I've followed the news almost everyday and can't believe that they allowed these protesters to break the laws days after day: ceased government building, interrupted and stop the parliament meeting, commandeered the public transportation, disrupted or causing the school to close...and etc...This form of democracy is not worth the price of sacrafice the life of Thai people.

I wonder (I know that he does not get involve much of nation's politic) why the King didn't come out and say or do something to stop this.

I wish that our nieghbor Thai people to reconcile and cease this demonstration as soon as possible.

ceased government building, interrupted and stop the parliament meeting, commandeered the public transportation, disrupted or causing the school to close, etc...

What do you mean ceased? seized government buildings, not ceased. ?????

Yes. I agreed with your  view and opinion , Thailand will lose their face, breaking face and the land of smiles will  turn in to the land of evil and land of  civil war and ghost  . Now Thailand  is facing Political , economic slowdown, separatist movement problem and has the borber disputes  with Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and with Myanmar. Lao people always consider that Peace ,  stability  and the dignity of the country  are priority , if we have peace we develop our country and our people can harmonize with our value and culture.

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the genocide between thai is beginning, they have a terrible sin of annexation of other countries : laos ( north est of thailand ), pak tai ( south of thailand ) now they are paying the bill...

I'm suprised no one knows anything about Thai politics.

Doesn't anyone know there was an anti democratic coup a while ago? The old corrupt but democraticaly elected Thaskin was thrown out, the current prime minister Somchai looks favorably on him as do the people outside of Bankok, Bangkok educated, upper class, students, some unions don't like Somchai government so they are making a big stink.

Nothing to do with separatists or econmoy or ... I don't know why not read Bangkok post or something, buy a yellow shirt I don't know,

Look at it this way, less people are getting killed than from one xxxxxxx xx xxxxx in Laos. 

"Asian democracy?" what is that supposed to mean. Don't you guys know how to vote? Asian Americans sure know how to vote, they just elected an African American.

Let's wish for good things for Thailand.

refer to the question raised by Guy from American, Asian Vulue of Democracy is care about family, Country, community, Culture and traditional value, wecare about the collective or soridarity rights rather than individual right. your rights and your duties and obligation are diferent thing. Thai people foret their obligation to protect their value as Asian way of life, they right to speak but they should repsect the rights of other people.  who will be best prime Minister guy for Thai peopel because all the elected prime minister, they considered as the bad guy, that means Thai society  is devided reach and poor, North and south and from now they never and never  become united Nations becoz they did the wrong thing in the past with neighboring country like our country, Laos. they took our land, took our people to build the khong sane sep ( Khone sane sep canal ) in Bangkok and  so far, Thai always look down lao people and it is their turn, we will look and see the out come of Thai's internal political tension, and fermor Prime Minister Thaksin will return to the political game again. western democracy just allow you speak but they can not garantee the peace and stability for their people as you seen in thailand like now.


Lao is Lao

How Lao people will  do some thing to help Thai ?  we just  observe it and closely monitor the situation in our neighboring, it is the internal problem and internal political tension , Lao people can not make  any thing  interference in Thai political matter .


Lao is Lao

SeeHarHed wrote:

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Any latest updates????  Is the airport back to normal now? 

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still get worse, from few hours ago, another airport is become disable too.

So now, no out and no in to thailand.

I am glad to hear that there will be direct flight from Japan to Lao, so that I will go home directly.

I just hope that our Thai brother and sister resolves their political differences peacefully without losing human life anymore. As we know, most travelers passed through Thailand Suvarnaphoum Airport to go to Laos. Any longer delay or longer shutdown will eventually affect the tourists heading to our country.

That could be the case, but I think the real reason is there is racism in Thai society. Whoever is Prime minister from North, South or Esan part, he is supposedy not good or he is definitely accused to be not good. Why?

He does not come from central part of Thailand, you know what I mean? That is the real issue.


Just for thought.  

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I don't want to see Lao people step across someone who felt down.
We need to help them, support them, stand by them !
Even 4 leg-animal can fall down, so why not a human.
We have to learn to open our hearts and minds wider
It is 2008, and I don't want our people to limit our vision and generosity to the countries near by.

