The US Justice Department has charged a Los Angeles businessman and his wife with paying a bribe of $1.7 million to the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand for the rights to manage the Bangkok International Film Festival.
Gerald Green, 75, and his wife Patricia, 52, were arrested after a criminal complaint was filed in Los Angeles on December 7.
The charges allege that the couple conspired to pay more than $1.7 million dollars in bribes -- about 60 million baht at the time.
They claim the money was paid to a woman identified as the governor of the TAT in order to win the film festival contract and other deals worth more than $10 million.
The complaint did not directly name Thai official allegedly involved but said "she" was president of the Bangkok International Film Festival and governor of the TAT.
The only person apparently meeting that description is Juthamas Siriwan. She is currently contesting the December 23 parliamentary election with the Puea Pandin party.
Ms Juthamas denied any involvement in the scandal.
She said she would sue the US Justice Department if it attempted to tie her to the case. Her statement was difficult to reconcile since the US authorities have already directly tied her to the case.
Ms Juthamas said the bid to organise the Bangkok International Film Festival in 2003 had been implemented according to rules and regulations.
"All the procedures involving the case had been done according to the regulations and with fairness and transparence to all agencies concerned," she told a press conference Wednesday. She did not address the alleged payments by the Greens.
A press release by the US Justice Department released early Wednesday (Thailand time) said the indictment:
"... alleges that from 2003 and continuing into 2007, the Greens conspired with others to bribe a senior Thai government official who was, at the time, the President of the BKKIFF and the Governor of the TAT. As a result of her position at the TAT, the Governor was able to influence the awarding of the BKKIFF contracts as well as other TAT contracts. More than $1.7 million in payments were allegedly made for the benefit of the Governor."
Click here to view the US Department of Justice press release in PDF format.
Click here for the FBI's full affadavit of charges, also in PDF format.
The statement by the Justice Department said the Greens set up a company - Film Festival Management - in 2003 to bid for the rights to stage the Bangkok International Film Festival.
Between 2003 and 2007, the Greens allegedly funneled cash to the Thai tourism official, who used the money to influence the awarding of the contracts for the film festival, which is run by the TAT.
The recipient of the alleged bribes was not identified in the Justice Department statement.
The Greens face up to 10 years in prison if convicted on all charges, the statement said.
The Bangkok International Film Festival has been held annually since 2002. (BangkokPost.com, from Agency reports)
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
A date with a princess, ..................................................and i mean a real one
Yes arent i lucky, now for those who arent in the know the king of thailand and his family are still quite active in the country, and now it might not even happen, but one of daughters of HM the king is coming in about a week to open a building that we have already been using for the last year, the buildings are getting painted again, gardens are being made, and even the road outside of the school is getting a makeover, its all gotta be beautifullllllllllllllllllllllllll, for the lady, a once in a life time oppurtunity to be sick and miss the whole thing Im not really looking forward to it but we will see how things go
UK has left behind murder and chaos, says Basra police chief
Blunt assessment delivered as British hand over security to Iraqis (Warning: The film below contains graphic images which some viewers may find distressing) Mona Mahmoud, Maggie O'Kane and Ian BlackMonday December 17, 2007The Guardian
The full scale of the chaos left behind by British forces in Basra was revealed yesterday as the city's police chief described a province in the grip of well-armed militias strong enough to overpower security forces and brutal enough to behead women considered not sufficiently Islamic.
As British forces finally handed over security in Basra province, marking the end of 4½ years of control in southern Iraq, Major General Jalil Khalaf, the new police commander, said the occupation had left him with a situation close to mayhem. "They left me militia, they left me gangsters, and they left me all the troubles in the world," he said in an interview for Guardian Films and ITV.
.. This site/section combo is not set up to show MPU's -->Khalaf painted a very different picture from that of British officials who, while acknowledging problems in southern Iraq, said yesterday's handover at Basra airbase was timely and appropriate.
Major General Graham Binns, who led British troops into the city in 2003, said the province had "begun to regain its strength". He added: "I came to rid Basra of its enemies and I now formally hand Basra back to its friends."
But in the film, to be broadcast on the Guardian Unlimited website and ITV News, Khalaf lists a catalogue of failings, saying:
· Basra has become so lawless that in the last three months 45 women have been killed for being "immoral" because they were not fully covered or because they may have given birth outside wedlock;
· The British unintentionally rearmed Shia militias by failing to recognise that Iraqi troops were loyal to more than one authority;
· Shia militia are better armed than his men and control Iraq's main port.
In the interview he said the main problem the Iraqi security forces now faced was the struggle to wrest control back from the militia. He appealed for the British to help him do that: "We need the British to help us to watch our borders - both sea and land and we need their intelligence and air support and to keep training the Iraqi police."
David Miliband, the foreign secretary, who attended the handover ceremony, acknowledged that the territory was not "a land of milk and honey" and promised Britain would remain a "committed friend" of Iraq.
