While Manchester City may have had their best season for some time, a solitary flag and power-hungry former prime minister could be about to spoil the party. Firstly, the flag. Someone took a Thai flag with them to Manchester and hung it up at the City of Manchester Stadium. Nothing out of the ordinary there, but the flag bore the …

This is based on a very sketchy translation of tomorrow’s edition of Bangkok’s Daily News newspaper. On April 26, suspected insurgents in Yala shot dead a 22-year-old informant and nailed his body to the middle of the road. The informant, who had been shot in the back of the neck with a 9mm pistol, was dragged to the middle of …

NOTE: Should work fine in all browsers. Tested in FF, IE6 and 7, Safari and Opera. OK, I’m going to let you in on the project I’ve been working on for the past couple of week’s It’s a list of the top 100 Thailand blogs. I spent a long time compiling this list, searching for active Thailand blogs. Most of …

Have you ever been in the cinema when the Thai national anthem plays and you’ve seen someone not stand up? I have, a couple of times — and it was Thai people, not foreigners. I’ve also seen people not stop in the street or at the BTS station when the anthem has played. There are some things that we’re not …

I’ve been writing about immigrant workers a lot recently. It’s not that I feel some sort of satisfaction by criticizing the police or the government, but I think it’s important to highlight the hypocrisy of the government’s recent attempts to curb the flow of illegal Burmese laborer entering Thailand. The 54 Burmese migrants who died in a sealed container were …

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