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2011 – Some personal thoughts

By Siam Voices Sat, Dec 31, 2011 12:10PM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut Note: The views expressed here are solely those of the author and not of Asian Correspondent and of the other Siam Voices authors 2011 is history and looking back on Thailand this past year, it has been yet another eventful year that brought some answers, but many more questions to the wide-spread problems that continues to plague the...

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Live-Blog: Thailand Elections 2011

By Siam Voices Sun, Jul 03, 2011 2:59PM UTC View Comments

The campaign is over, no more stump speeches, no more posters, no more mingling with the crowd - today, the circus moves aside for the 43 million eligible Thais to vote in the 2011 general elections. The last few weeks and months saw a hotly contested campaign trial of nearly all 40 political parties which...

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The Nation’s election predictions

By Bangkok Pundit Fri, Jun 24, 2011 12:55AM UTC Comments Off

The Nation has posted its election predictions and BP has created this chart – see also June 23s Kom Chad Luek p2 (although their chart says Bhum Jai Thai is 55-67!) BP: As you will see The Nation, as the article also states, says that the big two parties will win 380 seats and the small...

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Tongue-Thai’ed! Part VI: Wifebeating campaign poster edition?!

By Siam Voices Thu, Jun 02, 2011 9:30AM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut “Tongue-Thai’ed!” encapsulates 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. The campaign season offers many curious incidents and sightings that only appear during the run-up to the elections,...

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ABC interviews Thaksin

By Bangkok Pundit Thu, Jun 02, 2011 9:00AM UTC Comments Off

On Tuesday, ABC (Australia) aired an interview with former PM Thaksin. A video and a transcript is available from here. It is a good, tough, but fair interview. Some comments below: 1. Thaksin hasn’t 100% ruled ever becoming PM again, but it seems unlikely in the immediate future. For now, he has control of things...

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