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...avoid a crisis, the government will have to exercise the utmost caution in dealing with the demonstrators, says Somkiat Pongpaiboon, a Democrat lawmaker and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy, an anti-Thaksin group which staged months of protests last year, including the seizure of New Bangkok International Airport for eight days. (Last week, that group's leaders reported to police to face charges for their takeover of Government House during that round of protests; they were released on bail.) Abhisit said during his speech that only police, and not the army, will be assigned to keep order...
...global socio-economic ladder. Because the economic situation is even worse in their native countries, many decide to stay on in their adopted homes even though they have lost their jobs and their work visas are no longer valid. "They will settle to be illegal," says Manolo Abella, a Bangkok-based expert on regional migration for the International Labor Organization. "Migrants workers often tolerate all sorts of abuse and deprivation just to stay and earn a wage, to avoid being sent home." Recent cases of undocumented workers getting pressganged into near slave-like conditions aboard fishing vessels in the river...
...what one is used to in the West. In the U.S. and Europe, we have prettified our rivers, turning city waterfronts into places where genteel folk ride their bikes or snack in the open air. But in Asia - not just in Shanghai, but along the Chao Phraya in Bangkok, or in Hong Kong's harbor - waterways are not pretty at all. They are busy places of work and commerce, the arteries of trade, that age-old process of exchange that, more than anything else, has lifted millions of Asians out of poverty in two generations. (See pictures of China...
...Airbus A380 planes from its Dubai-to-New York route after just eight months in service and is now flying the smaller Boeing 777 instead. But the airline is still flying the big bird between Dubai and Sydney, London and Toronto, and starting June 1, between Toronto and Bangkok as well...
...sincerely loyal to the King. The word "loyalty" has been used as an excuse to acquire power. We have to ask those who are behind the divisiveness to stop meddling into the system. When I was in power, there was a meeting in one house on Sukhumvit [Road in Bangkok] and one of the attendees revealed to me--and I have the tapes of what happened--that the meeting was about getting rid of me, by assassinating me or getting rid of me through politics or through the courts. I know who these people are. I'm thinking of naming...