Re the imaginative Helen Ang and her amazing “counter-analysis”: Anyone who can suggest that “The Star” was running a pro-DAP campaign has got a serious problem with reality. Am I asked to suppose that Wong Chun Wai got his “shining” datukship and all his other official recognition and government rewards for being just a DAP “flak” and “shill” .. .. Really, this is just too absurd.
– Out of its good heart, when Abhisit came to power in 2009, he gave away 2000 baht free to 10 million people that pay social security which total 20 billion baht because he said he wanted to get Thai economy moving during global economic slowdown
– Not only that, Abhisit felt sorry for other provincial poors in his term, he spent another 80 billion baht Thai Kem Kang program to purchase equipments whether the communities needed or not where huge commission were made without accountability in certain quarter sector which investigations were not possible
– Can we criticize those Abhisit’s do gooder projects whose total losses were 230 billion baht? Well, the poor rice farmers got 130 billion baht which the government absorbed, the farmers paid their debt and spend the rest to revitalize the economy which we do not mind since they use the money in the system
– While the Democrats’ Kem Kang 80 billion baht spending were corruption of the worst kind and 20 billion baht give away, now you decide if Democrats are the pot calling the kettle black
How could one know that there is a “very strong consensus of opinion” about one or another theory about Ananda’s death?
Personally I lean towards the accidental fratricide theory.
Interesting article. Having lived and worked in North Korea, albeit a long time ago (1998) I could understand why people would want to leave this “paradise”. For many people it is a living hell although one would never know because one can only meet North Koreans in non-scripted circumstances outside of North Korea.
As long as those current leaders still in office I am sure that Laos will not change to be a better Country why? Those leaders only look after themselves and taking care of their families. Its up to the Laos people to decide? what they want for their future. I am sure will not be long, Laos will change and that change will benefit the people of Laos forever. In the mean time just be happy and pray that one day everything will be a better Country for all the people of Laos. Please keep hope and dream alive.
I enjoyed this review, mainly because I like Thai movies and khun Pasoot has done a good job of persuading me to watch it. There is a whimsical down-to-earth ‘everydayness’ about this particular genre of Thai movie that’s refreshing.
But I can’t help wondering what it’s doing here? NM is hardly Wise Kwai after all.
If I have to take a wild stab at the administrators’ intention, perhaps they thought this insight into the everyday lives of typical working Thais would come as a surprise to many NM readers who might otherwise assume the ‘average working Thai’ is a rice peasant heaving under the lash of the ruling industrial-military-monarchy complex? But that would be patronising.
” … In other words, the Royal Thai Police … is making it up as they go along …”
White Mask could have a point here. The Thai Police are usually inept or corrupted … fabricating or making up evidence in their criminal investigations.
The story is that Ekkayuth is a very very rich Thai businessman – said to own many Thai restaurants and 11 acres of property in London alone plus his many Thai businesses. Ekkayuth never travels without his bodyguards and he never sits alone, always with a bodyguard or two along, when driven around Bangkok or London. So Ekkayuth’s close friends are very suspicious at the circumstances of his disappearance then killing.
Ekayuth had a list of people a mile long of people who might have wanted him dead. Look at all the people who lost money – many of them armed forces – when his pyramid scheme collapsed after his failed coup attempt and subsequent scampering out of the country.
Or the brawl he was involved in last year.
He was a thief, a gangster, and a racist, and to portray him as some kind of crusading political activist is an insult to actual political activists.
That link wasn’t a source of information. It was an opinion article. But if you want BangkokPost, here are the articles that were released *before* I made my post.
Shoelaces are all the rage. No need for guys on a motorcycle armed with guns anymore. Just not original. All assassins need a signature weapon to get buy these days . . .
I believe it is slightly disingenuous not to include the dead Red Shirt protesters from 2010 in your list. They also belong into this list of extrajudicial killings for which authorities have have refused to take any responsibility, if we just stick with the incidents of the past 10 years or so.
