Thailand revokes Thaksin Shinawatra’s passport
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- Thailand revokes Thaksin Shinawatra’s passport
- Protests can’t stop the party at Thai beach resort
- Make your own Thai salad
- Thai private sector urges gov’t to quickly lift state of emergency
- GIA Thailand to Host Extensive Lecture on Jade
Thailand revokes Thaksin Shinawatra’s passport
The Australian
Thaksin is in Dubai based in a luxury hotel and Thai Foreign Ministry officials are understood to have asked the United Arab Emirates to assist with his extradition. Last week before the warrant for Thaksin was issued a Thai official said that a government not identified was not co-operating with a request to return the former leader who already faces a two-year jail sentence for abuse of his former office and corruption. Thaksin’s Thai passport had been revoked government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said in retaliation for his supporters’ Saturday attack on the Pattaya venue of the ASEAN and East Asian summits forcing their postponement. "The decision to cancel his passport was based on passport issuing regulations which state that the (Foreign) Ministry can cancel or recall a passport if it can prove that a person has caused damage to the country. " Bangkok police issued warrants on Tuesday for Thaksin and 13 members of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) on charges of inciting violence in breach of the state of emergency.
Protests can’t stop the party at Thai beach resort
AFP
“We are Thais and we are known for our smiles but now people around the world are looking at us and we are not smiling we are fighting each other” says Emma between posing for pictures with goggle-eyed male tourists. “Why are they fighting? We are the same blood we should be talking instead” she says perched on a bar stool in a tiny black and orange floral dress and towering platform sandals. Emma watched on television as the thousands of anti-government protesters stormed the luxury hotel where Asian leaders had gathered to discuss the global downturn and North Korea’s rocket launch. Thailand’s leader was forced to cancel the summit and declare a state of emergency for Pattaya for several hours as leaders were evacuated — some by helicopter from the hotel rooftop. “I was very disappointed it was an important meeting for the whole Asian people” Emma says. “This is a tourist place and if tourists see these protests they will not want to come. “Pattaya which began its transformation during the Vietnam War when it became a popular destination among GIs from a nearby military base attracts millions every year to its beaches and bars.
Make your own Thai salad
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Called Songkran which means “to move on” The Thai New Year marks the beginning of the solar year for the Thais who observe a slightly different calendar (for them it’s not the year 2009 it’s 2552 since they count the years from the time of Buddha). Last Monday the Dusit Thani Hotel hosted the celebration of Songkran in partnership with Thai Airways the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the Royal Thai Embassy. A ritual during Songkran is the splashing of water to wash away bad luck. At the lobby guests watched as ladies in colorful attire poured fragrant water over the hands of Thai Ambassador Kulkumut Singhara Na Ayudhya and Dusit GM Prateek Kumar. The ritual is also a way of paying respect to the older generation and asking for their blessings. Traditional dances from the Nattaya-Silp Thai dancers a fruit carving demonstration by Khun Laong Hertz and music from Khun Wan completed the presentation.
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Thai private sector urges gov’t to quickly lift state of emergency
Xinhua
Since Sunday afternoon April 12 the Thai government has declared the state of emergency in capital Bangkok and some districts of five nearby provinces citing escalating violence due to scattered-anti-government protests in the capital. Prior to the state of emergency’s declaration in Bangkok on Saturday the anti-government protestors stormed into the venue of the then-ongoing ASEAN summit and related summits at Pattaya resulting in the cancellation of all of the summits. “The recent scattered rioting has greatly affected the country’s tourism industry” said president of Thai Hotels Association Prakij Chinamornpong the website by Thai-language newspaper Matichon reported on Wednesday. This tremendous loss could not be appraised the president of Thai Hotels Association said. “The government should quickly lift the state of emergency in order to restore confidence among foreign tourists” said Prakij. Also prior to the tourism industry’s high season during ctober to November the government should speed up rehabilitating the tourism sector to attract tourists from China Japan and South Korea – the large tourism markets of Thailand Prakij has suggested. In a related development Dusit Nontanakorn chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade said the recent violence and the cancellation of the ASEAN summit will dampen the Thai economy which has already been hit by the global economic slump according to a Wednesday’s report in the website by Thai-language newspaper Krungthep Turakij.
GIA Thailand to Host Extensive Lecture on Jade
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Richard Hughes senior vice president of gemstone marketing and testing for the NCS Group Co. will discuss jade’s history and origin in his presentation “Jade: Stone of Heaven. “ The multimedia seminar will include a firsthand account of the mining and trading of jade. While the term jade includes nephrite and jadeite there is only one source for the so-called imperial type of jadeite in the upper reaches of Myanmar on which Hughes will focus in his presentation.
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