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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (PT)

Deputy Prime Ministers1.Yongyuth Wichaidit (PT) also Interior Minister2.Chalerm Yoobamrung (PT)3.Pol Gen Kowit Watana (Outsider-PT)4.Kittirat na Ranong (Outsider- PT) also Commerce Minister5. Chumpol Silapa-archa (CTP) also Tourism and Sports Minister

PM's Office MinistersSurawit Khonsomboon (PT)Kritsana Seehalak (PT)

Defence MinisterGen Yuthasak Sasiprapha (PT)

Finance MinisterThirachai Phuvanatnaranubala (Outsider-PT)

Deputy Finance MinistersBoonsong Teriyaphirom (PT),Viroon Tejapaibul (PT)

Foreign MinisterSurapong Towichukchaikul (PT)

Tourism and Sports MinisterChumpol Silapa-archa (CTP) also DPM

Social Development and Human Security MinisterSanti Promphat (PT)

Agriculture MinisterTheera Wongsamut (CTP)

Deputy Agriculture MinisterPornsak Charoenprasert (PT)

Transport MinisterACM Sukampol Suwannathat (Outsider- PT)

Deputy Transport MinistersLt Pol Gen Chatt Kuldiloke (PT),Kittisakdi Hathasongkroh (PT)

Natural Resources and Environment MinisterPreecha Rengsomboonsuk

Information and Communications Technology MinisterGroup Captain Anudith Nakornthap (PT)

Energy MinisterPichai Naripthaphan (PT)

Commerce MinisterKittirat na Ranong (Outsider- PT) also DPM

Deputy Commerce MinisterPoom Sarapol (PT),Siriwat Kachornprasart (PT)

Interior MinisterYongyuth Wichaidit (PT)- also DPM

Deputy Interior Ministers1.Choochart Harnsawas (PT),2.Thanis Thiengthong (PT)

Justice MinisterPracha Promnok (PT)

Labour MinisterPhadermchai Sasomsap (PT)

Culture MinisterSukumol Kunplome (PC)

Science MinisterPlodprasob Surassawadee (PT)

Education MinisterWoravat Auapinyakul (PT)

Deputy Education MinistersBunruen Srithares (PT),Surapong Ueng-ampornvilai (PT)

Public Health MinisterWitthaya Buranasiri (PT)

Deputy Public Health MinisterTorpong Chaiyasarn (PT)

Industry MinisterWannarat Charnnukul (CPD)

Government Spokesperson

Deputy Government Spokesman

NotesPT = Pheu ThaiCTP = Chart Thai Pattana PC = Phalang ChonCPD = Chart Pattana Puea Pandin

The most important questions is;

If Thaksin gets back to Thailand and takes control, will the pound strengthen against the baht?

Get real. The Sterling is a gonna for now!!

It appears that PTP have won.

Now, will they keep their promises?

The first one will be coalition partners.

Another one will be who will be the PM ...

If they really win more than 300 seats, then they have not need for coalition partners. Maybe just have one or two as a token number!!

I really do not understand the mentality of the thai population sometimes. Do they actually understand anything at all, I swear in some situations they are like children, or at least have the mentality of children. I can see conflicts on the horizon, yet again. Why would they vote in a corupt figure after he has been ousted... Sometimes I wonder about this society (thumbs down)

Ousted by who and how?

The Thai majority has spoken......

Latest polls are now saying 347 seats, wow

You must be kidding!!

Are they done talking?

@eeconomist

- never shouted vulgarities, that was another member

- again, she was not banned.. read the messageh

- there is no past to probe, as stated we were there before with no problems

- are your colleagues sexy?.. no I didn't think so

So you thought is she was refused entry because she was in your opinion sexy?

And you think all other Thai ladies are in Singapore now are not sexy then or they all dress like Mother Theresa at the Singapore immigration?

Nothing to probe, sure!! Nothing!

Don't go to Singapore. They don't need your tourism dollar and you don't need them too!!

You think that Singapore sucks, sure. Maybe that feeling is mutual!!

Oakweb,

Singapore does not ban a person for no reason. They did not give you any reason does not imply that there is no reason. There are thousand of Thai ladies entering Singapore very da..m.n day and they don't get banned or refused entry. My colleauges from Thailand fly in and out of Singapore and no problem at all!

