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Baraku operators complain their livelihoods are up in smoke
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 08/09/2014
» Baraku or shisha service operators at pubs and restaurants along Bangkok's busy tourist streets are outraged over the National Council for Peace and Order order to ban the import of the Middle-Eastern style hookah pipe, a device used to smoke baraku, a tobacco-type product.
Small group protests in Pathumwan
Online Reporters, Published on 08/06/2014
» A half-a-dozen protesters flashed the three-fingered gesture as an anti-coup symbol in front of the Siam Paragon shopping centre in Pathumwan district of Bangkok on Sunday afternoon and then quickly disappeared.
Army chief says 'sorry'
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 24/03/2011
» Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha has apologised for the army's "lack of understanding and care" that led to large numbers of deaths in the Tak Bai and Krue Se crackdowns in 2004.