Asean buzz & first broken glass that is to say. The day before the opening of the 15th Asean Summit in Hua Hin the delegation from Laos suffered a mid-severe accident on the infamously coned Petchkasem main road aka “Asean Lane.” Didn’t see any blood traces, hope the driver and passengers are fine. See the [...]

Hua Hin’s about to be hermetically sealed off from the real world out there. The seaside resort has been cleaned up and adorned for days and starting Tuesday, October 20th, strict checks on vehicles passing through areas around the summit venues will begin. Got no Asean Summit Car Sticker? Don’t even dare to enter town.
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What a welcome sight arriving in Hua Hin. Huge AIS billboards praising AIS Super 3G with whopping speeds of 7.2 Mbps. Welcome to the future in laid-back Hua Hin. But that future is still the past.
Make no mistake. That’s not the 3G on the 2100 MHz band. It’s AIS’ very own virtual super highway on [...]

The 3rd anniversary of the coup was the day of His Majesty the King’s recent hospitalization. A telling day, with HM’s fragile health reflecting his kingdom’s health. So far daily updates by the palace did not allay fears about the king’s well-being.
On October 15th, nearly a month after the monarch’s hospitalization, the 26th statement of [...]

Not too long ago to blog by nature was part of an underground, anti-establishment network of supposedly amateurish spin doctors and wannabe opinion makers who weren’t really read. Some made a few bucks along the way, some could garner a respectable readership, others were in for a single minute of fame, a few got established [...]