Word: bangkok
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...screen, Paramount Pictures owner Sumner Redstone ended the studio’s 14-year relationship with the star. He might not be a celebrity per se, but John Mark Karr certainly made headlines after his shocking confession to accidentally killing Jon Benet Ramsey ten years ago. Apprehended in Bangkok in August, flown first class to Colorado, and outfitted in new duds, Karr was eventually acquitted of murder charges after DNA tests were negative. Karr is now being held for charges of owning child pornography. On a more somber note, environmentalist Steve Irwin, the “Crocodile Hunter...
...director of this year’s conference. Ronald K. Anguas, Jr. ’08 said he had felt “pretty safe” when he spent two weeks in Thailand this summer to co-direct Harvard Model Congress’s four-day conference in Bangkok. “But when I was there, I did notice more headlines about Thaksin—that he was feeling pressure to step down, and there was news of political unrest,” Anguas said. The Harvard Thai Society released a statement yesterday saying...
...near midnight on Tuesday, tanks had rolled up to Bangkok's Government House and the monsoons were drenching the crowds. But the mood during Thailand's first military coup since 1991-the previous one eventually ended with protesters gunned down in the streets-was remarkably festive. Women in miniskirts posed for pictures in front of tanks, while elderly men in pajamas jabbered on cellphones. Last spring, hundreds of thousands of Thai citizens had organized daily peaceful protests on Bangkok streets, calling for the resignation of caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose popularity in urban areas had nosedived after the controversial...
...Welcome to democracy, Thai style. Late on Tuesday evening, with satellite feeds of BBC and CNN intermittently jammed, a military spokesman announced on Thai TV that the armed forces, under the command of Army Chief Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin, had taken over Bangkok and surrounding areas and was declaring martial law. The spokesman blamed the military's extreme measures on what he termed corrupt practices by Thaksin, alleging that the Prime Minister had hampered the workings of both parliament and the courts. Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a constitutional monarch, was reaffirmed as head of state, while the spokesman promised that...
...Rumors of an army rebellion had been floating through Bangkok for weeks, and they only intensified when Thaksin left for a trip abroad earlier this month. (He was in New York on Tuesday when the coup occurred, from where he declared a state of emergency.) The coup also comes just one day before the scheduled resumption of anti-Thaksin protests similar to the ones that brought hundreds of thousands of people to Bangkok streets earlier this year. Plumber Somchai Nityomrath had planned to go to Wednesday's rallies but instead showed up at Government House on Tuesday night to lend...