More than a year after nine bombs ripped through Bangkok on New Year’s Eve 2006 the police have given up their investigation after successfully finding absolutely nothing in the form of clues as to who is responsible. Bangkok was shaken to its core when those bombs went off. Three people died and 42 were injured. It’s a crying shame that …

It seems like anybody can blow up Bangkok and public never gets to find out who is behind it. Do the police and government just assume that people forget about these things after a while? Remember when a number of bombs exploded in Bangkok on New Year’s Eve killing three people? I do. It was nearly a year ago and …

Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. After the drama, the panic, the fear, the indifference, the finger pointing, the accusations, the insinuations, the allusions, the half-truths: after all that, the Bangkok Post this morning broke a story suggesting that Southern separatists were behind the New Year’s Eve bombings. The police team investigating the New Year bombings in Bangkok and Nonthaburi has concluded that …

So here we are, back to where we started after the Bangkok bombings of New Year’s Eve. No arrests, no evidence, no charges. So what have we got? Well, there’s the coup that didn’t exactly go as smoothly as everyone thought; there’s the escalating problems in the south, where this morning two couples were gunned down in Songkhla as they …

Rather than being in the grip of terrorism, at the moment it feels like we are in the grip of confusionism. I’m certainly confused. The Council for National Security (CNS) has created a whirlwind of publicity for the deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The CNS is terrified of Thaksin and they have so little faith in their own abilities to …

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