Maybe your case is a case of mistaken identity or maybe there are more than what eyes meet. Have you tried probing your fiance about her past? Does the Singapore authorities knows things that you do not know?

Btw, having a Visa does not guarantee entry to any person. Don't blame Singapore alone, all countries including the US has the right to refuse entry even though the person was issued with an entry visa!

Also, seriously why in the world you shouted vulgarities in the airport officials?? They were kind enough not to arrest you for insulting a public servant!

Try doing it in US and Europe and see what will happen to you!!

This is one of the several problems happening in a dictatorship

Going by your logic, does that mean if someone is banned from entering US means US is ruled by dictatorship?

The Singapore media are pro-red. While they don't really attack the Government, but you can tell that the Singapore media folks in Thailand are quite sympathatic towards the reds. I think recently the Thai embassy in Singapore complained about the issue to the Singapore Government on the Singapore media!

For the Thai English media, it is an understatement to say that they are pro-Government. They are in my opinion the mouth piece of the Government. Anything Government and Yellow are good and correct, anything red is wrong and criminal!! I'm not just talking about this year, but all this while!!

The only person in the English media that I find writing objectively is Atiya Achakulwisut of BP. He articles are fair and objecitve. She presents both sides of the story and both view points. Sometimes she side the Government, sometimes the reds, but usually her comments are fair and unbaised!!

One example of extreme case of pro-Yellow and anti Red is Veera (whatever) of BP. His article are soooo biased and I stopped reading them for a long while (did he change recently?) If you can find an article or thing that he praises the reds, I'll buy you a big mac!

Nice pics.

It's such a shame that so many posters on Thai Visa call for bloodshed.

It's very strange that these people calling for bloodshed are not banned.

I wonder why ?

The perfect thing to do is to draw a borderline around Issan and make it a separate country. Then all the Issaners can live and breath amidst their tire fires. This would be a perfect solution. I know that the vast majority of Bangkonians and Southern Thais would support this

What a wonderful suggestion!! Issan and Ner to form one country and the rest another. Wait... then the 3 southern Muslim provinces also wants indepedent....

So what? Thailand into broken into 3 countries? North, Middle and South Thailand?

Well the Demoracts will rule the Middle Thailand and get majority votes. Maybe 90%!!!

Happy?

The leaders of the yellows (not the average somchai protestor) are before the courts for their charges. They will probably get a lot more time that 6 months when the trial finally happens.

Different laws and different actions lead to different results. It's not a double standard.

Right, when the trial finally happens...

For red shirts, the trial "finally happens" after 2 days..

For Yellow shirt, it is still pending the "finally happens" after 1 1/2 years!!

Maybe when it "finally happens", Sondhi's Great-Grandson will be there to hear the sentencing!!

Your are right about no double standard!!

THIS government have enacted laws that says if you are caught protesting within the red areas, you will be jailed immediately.

The previous government did not enact such laws.

Different governments. Different laws. Different situations. Different results. Not double standards.

The previous Government has laws to punish those who seize the airport and government house. But this "Government" drags its feet!!

This is not double standard???

The leaders of the yellows (not the average somchai protestor) are before the courts for their charges. They will probably get a lot more time that 6 months when the trial finally happens.

Different laws and different actions lead to different results. It's not a double standard.

Right, when the trial finally happens...

For red shirts, the trial "finally happens" after 2 days..

For Yellow shirt, it is still pending the "finally happens" after 1 1/2 years!!

Maybe when it "finally happens", Sondhi's Great-Grandson will be there to hear the sentencing!!

Your are right about no double standard!!

Very efficient indeed. It took the Court a few days to convict the red shirts! Good job!!

BTW has the Court already convicted the Yellow Shirt Protester who seized the Government House and Airport in 2008? Now is 2010!!

The red shirt terrorist say they are a democratic party and if the majority of the people do not believe them, they will bomb the majority until they do.

Just like the Yellow terrorists, if they cannot win and election, block the airport, block the Government, call for Martial Law and ask for a coup, ask for nominated MP and senator... anything goes except a democratic election...