But he insisted it was the right time to hand back control. "The key conditions for the transfer of security responsibility to the Iraqi security forces are whether they are up to it: do they have the numbers? Do they have the leadership and training to provide leadership for this province? And the answer to those three questions is yes," he said.
After the handover Des Browne, the defence secretary, praised British forces - 174 of whom have died since the start of the war in March 2003. "Their contribution has been outstanding and their courage inspiring," he said. A scaled-down UK force will remain in a single base at Basra airport, with a small training mission and a rapid reaction team on "overwatch".
Britain now has 4,500 troops in Iraq. The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has said numbers would shrink to 2,500 by mid-2008 though those released may be redeployed to Afghanistan.
Khalaf, who has survived 20 assassination attempts since he became police chief six months ago, said Britain's intentions had been good but misguided. "I don't think the British meant for this mess to happen. When they disbanded the Iraqi police and military after Saddam fell the people they put in their place were not loyal to the Iraqi government. The British trained and armed these people in the extremist groups and now we are faced with a situation where these police are loyal to their parties not their country."
He said the most shocking aspect of the breakdown of law and order in Basra was the murder of women for being unIslamic. "They are being killed because they are accused of behaving in an immoral way. When they kill them they put underwear and indecent clothes on them."
In his office Khalaf showed the Guardian a computer holding the files of 48 unidentified women. "Some of them have even been killed with their children because their killer says that they come out of an adulterous relationship," he said.
Vince Cable, the acting Lib Dem leader, called for a timetable to bring all British troops home from Iraq, adding: "If we are handing power back to the Iraqis, why are 4,500 British troops needed for what is essentially a training mission?"
· The General's Last Stand: a Guardianfilms/ITV News investigation can be seen now on the Guardian website and later tonight on ITV News at 6.30pm and 10.30pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2228690,00.html
The full scale of the chaos left behind by British forces in Basra was revealed yesterday as the city's police chief described a province in the grip of well-armed militias strong enough to overpower security forces and brutal enough to behead women considered not sufficiently Islamic.
As British forces finally handed over security in Basra province, marking the end of 4½ years of control in southern Iraq, Major General Jalil Khalaf, the new police commander, said the occupation had left him with a situation close to mayhem. "They left me militia, they left me gangsters, and they left me all the troubles in the world," he said in an interview for Guardian Films and ITV.
.. This site/section combo is not set up to show MPU's -->Khalaf painted a very different picture from that of British officials who, while acknowledging problems in southern Iraq, said yesterday's handover at Basra airbase was timely and appropriate.
Major General Graham Binns, who led British troops into the city in 2003, said the province had "begun to regain its strength". He added: "I came to rid Basra of its enemies and I now formally hand Basra back to its friends."
But in the film, to be broadcast on the Guardian Unlimited website and ITV News, Khalaf lists a catalogue of failings, saying:
· Basra has become so lawless that in the last three months 45 women have been killed for being "immoral" because they were not fully covered or because they may have given birth outside wedlock;
· The British unintentionally rearmed Shia militias by failing to recognise that Iraqi troops were loyal to more than one authority;
· Shia militia are better armed than his men and control Iraq's main port.
In the interview he said the main problem the Iraqi security forces now faced was the struggle to wrest control back from the militia. He appealed for the British to help him do that: "We need the British to help us to watch our borders - both sea and land and we need their intelligence and air support and to keep training the Iraqi police."
David Miliband, the foreign secretary, who attended the handover ceremony, acknowledged that the territory was not "a land of milk and honey" and promised Britain would remain a "committed friend" of Iraq.
But he insisted it was the right time to hand back control. "The key conditions for the transfer of security responsibility to the Iraqi security forces are whether they are up to it: do they have the numbers? Do they have the leadership and training to provide leadership for this province? And the answer to those three questions is yes," he said.
After the handover Des Browne, the defence secretary, praised British forces - 174 of whom have died since the start of the war in March 2003. "Their contribution has been outstanding and their courage inspiring," he said. A scaled-down UK force will remain in a single base at Basra airport, with a small training mission and a rapid reaction team on "overwatch".
Britain now has 4,500 troops in Iraq. The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has said numbers would shrink to 2,500 by mid-2008 though those released may be redeployed to Afghanistan.
Khalaf, who has survived 20 assassination attempts since he became police chief six months ago, said Britain's intentions had been good but misguided. "I don't think the British meant for this mess to happen. When they disbanded the Iraqi police and military after Saddam fell the people they put in their place were not loyal to the Iraqi government. The British trained and armed these people in the extremist groups and now we are faced with a situation where these police are loyal to their parties not their country."
He said the most shocking aspect of the breakdown of law and order in Basra was the murder of women for being unIslamic. "They are being killed because they are accused of behaving in an immoral way. When they kill them they put underwear and indecent clothes on them."
In his office Khalaf showed the Guardian a computer holding the files of 48 unidentified women. "Some of them have even been killed with their children because their killer says that they come out of an adulterous relationship," he said.
