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Tongue-Thai’ed!: An insult to the PM, a libel suit and an avalanche of poor decisions

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Fri, May 10, 2013 11:00AM UTC 0 Comment

This is part XIX of “Tongue-Thai’ed!”, in which we encapsulate the most baffling, amusing, confusing, outrageous and appalling quotes from Thai politicians and other public figures – in short: everything we hear that makes us go “Huh?!”. Check out all past entries here. In her tenure for almost two years now, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra generally comes...

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Poll: social media to play major role in future India elections

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Sat, Apr 20, 2013 8:05PM UTC 0 Comment

A recent report indicated that the impact of social media on the next parliamentary election in India would be significant. Sponsored by the Internet and Mobile Association of India and conducted by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, the study contends that the outcome in 287 seats out of India’s 543 parliamentary seats would be influenced by the...

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Singapore’s state prosecution demands apology for Facebook comments

By Kirsten Han Thu, Apr 18, 2013 7:17PM UTC 0 Comment

Singapore’s Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) have sent out letters demanding apologies from several websites after criticism was made of the court’s decision to sentence Yuan Zhenghua to 25 months in jail. In 2012, Yuan hijacked a taxi at Changi Airport and crashed it, killing an airport worker. He was given his sentence on Monday. Comments then...

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Thai Culture Minister slams SNL ‘Rosetta Stone’ sketch

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Tue, Feb 05, 2013 10:15AM UTC 0 Comment

About two weeks ago, the long-running US-American TV-show “Saturday Night Live” on NBC* had a skit lampooning the language-learning software Rosetta Stone (see embedded video below). In the parody commercial, some of the testimonials claim to use the software to learn Thai, order “to go to Thailand – for a thing…!” Of course, given that these...

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Vietnamese blogger prevented from travelling to US

By AP News Wed, Dec 19, 2012 1:25PM UTC 0 Comment

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnamese blogger has been stopped from flying to the United States to pick up a human rights award on behalf of his father and sister. Huynh Trong Hieu said Wednesday that police detained him at Ho Chi Minh airport on Sunday. He says they questioned him for two hours and...

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