Thailand already loss a great leader Thaksin.

Mark is the only great leader Thailand have left.

Look around you, there is no other alternatives.

Hence please do not suspend Mark for 5 years. Please.

Thanks to the Junta's "Constitution"..........

Aung San Su Kyi is correct after all!

Not sure if this was posted here or not!! If yes, my apologies!

Thai crisis shows perils of military constitution: Suu Kyi

Thailand's political crisis shows that a constitution drawn up by the military can never deliver stability, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Saturday, according to her party.

Myanmar's military junta, which has ruled for nearly half a century, produced a new constitution as part of a "road map to democracy" which includes elections due to be held later this year.

The election plans have been widely criticised and subject to a boycott by Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), which would have had to expel its leader if it wanted to take part.

NLD spokesman Nyan Win said that in a meeting Saturday with Suu Kyi, she discussed the situation in Thailand, which has been wracked by crises since a 2006 coup ejected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

"A new government coming to power under a constitution drawn up by the military will never be stable," he cited her as saying.

"We do not need to see very far. We just see Thailand," she said. "Thaksin was an elected person. The military seized the power from an elected person. The constitution was drawn up by the military," she said.

"After that, what happened with the first (government)? It was not stable," she said of the short-lived administration that followed the coup.

"This was a result of the constitution being written by the military."

Nyan Win said Suu Kyi was not giving an opinion on the rights and wrongs of the conflict in Thailand, where red-shirted campaigners largely loyal to Thaksin are calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.

Abhisit's army-backed administration was appointed in a parliamentary vote after a court ruling ousted Thaksin's allies.

The Reds are also calling for the restoration of a 1997 pro-democracy constitution which preceded the rise to power of Thaksin, who is now living in exile to avoid a jail sentence for corruption.

http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/arti...umentid=4050554

So they are dropping the red shirts. We all know why, yes? So when the reds without red attack the Thai soldiers and the general public with lethal weapons, and they are filmed doing so, they can more conveniently deny responsibility.

Yes, and we know why this govt, formed by a alliance of minority groups after the courts invalidated the elected party's majority, is so resistant to elections and now to a poll.

It is not like the Democrats originally came into power with a military coup and then a court decision, totally circumventing the public's votes, is it?

At best, the Democrats, military coup leaders, and yellows are right about Thaksin, but they chose to fight him using the same corrupt tactics. At worst, they are the real problem.

In either case, their coup and subsequent attempts to override the populist vote proves they are not after democracy.

They (coup military leaders) broke the law with the coup and them rewrote the law to give themselves amnesty.

They (yellows) used mass demonstrations to force a legitimately elected government (Samak) to hold an election.

They used the courts for political reasons to invalidate the majority of pro-Thaksin PMs to get Abhisit into power.

And now they are hypocritically saying the Red's demonstrations are wrong and the reds are criminals....speaking of hypocrisy.

The Democrats and yellow are a joke. Everything they say are lies. If Thaksin was bad, then these people are just evil judging by their actions. Claims of good intentions, or even good intentions with these evil and manipulative actions shows who is really the more desperate and corrupt group here.

You forgot to add that the coup itself was already illegal and the coup leaders should be jailed.

Then the coup leaders even got the cheek to change the constitution to pordon themselves and punish TRT under retrospective law!!

What a joke 555555

Amazing Thailand!!!

It's hard to negotiate with terrorists.

Bravo.

Never negotiate with terrorists.

Fight terror with terror.

Just like how Aung San Su Kyi and her followers never negotiated with the Junta!!

I can only imagine long prison sentences for the likes of Veera, Weng, Nattawut, Jatuporn, Arisman and the other terrorist leaders.

Or will they join their Capo di tutti Capo in Uganda, Montenegro or some other corrupt rat hole?

I reckon that too and verdict will be out real fast.

While the charges against PAD, maybe Chamlong and Sondhi's great great son can hear the verdict!!

The yellows trying to spell "uneducate people".

Can a red shirt help these yellows with their English grammar?

It is very condescending to call others "unedcuated"!!

Or maybe our dear PAD friends really meant uneducate, i.e. Rural folks are educated about democracy by Thaksin and TRT. Now the elites wants to uneducate these poor folks about democracy!!