Vince Cable, the acting Lib Dem leader, called for a timetable to bring all British troops home from Iraq, adding: "If we are handing power back to the Iraqis, why are 4,500 British troops needed for what is essentially a training mission?"
· The General's Last Stand: a Guardianfilms/ITV News investigation can be seen now on the Guardian website and later tonight on ITV News at 6.30pm and 10.30pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2228690,00.html
I can already tell why u suffer, why u r in pain and why our world is dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FEAR, there isnt a person that doesnt suffer from it, and its the only thing that will destroy us all, the "how" may vary, and the time could be short or long, but in the end its fear that will end us, and its what drives us to fill our lives with rubbish that means nothing, spending our lives working and making money for nothing, the only way to beat fear is to loose everything and have nothing, but hey a lot of people will loose even more amounts of money, so they arent gonna tell how the shits going down, but they only need it cause they are afraid, if people werent afraid they would never need jobs or homes, because they would know that there is nothing u can obtain that will take away your fear, its what causes addicts and each of the seven sins, it just comes down to FEAR. and the sooner u deal with it the sooner u will know happiness u have known before, and true freedom, u think u live in the land of the free, yet u have never even known what freedom is, just cause u think u can vote ha ha ha oh my god the fools
Can Thailand survive the death of King Bhumihol, or will it crumble???
Now regardless of whether u like the man or even the monarchy, u cant deny that the current king of thailand, is the only string that holds this whole country together. So when he moves on, what will happen to Thailand. Some are worried that there are many different factions which will go for gold, those who are for the prince, and those that are for the princess, also even those who are just plain greedy and want to rule the whole country on their own. Now to be honest neither of the first two have shown real leadership qualites, the princess is intelligent, calm and carin but can not command, and the prince is neither of those three things but can command. Also what will happen to the politicians there will be no longer any one for them to obey or listen to, when ever the shit has gone down, everyone turns to the king for guidence. Now to be honest I am a little worried, because i can promise that there will be another coup no matter on the political situation, and i fear that there will never be peace, unless of course the government are able to be more transparent and honest, but hey im not expecting pigs to fly, or money to freakin grow on trees
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
What kind of parents would manipulate another child over the internet??? who in the end died!!!
It has just come to my attention how another family have manipulated another child, by creating a hoax account on the internet, to try to manipulate, and then later abuse a child. What is going on in this world, are people becoming so self-obsessed that parents have to manipulate children, to get what they want. It really makes me feel quite ill, and whats even worse is that a young child has died from all of this disgusting behaviour, none of which had any benefit for society. Sometimes people really need to think about what they are doing, ask yourself
Is this going to hurt any one? How can I help? How am I improving society?
instead of thinking what can i get from this? how can i hurt somebody?
These parents deserve to be in jail, with some time alone to really think about how low they have gone!!!
Is this going to hurt any one? How can I help? How am I improving society?
instead of thinking what can i get from this? how can i hurt somebody?
These parents deserve to be in jail, with some time alone to really think about how low they have gone!!!
Will thailand ever know democracy when king-religion-nation dominate the continuous brainwashin
Arguably Thailand has never known democracy since the monarchy lost its absolute power over the kingdom in 1932. And ever since that year individuals and groups have been fighting for control, by manipulating the people, and it goes all the way to the top. At the beginning it was the people behind the king, then it was business men, and then it was the U.S.A, and the Chinese. But the only thing that has lasted over those years is greed, and the attempts by these individuals to cheat people out of more and more money. Now to be honest the Monarchy have to side with the military cause if the shit hits the fan who else is going to protect them, so you can understand where they have been coming from, no king or queen have survived without being closely linked to the military. But in a country where the military have so much power, it can be dangerous, and a virus for any government, and many students and protestors have died trying to question, and in the name of democracy, an institution in which many people will loose money and power. So who really wants democracy in Thailand?
Its not the monarchy or the rich. Its certainly not the military. It's the people who are working each and everyday for very poor wages, and in very poor conditions, its these people that will benefit the most, but these people have no power, and many are just happy with what they have got, which has come around as kind of catch 22 for the king and the ones who wish to control the country, because without a desire to be rich, the is no real desire to work any harder than you or your family needs. But they are also happy to just bow down and follow one man.
So will Thailand ever Know democracy?
And not to forget that I'm sure corruption exists in every country and in all governments, but it is far from the eye and very well hidden, and maybe naively, not so common. Thou here people openly offer bribes and broadcast the fact they will pay for votes, and there never has been a government that's survived a term without the leader or half is party being totally thrown out because of its dirty deeds. So is it possible? Many people try to blame education, poverty, western ideals in the east, but really all people should be able to live freely, now if democracy is not working, then what is wrong with a monarchy which now all people bow down to, if he is just and honest, compassionate and understanding At least people listen, and follow what he says. Ignorance is bliss only for the ignorant. But in a country where so many are so happy with nothing, mainly cause that's how they have been trained for so long, you really cant expect them to change so quickly. And in a country where politics is business and only the rich can be politicians, its no wonder that democracy has never grown to anything more than rigged elections, false hopes and broken promises.