As to Ekayuth – we are far away from making any conclusions yet. You are doing the same as you accuse the police and Chalerm of doing – issuing premature conclusions before investigations came to a result.
What all this has to do with my story here beats me as well, by the way… 😉
In other words, the Royal Thai Police force, mentioned in Bertil Lintner’s book Blood Brothers, as one of the finest criminal organizations on the planet, is making it up as they go along…
RIP Ekayuth, Somchai, Moo, and all the extra-judicial Drug War victims, among many, many others…
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Clive Kessler’s analysis on UMNO’s strategy and a correction
Re the imaginative Helen Ang and her amazing “counter-analysis”: Anyone who can suggest that “The Star” was running a pro-DAP campaign has got a serious problem with reality. Am I asked to suppose that Wong Chun Wai got his “shining” datukship and all his other official recognition and government rewards for being just a DAP “flak” and “shill” .. .. Really, this is just too absurd.
Election time in Cambodia
Interesting and insightful analysis!
White masks, red masks and royalist communists
via RN:
– Abhisit’s farm policies loss are at the 1st year average 65 billion baht a year that totals to 130 billion
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Rice-industry-backs-income-guarantee-plan-of-Democ-30158034.html
– Out of its good heart, when Abhisit came to power in 2009, he gave away 2000 baht free to 10 million people that pay social security which total 20 billion baht because he said he wanted to get Thai economy moving during global economic slowdown
– Not only that, Abhisit felt sorry for other provincial poors in his term, he spent another 80 billion baht Thai Kem Kang program to purchase equipments whether the communities needed or not where huge commission were made without accountability in certain quarter sector which investigations were not possible
– Can we criticize those Abhisit’s do gooder projects whose total losses were 230 billion baht? Well, the poor rice farmers got 130 billion baht which the government absorbed, the farmers paid their debt and spend the rest to revitalize the economy which we do not mind since they use the money in the system
– While the Democrats’ Kem Kang 80 billion baht spending were corruption of the worst kind and 20 billion baht give away, now you decide if Democrats are the pot calling the kettle black
…
Royal power arrangement
How could one know that there is a “very strong consensus of opinion” about one or another theory about Ananda’s death?
Personally I lean towards the accidental fratricide theory.
North Koreans in northern Thailand
Interesting article. Having lived and worked in North Korea, albeit a long time ago (1998) I could understand why people would want to leave this “paradise”. For many people it is a living hell although one would never know because one can only meet North Koreans in non-scripted circumstances outside of North Korea.
Sombath Somphone’s disappearance
As long as those current leaders still in office I am sure that Laos will not change to be a better Country why? Those leaders only look after themselves and taking care of their families. Its up to the Laos people to decide? what they want for their future. I am sure will not be long, Laos will change and that change will benefit the people of Laos forever. In the mean time just be happy and pray that one day everything will be a better Country for all the people of Laos. Please keep hope and dream alive.
Royal power arrangement
> “Members of the Thai royal family were among many dignitaries attending the extravagant coronation ceremony.”
In what way was it ‘extravagant’ – as coronation* ceremonies go?
* actually an inauguration ceremony
Super Salaryman: Thai white-collar dreamin’
I enjoyed this review, mainly because I like Thai movies and khun Pasoot has done a good job of persuading me to watch it. There is a whimsical down-to-earth ‘everydayness’ about this particular genre of Thai movie that’s refreshing.
But I can’t help wondering what it’s doing here? NM is hardly Wise Kwai after all.
If I have to take a wild stab at the administrators’ intention, perhaps they thought this insight into the everyday lives of typical working Thais would come as a surprise to many NM readers who might otherwise assume the ‘average working Thai’ is a rice peasant heaving under the lash of the ruling industrial-military-monarchy complex? But that would be patronising.
Open letter on Sombath Somphone
At least the Australians care.
