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Thai Talk
Analysis and comments on political and current affairs
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Saturday , November 21 , 2009
Khmer lawyer: Thaksin isnt Cambodia PM, he is a convicted man
Posted by Yoon , Reader : 269 , 10:42:16  
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Cambodia's Interior Ministry has released a directive instructing all government officials to encrypt their communications to "protect information related to national security."The statement came in the wake of rising tension with Thailand over "stolen confidential documents" related to the arrest of Thai engineer Siwarak Chutipong, an employee of CATS, a subsidiary of Samart Grou....


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Thursday , November 19 , 2009
Obamas Shanghai town-hall meet: A big non-event
Posted by Yoon , Reader : 183 , 04:58:45  
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I WAS terribly disappointed. I stayed glued to CNN and the White House's website that was live-streaming President Barack Obama's 'town-hall' meeting with young Chinese people in Shanghai on Monday. There was not one single exciting or illuminating question from the audience.I can understand why the Chinese authorities would try to make it a tightly scripted affair. What I couldn't understand was why....


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Monday , November 16 , 2009
What does Abhisit mean by 'early elections?'
Posted by Yoon , Reader : 2618 , 10:07:09  
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PM Abhisit tells th Asian Wall Street Journal in Singapore that he may call early elections after the economy has recovered.But he didn't define what "recovery" meant -- and that throws open the timing of the next general election.What he actually said was: "The likelihood is that there will be early elections once the economy is firmly groued. The early poll could be called any time.&....


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Saturday , November 14 , 2009
The Thaksins portrait at Angkor Golf Club in Siem Riep
Posted by Yoon , Reader : 487 , 13:06:13  
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Former FEER correspondent Shawn W Crispin writes that Thaksin Shinawatra's Cambodian gambit is interwined with several plots.Writing for the Asia Times website, he quoted one Bangkok-based diplomat as saying that it was an "open secret" that Thaksin had travelled to Cambodia since fleeing into exile last year.Crispin said at the Angkor Golf Club in Siem Riep, a portrait hangs on the wall to....


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Thursday , November 12 , 2009
How Hun Sen and Thaksin personalise the showdown with Bangkok
Posted by Yoon , Reader : 525 , 05:02:36  
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Two great puzzles have kept me totally mystified over the Hun Sen-Thaksin-Abhisit affair: 1. Cambodian Premier Hun Sen says this spat has nothing to do with the two countries. Nor does it have anything to do with the armed forces on both sides. It's strictly a confrontation between him and the Thai premier, Abhisit Vejjajiva.2. One part of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's inner circle (yes, he has sev....


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