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Thailand to sue Youtube for lese majeste 2007-05-04 11:21:04 The Youtube fiasco roles on this week as the MICT has now announced that it plans to sue Youtube. This from the IHT:
Sitthichai Phokai-udom, the minister of information and communications technology said the refusal to remove the clip on grounds of free flow of communication was “total hypocrisy” since the YouTube owners Google censored their [...] Read more:Thailand
US student expelled for playing videogame 2007-05-03 14:21:48 You’ve got to wonder what children across America are thinking at the moment. After the shock of the Virginia Tech massacre, a news story broke that 18-year-old student Allen Lee was arrested for writing a “disturbing” essay that depicted shooting and necrophilia. The debate about his arrest seemed to be dividing people. Now, after that, [...]
Mos Burger Bangkok: Almost Fast Food 2007-05-02 14:45:01 Mos Burger
is supposed to be taking Thailand by storm, but from the looks of things it’s only causing a bit of a lackluster breeze. Mos Burger is a Japanese sort-of-fast food chain. It sells burgers, hot dogs, fries, chicken, and a few other items. The chain is highly successful in Japan, and the first [...] Read more:Bangkok
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Bangkok Stickup: Let’s Rob a Bank 2007-05-02 13:32:10 I went to the bank today because I’d lost my ATM card. I’m with Bangkok
Bank and I’ve never had any problems, but I thought I might today during my trip to Mahboonkrong. I went in and showed them my bank book and said that I needed a new ATM card. They asked to see [...]
Spare a thought for Alan Johnston 2007-05-01 07:25:20 At the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand last night, a vigil was held for the kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston
. Seven weeks ago he was kidnapped in Gaza City and very little has been heard about him since. Last night in Thailand, Jonathan Head, the BBC’s correspondent for Southeast Asia, led the vigil for his [...] Read more:Spare
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Has the rainy season come early? 2007-04-30 08:18:50 I’d always thought that the rainy season in Thailand was supposed to run from June to October, but it appears to have come early this year. I wasn’t quite prepared for the barrage of thunderstorms and downpours that we’ve had in Bangkok these past few days. It even felt a bit cold today. What does [...]
Thai immigration changes visa rules again - yet more confusion! 2007-04-28 15:48:42 As if the rules for visas in Thailand weren’t already ludicrously confusing, it has now been announced that the rules for visas on arrival have changed again. The report from the Phuket Gazette doesn’t quite clear the issues up, however:
“From October 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007, we counted all the days from the foreigner’s [...] Read more:changes
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Bjork - Volta 2007-04-28 12:14:52 Volta is the title of Bjork
’s much anticipated new album. This image is part of the artwork for the album, which is to be relase on May 7.
I’ve heard the album and it’s incredible. I will be picking up a copy as soon as it hits the stores in Thailand. The tracklisting is as follows:
Earth [...]
Date a naked Japanese hentai girl 2007-04-28 11:28:22 We all know how much people in Thailand (and many other countries in Asia) love comic books. You can’t walk around Bangkok without seeing numerous people (both adults and children) getting into a good Manga. Hentai is a term used to describe a pornographic anime or Manga, although the word is not actually used in [...] Read more:Japanese
Aggressive fitness center tactics in Bangkok 2007-04-27 04:40:02 Fitness Centers are renowned for having aggressive policies and for turning up the steam to get as much money out of their customers as possible, but I don’t expect to have it thrust in my face every day. Stationed at the entrance to Central World Plaza in Bangkok
are representatives from True Fitness. Their tactics
[...] Read more:Aggressive
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Thaksin On Tour: The latest from across the globe 2007-04-26 08:12:25 Former Primer Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is a crafty fella. Despite quitting politics, he has still managed to find his way into newspapers across the world (not just in Thailand) on an almost daily bass. To an outsider, he just looks like a fun-loving type of guy bumbling his way around the world, but [...]
Good natured, but rubbish at installing sinks 2007-04-26 07:40:09 Imagine coming home, soaked through to the skin by Bangkok’s “summer” rain, itching to get dry and shake off what remains of a long, working day. Imagine getting to your front door: the relief, the satisfaction, the release of tension – imagine all of that, and you’re with me up until I put the key [...] Read more:rubbish
Jump Thailand! Parkour and free running in Bangkok 2007-04-25 06:02:53 The sound of a runner’s feet approaches, skipping lightly along a path. He effortlessly slices though the air, turns sharply, and jumps over a bench, landing with ease on the opposite side before rolling forwards and back up to his feet, continuing on along the path. Another runner nearby stands tall before leaping several feet [...] Read more:Thailand
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The funniest show on television at the moment 2007-04-24 13:32:28 I occasionally miss British television, particularly the sitcoms, so I decided to further utilise my (quite slow) broadband connection by downloading an old favourite. It’s called Peep Show and a new series (the fourth) began a couple of weeks ago. It airs every Friday on Channel 4 and you can get the episodes on a [...]
