Silly idea. The Crown Prince is thought to owe money to the Great Demon, who got him out of scraps. He’s not really respected. And your idea of what he’d say to each is so ‘falang’. Do you even live in T? Or are you totally in Aust….. Silly idea… Prathep perhaps … she would have immediate respect from many directions.. Parachinee will not do anything without HM The King.. You got to know T. They will work it out.
Plausible scenario. One of the ways for the institution to stays very much involved in Thai society. Let the Thais show the world how harmonious we are.
Not likely to happen. There are huge signals. A lot of Queen’s courtiers are publicly supporting the rally! The tone of the rally support is even shown in the Queen sponsored Khon performance. Dream on…
How the fact that Suthep’s son Ekanat Phrompan is also Niphon Phrompan’s nephew come into play with this?
Ekanat is one of the 9 Dem. MPs who resign to become mob leaders and he plays the spokeperson role especially to the foreign media (he has an Oxford pedigree)
Niphon is of course the strongest candidate for head of privy councillor for Rama X, replacing Prem, if Vajiralongkorn were to become one, that is.
Oh come on Andrew. Can’t believe you would actually print something like this:
“There’s no doubt – if there ever was in the first place – that the Democrat Party’s fascistic anti-democratic politics are now being explicitly proclaimed.”
So a few technical school thugs means that the entire movement is some sort of hidden fascist uprising in the works? I’m sure you’ll recall many yellow shirts beaten during the red shirt protest, Nick himself covering one as part of a New Mandala post.
At least pretend to have some semblence of objectivity.
Nobody attacked him .i stood in thailand at the same time and i only see that nobody from the demonstrants had violence to him.they only give them to the police and demonstrants ordered the police to take care for him.this is the reality.
Jonathan Head today was making jokes about how funny it would be to see a mob of Thai Airways staff storm another ministry. What a hoot it is for him, eh?
And what makes you think I subscribe to “hard left dogma”? Or did you just guess? And even if I did (which I don’t) why would that make me or anyone else inherently wrong?
Are you claiming opposition to democracy is a legitimate grievance?
Yes I’m sure not all the protesters are hardcore fascists – they just support the ones who are.
Hope to see a new education system that can ‘reinvigorate our society’ soon.
Strictly secular education is the only and best option for our homeland, and should be compulsory for every child irrespective of their religious faith. However, there should be some space for religious education as it is a significant part of pragmatic solution to current socio-religious problems (of course, created and manipulated by big interest groups). A very important point is all providers of religious education must be accountable for transparency to restore social and religious harmony. Religious groups providing children access to much needed secular education must ensure it is strictly secular. Religious education should be optional, choice-based, and separate from state secular curriculum.
It’s time we learned how to address our concerns in the most appropriate ‘language’ and manners to communicate to the world communities to avoid further damage to Buddhism, one of the world’s minority religions.
One Burmese traditional story goes that when you get to a village with one-eyed people, you better cover up one of your eyes. Same goes with limping and so on.
Poor Toch swimming against the tide and rubbing against the grain does look lonesome. But it is not secure conclusion that he (let’s say it is “he”)is alone on that “Paranoia Planet”. It is not entirely secure conclusion either that even Drum Major Wilson does believe in what he espouses. At least one certainly hopes so. Otherwise he and subject of his project “Posh Lady” of Toch would be implying that those “Bewildered Herds of Ignorant and Meddlesome OUTSIDERS” ie. Illiterate and (therefore uneducated – because education is conditional on reading and reading alone)people of Latpadaung are not of their choice word “ordinary people”. Unless of course one can prove that those idiots of Latpadaung are “communists” and agitators as Than Myint Oo said or “paid agents” as Zarganar (Great Democracy Revolutionary per Excellence)described or that nauseating word “hardliners” standing in the way of “Progress and Freedom”. One does so wish those land owners simply curl and die quietly letting this juggernaut of “Astonishing Reforms” to keep on poisoning the lands and destroy the pristine rivers em mass now with full co-corporation of the once antagonistic “rebel” forces thoroughly bribed and encircled by the international NGO’s with ample and robust supports from the media and academics.
Toch’s Chinese fixation? Well, that is a story not even half told yet.
By the way this “Orwell”, that is spot on. Burma today is the very real dramatization of the Animal Farm and 1984 together on full and ig-glorious (or is it glorious) display.
Unfortunately, this paper is an illustration that writing about classical Angkor civilization is NOT a straightforward business.
Invoking the 70 years old interpretation of C┼Уdès to explain what is happening now in the research on Angkor is depressing and reflects more the level of knowledge of the author than the reality of what is really going on in Angkor today.
Regards,
PS: Imagining ‘secrets’ (“excavation was kept secret among archaeologists and Cambodian authorities”!!!) is a classic excuse for a botched research.
