@Simbabbad

After 15 years in Thailand, forced to return. Now a stranger in a strange land, missing Thailand and my Thai family, Thai temperature, the Thai "Mai pen arai".

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Joined June 2014
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"MSN Weather" app is since today completely in Chinese script" A hack? #MSNWeather
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Ons kabinet blijft Israël steunen en draagt, in naam van alle Nederlanders, actief bij aan ongekend leed en onacceptabel onrecht. Nederland, maak mij niet langer medeplichtig. Daarom zeg ik @minpres: Niet in mijn naam. #nietinmijnnaam
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Nederland, maak mij niet langer medeplichtig aan oorlogsmisdaden die gepleegd worden in Palestina en Libanon. Aan het ongekende geweld dat al een jaar aan de gang is. Aan de dreigende uitroeiing van het Palestijnse volk in Gaza.
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Bashar al-Assad gone. Who’s next?
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In 1973 British ambassador Arthur de la Mare sent a valedictory despatch from Bangkok that described the Thais as indolent, feckless, vain, charming, irritating, frustrating and endearing. He called Bangkok a stinking "latter-day version of Sodom and Gomorrah". 🧵1/14
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A 29-year-old pro-democracy activist and artist has been given a 3-year suspended sentence in prison after being charged with royal defamation for posting a drawing of King Vajiralongkorn on social media. prachataienglish.com/node/11…
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A court has dismissed charges filed against a man for the death of Warit Somnoi, a 15-year-old protester killed after being shot during a protest near Din Daeng Police Station on 16 August 2021, citing unclear evidence. prachataienglish.com/node/11… #News #Thailand #WhatsHappeningInThailand #วาฤทธิ์สมน้อย #ม็อบดินแดง
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Thailand and terrorism thaipoliticalprisoners.wordp…

Thailand and terrorism

While not a lese majeste story, we found an announcement made by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of interest. It has issued an urgent “essential” travel warning for Bri…

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Faith no more 112 thaipoliticalprisoners.wordp…

Faith no more 112

The 112 case involving Tiwagorn Withiton has gone on for some time. He was prosecuted for lese majeste, sedition, and computer crimes in late May 2021, for wearing, in 2020,  a t-shirt printed with…

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The Supreme Court has denied bail for an activist charged with royal defamation for wearing a shirt with the message “I have lost faith in the monarchy,” and sentenced him to six years in prison. prachataienglish.com/node/11…
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Van de reddende ridder van de toeslagenschandaalslachtoffers naar 'tja ik snap het medeleven maar zet dat 11-jarige jochie toch maar gewoon uit.' Ik zou er een zijdelingse verdraaiing van de wervelkolom van krijgen maar Omtzigt doet het gewoon.
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‘Ik snap het medeleven met Mikael,' maar: 'De Tweede Kamer moet niet over individuele asielzaken gaan,’ aldus NSC-voorzitter @PieterOmtzigt in @DIT_EO is de Dag over de uitzetting van de in Nederland geboren Mikael (11) en zijn Armeense moeder. 🎧bit.ly/ditisdedagpodcast
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LM catch-up III: Arnon's ongoing persecution thaipoliticalprisoners.wordp…

LM catch-up III: Arnon’s ongoing persecution

Prachatai reported that on 25 July 2024 lawyer and activist Arnon Nampa was found guilty on lese majeste and computer crimes charges. This is his fourth conviction. The Criminal Court sentenced Arn…

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Conservative elite not finished with reformers thaipoliticalprisoners.wordp…

Conservative elite not finished with reformers

The conservative royalists are continuing their war on any whiff of progressivism. Any notion of reform is defined as anti-monarchism and an effort to bring down the royalist elite’s neo-feud…

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Monarchism is compulsory thaipoliticalprisoners.wordp…

Monarchism is compulsory

Now that adherence to monarchism is compulsory for all in the country, the courts and prosecutors are “cleaning up” previous cases where Article 112 cases were (astoundingly) acquitted.…

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Monarchy catch-up II thaipoliticalprisoners.wordp…

Monarchy catch-up II

In the context of two Constitutional Court decisions targeting the two parties that received most votes in the 2023 election, this story from late July was a cracker from the Australian ABC News: L…

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Monarchy catch-up I thaipoliticalprisoners.wordp…

Monarchy catch-up I

As promised, PPT is doing a catch-up on news about various topics that we follow. The catch-up is of a period of about two months, and we are using “Monarchy” and “Lese Majeste…

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Thailand’s sham democracy thaipoliticalprisoners.wordp…

Thailand’s sham democracy

We thought this article in The Spectator by Caleb Quinley deserved some wider attention. We reproduce in full with some of our comments. Thailand’s democracy is a sham 11 August 2024, 6:00am Democr…

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Opinion: Thailand’s Politics of Absurdity: The Move Forward Party Case khaosodenglish.com/opinion/2… via @KhaosodEnglish

Opinion: Thailand's Politics of Absurdity: The Move Forward Party Case

Three more days and we will know on August 7 whether Move Forward Party, the party with 14 million votes behind them, would be dissolved by the Constitutional Court, and their leaders, including the...

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An elephant and it's caretaker in an elephant orphanage
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