thegreglowe.com

Last night the atmosphere on Silom Road was a far cry from the clashes between security forces and red shirt supporters on Viphawadi-Rangsit Road earlier that afternoon, which left one soldier dead and 18 people injured.
There were a few lines of police and soldiers dressed in riot gear, standing next to razor-wire cordons and guarding [...]

[Read more →]

Despite reports of there being more than 100,000 red shirts in Bangkok already, at about 6pm tonight the numbers were still relatively low around the main convergence point at Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue.
The red shirts had set up tents all along the road, from quite close to the Rattanakosin Hotel, but there were very low numbers, [...]

[Read more →]

Preventing foreigners from owning land and property in Thailand does many things: it protects powerful Thai landlords and agricultural monopolies, forces overseas investors to consider setting up shop in other regional markets, drives Thai capital from the country and provides a pool of nationalist bile for tub-thumping politicians to draw on and whip up a [...]

[Read more →]

Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission turns 10 today.
A member of the public peruses documents detailing the assets and liabilities of former ministers in the Thaksin government, as released by the National Counter-Corruption Commission.
Its very existence is testament to the endemic corruption that continues to erode local political, economic and social institutions; it is also symbolic of [...]

[Read more →]