I think all Jonathan Head was saying is that the atmosphere was more friendly at the Ministry of Finance.I think Jonathan has done an excellent job and I find Andrew’s sneer objectionable.
The trouble is that Andrew sees all the demonstrators as “fascists” so all nuance and context is lost.He never recognises they have some legitimate grievances and although I suppose we share the same sympathy for the redshirt movement his rather simple minded hard left dogma and personal vendettas undermine his credibility.
“Mother” to all, “Vile monks”, throwing in “Christian in Kachin and Karen states forever under siege” for good measure.
BurmeseDaze
‘Not mentioning any initial causes’ of present miseries indeed make you sound like A Johnny come lately DASSK bashing.
Firstly, she might just become the president yet.
Secondly, if she does she will be more influential than present Thein Sein.
Thirdly, WHat transpire when she is in Hlutthaw is beyond her mean or capability for just change. It is always easier to be the rebel outside.
For example Rohingya fate which you and Tocharian constantly complaint about started from Saudi money has taken on a global involvement with OIC. Stay tune this problem will not go away yet.
Better pray to AllaH or Jehovah that ROL advocating DASSK prevail just as Trevor is predicting.
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A royal intervention?
Silly idea. The Crown Prince is thought to owe money to the Great Demon, who got him out of scraps. He’s not really respected. And your idea of what he’d say to each is so ‘falang’. Do you even live in T? Or are you totally in Aust….. Silly idea… Prathep perhaps … she would have immediate respect from many directions.. Parachinee will not do anything without HM The King.. You got to know T. They will work it out.
A royal intervention?
Who is this imaginary king of England?
A royal intervention?
Plausible scenario. One of the ways for the institution to stays very much involved in Thai society. Let the Thais show the world how harmonious we are.
A royal intervention?
Not likely to happen. There are huge signals. A lot of Queen’s courtiers are publicly supporting the rally! The tone of the rally support is even shown in the Queen sponsored Khon performance. Dream on…
A royal intervention?
How the fact that Suthep’s son Ekanat Phrompan is also Niphon Phrompan’s nephew come into play with this?
Ekanat is one of the 9 Dem. MPs who resign to become mob leaders and he plays the spokeperson role especially to the foreign media (he has an Oxford pedigree)
Niphon is of course the strongest candidate for head of privy councillor for Rama X, replacing Prem, if Vajiralongkorn were to become one, that is.
Yesterday, tomorrow, Thailand
Oh come on Andrew. Can’t believe you would actually print something like this:
“There’s no doubt – if there ever was in the first place – that the Democrat Party’s fascistic anti-democratic politics are now being explicitly proclaimed.”
So a few technical school thugs means that the entire movement is some sort of hidden fascist uprising in the works? I’m sure you’ll recall many yellow shirts beaten during the red shirt protest, Nick himself covering one as part of a New Mandala post.
At least pretend to have some semblence of objectivity.
Yesterday, tomorrow, Thailand
Here’s another updated blog post about the stabbing/attempted murder of a Red Shirt in Lad Prao last night.
http://asiaprovocateur.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/photo-whilst-bbc-crack-jokes-thai.html
Condemning the assault on Nick Nostitz
Nobody attacked him .i stood in thailand at the same time and i only see that nobody from the demonstrants had violence to him.they only give them to the police and demonstrants ordered the police to take care for him.this is the reality.
Yesterday, tomorrow, Thailand
Jonathan Head today was making jokes about how funny it would be to see a mob of Thai Airways staff storm another ministry. What a hoot it is for him, eh?
https://twitter.com/pakhead/status/405876689806180352
And what makes you think I subscribe to “hard left dogma”? Or did you just guess? And even if I did (which I don’t) why would that make me or anyone else inherently wrong?
Are you claiming opposition to democracy is a legitimate grievance?
Yes I’m sure not all the protesters are hardcore fascists – they just support the ones who are.
Condemning the assault on Nick Nostitz
It is a horrible thing to have happened to a journalist of Nick’s calibre.
Stephff’s View on the subject, The Nation, 27 November 2013.
http://s22.postimg.org/sn1bf9x1t/photo_1.jpg
Myanmar’s academic ambitions
Hope to see a new education system that can ‘reinvigorate our society’ soon.
Strictly secular education is the only and best option for our homeland, and should be compulsory for every child irrespective of their religious faith. However, there should be some space for religious education as it is a significant part of pragmatic solution to current socio-religious problems (of course, created and manipulated by big interest groups). A very important point is all providers of religious education must be accountable for transparency to restore social and religious harmony. Religious groups providing children access to much needed secular education must ensure it is strictly secular. Religious education should be optional, choice-based, and separate from state secular curriculum.
