Ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has deserved his rights to get back his diplomatic passport that was revoked after the military junta took power, Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said Thursday.
"Due to the rules of laws and as long as other former prime ministers can keep their diplomatic passports, Khun Thaksin should get back his diplomatic passport," said Noppadon on his first day as foreign minister.
Noppadol was legal adviser and spokesman of Thaksin, who was ousted by a coup in 2006.
Foreign Ministry decided to cancel Thaksin's diplomatic passport, known as red passport, shortly after a Thai court charged Thaksin of abusing of power last year.
Noppadon said Thaksin is presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law." [via The Nation]
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- In the early hours of Thursday Morning, acting on complaints received, a group of Pattaya Police Officers conducted an inspection of cars and people outside a new pub located in North Pattaya. Teams of offices inspected a number of parked vehicles and people who were emerging from the club and at the end of the operation 4 people were arrested and three guns, a knife and a baseball bat were confiscated. The arrestees were aged between 17 and 31 and were charged with a variety of offences relating to the weapons they were found to be carrying. [via Pattaya City News]
Ed. It seems commonplace now for local guys to be carrying some type of weapon when on the town. It's time to control that road rage or else you may find yourself in a whole heap of trouble.
- Midnite Hour have posted an interesting article on the failure rate of bars in Bangkok. Worth a read if you are thinking of going in to the bar business. [via MangoZeen]
- Conspiracy theories abound - for all the power of modern satellites, most of the world's communications rely on submarine cables so when two cables in the Mediterranean were severed last week, it was put down to a mishap with a ship's anchor. Then a third cable was cut, this time near Dubai followed closely by two cables being cut off the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. About a 100 million Internet users are affected from Egypt to India. The cables remain broken and Internet services are still compromised.
Maybe the U.S. is patching in listening posts or even on/off switches as a protection against a cyber attack on the U.S. Who knows but 5 breaks so close together would suggest anything but coincidence. If it is deliberate, the people behind it must have known that by cutting 5 cables in a matter of days, in a sensitive area like the Middle East, it would attract attention. It's hardly stealth like so it looks more like somebody moving with urgency to block a threat rather than doing something subversive. It's one to watch that's for sure.
- DMEXBar gives Windows Explorer super powers - there are plenty of alternatives to the Windows file explorer. But since you can't uninstall the default file explorer, you might as well learn to love it. Or tweak the heck out of it. Whatever floats your boat.
DMEXBar is a Windows Explorer add-on that lets you add a few extra toolbars and dozens of extra features to Explorer. Probably the most notable tweak is the addition of a button that lets you instantly open up a second instance of Windows Explorer next to your current window. This makes it incredibly easy to copy or move files from one folder to another.
You can also add buttons making it easier to launch a command prompt, copy or paste files, or mark them as favorites. The little calculator buttons lets you see how much disk space is used or remaining. There's also a breadcrumb-like toolbar that shows you a list of folders. DMEXBar works with Windows 2000 and XP. [via DownLoadSquad]
- Her cups runneth over with the wine rack - as well as its revolutionary booze-concealing benefits, the Wine Rack increases your cup size by two full cups (cue sound of blokes cheering/leering). But that's hardly surprising because this ingenious dual-purpose shoulder-boulder holder can carry up to 750ml of liquid - that's an entire bottle of wine and a whole lot of extra boobage - talk about vino and va va voom!
Ed. Could be popular with pre-op Katoeys....
- Looking for television program theme tunes from days gone by? If you are
then Television Tunes is for you. Happy Days, Forsyte Saga, Four Feather Falls, Dallas they're all there and many, many more.
- Emma at Labatidora
- Cassia Walton - Playboy's Cyber Girl of the Week
- A lovely young Japanese girl (lovely bod) comes in to a hot spring spa wearing very little clothing and so the gramps got horny and gang up on her. She loves the attention she's getting and let them fondle her breasts etc etc. The Japanese are different that's for sure. [via Megarotic]
- The Lone Ranger is captured by Indians...
The Indian Chief proclaims, "So, you are the great Lone Ranger. In honor of the Harvest Festival, you will be executed in three days. But, before I kill you, I will grant you three requests
What is your first request?"
The Lone Ranger responds, "I'd like to speak to my horse."
The Chief nods and Silver is brought before the Lone Ranger, who whispers in Silver's ear and the horse gallops away. Later that evening, Silver returns with a beautiful blonde woman on his back.
As the Indian Chief watches, the blonde enters the Lone Ranger's tent and spends the night.
The next morning the Indian Chief admits he's impressed. "You have a very fine and loyal horse but I will still kill you in two days. What is your second request?"
The Lone Ranger again asks to speak to his horse. Silver is brought to him, and he again whispers in the horse's ear. As before, Silver takes off across the plains and disappears over the horizon.
Later that evening, to the Chief's surprise, Silver again returns, this time with a brunette, even more attractive than the blonde. She enters the Lone Ranger's tent and spends the night.
The following morning the Indian Chief is again impressed. "You are indeed a man of many talents but I still kill you tomorrow. "What is your last request?"
The Lone Ranger responds, "I'd like to speak to my horse....alone."
The Chief is curious but he agrees and Silver is brought to the Lone Ranger's tent.
Once they're alone, the Lone Ranger grabs Silver by both ears, looks him square in the eye and says, "Listen very carefully you dumb ass horse. For the last time . . . BRING POSSEE". [via lekmir, pattayasecrets]
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