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...second-floor lock-up: according to detectives, he's ingested too much lamphong, a locally grown intoxicating flower that causes vivid hallucinations and can cause permanent psychological damage. They'll be shipping him to a psychiatric ward on the mainland, to a place called, of all things, Suan Sanarom--the Garden of Joys...
Last night's forum also discussed spy charges arising from an incident last February when Jye-Suan Huang, a former MIT graduate student from Taiwan, was caught taking pictures of participants in an anti-Taiwan Project meeting...
...being invested at Parliament House as heir to the throne of Thailand, and most foreign diplomats, including Israeli Ambassador Rehavam Amir, were among those attending the ceremony. In short, the city's embassies were quiet and relaxed. All, that is, except the Israeli Embassy on Soi Lang Suan ("The Lane Behind the Orchard"). In the hot tropical sun of high noon, two men in leather jackets climbed over the wall enclosing the compound, while two others, well-dressed in dark suits, strolled in through the front gate. Before the guard could raise any alarm, he was staring down...
...most serious opposition now comes from the left, including Communists within his party whom he at first tried to placate with government jobs. They are led by fiery young Fong Swee Suan, a secretary of the Trades Union Congress. Last week Fong attacked Lee for "softness on capitalism." Lee retaliated by summarily ordering Fong to "vacate" his post in the Labor Ministry...
...Harvard College, Bangkok, Siam, Suan Kularb, (Bangkok, Siam...