since it has been Lese Majeste to publish, or in any other way circulate ANY pictures – no matter how innocent – of Thailands Royal Family, except official photos.
I once was lucky enough to witness a ceremony performed by Princess Vilyana, Bumiphol’s justifiably much revered elder sister. A plainclothes police man stood right next to me, watching like a hawk against me taking ANY picture despite my assurance to him that I would NOT in response to his first caution to me. I ‘ve always wondered since, what the good princess would really think of such absurd behaviour.
For a start, some of them can climb down off the high horse of Thai disdain for politicians and form a liberal party and run for office.
Almost 40% of Canadian parliamentarians are lawyers, teachers, academics and journalists by trade. Throw in the farmers and civil society operatives and you’re pushing half.
It’s a disease of a certain kind of liberal to want to concentrate on the big boilerplate issues like Free Speech when analyzing the problems of Thai governance.
You don’t have to be able to talk about the palace to point out that the lack of rule of law is the fundamental weakness of any and all attempts at establishing democratic governance in Thailand.
And when people suggest that Thais are ill-informed or, as Pravit Rojanaphruk loves to pontificate “less than fully human”, because of the lack of free speech in Thailand they are just revealing their “yellow” class bias.
The current problem is, as demonstrated by quite a few scholars, that if they try to publicly discuss the draft of the constitution they will have a free vacation for attitude adjustment. In other words, there is currently no free space even within a university for such a discussion.
Thanks to Mr Abbate as well as Ah Kp Gyi Moe Aung.
The former for breathlessly describing the progress through an albeit rose color glass the latter for being a quintessential Burmese elder approving, a common future from a some what different staring point.
Mr Abbate truly and obviously an on the ground observer (OTGO) deserve a personal gratitude for promoting an attitude that will make Myanmar not a lost cost but a future, due to the unique citizenry effort, that is worth every investment that every one put in.
This protagonist entreat is to continue as the OTGO of the rural 2/3 potential of the citizenry that will benefit the most from the infrastructure improvement, specifically roads and bridges. Everything will follow that will make Mr Abbate descriptions of presence progress seem so outdated.
Ah Ko Gyi Moe Aung the other shoe that WILL drop affecting the Myanmar citizenry especially the rural are disturbing. Continual attention from patriot like yourself, Ko Ohn, Nich and Mr Cohen will be warranted.
Zika virus is about to change the landscape to all aspects of Myanmar. We will need all patriots efforts to weather this coming epidemic that will change the M&M of infants and future of Myanmar beyond life and death.
It will make the agent orange effects in Vietnam trivial.
First of all they can help make it clearer that it must be legal to discuss this question if any good governance is to be achieved.
For example, nobody can read a constitution and understand its consequences. It must be debated. Right now there is one political party and a few students demanding this, and that’s about it.
Music to your ears, plan B? Great news for the citizenry, eh? Healthcare, education, infrastructure development improving in leaps and bounds? If only a growth in GDP always translates into that. We should be so lucky.
Oh, well. So easy to call your fellow Filipinos as inutil. Have you ever immersed yourself even for a day in those slum communities? Elitists who think like you are this nation’s gravest threat.
This is by far the dumbest, most arrogant point of view on this matter that I have ever encountered. I hope you cultivate in yourself some empathy for the poor. Bless you!
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Sticking it to the crown
Chris Beale could you possibly expand on the following remark (a similar observation I recall you making in a previous post) ‘His Royal Highness The Crown Prince – have (sic) a tremendously typically Thai sense of humour’?
First, what do you consider to be a ‘typically Thai sense of humour’? It’s a subject that could certainly do with some explication. And secondly, can you provide us with some instances of the prince exhibiting his indigenous Thai wit and/or comedic sense? BTW I ask these questions in all seriousness and look forward to reading your response. Many thanks in advance.
Sticking it to the crown
It is the existence and ruthless application of the Lese Majesté law that makes the “rumours” of murders by, or on behalf of the Thai royal family credible. History shows us that that is how dysfunctional families at the top of absolutist régimes typically behave.
Sticking it to the crown
Chris, there are two facts about Thailand’s lese majeste laws that make them unique in world history. The first is that the truth of a statement is irrelevant or possibly more damaging to the defendant. The other is that the Royals, who are allegedly being defamed, are not allowed to offer evidence, opinions or other forms of participation in the legal process. By doing that, they become enmeshed in politics. Only those with no legal standing in a case can file charges!
