2013 Videos of Bangkok as recomended by Lew
Drake
added 9/20/2013
Bangkok City 2013
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_KCaXVCOM
Bangkok City of Life 2013
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdKiIOtjziY
The Best City in The World Bangkok City
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BmZohiUeFc
2014 Thai TV, Newpapers, Twitter Sites Recomended by Lew Drake added 2/16/2014
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Not sure how you feel to
handle this item – listing some sites that any former ASAer in Thailand
may want to check out to learn of the current ongoing protest movement
to oust the current Thai gov – protestors are using the peaceful protest
approach – others against the protest are using small bombs and guns
attacking the protest sites late at night – they just threw grenade into
the house of the Bangkok Governor last night (16 Jan BKK time) – listing
some sites for anyone interested to follow: www.blueskychannel.tv (site of the opposition Democrat party – live feeds and mostly in Thai of course – frequent commercials to cover cost of their operation – right now covering another of the protest leader’s many long marches to collect money to cover costs of the protest) (top 2 English language newspapers)
(some Twitter sites that are good for fast up-to-date coverage of the protest happenings: (((Twitter sites recommended – first 2 are the best and 3 is quite good too – others are so so – for now)) https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow https://twitter.com/photo_journ (((there are many others but these are some of the better ones to follow))) Added 2/19/2014 Result of the police use of force today: 4 dead 64 injured several seriously https://twitter.com/Tulip_Oum/status/435734834120388608
How CNN reported today’s police violence – guess which side they are on ((continue watching for earlier reports on the Thailand situation – you can see several areas of Bangkok including the Chao Phaya river taxis in one))
Core members of the Pheu Thai Party visited
the Government Savings Bank to deposit their money on Tuesday, Feb 18,
2014. During their visit, they were greeted by a group of
anti-government protesters....
Armchair General http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65809
Club 99 Rich, not sure you ever visited the
Copacabana
nightspot but most 5th RRUers made it a regular late night visit - just
happened to run across this interesting site of the current status of
this ASA favorite spot (well at least before Seri Court became home to
the 5th and it's follow on incarnations - well - here is the link in
case anyone may have interest in following it up - and a little update
on the history quoted in the link - ol BB just happened to be visiting
the Copacabana after returning to Bangkok as a civilian working at the
US Embassy in late 1962 - I got an invitation to the opening of the Club
99 referred to in the history - however - the opening was for the Club
69 not 99 - well I made a visit there on opening night and lots of
others were there as well - most all guests remarked to the staff that
the name "69" had rather crude meaning for a Club - so after a few days
the name was suddenly changed to Club 99 - just a little additional
insight into the old Copacabana's long history to current times as
"CheckInn99" - and the old pics of the original "Copa" are very thought
provoking for anyone that had involvement with it's early days as an ASA
"hangout" spot - well - just a little historical moment here anyways -
go to the link at
http://checkinn99.net/pdfs/2-art.pdf (note: the opening
photo is the Copa as I recall it way back then)
Lew Drake Sp5 5th RRU(P) – 1961
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