Word: chulalongkorn
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...serfs and the aristocracy. Abhisit struck back on local TV: "Thailand no longer has [such] social classes. People are equal under the constitution, although they have unequal opportunities." But the underclass isn't convinced. "The poor work hard and contribute to society," says Pasuk Phongpaichit, an economist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, "but they are waiting for a crowded bus while the rich drive by in their air-conditioned limos...
...Still, as much class resentment as the reds have harnessed, it's not clear how Thailand will move forward from a seemingly never-ending cycle of red and yellow protest. "It's a deadlocked situation," says Sompop Manarungsan, another Chulalongkorn economist. Plenty of Thais are fed up with both political factions and just want a government that isn't constantly stuck in crisis mode. Abhisit has offered dialogue with the red shirts' leaders, but no amount of talking over the past four years has resulted in any political conciliation. Equally distressing for Thais, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, often considered an arbiter...
...class and élite that supported the 1992 democracy movement, and has as its ultimate aim a so-called "New Politics," whose fuzzy, oft-shifting aims have included the undemocratic step of appointing parliamentarians. "We're looking at a dead end politically," says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "It's hard to understand how democracy in Thailand has come to this...
...Dressed in an impeccably tailored suit, Reid sits alone in a glass-fronted VIP area above the main stand at the Bangkok stadium of Chulalongkorn United. Below him are a few hundred home fans and, opposite them, a few dozen supporters of the Provincial Electricity Authority, the league leaders. Reid has been watching as many league games as possible before picking his national squad. When asked what he's looking for in potential squad members, he replies, "Talent. Pace. Attitude." There are players with all three on the pitch, but Reid has a problem: the stadium's floodlighting...
...takeover marked an ominous turning point in a months-long political battle that has morphed from sideshow farce to center-stage emergency. "When you close down the gateway to the country, then you have reached the point of a national crisis," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a national-security expert at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "In fact, because this now affects Thailand's connection to the wider world, it is becoming an international crisis...