I Love Thailand

The Nation
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajiva is launching a new website: www.ilovethailand.org on Saturday as an online community promoting national unity on Friday. [KC: The Nation is a sinking ship]
“What will you do to show your love for the country?” is a question from the website.
Requiring membership sign up, the website provides its members with live [...]

Abhisit in Retrospect

KC: Not sure how widely distributed these photographs are, but I thought the pictures would interest readers, particularly those of Abhisit and Chuan Leekpai and Abhisit and Korn Chatikavanij. Unfortunately I do not have dates or location information for the images.

Deep South Violence: Redux

KC: This Bangkok Post editorial is a response to a tumultuous week in the deep South defined by a militant attack on Thai-Muslim worshippers in a mosque in Narathiwat’s Cho Airong district. The attack killed 10 people. Reports and commentary on recent events can be found here, here and here via the Bangkok Post and [...]

Abhisit and the Mystery Container

PM queries container-Black May link

Probably sank before the 1992 crackdown

The shipping container on the Chon Buri seabed has nothing to do with the 1992 Black May uprising, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva believes.
A 17-year-old girl cleans a portrait of her father who died 17 years ago during the Black May uprising against then prime minister Suchinda [...]