A couple from the Udornthani Region recently arrived in Pattaya in the early morning intent on finding the perfect location to open a Vietnam Cuisine Restaurant. After a long day of driving around Pattaya with their eight year old daughter, they decided as dusk fell to pull over in the Jomtien Beach area and catch [...]
This is a follow up to a news story we carried in our last edition in which a gang of boys, travelling home after the Pattaya International Music Festival in the early hours of the morning, were shot at by a rival gang, leaving one dead, Kraisorn Tarnpetch or kott Pattaya klang, aged 14, and [...]
After it was described as this election’s “Prescott punch”, Gordon Brown’s confrontation with pensioner Gillian Duffy has been turned into a video game – Downing Street Fighter.
Just a day after they rumbled in Rochdale, web users can battle it out as either disgruntled voter Mrs Duffy or angry Prime Minister Brown in the specially-adapted beat-’em-up.
The [...]
Floppy disks: headed for the museum, or treasured home for your data? When Sony said this week it was halting the production of floppy disks, the Magazine set out to discover who still buys and uses this anachronistic computer storage medium.
More than 1,000 readers e-mailed in response to the Magazine’s request to explain their attachment [...]
John Lennon’s autographed lyrics for “A Day in the Life” — one of the best-known songs from an iconic album — are expected to sell for more than a song when they go up for auction at Sotheby’s New York on June 18.
The double-sided single sheet of paper written in Lennon’s hand includes cross-outs and [...]
First, let me get something straight. I’m a forefront member of the “Thaksin not yet dead” camp.
That’s the problem, however, as the other side won’t accept any existing piece of evidence, not his Montenegro photos, a media-interview video, a Hong Kong TV interview or even a one-minute phone-in to a red leader when practically everyone [...]
The People’s Alliance for Democracy is renewing its call for the government and armed forces to take swift action to suppress the red shirt rally.
PAD members yesterday visited military units in many provinces to air the view that the red shirts had damaged the country and monarchy and had established an unlawful state.
They urged the [...]
The European Union office here on Thursday issued a
statement expressing concerns over the situation in Thailand, urging conflicting parties to seek negotiations to resolve the problem after the anti-government Red Shirts petitioned the EU seeking help to prevent human rights violation in Thailand.
Five Red Shirt representatives submitted a letter of UDD chairman Veera Musikapong to [...]
In another brazen and controversial move, more than 200 red-shirt guards stormed into Chulalongkorn Hospital last night to check if there were soldiers inside the hospital buildings.
The hour-long incident at the hospital, which is located right next to the red-shirt rally site, was monitored closely on Twitter and triggered a storm of criticism within the [...]
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is approaching senior police officers to join the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation.
The move has come following criticism that police inaction was undermining the government’s attempts to resolve the political crisis, police sources said yesterday.
The sources said the reluctance of some police officers to follow orders had frustrated [...]