You could be right.

The red shirt masses have been educated that democracy means:

1) killing soldiers and civilians

2) pouring blood on the PMs house, government house, and Army Regimental HQ

3) making death threats against government leaders

4) breaking and entering government facilities

5) breaking into parliament and holding up the process of government

6) disrupting international meetings

7) declaring war on the government

8) mob violence

9) intimidation

10) threatening all who oppose their aims

11) threatening to burn government buildings

12) threatening to burn BKK

13) kidnapping soldiers

14) hi-jacking military trains

15) hi-jacking military buses

16) gathering illegally

17) shutting down the central business district

18) attempting to shut down the central financial district

19) removing evidence from hospitals

20) defying a state of emergency

21) defying lawful orders from all legal authorities

22) lobbing and launching grenades at civilians

23) threatening to blow up the BTS

24) blowing up the BTS

25) harassing innocent passersby

26) bombing banks

27) attempting to blow up oil depots

28) rioting

29) impaling soldiers with sharpened bamboo sticks

30) throwing molotov cocktails at security forces

31) threatening and attempting to blow up oil tankers in residential neighborhoods

32) bombing opposition protest groups

33) assassinating military commanders

etc. etc. etc.

Obviously there is a clear and present need to 'uneducate' them.

Add to the list. Democracy means:

34) practicing double standard

35) rolling tanks into Bangkok to overthrow a democratically elected Government while the PM is away representing the country at UNGA

36) firing a PM for appearing on TV cook show

37) the serfs are just too stooooopid to vote and only the elites are wise enough to vote

38) Law and miltary are very fair, you can seize the airport and Government House and nothing happens

39) Well not exactly nothing happens (38 above), one can be a Minister after (38) above

40) Having law [drawn up by a Junta] that are retrospective

41) Closing TV and radio stations that have one political view, while allowing the other stations with the opposite views to stay open

42) Having more nominated Senators and MPs than the number of elected representatives!!

43) Accusing others of crime/attacks, even before any truth are ascertained

44) road block to stop one group from travelling to Bangkok to protest, while allowing another group to do whatever these wishes

45) Blocking internet website including facebook pages

46) National TVs and papers are mostly one-sided!!

47) as democractic as Union of Myanmar!

BTS' security cameras confirm M79 grenades fired from Lumpini Park: deputy BKK governor

Deputy Bangkok Governor Thirachon Manomaipibul said video records from security cameras of the BTS' Saladaeng station showed that m79 grenades were fired from the Lumpini Park Thursday night.

Thirachon said the security cameras of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration were crippled by red-shirt protesters who put black plastic bags over the camera or turned the cameras into the sky.

Thirachon said the BMA sought cooperation from the BTS to check feeds of its security cameras and saw that the grenades were fired from the direction of the Lumpini Park into the crowds on Silom Road.

The Nation

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/BTS-s...r-30127820.html

The yellows trying to spell "uneducate people".

Can a red shirt help these yellows with their English grammar?

It is very condescending to call others "unedcuated"!!

Or maybe our dear PAD friends really meant uneducate, i.e. Rural folks are educated about democracy by Thaksin and TRT. Now the elites wants to uneducate these poor folks about democracy!!

What I find funny is that when Somchai Wongsawat was Prime Minister and the PAD laid siege on the government house and Suvarnabhumi airport, Abhisit called for the government to dissolve parliament and "respect the will of the Thai people".

Now it is Abhisit who is in that exact same situation. Will be dissolve parliament and "respect the will of the Thai people"?

Abhisit is not Mr. Thaksin's brother-in-law.

Talk is cheap. They don't call a person Mr Lip Service for nothing!!

don't the Thai govt. understand that the world is watching, shaking their heads and laughing at them. Maybe they just don't care. Is there not One person in all of Thailand who knows how a govt should be run and how an Army should be run and how a Police force should be run. Not one person? Can you imagine ANY police force in the rest of the world, putting up with this stuff? In the U.S., there would be red shirts laying dead all over the street, or gassed and put in jail, or both, but not still operating like they are. What is wrong with these people?

That is in US and most countries.

In Thailand, they becomes Minister!!!