Busting Thailand’s Sangsom and Red Bull Myths 2007-05-07 09:21:55 I remember a few nights out in England that ended in my friend’s lounge. His pride and joy was a bottle of Sangsom that we all thought was some sort of miracle water. “It’s 80%,” he’d tell us. I did a few shots of it on various occasions and was almost sick. We all agreed [...] Read more:Thailand
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My first (and last) casting: How do Thailand’s models do it? 2007-05-06 11:38:28 “It’ll only take 20 minutes,” I was assured. Two hours later and I had to hotfoot it back across Bangkok and think of a feasible excuse as to why I’d taken an extended lunch break.
I’d describe my first (and last) casting as one of the most uncomfortable situations of my time in Thailand
. The whole [...] Read more:models
What I’m dreaming; what I’m hating 2007-05-05 10:22:26 You may, or may not, have noticed that there’s a section in my links list entitled ‘My other blogs’. As the name suggest, those are the other blogs I’ve been working on. Where Matt’s @ is just something I do for work, so you don’t need to pay too much attention to that, but it’s [...]
Poor Old Sitthichai: Won’t someone give him a hand? 2007-05-10 04:27:43 “I’m old. I have an e-mail account but rarely check it; normally I use the telephone.”
Strange words for a man in charge of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. Surely someone in such a position should know how to use the internet, but he has already admitted that he only ever visits two websites: [...]
Clinton says Thailand doesn’t lie 2007-05-09 18:05:33 The controversial Thai Lies website, which launched yesterday, was inaccessible in Thailand
last night. Today, as former US President Bill Clinton
endorsed Thailand’s move to override patents of life saving drugs, trying to access the website brought up a username/password box. Yongyuth Mayalap, a Thai government spokesman, today “said the government would continue to closely [...]
Thai lies 2007-05-08 14:21:57 Ken Adelman today unveiled his attempt to denounce Thailand’s national health campaign in the form of a new website, the bluntly-named Thailies.com. Thai Lies is a project of USA for Innovation, a “non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to educating the general public about the importance of innovation and the role that protection of intellectual property (IP) [...]
Cilantro: The Herb of the Devil 2007-05-12 11:20:28 I’m not at all clued up on herbs and suchlike, but almost as soon as I arrived in Thailand I noticed that there is one type of herb that seems to be make its way into around half of all the meals I was eat. I’ve never been able to describe to anybody what this [...] Read more:Cilantro
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Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla’s Media Manipulation 2007-05-11 14:43:00 I’ve been thinking long and hard about Bill Clinton’s stance in all of this. The headlines everywhere, from Reuters and AFP to Yahoo and local papers (and, ahem, this blog) have all said something along the lines of “Clinton Backs Thailand!” Seems like this is bending the truth a little. Initially, at face value, that [...] Read more:Health
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Google buckles under pressure from Sitthichai 2007-05-11 03:16:59 It looks like Thailand won’t be suing Google
after all. “We have called that off,” said Sitthichai. Google VP Kent Walker apologized to Thailand in an official letter. All defamatory clips of HMtK will be removed and soon we will all be able to watch videos of cats falling off TVs again. Will it [...]
Sitthihcai and his wife are worth US$35 million 2007-05-10 20:59:49 “It is sad that today we cannot find any Thai products. The technology show here provides foreigners an opportunity to take money from Thai people. To be truly proud, it should show technology that has been developed by Thais” (The Nation)
That’s another quote from Sitthichai, the Minister of Information and Communication Technology. He said that [...] Read more:million
Own a Piece of the Arctic Monkeys 2007-05-15 21:17:42 If you’re a fan of the ArcticMonkeys
, which seems be everybody now, then you’ll be pleased to hear that you can buy your own piece of the band on Ebay. A friend of mine in the UK co-runs a night called Threads, and the guys behind the night have been auctioning off various bits [...]
Stuart Pearce Out, Thaksin Eyes City Successor 2007-05-15 14:10:03 Thaksin hasn’t even bought Manchester City yet, but already he’s got his grubby little mits out and is playing a role in the search for a new manager. Poor old Stuart
Pearce, the left-footed England legend who a nation cheered on from his days with Nottingham Forrest, was sacked yesterday after an abysmal season of [...] Read more:Successor
Thailand Mulls Latest Offer from Abbot 2007-05-15 04:58:33 It worked! Abbot Laboratories became the first pharmaceutical company to back down after the stand-off with Thailand
over generic medicine. Thailand’s government must be feeling pretty proud of themselves; in the space of a week they’ve taken down Google, the world’s internet giant, and now Abbot.
Abbot’s new offer, according to the Bangkok Post this morning, [...] Read more:Offer
Article 68 of Thailand’s Draft Constitution 2007-05-14 21:23:25 “Once the military leaders become council members,” said Sodsri Sattayatham in an interview with the Bangkok Post today, “they’re bound to follow the group’s decision. This would also show they don’t have only coup attempts on their mind. But if they still resort to a coup, their action would not be justified and they would [...] Read more:Thailand
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