Its not the monarchy or the rich. Its certainly not the military. It's the people who are working each and everyday for very poor wages, and in very poor conditions, its these people that will benefit the most, but these people have no power, and many are just happy with what they have got, which has come around as kind of catch 22 for the king and the ones who wish to control the country, because without a desire to be rich, the is no real desire to work any harder than you or your family needs. But they are also happy to just bow down and follow one man.
So will Thailand ever Know democracy?
And not to forget that I'm sure corruption exists in every country and in all governments, but it is far from the eye and very well hidden, and maybe naively, not so common. Thou here people openly offer bribes and broadcast the fact they will pay for votes, and there never has been a government that's survived a term without the leader or half is party being totally thrown out because of its dirty deeds. So is it possible? Many people try to blame education, poverty, western ideals in the east, but really all people should be able to live freely, now if democracy is not working, then what is wrong with a monarchy which now all people bow down to, if he is just and honest, compassionate and understanding At least people listen, and follow what he says. Ignorance is bliss only for the ignorant. But in a country where so many are so happy with nothing, mainly cause that's how they have been trained for so long, you really cant expect them to change so quickly. And in a country where politics is business and only the rich can be politicians, its no wonder that democracy has never grown to anything more than rigged elections, false hopes and broken promises.
Friday, November 09, 2007
Canada to allow Internationaly wanted supect for paedophilia, just stay away from schools OK.!!
Vancouver, Canada (BangkokPost.com from Agencies) - A Canadian court says it let a convicted child sex abuser wanted in Thailand free on bail, because the government has not filed an extradition request to bring the man to Thai justice.
The court told Orvile Mader, 54, who ran from Thailand after police issued a warrant for his arrest, that he can go free as early as today if he simply agrees to conditions that keep him away from places frequented by kids, such as playgrounds, schoolyards and community centres.
The court appears likely to free Mader even though he has already successfully fled from one conviction for child abuse and paedophilia in Cambodia.
Canadian media noted that Mader was convicted in Cambodia of similar charges this year.
Information used to obtain an arrest warrant for Orville Mader says he was convicted in absentia in Cambodia for debauchery for offences that occurred in 2004.
Mader made a brief court appearance at court in Abbotsford on Wednesday via video link, to confirm he has obtained a lawyer and will make a bail application on Thursday, Vancouver time.
Mader has lived in Asia for years, and fled hours before his arrest last week on charges he had sex in Pattaya with an eight-year-old boy.
Mader was arrested last Friday after stepping off a flight at Vancouver International Airport and held under a protective order after a provincial court judge ruled he could present a threat to children.
Thai officials have said they will ask for Mader's extradition on child-abuse and rape charges, but the court and Canadian prosecutors said they have heard nothing from the Thai embassy or government so far.
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The court told Orvile Mader, 54, who ran from Thailand after police issued a warrant for his arrest, that he can go free as early as today if he simply agrees to conditions that keep him away from places frequented by kids, such as playgrounds, schoolyards and community centres.
The court appears likely to free Mader even though he has already successfully fled from one conviction for child abuse and paedophilia in Cambodia.
Canadian media noted that Mader was convicted in Cambodia of similar charges this year.
Information used to obtain an arrest warrant for Orville Mader says he was convicted in absentia in Cambodia for debauchery for offences that occurred in 2004.
Mader made a brief court appearance at court in Abbotsford on Wednesday via video link, to confirm he has obtained a lawyer and will make a bail application on Thursday, Vancouver time.
Mader has lived in Asia for years, and fled hours before his arrest last week on charges he had sex in Pattaya with an eight-year-old boy.
Mader was arrested last Friday after stepping off a flight at Vancouver International Airport and held under a protective order after a provincial court judge ruled he could present a threat to children.
Thai officials have said they will ask for Mader's extradition on child-abuse and rape charges, but the court and Canadian prosecutors said they have heard nothing from the Thai embassy or government so far.
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2 more teachers murdered in southern Thailand
Sixty-one schools in Narathiwat province closed indefinitely on Wednesday morning after two teachers were murdered amidst a heavy uptick in violence and casualties in the South.
Authorities shut 42 schools in Rueso district and 19 others in Si Sakhon district.
Suwatchai Ekthananond, director of Prachapattana School, and Montri Jarong, a teacher of the same school, were shot dead by gunmen on motorcycle while they were leaving the school for their homes on Tuesday.
Three explosive experts died instantly when a bomb they were attempting to defuse placed on a bridge exploded in Panare district of Pattani this morning. A fourth soldier was injured in the blast.
A mine planted on a road near a village in tambon Talingchan of Yala's Bannang Sata district went off this morning after being activated by a patrol vehicle. The explosion wounded killed one soldier and wounded two other troops and three villagers passing by on a motorcycle.
