Posts Tagged ‘Bangkok Post’

South East Asia: Tsunami terror grips region.

Mass panic ensues after quake, but no casualties. adapted from Bangkok Post. The hard lessons learned from the 2004 tsunami were put to the test as thousands of residents and tourists all along the Andaman coast rushed to higher ground following yesterday’s 8.6-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia. Tsunami alarms and warnings sounded across the region following [...]

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Thailand: Bar raised on lese majeste issue.

The lese majeste law, or Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, will remain intact, at least for now and in the foreseeable future. Or as long as the nine political parties in Thailand keep their word after reaching a gentleman’s agreement to leave it alone during a special Parliament meeting. Another Committee for lese [...]

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Preah Vihear: The differing views of two neighbors.

High representatives of the army and politics of both nations, Cambodia and Thailand, compete for the withdrawal of their troops from the disputed land around Preah Vihear temple (UNESCO World Heritage Site). The two newspaper clippings, one from a Thai, the other from a cambodian paper,showing how the two countries themselves are still in the [...]

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Bangkok. Luxury Cars most wanted.

Luxury cars from Europe are high on the wish lists of wealthy Asians. In the daily newspapers in Thailand you may find more and more specialist inserts, advertisements and colorful reports of luxury cars. Source:    Bangkok Post, Nov, 2011 Related articles What is the best luxury car brand (wiki.answers.com)

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A Sunday Joke – i-Pod vs i-Prod.

P.S. to prod  (prd) 1. To jab or poke, as with a pointed object. 2. To goad to action; incite. n. 1. A pointed object used to prod: a cattle prod. 2. An incitement; a stimulus. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. [...]

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Thailand: The Floods are getting politically decisive.

The more the damp and humid waters from the rural north of Thailand, threaten the metropolis of Bangkok,  the more shows this although unusual natural phenomenon, very radically the major divisions in Thai society. The following comment from the Bangkok Post today is a good analysis of the actual political and social situation aggravated by [...]

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Low Budget Interior Design.

Source: Bangkok Post, Oct 2011

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Bangkok: Flooding Humour – Humor trotz(t) allem.

Gefunden in der Bangkok Post, Montag, 10. Oktober 2011 Related articles 250 die in Thailand after worst flooding in 50 years (independent.co.uk)

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Wer hätte das damals je gedacht……,

…….dass der EURO, gut 10 Jahren nach seiner Einführung, die ganze Finanz-Welt und Realwirtschaft weltweit in eine tiefe Krise stürzen würde. Zwar werden immer noch Kohl und Mitterand als Väter des EURO kolportiert, aber inzwischen ist klar geworden, dass die BRD damals von den EURO-Befürwortern, allen vor an Frankreich erpresst worden ist: Keine Wiedervereinigung ohne [...]

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Kondome als medizinische Notversorgung.

Was soll man/frau von dieser Nachricht in der “Bangkok Post” halten? Viele Interpretationen sind denkbar! Ich überlasse es meinen Bloglesern, was ihnen dazu einfällt. Zum Geschlechtsverhalten der Thais, zum journalistischen Verständnis der Redakteure der Bangkok Post oder zum eigenwilligen Auswahlverfahren des Blogschreibers, was die Inhalte seiner Beiträge betrifft.!

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