Today’s Bangkok Post includes an interesting article on Kelly Newton-Wordsworth, an Australian “singer, farmer and green activist” who has been prominent on the stage of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) over the past 6 months. She has a ballad devoted to the King of Thailand that was mentioned on New Mandala ages ago. She has indicated that this particular song [...]
Australian on the PAD stage
December 7th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 6 Comments
Tags: PAD · Thailand · Trans-Border Issues
Some initial data on the Thai by-elections
December 7th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · Add a Comment
With Thailand’s parliamentary horse-trading picking up momentum, and with increasing talk of an improbable Democrat government, the results of the January by-elections are looking more and more important.
Thanks to master number cruncher Chris Baker, here are some interesting figures on results from December 2007 in the by-election constituencies.
Some words of explanation. The “members” column lists the number of MPs elected from [...]
Tags: Election Watch · Thailand