Sticking it to the crown
The one that shows brother and sister fighting while Dad cowers behind the couch may be a reference to the “incident” in the mid-1980s (or thereabouts) when the lad supposedly shot at his sister, killing her bodyguard. Dad was paralyzed, did not act, and people thought it represented Mama’s protective favoritism towards her son.
It takes a nation to raise a dictator’s son
I’d rather have a country that is in its way of functionalizing democracy than a country that is not a democracy at all. Sir/Ma’am Vichai N, pardon me but there is such a thing as a country that is still a work in progress in functionalizing its democracy. Afterall, the Philippines is just a “young” nation in terms of historicity and we’re not trailblazers but merely joining the bandwagon of nations that have long practiced democracy.
It takes a nation to raise a dictator’s son
Correct. This article is obviously and completely one-sided.The author also failed to establish comparison between Aquino and Marcos family on who’s better.
It takes a nation to raise a dictator’s son
The Aquinos have the Hacienda (NOT Dona) Luisita killing, yes, that’s true. But the no. of extrajudicial killings and tortures and desaparacidos and political imprisonments committed during the Marcos regime dwarf the little dirt of the Aquinos. During Martial law I was a kid when my parents and our neighbors talk about the Marcoses’ ills at midnight to dawn–in hushed voices–for the fear that the military will pick them up and “salvage” them. The oppressed poor also has a voice but, of course, the elite who fought the Marcoses have the resources to be heard more and better.
It takes a nation to raise a dictator’s son
Para sa author,
Pwedeng paki-explain kung bakit ang buhay ng bawat pilipino ay hindi parin umuunlad ngayon DALAWA hindi lang ISA na AQUINO ang umupo sa pwesto ng pagkapangulo. Panay ang turo mo sa martial law pero parang nakalimutan mo na ang mga MASSACRES bakit hanggang ngayon wala parin hustisya diyan at kailan lang may panibagong massacre nanaman. Sabi ng lola mo ” My memory of the Marcos days were different. There was peace and order and our country was respected by others.” so sinungaling lola mo? family mo sinungaling? Have you ever asked why Martial Law is declared in the first place? Did you know during that time that there’s cold war on going at ang communismo ay laganap ng panahon na yon. Isabay mo pa na gusto ng mindanao na gusto maging isang state. Did you know that? Did you even know that before martial law that there are several attacks against the goverment?
1969-1970, naging talamak ang pangingidnap at pagpatay ng NPA
January 1970, Binomba ang Joint US Military Advisory Group Headquarters sa Quezon City
January 30 1970, may 50,000 mangagawa at mga estudyanteng aktibista (na naimpluwesyahan na ng ideolohiyang komunismo) ang lumusob sa malakanyang ,at sinunog ang ilang bahagi ng medical bldg. Gamit nila ang isang Fire truck na kanilang pilit na kinuha upang madaling makapasok.
October 1970, may mga kaso ng karahasan ang naitala sa ilang campus sa maynila. May pagsabog din ng mga pillboxes na naganap sa ilang paaralan.
December 1970, pinasabog ang dalawang Catholic school at dalawang government buildings sa Calbayog City .
December 11 1970, napatunayan sa Supreme Court na ang mga karahasang nagaganap sa bansa ay kagagawan ng mga Komunista na nais agawin ang pamamahala sa bansa.
December 29 1970, sinalakay ni NPA Commander na si Victor Corpuz ang Armoury ng PMA.
June 1971, binomba ang Constitutional convention hall
August 21 1971, binomba ang Plaza Miranda, ayon kay dating senador Jovito Salonga, Jun Alcover (dating NPA officer) at victor corpus( dating NPA commander), si JOMA SISON ang may pakana.
1971, May mga pinasabog na Oil firms sa maynila. Pinasabugan din ang main pipe ng NAWASA, Meralco substation sa Q.C, congress building, comelec building, Meralco main office premises sa ortigas at doctors pharmaceuticals inc building sa Caloocan.