It’s time we learned how to address our concerns in the most appropriate ‘language’ and manners to communicate to the world communities to avoid further damage to Buddhism, one of the world’s minority religions.
A royal intervention?
And because the King and Queen of England came to realize that they were not god.
Yesterday, tomorrow, Thailand
It seems like embedding images does not work so here is a link instead.
http://twitpic.com/dmn3p2
Burma’s next president
One Burmese traditional story goes that when you get to a village with one-eyed people, you better cover up one of your eyes. Same goes with limping and so on.
Poor Toch swimming against the tide and rubbing against the grain does look lonesome. But it is not secure conclusion that he (let’s say it is “he”)is alone on that “Paranoia Planet”. It is not entirely secure conclusion either that even Drum Major Wilson does believe in what he espouses. At least one certainly hopes so. Otherwise he and subject of his project “Posh Lady” of Toch would be implying that those “Bewildered Herds of Ignorant and Meddlesome OUTSIDERS” ie. Illiterate and (therefore uneducated – because education is conditional on reading and reading alone)people of Latpadaung are not of their choice word “ordinary people”. Unless of course one can prove that those idiots of Latpadaung are “communists” and agitators as Than Myint Oo said or “paid agents” as Zarganar (Great Democracy Revolutionary per Excellence)described or that nauseating word “hardliners” standing in the way of “Progress and Freedom”. One does so wish those land owners simply curl and die quietly letting this juggernaut of “Astonishing Reforms” to keep on poisoning the lands and destroy the pristine rivers em mass now with full co-corporation of the once antagonistic “rebel” forces thoroughly bribed and encircled by the international NGO’s with ample and robust supports from the media and academics.
Toch’s Chinese fixation? Well, that is a story not even half told yet.
By the way this “Orwell”, that is spot on. Burma today is the very real dramatization of the Animal Farm and 1984 together on full and ig-glorious (or is it glorious) display.
Irony is this woman who is now supporting any thing the Sit-tut guys do is really acting for the international conglomerates AGAINST the interest of culture, roots and welfare of the a]majority public of Burma exactly as she was used to be labelled by her new found best friends. There surely is no rational retort for the assertions of Roland Watson http://www.dictatorwatch.org/articles/suukyimugabe.pdf or Guy Horton’s http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2140042/aung_san_suu_kyi_complicity_with_tyranny.html
Angkor revisited
Unfortunately, this paper is an illustration that writing about classical Angkor civilization is NOT a straightforward business.
Invoking the 70 years old interpretation of C┼Уdès to explain what is happening now in the research on Angkor is depressing and reflects more the level of knowledge of the author than the reality of what is really going on in Angkor today.
Regards,
PS: Imagining ‘secrets’ (“excavation was kept secret among archaeologists and Cambodian authorities”!!!) is a classic excuse for a botched research.
Uprooting the Thaksin regime
Thai PM Yingluck is an idiot period. And she admitted it too at yesterday’s (Wednesday) censure debate in parliament.
“Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has conceded she never attended meetings of the National Rice Policy Committee although she is the chairwoman.”
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/382021/pm-admits-rice-panel-absences.
How does one censure an idiot?
Yesterday, tomorrow, Thailand
I think all Jonathan Head was saying is that the atmosphere was more friendly at the Ministry of Finance.I think Jonathan has done an excellent job and I find Andrew’s sneer objectionable.
The trouble is that Andrew sees all the demonstrators as “fascists” so all nuance and context is lost.He never recognises they have some legitimate grievances and although I suppose we share the same sympathy for the redshirt movement his rather simple minded hard left dogma and personal vendettas undermine his credibility.
Burma’s next president
Plan B,
“B” isn’t working; please get another plan !
Yesterday, tomorrow, Thailand
Democrat Party-linked activists are now attacking Red Shirts on the streets whilst a BBC reporter admits to “hugging” the mob in the Finance Ministry.
You really couldn’t make this up.
Here’s a link to two videos of Dem Party-linked thugs forcing a Red Shirt to strip and beating him.
http://asiaprovocateur.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/video-as-western-media-collude-with.html
Burma’s next president
“Mother” to all, “Vile monks”, throwing in “Christian in Kachin and Karen states forever under siege” for good measure.
BurmeseDaze
‘Not mentioning any initial causes’ of present miseries indeed make you sound like A Johnny come lately DASSK bashing.
Firstly, she might just become the president yet.
Secondly, if she does she will be more influential than present Thein Sein.
Thirdly, WHat transpire when she is in Hlutthaw is beyond her mean or capability for just change. It is always easier to be the rebel outside.
For example Rohingya fate which you and Tocharian constantly complaint about started from Saudi money has taken on a global involvement with OIC. Stay tune this problem will not go away yet.
Better pray to AllaH or Jehovah that ROL advocating DASSK prevail just as Trevor is predicting.