By Phuketwan ReportersSunday, September 20, 2009
Associated Press
Eighty-one-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-serving monarch, has been hospitalised after suffering from a fever and fatigue, the palace announced Sunday. A statement from the Royal Household Bureau, read on the evening television news, said the king was taken to Siriraj Hospital on Saturday night on the advice of his doctors. It had been rumored since late last week that the king had visited the hospital, but the Thai press only reported the matter widely Sunday.
Agencies Australia's Michael Katsidis, who reportedly trained at Tiger Muay Thai camp in the ''jungle'' at Chalong on Phuket, has won his interim lightweight boxing world title bout at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas. Katsidis scored a split points decision over American Vicente Escobedo. Katsidis is now the mandatory challenger to fight World Boxing Organisation lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez.
Phuketwan MediaWATCH
TWIN protests damaged Thailand's image internationally on Saturday as red shirts and yellow shirts continued to show that Thailand remains a nation where unity is not a priority.
PHUKET'S red shirt leader, Suntorn Tomas, told Phuketwan yesterday that three mini-bus vans of supporters from the island had gone to Bangkok for the protests there. ''If the protest concludes tonight, there will be no reason for more of us to go,'' he said. No live television coverage of the event is being permitted by the government, he said.
Phuket's yellow shirt Peoples' Alliance for Democracy leader Aparat Chartchutikumjorn, one of the 21-member board charting the directions of the New Politics Party (Karn Muang Mai), said two min-bus loads of Phuket supporters had headed for the temple protest on the Cambodia border. Southern provinces had each sent about 20 protesters, she said. That protest was violent.
bbc.co.uk Headline: 'Thailand rocked by rival protests' Thousands of troops were deployed in Thailand as rival political groups held separate protests, one of which turned violent. Crowds of demonstrators turned out in Bangkok to mark the third anniversary of the coup which ousted controversial Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. On the Cambodian border an anti-Thaksin group clashed with police as it tried to enter a disputed border temple.
aljazeera.net Headline 'Thaksin: Thailand risks failure' Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's former prime minister, has urged his supporters to bring him back to power, saying the country risks becoming a ''failed state''. His comments on Saturday came in a live video link to about 26,000 Red Shirts rallying in Bangkok to demand the resignation of Abhisit Vejjajiva, the current prime minister. Three years after he was ousted in a bloodless coup, Thaksin told the crowds: ''Our country has deteriorated and risks being a failed state. There is no justice in society.''
cnn.com Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Bangkok on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. About 30,000 protesters, who wore red shirts in support of Thaksin, gathered in the country's capital near the Government House, said police Lt. Gen. Tritote Ronnarithvichai. The crowd was calm and there was no sign of violence, he said.
Straits Times Tensions soared from the Cambodian border to the Thai capital on Saturday as protesters from rival political groups rallied at separate locations. On the border, Thai nationalists bent on stopping Cambodians from building on alleged Thai territory overwhelmed police and clashed with local villagers near the Preah Vihear temple. In Bangkok, a rally by the red-shirted United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to mark the third anniversary of the September 2006 coup attracted up to 20,000 people, despite a prolonged downpour in the afternoon.
scmp.com Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra last night pleaded for national reconciliation in a live video speech to thousands of his supporters, who amassed in the capital to mark the third anniversary of the billionaire's ousting by the military. Thousands of protesting ''red shirts'' defied the presence of several thousand riot police and soldiers, and rallied in front of the main government offices to demand elections and the resignation of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
US Warships Visit Brings Ladyboy Crime Invaders
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Time for All Honest Thais to Act to Stop Corruption
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Phuket's Day of Celebration for Respected Monk
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Surf Carnival to 'Save Phuket from Drownings'
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Tasty Flavors of Muslim Phuket, until Sept 24
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Tasty Flavors of Muslim Phuket, until Sept 24
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