The Nation: A Complement For Mao's Red Book?

[trader1]

Do you ever get the feeling that the Nation newspaper longs for the (good ol) days when communist activists were gaining a foothold in Thailand?

I don't mean the property section which is essentially advertising cloaked in the newspapers format.

[londonthai]

the major national newspapers do work for and are controlled by the government and the security services and in countries like thailand the US embassy military attache has a lot to say about the international and national policies - so your discoveries have more to do with the conspiracy theories than reality.

thai and international property developers rather wouldn't sponsor a newspapers which would threaten their investments which can't be sold and moved out of the country within a day - if they are advertising there means they know more than you and don't worry about the newspaper policies

[WitawatWatawit]

Do you ever get the feeling that the Nation newspaper longs for the (good ol) days when communist activists were gaining a foothold in Thailand?

I don't mean the property section which is essentially advertising cloaked in the newspapers format.

Alai wah? Don't think the commos ever even came close to gaining a foothold in Thailand. The Americans wouldn't let them -- I mean, where would they have gone for their R&R? Guam? Nah, Nation is just like every other newspaper in Thailand. Trying to make some kind of sense out of the political zoo. Poor basta*ds. They got no chance.

Witawat