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Sugar and spice and all things nice!

June 2nd, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 3 Comments

There’s an email doing the rounds which purports to come from the Manager Media Group (and I have no reason to doubt it). It contains a series of images showing just how lovely the People’s Alliance for (Sufficiency) Democracy really is. Here is a sample:
 

Oh!!! They have kids!!!! They must be right then!
….. Samak ok [...]

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Tags: Samak · Thailand

“Does anyone care what Jakrapop actually said?”

June 2nd, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 12 Comments

[I have received the following statement from Ji Ungpakorn of the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University.]
The lèse majesté case against Jakrapop Penkair (regarding his August 2007 speech to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club) raises some important questions for Thai society:

Do Thai citizens have the right to discuss the role of the Constitutional Monarchy?
Who uses [...]

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Tags: lese majeste