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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 baht per litre [...]

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 Thienthong, who led members [...]

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 of the coalition [...]

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 deaths in [...]

Thailand’s ousted PM Thaksin youtube video

Thailand’s ousted PM Thaksin youtube video

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 valuable company in [...]

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 these pages, is that Gore will [...]

CNN interview ousted Thai PM Taksin Shinawatra

CNN interview ousted Thai PM Tkaksin Shinawatra

Thaksin-linked party claims ‘victory for democracy’ in Thai election polls
12.23.07
BANGKOK- The People Power Party, the political outfit aligned with ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, said Sunday’s elections were a victory for democracy, after exit polls gave them a strong lead.
‘This is a victory for people and democracy. It shows that the coup one-and-a-half years ago [...]