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Todd
Bangkok, Thailand
Reporter transplanted from Los Angeles to Bangkok
Interests: travel, games, journalism, energy, politics, culture, arts, military, experimental music, expat life
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2020: Gazing back from Utopia
Posted May 19, 2020 at Reporter in Exile
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Reconciliation recommendation
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Thailand, created after the spasm of unrest that left nearly 100 dead in Bangkok last year, has released its formal recommendation as prepared for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The attached letter is in Thai with an English version forthcoming. I've just received a copy and will comment after having it translated. Part 1 สิ่งที่ส่งมาด้วย 1 (การก่อการร้ายกับการมอบอำนาจฯ) Part 2 สิ่งที่ส่งมาด้วย 2 (นิติศาสตร์แนวพุทธ) Part 3 สิ่งที่ส่งมาด้วย 3 (Japanese Red Army) Part 4 สิ่งที่ส่งมาด้วย 4 (Red Army Faction) Continue reading
Posted Dec 30, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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Thai Floodocalypse 2011: The Wettening
Posted Oct 26, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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Sarbil
Update: Olivier is in Paris receiving medical care and will be fine. He received several serious wounds that will need further surgeries to mitigate. Although the world would benefit from an Olivier cyborg, it would seem he's managed to not lose any body parts. Getting questions regarding my friend Olivier Sarbil, who's been working independently in Libya for several weekends with his partner Kate Parkinson. Heard from Kate this morning as AFP was reporting Olivier "seriously injured" during fighting around Sirte. She said that Olivier was in surgery and expected to survive after being wounded by shrapnel she said likely... Continue reading
Posted Sep 18, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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Thais return party of Thaksin to power
Posted Jul 3, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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A woefully incomplete guide to Thailand's 2011 election
Posted Jun 30, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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Wordsmithing
Posted Jun 25, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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With election and return to democracy near, sparks fly from Thai hustings
Posted Jun 9, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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Thailand one year on
Antigovernment Redshirt demonstrators are marking the first anniversary of a violent crackdown by massing at the same location from which they were forcibly expelled May 19, 2010. Their vigil in front of the Central World Plaza in the Thai capital's upscale shopping district comes despite a rumored deal that has kept them off the streets in large numbers. Today the political parties drew their numbers for ballot position in the much-anticipated general election to take place July 3. After a year of relative quiet, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled Redshirt figurehead, has been actively campaigning for his Puea... Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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UBL's terminal surprises
Posted May 1, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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Do it in the Road, Eat it in the Street
Posted Apr 11, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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NoDaddy
After many years of using GoDaddy.com for registering domain names, I've transferred them to another service after learning how founder Bob Parson likes to vacation. He doesn't need my $9.99 to shoot elephants. Continue reading
Posted Apr 3, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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Amazing Pattaya amazes
Posted Mar 15, 2011 at Reporter in Exile
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Extradition A Go-Go? Bout-Thaksin quid pro quo?
Thaksin Shinawatra, the Thai Government's most wanted political fugitive, could appear this month in Washington later this month before a U.S. government human rights agency. The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe has invited the former prime minister -- since deposed and convicted of corruption -- to speak about human rights in the kingdom, the Post reports. Although word has it Thaksin isn't quite so cozy these days with Thai opposition elements, the government has unsucessfully sought his extradition for the past four years. Thailand's recent extradition of suspected arms trafficker Viktor Bout would seem to give Bangkok a... Continue reading
Posted Dec 13, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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ThaiLeaks?
A U.S.-based computer security journal reported today that Wikileaks' latest round of network attacks originated from computers in Russia and Thailand. (H/T @responseap) (Original source: Arbor Networks security blog.) One interesting item to look for among the State dispatches would be correspondence regarding American threat assessments of this past spring's red shirt campaign in central Bangkok. On March 17 -- the same day red shirts splashed blood onto the prime minister's home -- they also converged on the U.S. Embassy demanding to know if U.S. intelligence had been supplied to Thai authorities. Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban earlier had cited... Continue reading
Posted Dec 1, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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The New Colossus
Posted Nov 29, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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Court dismisses case
Without speaking to its merits, Thailand's Constitutional Court has voted 4-2 to dismiss the case against the ruling Democrat Party on procedural grounds. This avoids an outcome which would have immediately destabilized already tumultuous Thailand. In the long term, however, it is unlikely to bolster people's confidence in a system which dissolved the previous two opposition governments, one over a prime minister's cooking show. Continue reading
Posted Nov 29, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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Government's fate in hands of Thai court
Posted Nov 28, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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Red shirt rally situation "tense" on crackdown's sixth anniversary
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the violent suppression of the red shirt movement's occupation of critical Bangkok areas this past spring. I've yet to make it over there, but someone just sent this: RATACHAPRASONG UPDATE 7am: Hordes of police if flowing in. Columns of prison vans are waiting. Large groups of riot police in full gear are moving around Ratchprasong. Many more are getting ready. Some "red camps" have been removed. Scattered red shirts are around the whole area and their mood is very tense. Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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U.S. wins 'Merchant of Death' from Thailand
Posted Nov 16, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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Estranged Burmese rebels reunited by mutual loathing for Yangon
Aung San Suu Kyi's release is certainly Burma's biggest post-fauxlection news, given the popularity of her narrative with Western audiences. It does nothing, however, to mitigate Burma's other mess -- the civil war along its border with Thailand. You know, the one Rambo IV was about. Fortunately for Yangon, the Karen, an ethnic group at odds with Burmese leadership since independence from colonial Britain, have been too busy fighting each other in recent years. In fact, Burma's military dictatorship was keen to transform the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army -- which broke away from the Christian-dominated Karen National Liberation Army 16... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi's release imminent
Posted Nov 12, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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Karen rebels strike Burmese border town; refugees surge into Thailand
About 1,000 fighters of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) briefly seized the Burmese border town of Myawaddy yesterday, prompting a battle with government forces and the exodus of thousands of refugees into Thailand. The attack came one day after few Burmese voted in the first election for the country -- also called Myanmar -- to be held in two decades. As expected, about 8 in 10 seats in the new parliament were won by the political parties operating on behalf of the martial government. View DKBA clash November, 2010 in a larger map The Karen, an ethnic group which... Continue reading
Posted Nov 9, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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Socking the Burma vote
Posted Nov 7, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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What else is going on in Thailand
Things other than cyclical political unrest do happen in Thailand. Severe flooding upcountry has killed 41 people and affected about 30 provinces. Thailand's alluvial plain drains into the Chao Phraya River, which reaches the gulf through Bangkok. Those waters are now hitting the Thai capital. U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon hits town Tuesday. He is not expected to say anything terribly significant. Activists still hope to air their complaints. While occasional violence in Bangkok grabs headlines, southern Thailand remains a frenzy of with frequent bombings and assassinations in the Muslim-Malay provinces seeking independence from Bangkok. Some observers have been teasing... Continue reading
Posted Oct 25, 2010 at Reporter in Exile
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