A Grim Political Battle in Thailand

 
Monday, 01 December 2008

Written by Larry Jagan   
 
The Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts Get ready to rumble in Bangkok’s streets
With Thailand’s Prime Minister, Somchai Wongsawat, and his cabinet holed up in the northern city of Chiang Mai, fearing a coup or something worse, Thailand is slipping slowly towards civil war as the [...]

End of the royal taboo?

New Mandala
 
December 1st, 2008 by Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly ·

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 [...]

The crowd and the crown

December 1, 2008
By Philip Bowring
HONG KONG: Could the monarchy in Thailand go the way of Nepal’s, the latest crown to fall to republicanism?
The idea may seem ridiculous considering that Thailand’s monarch, Bhumibol Adulyadej, almost invariably has the prefix “revered” attached to his name by the foreign press, and is constantly glorified by the local media.
But [...]