Stories from Thailand and beyond. If it’s both terrifying and amazing then you should definitely pursue it.
In the struggle for political power in Thailand between the Reds and the Yellows – which has been going on for fifteen years, getting hotter and hotter, more and more violent, with huge mobilizations and heated oratory – I noticed something that was missing.
From self-imposed exile, the influential leader of Thailand’s rural ‘red shirt’ opposition movement has delivered a message to followers angry at the military junta’s iron rule: lay low for now, don’t panic, “play dead.”
Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha says he has asked Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej for permission to bring an end to martial law.
A new Thai constitution being drafted by the ruling junta is a throwback to an era when a royalist and military elite had a stranglehold on politics.