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The best of 2Bangkok.com in 2009
What it was like to be there...
Our annual collection of the biggest news, most popular stories, and interesting links of 2009
Left: April 13, 15:35 - Sri Ayuthaya Road intersection retaken - This image shows soldiers walking around in the smoke from two buses that were set on fire by the Red Shirts as they retreated.
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Michael Jackson's death in the Thai-language press
Left: Daily News, April 14, 2009 - The Prime Minister’s secretary was taken by the reds
Right: From Voice of Taksin, December, 2009 - The caption reads: Romanov dynasty - Russia, Year 1613-1917
Singapore: What will you defend?
Defaced Democrat Party posters
MOSOThai billboards by ISOC
(Photo: 2Bangkok.com)ASTVManager's new book
Also: Thai email forwards - Falling in Thailand - At a Hmong camp - Website censorship in Thailand
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History
Above: Cover of a brochure from a joint tourism campaign between Cambodia and Thailand from 2000.
Anti-petition billboard - September 4, 2009
The billboard reads: Do you think the listing of people’s names for a petition is proper or not? If not, to whom it is not suitable for? Is it proper or not? [From] Thais who do not agree
[Not sure if this is the exact translation, but we think it is close. This billboard is similar to the pro-PAD billboard of the past.]
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(Source: Vintage photo)Above: Thai man, 1860
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1969 travel booklet: See You In Thailand in 1969
And of course: The burning Ferrari - Komchadluek, February 16, 2009
It reads: Suwat’s son and “Ice” survived the accident while their Ferrari car immediately caught fire on the street. Pasu Liptapanlop, son of Suwat Liptapanlop [a politician] survived the deadly accident while he and his superstar girlfriend “Ice” Apisada Kruakongka were on a trip driving the 17 million baht Ferrari car to visit Pattaya, but the car caught fire accidentally. - Survives a deadly accident - “Ice” Apisada Kruakongka embraces her friend, Pasu Liptapanlop, with fear after the Ferrari that the two sat in during their trip to Pattaya accidentally caught fire near the College of Agriculture and Technology in Chonburi in Tambon Najomthien, Sattaheep district in Chonburi Province on February 14, 2009.
