Sunday, May 16, 2010

Canadian journalist shot in Bangkok expected to survive --

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/breakingnews/canada-closes-bangkok-embassy-as-violence-spreads-in-thai-capital--93771954.html

Earlier a Japanese? videographer was shot dead in riots in April.

A curfew has been imposed 14 mins ago on parts of Bangkok, embassies on Sathorn Road are closed.

Thai King and Queen offered to cover medical expenses of those wounded.

Maybe the Thai army is getting some "lessons" from the horrible Burmese junta in "crowd control with live bullets."

Kyi May Kaung

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--I have a volume of her short stories--which I like a great deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala