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Thai Political Veteran Sick and Tired of the Whole Mess Thailand’s Pracharaj Party leader Sanoh Thienthong said on Sunday that he is weary of political affairs and is in preparation to leave the political stage, claiming to be sickened by the entire mess. While speaking about former Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh’s return to politics by [...]

Thai Truck Drivers on Strike, blocking roads into Bangkok Thousands of truck drivers went on strike in Thailand yesterday demanding the Thai government to step in to curb rising fuel prices …. Truckers blocked roads into Bangkok, putting pressure on a government to stop rising fuel prices. Truck Drivers demands included a discount of 3 [...]

Thaksin ‘a Thief and a cheat’ Sanoh labels PM ‘a thief and a cheat’ ‘Everyone should join forces to oust Thaksin. In ancient times, we would not only oust him but also hang him,’ Mr Sanoh said amid cheers from the crowd. Thaksin in Chiang Mai, 2005 looking at CD-ROM cover POST REPORTERS 2006 Sanoh [...]

Thai Election Commission Disqualifies 3 Pro Taksin Election Victors API- BANGKOK, Thailand – Allies of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra appeared Monday to have cobbled together Thailand’s next government unless large numbers of the winners in recent general elections are disqualified for vote buying and other balloting violations. “We would like to announce the formation [...]

Iraqi bloggers at home and abroad Not many of the people who were blogging in English from inside Iraq appear to be still there. Mohammed is a 25 year-old dentist in Baghdad. In the first of two extracts, his experiences seem to support the latest figures suggesting a recent fall in the number of violent [...]

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Will Google Free the mobile Phone? Marty Manley Google is about to become your phone company. Indeed, if current technology pans out, Google won’t charge you much if anything for your phone, which may serve nicely as your computer and your TV. As of tonight Google stock trades at $700/share making it the fifth most [...]

Obama: Time to Call Al Gore       Three questions are likely to absorb the chattering classes for the next week: will Al Gore run for President? Should he run? And if he were to run, how would he capture public imagination with Iowa only 12 weeks away?   My view, repeated often in [...]

CNN interview ousted Thai PM Taksin Shinawatra CNN interview ousted Thai PM Tkaksin Shinawatra