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 you must be joking. do u kno what wrongs thai has commited to our lao brothers and sisters of the past. it can never be forgivin. we had a long trusting history with thailand when they were still a week kingdom we rescued them and came to their aid when ever they were down. but we never stabbed them in the back and try to claim their land. and the one time lao is week they take advantage of that and stabb our people in the backkk taking our ppl as slaves. the way i see it with thai falling the world is jus returning back to order. thai get wut they diserve. and you are rite it is the year 2008 the weak fall and the strong survive.  i believe its lao turn to survive and the weak thai to fall. the world is only going to get more intergrated do u think thai will help us if we were i their situation.??? Hell noo they will jus take advantage of that and make their ego even more greater. the time of thai ppl looking down on lao is Over.so i see the crisis in thailand as an opportunity for lao.

 

just my two cents.

long live lao

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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I don't want to see Lao people step across someone who felt down.
We need to help them, support them, stand by them !
Even 4 leg-animal can fall down, so why not a human.
We have to learn to open our hearts and minds wider
It is 2008, and I don't want our people to limit our vision and generosity to the countries near by.

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 you must be joking. do u kno what wrongs thai has commited to our lao brothers and sisters of the past. it can never be forgivin. we had a long trusting history with thailand when they were still a week kingdom we rescued them and came to their aid when ever they were down. but we never stabbed them in the back and try to claim their land. and the one time lao is week they take advantage of that and stabb our people in the backkk taking our ppl as slaves. the way i see it with thai falling the world is jus returning back to order. thai get wut they diserve. and you are rite it is the year 2008 the weak fall and the strong survive.  i believe its lao turn to survive and the weak thai to fall. the world is only going to get more intergrated do u think thai will help us if we were i their situation.??? Hell noo they will jus take advantage of that and make their ego even more greater. the time of thai ppl looking down on lao is Over.so i see the crisis in thailand as an opportunity for lao.

 

just my two cents.

long live lao

 

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If this guy is from the USA, he is not like me. I don't believe we should resort to that. I agree we should  help our cousin on the otherside of the Mekong river if they needed. We should not take this oportunity to wish revenge for all the wrong things happened in the past.

 

I am totally agreed with Lao people view related to political tention in our Neighbouring Thailand, now it is their turn, Thai should rethinking their policy again, so fa Thai Sociaty is deepply divided reach and poor, north and South, red collor and yellow collor. the happing thing acaured is based on out come of western democracy existing in Thaisociety for some decades. in the future, i think the third country will interfere the siad matter. we, are lao and the neighbour just closely follow up the situation .
 

Lao is Lao

Do you mean to say "weak" not week? Weak is feeble, not strong. Week is the seven day cycle of the month.

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I've learned a couple of things in this webboard a long long times ago: don't pay attention to the errors of spelling or proper english writing here. Just ignore and try not to correct them, because of instead of getting a polite "thank you", you're likely getting your *** chewed out.

Just try to remember THiS : "NOBODY"S PERFECT"

 

Hey keep it coming, as person of Lao Nie, my english is horrible, having someone correcting my mastake is greatly appreciated... Thanks

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Lan_Xang wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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I don't want to see Lao people step across someone who felt down.
We need to help them, support them, stand by them !
Even 4 leg-animal can fall down, so why not a human.
We have to learn to open our hearts and minds wider
It is 2008, and I don't want our people to limit our vision and generosity to the countries near by.

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 you must be joking. do u kno what wrongs thai has commited to our lao brothers and sisters of the past. it can never be forgivin. we had a long trusting history with thailand when they were still a week kingdom we rescued them and came to their aid when ever they were down. but we never stabbed them in the back and try to claim their land. and the one time lao is week they take advantage of that and stabb our people in the backkk taking our ppl as slaves. the way i see it with thai falling the world is jus returning back to order. thai get wut they diserve. and you are rite it is the year 2008 the weak fall and the strong survive.  i believe its lao turn to survive and the weak thai to fall. the world is only going to get more intergrated do u think thai will help us if we were i their situation.??? Hell noo they will jus take advantage of that and make their ego even more greater. the time of thai ppl looking down on lao is Over.so i see the crisis in thailand as an opportunity for lao.

 

just my two cents.

long live lao

 

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If this guy is from the USA, he is not like me. I don't believe we should resort to that. I agree we should  help our cousin on the otherside of the Mekong river if they needed. We should not take this oportunity to wish revenge for all the wrong things happened in the past.

 

 

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yehh thats what we did in the past help the thai out, and when our back is turned BAM !!!!  do u want our pee nongs to be come slaves again???? u got to be kidding how can you sympathize for them??? i dont know about you but i have proud lao blood running through my vains. tell me when ever has prosperity and power, greatness.. ever went into the hands of the kind and considerate ? so mr lanxang i have to strongly disagree with you when you say we must help the thais out in their time of crisis. ive read over and over again about the history of lao, and i have seen their attitude towards lao ppl my self and in person and that is unacceptable. no more. not ever again the world is changing in laos favor. like it or not its gonna happen. one way or the other.

long live lao. My people.