February 1972, pinasabugan ang U.S embassy
March 1972, pinasabugan ang Greater Manila Terminal Food Market
March 15 1972 binomba ang Arca building
May 30 1972: binomba ang vietnamese embassy
April 23 1972 Binomba ang Filipinas Orient Airways board room sa Domestic Road, Pasay City
April 1972, pinasabugan ulit ang U.S embassy
June 23 1972, Binomba ang Court of Industrial Relations
June 24 1972, binomba ang Philippine Trust Company branch office sa Cubao, Quezon City
July 3 1972, binomba ang Philamlife building sa United Nations Avenue
July 18 1972 , bigong pagpapasabog sa kongreso
July 27 1972 binomba ang Tabacalera Cigar & Cigarette Factory Compound at Marquez de Comilas, Manila
July 1972 napigilan ng militar ang barko galing china “MV KARAGATAN” na magsusupply sana ng mga armas sa NPA na hiningi ni Joma Sison kay communist chairman mao tse tung.
August 15 1972 binomba ang PLDT exchange office sa East Avenue at ang Philippine Sugar Institute building sa North Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City
August 17 1972, binomba ang Department of Social Welfare building
August 19 1972, binomba ang water main sa Aurora Boulevard at Madison Avenue, Quezon City
August 30,1972, bigong pagpapasabog sa Department of foreign Affairs
August 30 1972, binomba ulit ang Philamlife building
September 5 1972, binomba ang Joe’s Department Store sa Carriedo
September 8 1972, binomba ang Manila city hall
September 12 1972, binomba ang watermains sa San Juan at Rizal
September 14 1972, Binomba ang San Miguel building sa Makati
September 18, 1972, Binomba ang Quezon City Hall
Clearly hindi mo sinama yan sa article mo. Bakit dalawang Aquino na ang umupo yet di parin nalalaman kung sino ang mastermind ng pagpatay kay Ninoy Aquino. Note ulit yung ASAWA at yung ANAK na ni Ninoy ang umupo pero sinisi parin kay Marcos. Siguro naman kayang malaman yun diba since malakas ang intel nila at sila ang pangulo ng pilipinas.O baka may nililihim lang? How about the EDSA people power ilang percent lang yun kumpura sa dami ng tao sa pilipinas yet napag desisyonan na si CORY ang uupo. Nasaan ang demokrasya dun kung duon palang hindi na pinagbigyan ng tao na mamili. Note housewife lang si Cory at that time and another note NASAAN si CORY DURING PEOPLE POWER? asa cebu ata noh? We kept relying on history books but how sure are we that the facts written on it are accurate? To answer your question ” How does a Filipino millennial remember an episode in this nation’s history that they did not witness? “UNLIKE YOUR GENERATION, WE DO NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE BLINDED BY WHAT MEDIA/REVISED TEXTBOOKS FEED US. WE AREN’T THAT GULLIBLE AS WHAT YOU THINK. Bruuhh did you even know the internet? where information is everywhere? Really? Do you even know what is google? Of course if we are not satisfied with the answer we can keep on researching. Unlike books that contains limited data. Lastly, kung si Marcos ay gutom sa kapangyarihan bakit di niya pinapatay nalang ang lahat ng threats sa kanya? Ngayong may kapangyarihan naman siya para manipulahin lahat? Bakit sa harap pa ng libo libong tao pa papatayin ang kaaway niya ngayon pwede naman palihim at sabihin nalang niya naaksidente o nalason o ewan? Pasikat lang? “ remember,There is always 3 sides to every story. Your side, their side and the TRUTH.” Mabuhay ang Pilipinas.
Donald Trump is Thailand’s friend
I think the “Thai elite” have managed to instrumentalize their contempt for ‘politicians’, in the more common sense of “people who compete for office in electoral systems of various kinds’, and have deployed it as an effective vaccine against democracy (in the sense of liberal-democracy) being able to infect the body politic. So they are highly unlikely to agree with your no doubt heartfelt insistence that they “need” to learn anything at all about what you prefer to believe the word “really” means in English.
My point is that in instrumentalizing that contempt they have successfully spread said contempt very widely throughout the populace, thus making it unlikely that many people who might in fact make halfways decent liberal legislators would deign to lower themselves to run for office.
But you’re right of course, RN. Those elites are really really bad people and if we just say it often enough in a wide enough variety of ways one day they will just disappear and we’ll be back in Kansas.
Eat the Rich!
It takes a nation to raise a dictator’s son
I’m clearly not the original poster, but I agree with him. I’m from a good family that did well enough, but I grew up around the slums and near enough to know that there are lots of poorly educated people.