One police officer was killed and two others wounded in a bomb explosion in Pattani's Panare district on Wednesday afternoon. The incident took place when the policemen were examining an object left on a bridge in tambon Ban Klang.
A bomb exploded yesterday at a busy market, wounding 28 people, seven of them seriously, while two public school teachers were shot dead in next-door Narathiwat.
The homemade bomb detonated by remote control exploded at a packed food stall in Muang Yala district.
Police believed a bomber placed the device under one of the stalls on Monday night and waited until customers packed the market before detonating it.
Seven of those hurt were in serious condition, said Pol Lt Col Jeerasit Lomae.
In Narathiwat, two public school teachers were murdered, said Pol Lt-Col Thanapol Meechai.
At least two assailants hidden in the brush stepped out onto a narrow village road in Rueso district and shot them with pistols while they were riding motorcycles home, he said.
The two victims were in a group of six teachers guarded by a village defence volunteer, but they had fallen behind the others, he said.
It is normal practice in the South for teachers to have security escorts to and from school.
More than 2,600 people have been killed in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, and some parts of nearby Songkhla, since the Islamic separatist insurgency flared up in January 2004.
An insurgent suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire with 50 security officers in a longgong orchard in Yala's Yaha district.
It followed a tip-off that about nine armed men had turned up at a local market to buy food and then disappeared into the orchard.
The security patrol later spotted armed men in camouflage uniforms walking in the orchard.
Both sides opened fire and after a brief exchange they suspects retreated into a rubber plantation nearby.
One man identified later as Dorlamae Yasi, 26, was found dead at the scene. An HK-33 rifle and a 30cm PVC pipe containing a home-made bomb were found near his body.
In Narathiwat, police took a member of an active rebel cell to a crime scene to reenact a bomb attack which wounded a police officer in Tak Bai district.
Mahama Madeng, 26, of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil, and five accomplices allegedly planted the bomb which exploded under the pick-up truck of Pol Sub-Lt Seri Hayeeding, a deputy crime suppression inspector of Tak Bai district on Oct 26, 2005.
The officer sustained shrapnel wounds.
Meanwhile, relatives of three men apprehended shortly after they left the military-run vocational training programme and returned home have asked the provincial courts in Yala and Pattani for their immediate release.
Mayakee Manputae, 23, was arrested by police in Yala on Saturday , while Nisae Hayeetalae, 40, and Abdulroman Dueramae, 51, were apprehended on Sunday in Pattani.
The three men were among participants in the army-supervised vocational training programme for individuals with suspected links to the southern insurgency.
The programme, set to end later this month, is being run at army camps in Ranong, Chumphon and Surat Thani.
The courts in those provinces recently ruled the training was voluntary and participants were free to leave the programme if they wanted to.
The three men left the camp and returned home only to be arrested because they were banned from entering Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and parts of Songkhla where martial law has been imposed.
The Pattani provincial court will decide today whether to accept for hearing the relatives' request for the release of Mr Nisae and Mr Abdulroman.
The Yala court admitted Mr Mayakee's case for consideration. The policemen who apprehended Mr Mayakee were called to testify.
The Yala court has set tomorrow for the examining of documentary evidence to determine if the police arrest of Mr Mayakee was legal. (Bangkok Post, AP)
Authorities shut 42 schools in Rueso district and 19 others in Si Sakhon district.
Suwatchai Ekthananond, director of Prachapattana School, and Montri Jarong, a teacher of the same school, were shot dead by gunmen on motorcycle while they were leaving the school for their homes on Tuesday.
Three explosive experts died instantly when a bomb they were attempting to defuse placed on a bridge exploded in Panare district of Pattani this morning. A fourth soldier was injured in the blast.
A mine planted on a road near a village in tambon Talingchan of Yala's Bannang Sata district went off this morning after being activated by a patrol vehicle. The explosion wounded killed one soldier and wounded two other troops and three villagers passing by on a motorcycle.
One police officer was killed and two others wounded in a bomb explosion in Pattani's Panare district on Wednesday afternoon. The incident took place when the policemen were examining an object left on a bridge in tambon Ban Klang.
A bomb exploded yesterday at a busy market, wounding 28 people, seven of them seriously, while two public school teachers were shot dead in next-door Narathiwat.
The homemade bomb detonated by remote control exploded at a packed food stall in Muang Yala district.
Police believed a bomber placed the device under one of the stalls on Monday night and waited until customers packed the market before detonating it.
Seven of those hurt were in serious condition, said Pol Lt Col Jeerasit Lomae.
In Narathiwat, two public school teachers were murdered, said Pol Lt-Col Thanapol Meechai.
At least two assailants hidden in the brush stepped out onto a narrow village road in Rueso district and shot them with pistols while they were riding motorcycles home, he said.
The two victims were in a group of six teachers guarded by a village defence volunteer, but they had fallen behind the others, he said.
It is normal practice in the South for teachers to have security escorts to and from school.