 

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did you know that in the first years of Lao PDR inauguration, we were really in need of every thing, we had to accept every goods from thailand, as thailand has huge quantity depreciated food that they could not sell elswhere, they intentionally stamped " export to Lao PDR only " on the label of their goods and sell them to lao people, as we were very poor at the time, we accepted it, my tear is coming out thinking about the situation we were in... when they come to invest in our country because the wage of labor is two or three times lower than it is in thailand, and when exporting some of the garment made in laos to thailand they took garment made in thailand labeled it " Made in the Lao PDR " and forward them along with those made in laos to USA, France, Germany, Japan exempt of tax because it is from the laos PDR. and many other things that i prefer not to mention here the advantage they took on us...the attitude of most of thai people toward us...

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I agree with you here.... 
some Laotian here dont understand the history, they consumed alot of thai culture via TV, lack history knowledge about how the Thais did to Laotians..  so they sympathized Thai.... but dont know how dangerous the Thai is..   There is laos saying: Fung Kuam Thai Fai Mai Lao Kao ( If you listen to Thai, they will burn your rice huts)....

Who cares about them. I hope their country goes to ****!

I heard news that Thai prime minister now lives in exile in Chiangmai.  Does this mean Thailand split into two already? Interesting?

No flights from Thailand, also less tourists at Freindship bridge, less at Huay Xai, Less to Savanaket and Pakse. Most tourists fly in to Thailand. If there are no more flights there are no more tourists.

Anonymous wrote:

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I don't want to see Lao people step across someone who felt down.
We need to help them, support them, stand by them !
Even 4 leg-animal can fall down, so why not a human.
We have to learn to open our hearts and minds wider
It is 2008, and I don't want our people to limit our vision and generosity to the countries near by.

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The fuking Thai burn and destory Vientiane and kill Lao people like animal and you want me to feel sorry for them?????  MUNG BOR ME JAI WAH?

US criticises PAD, urges end to airport crisis

The United States is deeply concerned about the actions of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) in seizing Bangkok's international and domestic airports, preventing the free movement of people and goods.


While we respect the right to freedom of expression, seizing an airport is not an appropriate means of protest.


We urge the PAD to walk away from the airports peacefully.


We hope that this situation can be resolved without violence and in accordance with the law.


United States Department of State
November 28, 2008

I've read estimates of the cost to the tourism business alone at 100 Billion Baht, (2.8 Billion US). The ripple affect will stretch on through the whole high season no matter what happens now.

A lot of Thailand's electronics exports to the rest of E Asia operates on the "just in time" way so to save huge inventory costs. Part of being the 12th busiest airport in the world isn't just tourism but freight. A tremendous amount of high value electronics moves out of that airport.

A lot of Bangkok yuppies love the PAD. Combined with the worldwide recession they might have some thinking to do.

I'm thinking of working out of Chang Mai.

I agreed with Falang who lives in Thailand: MICHELLE TOPHAMPAD failed their politic of seizing Airports. They thought P.M. Mr. Somchai will arrive from Peru and he will be landing on those two airports, but unfortunately, PAD didn’t realize that He can be landing in Chiengmai. Since they failed tactic, they hold on in there until P.M. would resign. Thai’s politic is much different from U.S. P.M. is not Commander in chief. He cannot order any power. That is terrible government. The law is not strictly in force. Now, they cope into civil unrest. They have Red shirt, yellow shirt, and Military is the most powerful but it is not the weapon of the government at all. People kill each other every day. The military leader (Mr. Anouphon Phouachinda) has told his boss (Prime minister) to resign. 5555… That seemed to be stupid military leader. If am P.M., I already kick him out of duty. Those PAD missed calculate the worst international involving, instead of just Thai people only. The world would not stay besides them at all when they do this. Thai needs to reconstruct their government administration. They should elect Prime minister from population not from congress every time when the new prime minister has to be elected. I think those PAD need to get back home and return airports to the public. Airports do not just belong to the government but the public, and the whole world. They need to think again. They try to kill themselves. The world could look at them just like terrorism if they happen to kill one person, which they already did. They need to solve problem with ASTV1, which is spreading out untrue news every day, they are cursing everybody who against them every day. The government should invest on this TV station. It brain washed audience every day. That is the most weapon of PAD.