Posts Tagged ‘ BangkokPundit ’

Have now got a statement from the FCO (ie the UK Foreign Ministry) by e-mail on the GT200 device: These devices do not require approval from the British Government for manufacture or sale and, until 27 January 2010 they did not need an export licence (since then an export licence is needed for Iraq...
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The Bangkok Post: Separatist violence in the region has driven away large numbers of Buddhists. Only 80,000 to 100,000 Buddhists remain in the southern border provinces, compared with 320,000 six years ago, Mr Prasit [Meksuwan, chairman of a panel analysing problems in the region under the Adviso...
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An video update from the BBC on the GT200 device is available from here. A brief summary of the video report is below: BBC has some pictures of the head of Global Technical, Gary Bolton, on holiday overseas. BBC also reports that Global Technical also tried to sell a similiar device to the British...
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TAN Network and Channel 3's Kitti both tweet from Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's press conference that out of the 20 tests conducted, the GT200 device worked only 4 times - note this is a double-blind test using 4 boxes and if it was pure random chance it should out have worked 5 times.&nb...
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Thailand Politics has a profile of red shirt leader Jatuporn. Some tidbits there....
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Ambika in Reuters: "Widespread violence on the scale of April 2009 is unlikely in the near term. The reds are in disarray and they have learned from the April riots. They may opt for a battle of attrition instead of an all-out showdown," said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political science professor at Chulalongkorn University....
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The Bangkok Post reports that Army C-in-C Anupong retires this year: The rush is to prevent an unexpected change in political leadership which could affect the choice of the new army chief.This, of course, is assuming that the Abhisit government will not be able to last until the normal annual reshuffle season during...
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Stars and Stripes: Rear Adm. Prajit Boonyaniyom, the Royal Thai navy’s senior advisor to the Royal Thai marine corps, says that southern Thai Muslims are traveling abroad and learning the terror trade from al-Qaida-linked groups.“They’re becoming more aggressive,” Prajit said. “There is a globalization ...
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The Bangkok Post: Laboratory tests cannot be conducted on the controversial GT200 bomb detector because of confidentiality agreements struck when they were purchased, say members of a government panel assessing the device.Pansak Siriruchatapong, director of the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre, said: "The p...
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Initially, the accusations started last Tuesday and were made openly per the Bangkok Post: Acting government spokesman Panithan Wattanayakorn said on Tuesday that money had been transferred from overseas into the bank accounts of key members of the red-shirt people group over the past two and three months. An old soldier had also carrie......
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In the previous posts about what what is happening in red shirt land (see here and here), Nirmal Ghosh of the Straits Times has a blog post with photos from his trip to the Northeast. Key excerpts ...
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Bloomberg: The Thai government said it won’t pursue charges against the crew of a plane carrying North Korean weapons seized in Bangkok two months ago, and that the five men would be deported to their home countries.“We didn’t say they’re not guilty; we just do...
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Chulalongkorn Professor Thitinan in an op-ed in the Bangkok Post on the red shirts. Key excerpts: By the admission of the acting government spokesman, the anti-government red shirts under the banner of United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) are now prevalent in no fewer than 38 of Thailand's 76 provinces, predominantly in the...
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The Nation: In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Panlop said that the red shirts, with Thaksin's blessing, had agreed to form the new armed wing and that Chavalit would lead the red shirts to victory. In the same interview, Khattiya said the organisational structure of the opposition movement was now complete with Pheu Thai...
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Marwaan in IPS has another article on this visit to the Northeast. This time it is on the red shirt schools. Key excerpt: "This is the first time I am joining this school," says Songkan, a mother of two children. "I want to learn about injustice and what is wrong in our country after...
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Back in 2009 when the Rohingya were pushed back to sea, forensic scientist Dr. Pornthip?Rojanasunan?was wheeled out and linked the Rohingya to the insurgency in the Deep South, providing cover for the military to detain them as a threat to national security. Al Jazeera: But according to a leading Thai forensics expert, "explo...
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The Nation: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday reaffirmed his prediction that the Democrats might win about 240 House seats at the next general election, which could give him the chance to lead the coalition for a second term."There are a large number of undecided votes that the Democrats could sway," he sa...
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Have previously blogged on the public fight between Sudarat and Chalerm, but Veera in the Bangkok Post has an op-ed on the situation. Key excerpt: The maverick MP was also unhappy with his rival group's attempt to pre-empt his wish of being nominated as the stand-...
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Thanong, of you know which publication, states in reference to the statement by Gen. Panlop, now aligned with the red shirt’s, on the setting up of a people’s army: The People’s Army sounds like an overlapping army with the Royal Thai Army. Setting up the People’s Army amounts to treason. BP: Really? In...
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The Nation in an editorial: Thailand is either very smart or the silliest country in the world for allowing the international community, especially human rights organisations, to scrutinise its human rights record. In past weeks, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Commission for Jurists have taken Thailand to task...
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TAN have summarized a column from Thai Rath columnist 'Chak Thong Rob'. Key excerpt: But when a foreign agency dissected GT200 and produced a contradictory report, it raised my suspicion a bit.According to the agency, the device is nothing more than a stick of wood used by a sorcerer in locating buried corpses in...
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The Bangkok Post: A soldier was killed and another seriously injured yesterday in a gun attack by insurgents disguised as women.Officials believe the insurgents, camouflaged in hijabs, a Muslim woman's head-dress, launched the attack in retaliation against a morning raid on their mountain hideout in which rangers killed one of t...
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The government-run PRD reports: The Ombudsman Office says tests on the bomb detectors turn out positive; criticism so far proves to be falseOmbudsman, Mr Pramote Chotimongkol, announced to the public over the progress of the GT 200 investigation, that so far no suspicious acts had been found and that the device works perfectly fine,...
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The GT200 connection: Global Technical is the seller of the GT200 devices. The Global Technical website lists the Thai distributor as Avia Satcom Co. Ltd. Managing Director of Avia Satcom Co. Ltd has appeared on TV defending the device - see here and here - although their website just states they are the "Thailand...
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Matichon have an article with the following information provided to Matichon by Deputy PM Suthep: M...
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AFP: Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said Tuesday that his government is capable of quashing insurgency violence in the country's restive south by year-end. Asked if he is confident of bringing peace in 2010 to the region which has been under a state of emergency for almost five years, Kasit said: "Yes, yes, yes....
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? Have already blogged about the idea of autonomy for the Deep South when Chavalit raised the issue here, the idea of a referendum here, on a op-ed by Atiya here?in the Bangkok Post, and another op-ed by V...
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Pornthip Rojanasunand is the very prominent and colorful Director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice in Bangkok. She has created a persona, particularly her hair style, also cultivating an audience. She has appeared on TV game shows, interview, and writes a column. She Read full story > > >...
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Have already blogged about the idea of autonomy for the Deep South when Chavalit raised the issue here, the idea of a referendum here, on a op-ed by Atiya here in the … Read full story > > > Written by: 128. Discovered by: ThaiBlogSearch.com
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News in Bangkok has a post with some views by the former Cambodian King Sihanouk,? from "Sihanouk Reminisces: World Leaders I Have Known", on Thailand....
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