Monthly Archives: August 2008

WANTED

August 14, 2008 – 1:14 pm

The Royal Thai Police have sent out arrest warrants for Thaksin and his wife due to their failure to appear in court this past Monday. Thaksin’s lawyer has descried this move as an abuse against the couple. “The move is not suitable and might have broken the law because the police deliberately defamed them.” Thaksin has instructed […]

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Thaksin’s Frozen Assets

August 14, 2008 – 1:13 pm

Amount of Thaksin’s assets frozen by the Thai courts. 18,100,000,000 baht at Bangkok Bank 2,100,000,000 baht at the Bank of Ayudhya 39,600,000,000 baht at Siam Commercial Bank 1,400,000,000 baht at Thanachart Bank 500,000,000 baht at the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives 15,700,000,000 baht at the Government Savings Bank 10,000,000,000 baht at the Islamic Bank […]

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BIASED

August 14, 2008 – 1:08 pm

An anonymous reader criticized my article HOW FAR THE FALL on the Thaksin’s descent from the heights of power. anon; 1)Your article is extremely biased. May be it’ll be an excuse for having such an attitude for … the only oldest news’s sources all belong to Thaksin’s opponents, and you conceited farang happened to be […]

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THE GOOD RAT by Jimmy Breslin

August 14, 2008 – 1:05 pm

“You dirty rat.” This line was attributed to James Cagney in PUBLIC ENEMY. Those three words have been repeated millions of times by Cagney imitators, however they are never said in the classic 1931 gangster film. Despite that the quote labelled rats and snithces as people not to be trusted and murder of these Judases […]

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ANOTHER FARANG MURDER

August 14, 2008 – 1:03 pm

This sad tale is repeated way too often in the Land of Smiles. from http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2008/08/12/british-pensioner-awaited-his-own-murder-armed-with-a-tazer/ A retired British design engineer predicted his own murder and sat helplessly in his tropical ‘palace’ waiting for it to happen. Friends said today they armed 69-yr-old Ian Beeston with a tazer gun to protect himself. But it was not […]

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