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...appetite for political power." This statement captures the nature of not only the general but also of the coup itself. The coup was conducted to ensure the security and stability of Thailand, and, in doing so, to ensure [returning] power to civilians with a stronger and sounder democratic foundation. Kitti Wasinondh Director-General Department of Information Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bangkok...
...Kitti Manoonphol, the dashing 31-year-old Thai jewelry designer whose outrageous creations appear on the necks and wrists of Thai princesses and reigning beauty queens (Miss Thailand and Miss World among them), is setting his sights on the wider world. And his latest collection (which can be viewed at kittijewelry.com) might just help him get there. "Contemporary ethnic arts," the phrase adopted by Kitti to describe his latest work, barely does justice to his audacious combination of ancient bead-working techniques and modern junk. Visitors to his "art space" (read: store), on Bangkok's rapidly gentrifying Silom Road...
...Kitti Manoonphol, the dashing 31-year-old Thai jewelry designer whose outrageous creations appear on the necks and wrists of Thai princesses and reigning beauty queens (Miss Thailand and Miss World among them), is setting his sights on the wider world. And his latest collection (which can be viewed at kittijewelry.com) might just help him get there. "Contemporary ethnic arts," the phrase adopted by Kitti to describe his latest work, barely does justice to his audacious combination of ancient bead-working techniques and modern junk. Visitors to his "art space" (read: store), on Bangkok's rapidly gentrifying Silom Road...
...battalion base had been overrun, declared that the four soldiers killed that night "deserved to die." He imposed martial law in three of the five southern provinces and acknowledged that the south harbors an Islamic insurgent movement bent on creating unrest within Thailand. His security adviser, retired General Kitti Rattanachaya, claimed the attacks last week were the work of a little-known group, the Gerakan Mujahideen Islam Pattani (G.M.I.P.), which has close ties to the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia?a militant Islamic outfit with links to more established terror groups Jemaah Islamiah (JI) and al-Qaeda...
...middle class once convinced that the PM's antidote for Thailand's domestic ills?including low interest rates, government-funded health plans, and cheap loans for the poor?was little more than populism masquerading as policy. "I never voted for Thaksin in the elections," says Bangkok-based advertising executive Kitti Chambundabongse. "I thought he was just another rich kid with a hunger for power. But he has proved to be so much more than that. He's given us the confidence we lacked...