More than 2,600 people have been killed in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, and some parts of nearby Songkhla, since the Islamic separatist insurgency flared up in January 2004.
An insurgent suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire with 50 security officers in a longgong orchard in Yala's Yaha district.
It followed a tip-off that about nine armed men had turned up at a local market to buy food and then disappeared into the orchard.
The security patrol later spotted armed men in camouflage uniforms walking in the orchard.
Both sides opened fire and after a brief exchange they suspects retreated into a rubber plantation nearby.
One man identified later as Dorlamae Yasi, 26, was found dead at the scene. An HK-33 rifle and a 30cm PVC pipe containing a home-made bomb were found near his body.
In Narathiwat, police took a member of an active rebel cell to a crime scene to reenact a bomb attack which wounded a police officer in Tak Bai district.
Mahama Madeng, 26, of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil, and five accomplices allegedly planted the bomb which exploded under the pick-up truck of Pol Sub-Lt Seri Hayeeding, a deputy crime suppression inspector of Tak Bai district on Oct 26, 2005.
The officer sustained shrapnel wounds.
Meanwhile, relatives of three men apprehended shortly after they left the military-run vocational training programme and returned home have asked the provincial courts in Yala and Pattani for their immediate release.
Mayakee Manputae, 23, was arrested by police in Yala on Saturday , while Nisae Hayeetalae, 40, and Abdulroman Dueramae, 51, were apprehended on Sunday in Pattani.
The three men were among participants in the army-supervised vocational training programme for individuals with suspected links to the southern insurgency.
The programme, set to end later this month, is being run at army camps in Ranong, Chumphon and Surat Thani.
The courts in those provinces recently ruled the training was voluntary and participants were free to leave the programme if they wanted to.
The three men left the camp and returned home only to be arrested because they were banned from entering Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and parts of Songkhla where martial law has been imposed.
The Pattani provincial court will decide today whether to accept for hearing the relatives' request for the release of Mr Nisae and Mr Abdulroman.
The Yala court admitted Mr Mayakee's case for consideration. The policemen who apprehended Mr Mayakee were called to testify.
The Yala court has set tomorrow for the examining of documentary evidence to determine if the police arrest of Mr Mayakee was legal. (Bangkok Post, AP)
Two year old born with eight limbs
BANGALORE, India - Surgeons in India began a marathon operation today to save a two-year-old girl born with eight limbs.
Thirty-six doctors covering a range of specialities from paediatrics to plastic surgery are involved in the 40-hour operation at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore.
Doctors believe Lakshmi, who was born attached to a headless conjoined twin that stopped developing in the womb, has an 80 per cent chance of surviving the procedure.
"It has been so far so good," hospital spokesman Siva Rudrayya told AFP.
"She is responding well, although there were a lot of complications. Doctors believe she has an 80 per cent chance of survival."
Lakshmi's condition occurs only once in more than 50,000 births. She is fused to the conjoined twin, known as a "parasitic twin", at the pelvis.
Paediatric surgeon Ashley D'Cruz said it was a particularly complicated case.
"One of the baby's two kidneys is in both bodies and the doctors are trying to bring the kidney from the parasitic structure entirely into the main body," he said.
"The operation will have to be done at one go," added surgeon Sharan Patil as medical staff crowded inside the hospital's main operation theatre.
Patil warned the surgeries would "take many, many hours on a continuous basis" - up to 40 hours - and involved 30 surgeons.
But Patil told reporters: "The child has been responding very well."
Lakshmi, named after the four-armed Indian goddess of wealth, was brought to Bangalore by her father Shambhu, a manual labourer from eastern Bihar state, and mother Poonam, for the surgery.
The hospital is treating her for free.
Plastic surgeon Ashok Rajpal told reporters she needed "extensive replacement of tissues and skin from her parasitic body" but the most challenging task would be to reconstruct the venous system, or veins and blood vessels, which is shared by both bodies.
"The complex surgery is being carried out to remove the extraneous parts very carefully," Patil, the orthopaedic surgeon who heads the team performing the operation, told the Press Trust of India.
Doctors said the child was suffering from an infection and fever when brought to the hospital.
Some in Lakshmi's poor village in the northern state of Bihar revere her as a goddess.
"Everybody considers her a goddess at our village," said Shambhu, who goes by one name.
"All this expenditure has happened to make her normal. So far, everything is fine."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/06/wlimbs206.xml
Thirty-six doctors covering a range of specialities from paediatrics to plastic surgery are involved in the 40-hour operation at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore.
Doctors believe Lakshmi, who was born attached to a headless conjoined twin that stopped developing in the womb, has an 80 per cent chance of surviving the procedure.
"It has been so far so good," hospital spokesman Siva Rudrayya told AFP.
"She is responding well, although there were a lot of complications. Doctors believe she has an 80 per cent chance of survival."
Lakshmi's condition occurs only once in more than 50,000 births. She is fused to the conjoined twin, known as a "parasitic twin", at the pelvis.
Paediatric surgeon Ashley D'Cruz said it was a particularly complicated case.
"One of the baby's two kidneys is in both bodies and the doctors are trying to bring the kidney from the parasitic structure entirely into the main body," he said.
"The operation will have to be done at one go," added surgeon Sharan Patil as medical staff crowded inside the hospital's main operation theatre.
Patil warned the surgeries would "take many, many hours on a continuous basis" - up to 40 hours - and involved 30 surgeons.
But Patil told reporters: "The child has been responding very well."
Lakshmi, named after the four-armed Indian goddess of wealth, was brought to Bangalore by her father Shambhu, a manual labourer from eastern Bihar state, and mother Poonam, for the surgery.
The hospital is treating her for free.
Plastic surgeon Ashok Rajpal told reporters she needed "extensive replacement of tissues and skin from her parasitic body" but the most challenging task would be to reconstruct the venous system, or veins and blood vessels, which is shared by both bodies.
"The complex surgery is being carried out to remove the extraneous parts very carefully," Patil, the orthopaedic surgeon who heads the team performing the operation, told the Press Trust of India.
Doctors said the child was suffering from an infection and fever when brought to the hospital.
Some in Lakshmi's poor village in the northern state of Bihar revere her as a goddess.
"Everybody considers her a goddess at our village," said Shambhu, who goes by one name.
"All this expenditure has happened to make her normal. So far, everything is fine."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/06/wlimbs206.xml
Is corruption in the government OK if they improve the lives of the people???
BangkokPost.com) – Thai people's sense of moral values seem to be taking a nosedive, according to the latest Abac poll from Assumption University.
The survey revealed that more than half of respondents would be willing to put up with corruption within the next government if it means their livelihood will be improved.
About 50 percent of them would consider engaging in a corrupt activity if they considered it was "necessary" to do so while more than 82 percent said they wouldn't think twice about committing a dishonest act if it meant that they would be missing out on an opportunity.
The survey also concluded that those with an elementary school education had higher morals than those with a university degree or higher.
I do love this country, but they do have a point, and its because the ones who are corrupt tend to donate more money and assitance and in general just improve the lives of the people, now this is of course only in Thailand, where most people from Bangkok dislike corruption, but its where most of it happens, the majority of the people cant even afford proper education or health so how is it possible for them to bribe any one, its only the rich living in bangkok that actually have the means to corrupt and in turn be corrupt
The survey revealed that more than half of respondents would be willing to put up with corruption within the next government if it means their livelihood will be improved.
About 50 percent of them would consider engaging in a corrupt activity if they considered it was "necessary" to do so while more than 82 percent said they wouldn't think twice about committing a dishonest act if it meant that they would be missing out on an opportunity.
The survey also concluded that those with an elementary school education had higher morals than those with a university degree or higher.
I do love this country, but they do have a point, and its because the ones who are corrupt tend to donate more money and assitance and in general just improve the lives of the people, now this is of course only in Thailand, where most people from Bangkok dislike corruption, but its where most of it happens, the majority of the people cant even afford proper education or health so how is it possible for them to bribe any one, its only the rich living in bangkok that actually have the means to corrupt and in turn be corrupt
16 year old allowed smoking breaks at school, please what is going on in this world???
VICTORIAN schools will not be following a Canberra high school in allowing students to take cigarette breaks.
Canberra's Stromlo High School has given the green light for year 10 student Tara Lewis, 16, to smoke at school because her doctor says she is addicted to nicotine.
Tara, who smokes a packet a day, says she feels stressed if she cannot smoke between classes.
Her mother was worried she would not finish year 10 if she was not allowed to smoke.
Year 11 and 12 students can smoke at five ACT schools.
A total ban will only be introduced next year.
But a Victorian Government spokeswoman said no secondary schools would be following the ACT's move to allow students to smoke.
"In Victoria, it is illegal for people under 18 to purchase tobacco and it is also illegal for students to smoke on school grounds," the spokeswoman said.
Canberra's Stromlo High School has given the green light for year 10 student Tara Lewis, 16, to smoke at school because her doctor says she is addicted to nicotine.
Tara, who smokes a packet a day, says she feels stressed if she cannot smoke between classes.
Her mother was worried she would not finish year 10 if she was not allowed to smoke.
Year 11 and 12 students can smoke at five ACT schools.
A total ban will only be introduced next year.
But a Victorian Government spokeswoman said no secondary schools would be following the ACT's move to allow students to smoke.
"In Victoria, it is illegal for people under 18 to purchase tobacco and it is also illegal for students to smoke on school grounds," the spokeswoman said.
