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From today’s Bangkok Post:
A media rights group criticised the government’s decision to ban video-sharing website YouTube over an insulting clip of His Majesty the King, saying that such an act showed a growing crackdown by the military junta against political comment online. The Southeast Asian Press Alliance said that although the subject of [...]
Blocked tube
April 5th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 36 Comments
Tags: Surayud regime · Thailand
Offending the mainstream
April 5th, 2007 by Book Zone, Guest Contributor · 46 Comments
A Coup for the Rich: Thailand’s Political Crisis by Giles Ji Ungpakorn is a blistering 144 page analysis of contemporary Thai politics that is both readable and refreshingly frank. Offering a non-doctrinaire Marxist approach, Ungpakorn blames a profound weakness in Thai civil society for its political immaturity and vulnerability to being manipulated by the rich [...]
Tags: Book Zone · Coup · Publications · Thailand