White masks, red masks and royalist communists
driver admits to murder of akeyuth achanbutr police said….
bp:http://bangkokpost.com/news/local/354544/driver-admits-to-murder-of-akeyuth-achanbutr-police-said
Malaysia’s GE13: What happened, what now? (part 1)
[…] to Kessler’s recent two-part article published in various Malaysian and foreign websites, Umno had won handsomely upon a campaign that […]
More academic commentary on Burma
http://whisperedlineage.com/2012/04/17/the-burmese-alms-boycott-theory-and-practice-of-the-pattanikujjana-in-buddhist-non-violent-resistance/
White masks, red masks and royalist communists
” … In other words, the Royal Thai Police … is making it up as they go along …”
White Mask could have a point here. The Thai Police are usually inept or corrupted … fabricating or making up evidence in their criminal investigations.
The story is that Ekkayuth is a very very rich Thai businessman – said to own many Thai restaurants and 11 acres of property in London alone plus his many Thai businesses. Ekkayuth never travels without his bodyguards and he never sits alone, always with a bodyguard or two along, when driven around Bangkok or London. So Ekkayuth’s close friends are very suspicious at the circumstances of his disappearance then killing.
White masks, red masks and royalist communists
Ekayuth had a list of people a mile long of people who might have wanted him dead. Look at all the people who lost money – many of them armed forces – when his pyramid scheme collapsed after his failed coup attempt and subsequent scampering out of the country.
Or the brawl he was involved in last year.
He was a thief, a gangster, and a racist, and to portray him as some kind of crusading political activist is an insult to actual political activists.
White masks, red masks and royalist communists
That link wasn’t a source of information. It was an opinion article. But if you want BangkokPost, here are the articles that were released *before* I made my post.
“…Mr Sutthipong said Mr Santiphap ordered him to strangle Akeyuth with a shoelace.”
http://www.bangkokpost.com/lite/topstories/355173/akeyuth-sister-backs-theft-motive
“A shoe lace found near where Akeyuth was buried …”
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/354932/fingerprints-match-records-exhumed-body-is-akeyuth-police-say
“Mr Suthipong is shown holding a shoelace loosely bunched in one hand and dangling from his thumb on the other hand as he softly strangles the stand-in for the deceased.”
http://www.bangkokpost.com/lite/news/355310/strange-case-of-the-smiling-corpse
Shoelaces are all the rage. No need for guys on a motorcycle armed with guns anymore. Just not original. All assassins need a signature weapon to get buy these days . . .
The Malaysia Agreement
Malaysia Agreement is the facts. No one can deny the rights of Sabah and Sarawak? Make sure we educate all Sabahans and Sarawakians of young and old.
White masks, red masks and royalist communists
“White Mask”:
I believe it is slightly disingenuous not to include the dead Red Shirt protesters from 2010 in your list. They also belong into this list of extrajudicial killings for which authorities have have refused to take any responsibility, if we just stick with the incidents of the past 10 years or so.
As to Ekayuth – we are far away from making any conclusions yet. You are doing the same as you accuse the police and Chalerm of doing – issuing premature conclusions before investigations came to a result.
What all this has to do with my story here beats me as well, by the way… 😉
White masks, red masks and royalist communists
Well, Jon, if you insist on using the Bangkok Post as a credible source, this is from today’s edition:
“Police yet to disclose how victim killed”
Published: 17 Jun 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News
Police investigating the death of businessman and anti-Thaksin Shinawatra campaigner Akeyuth have still not disclosed how the victim was killed…”
Taken from: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crimes/355437/police-yet-to-disclose-how-victim-killed
In other words, the Royal Thai Police force, mentioned in Bertil Lintner’s book Blood Brothers, as one of the finest criminal organizations on the planet, is making it up as they go along…
RIP Ekayuth, Somchai, Moo, and all the extra-judicial Drug War victims, among many, many others…
White masks, red masks and royalist communists
making up history and creating violence: ppt
http://thaipoliticalprisoners.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/making-up-history-and-creating-violence/
Super Salaryman: Thai white-collar dreamin’
Interesting article but can you say more about what you mean here:
“This prevents Super Salaryman from falling into the pure drama genre that could hardly be sold in Thailand these days”