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Thai Politics

Home? Where Is That Exactly?

by Union Hill August 26, 2007 Thai Politics

Recent changes to the visa rules coupled with general political instability in Thailand have prompted many ex-pat residents to ask themselves if now is the time to go home or at least time to seek out a new home somewhere else. Somewhere where we might be better received buy our hosts. It has always been [...]

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Life without YouTube

by Norrad August 18, 2007 Thai Politics

While Thailand claims to be a beacon of free speech and democracy (cough, military coup, cough) in South East Asia, it’s all just really propaganda. The military has such a tight grip on everything that goes on in the country. The newspapers and TV stations are all pro government. You can’t even purchase a VHF [...]

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To Yes, or Not to Yes

by kitz August 14, 2007 Thai Politics

I just got myself a copy of the yellow book, AKA, the new draft of Thailand’s oh so democratic constitution. OK it’s not like I can’t read Thai but the Thai people use in these law texts is horribly incomprehensible for normal people. Guess they’re trying to fool us with their big words so we’d [...]

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Thai Morality – The Hole in the Dyke

by Andrew Hicks August 10, 2007 Thai Politics

Before the loy kratong festival at the end of the rains when romantic floats of banana leaf called kratons are launched on rivers and waterways at night to carry away the past year’s sins, there always seems to be a media frenzy in the newspapers about teenage sex. For some obscure reason it’s become fashionable [...]

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