Earlier today we posted an extract from an article in The Australian which discusses some of the royal intrigues influencing the current showdown in Bangkok. Much of this, and similar, analysis is speculative. Nonetheless it has become increasingly clear that the international media, in an effort to explain events in Thailand to a bemused readership, is [...]
End of the royal taboo?
December 1st, 2008 by Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly · 33 Comments
Tags: PAD · Royal family · Thailand
Grade 4 travel advisory…for Bangkok
December 1st, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 5 Comments
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has just raised its travel advisory for Bangkok to the second highest level: “reconsider your need to travel”. The advice for the rest of Thailand remains unchanged. This is the list of other places for which the Department provides the same level of warning: D.R. Congo, Angola, Haiti, [...]
Speculations on health and mateship
December 1st, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 5 Comments
A coup, however, would need the tacit approval of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, but he is said to be ailing, with many decisions being made by Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn. The prince is a good mate of Thaksin, so it is unlikely he will want to get rid of the Government that is seen as Thaksin’s [...]
Tags: Royal family · Thailand