Having seen both good and bad sides in person, I can conclude with certainty that unless a fair majority of voters are educated better, we’re bound to repeat this cycle.
Donald Trump is Thailand’s friend
The Thai elite need to learn what the word “politician” means. It means someone who determines government policy. The Thai military junta determine government policy, so they are the politicians now. Those members of the royal family who secretly influence government policy are politicians too.
Of course, when the elite refer contemptuously to “politicians”, they mean those elected by the Thai people. Their contempt for the Thai people’s elected representatives proceeds directly from their contempt for the Thai people themselves.
Sticking it to the crown
Jim#2 – that fatwa was proclaimed decades ago by General Sarit, when he struck his deal with Bumiphol. Ever since it has been Lese Majeste to publish, or in any other way circulate ANY pictures – no matter how innocent – of Thailands Royal Family, except official photos.
I once was lucky enough to witness a ceremony performed by Princess Vilyana, Bumiphol’s justifiably much revered elder sister. A plainclothes police man stood right next to me, watching like a hawk against me taking ANY picture despite my assurance to him that I would NOT in response to his first caution to me. I ‘ve always wondered since, what the good princess would really think of such absurd behaviour.
Donald Trump is Thailand’s friend
For a start, some of them can climb down off the high horse of Thai disdain for politicians and form a liberal party and run for office.
Almost 40% of Canadian parliamentarians are lawyers, teachers, academics and journalists by trade. Throw in the farmers and civil society operatives and you’re pushing half.
It’s a disease of a certain kind of liberal to want to concentrate on the big boilerplate issues like Free Speech when analyzing the problems of Thai governance.
You don’t have to be able to talk about the palace to point out that the lack of rule of law is the fundamental weakness of any and all attempts at establishing democratic governance in Thailand.
And when people suggest that Thais are ill-informed or, as Pravit Rojanaphruk loves to pontificate “less than fully human”, because of the lack of free speech in Thailand they are just revealing their “yellow” class bias.
Donald Trump is Thailand’s friend
The current problem is, as demonstrated by quite a few scholars, that if they try to publicly discuss the draft of the constitution they will have a free vacation for attitude adjustment. In other words, there is currently no free space even within a university for such a discussion.
Myanmar: an economy ready for takeoff
Thanks to Mr Abbate as well as Ah Kp Gyi Moe Aung.
The former for breathlessly describing the progress through an albeit rose color glass the latter for being a quintessential Burmese elder approving, a common future from a some what different staring point.
Mr Abbate truly and obviously an on the ground observer (OTGO) deserve a personal gratitude for promoting an attitude that will make Myanmar not a lost cost but a future, due to the unique citizenry effort, that is worth every investment that every one put in.
This protagonist entreat is to continue as the OTGO of the rural 2/3 potential of the citizenry that will benefit the most from the infrastructure improvement, specifically roads and bridges. Everything will follow that will make Mr Abbate descriptions of presence progress seem so outdated.
Ah Ko Gyi Moe Aung the other shoe that WILL drop affecting the Myanmar citizenry especially the rural are disturbing. Continual attention from patriot like yourself, Ko Ohn, Nich and Mr Cohen will be warranted.
Zika virus is about to change the landscape to all aspects of Myanmar. We will need all patriots efforts to weather this coming epidemic that will change the M&M of infants and future of Myanmar beyond life and death.
It will make the agent orange effects in Vietnam trivial.
Donald Trump is Thailand’s friend
First of all they can help make it clearer that it must be legal to discuss this question if any good governance is to be achieved.
For example, nobody can read a constitution and understand its consequences. It must be debated. Right now there is one political party and a few students demanding this, and that’s about it.
Myanmar: an economy ready for takeoff
Music to your ears, plan B? Great news for the citizenry, eh? Healthcare, education, infrastructure development improving in leaps and bounds? If only a growth in GDP always translates into that. We should be so lucky.
Sticking it to the crown
The one in which Mama is swooning over a tennis player appears to be a reference to her affair with the murdered Narongdej.
It takes a nation to raise a dictator’s son
Oh, well. So easy to call your fellow Filipinos as inutil. Have you ever immersed yourself even for a day in those slum communities? Elitists who think like you are this nation’s gravest threat.
It takes a nation to raise a dictator’s son
This is by far the dumbest, most arrogant point of view on this matter that I have ever encountered. I hope you cultivate in yourself some empathy for the poor. Bless you!