HA HA HA I JUST BECAME A TERROSIT AGAIN...............................i just dont learn(part 2)
Now ive gone and done it again, i just became a terrorist for the second time, the first was for being in possession of a banned book about the king, and the second which just occured over the weekend was watching a movie about thai polotics and the effects of globalisation on thailand and its people, thou it is 30 years old, most thais have never even heard of it, let alone seen it thanks to the internet, but i better start watchin out "they" might be watching, love u all, and dont forget to love the person next to you
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
I just became a terrorist.........................ha ha ha lol
Now before u go running off to the FBI or the CIA, or what ever other organisations are out that try to police the world, all I did was buy a book thats banned in this country, strangly enough it was just in a local book shop, so i didnt blow anything up nor harm anyone, nor do i have any plans to do such things, The book in mention is called The king never smiles, based upon the longest reigning king in the world at the moment, that being of the kingdom of Thailand, a small beautiful country in south east asia where anything goes and everything has a price, and i mean everything, now i am yet to ever read the first page, but anything that is not released by the monarchy or without its approval is automatically banned, or maybe its just an excuse to over charge people for a book about nothing but i will let u all know, take care for the Lords sake love ur neighbour
ARE U AMERICAN IDIOT???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
GREEN DAY LYRICS
"American Idiot"
Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
I am alive, I have a precious human life
..> ..>
A PRECIOUSHUMAN LIFE
Every day, think as
you wake up, today
I am fortunate to have woken up,
I am alive, I have a precious human life,
I am not going to waste it,
I am going to use all my energies
to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others,
to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings,
I have going to have kind thoughts toward others,I am not going to get angry, or think badly about others,I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
H.H DALAI-LAMA
..>..>
A PRECIOUSHUMAN LIFE
Every day, think as
you wake up, today
I am fortunate to have woken up,
I am alive, I have a precious human life,
I am not going to waste it,
I am going to use all my energies
to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others,
to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings,
I have going to have kind thoughts toward others,I am not going to get angry, or think badly about others,I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
H.H DALAI-LAMA
..>..>
Now kiddie I’m back, so put down down the bong and the pills i know ur pain
After spending just ten days in a monestry with a teacher studing/practicing meditation, you wouldnt believe how good one can feel just living with out all the things most people cant do without these days, such as excessive talking, singing, music, TV, mobile phones, and drugs, but mediatation is one of the greatest things there is, actually training the most important, and often the most forgotten muscle/organ in the world
staying in a temple for ten days ill see you when i get back
take care all, and i will pray for you day and night,
May all beings find happiness and peace,
and may that peace radiate throu the whole universe
May all beings find happiness and peace,
and may that peace radiate throu the whole universe
another shame human beings never learn, you know we could really do something
We've had our teachers for thousands of years, except we are still stuck living like monkeys. Why is it that they have taught us about life and how to live in harmony with the whole world yet we are still squabbling over all the things that dont matter. Its a real shame because we could actually accomplish something that really means something. People are still being killed by oppressive governments and military regimes, and they still let it happen, when in the end its the people that hold all the power in the world yet they are content with letting those with money to control them and to tell them how they should live, its the other way round people, we should be telling the governments what to do not the other way round, yet you all should know all this its not new info nor is it difficult to understand, yet for some reason we are just happy being sheep and told what to do. The revolution wont be televised because its going to have to occur in the each human beings own mind, and no one in the world can do it for them, salvation lies within people, stop enjoying what the devil feeds you and hear the truth, no one can do it for U
Its a shame the greatest movie in the world is truley understood by so few!!!
Never has a movie in all of history attempted to include philosophy, religion, action, love, science, and the future all in one.
There isnt a religion you cant see in it, from Christanity, Hinduism, Daoism, Agnosticism, Buddhism and others.
It also covers philosphy from hundreds of years ago, from Kant, Descartes all the way to current thinkers.
It also covers science and computers and where are they heading, and taking us.
It also covers great topics such as free will, which when one does investigate seems to be less and less likely. Also that of choice and Love.
Love is a topic which nobody still understands after thousands of years. All we know is that is exists, we cant see it nor hear it, but we can experince it and feel it.
It also goes into what is real, for each individual experiences life and this world differently, so how do we know whats real?
And finally also Kamma, energy, cause and action, destiny and fate.
Oh and the action is absolutely amazing, which is a shame because its so good that many are unable to pierce through it to see all of the above I have mentioned.
So why do so many just not understand it?
P.S if u can guess the name ur a superstar already
There isnt a religion you cant see in it, from Christanity, Hinduism, Daoism, Agnosticism, Buddhism and others.
It also covers philosphy from hundreds of years ago, from Kant, Descartes all the way to current thinkers.
It also covers science and computers and where are they heading, and taking us.
It also covers great topics such as free will, which when one does investigate seems to be less and less likely. Also that of choice and Love.
Love is a topic which nobody still understands after thousands of years. All we know is that is exists, we cant see it nor hear it, but we can experince it and feel it.
It also goes into what is real, for each individual experiences life and this world differently, so how do we know whats real?
And finally also Kamma, energy, cause and action, destiny and fate.
Oh and the action is absolutely amazing, which is a shame because its so good that many are unable to pierce through it to see all of the above I have mentioned.
So why do so many just not understand it?
P.S if u can guess the name ur a superstar already
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