Thai Rath Toons

c/o Thai Rath

Abhisit: Extradite..Bad guy come here..Don't make me angry!
Tiger: Bureaucratic Polity
Hun Sen: I don't throw friends to the tigers!

Siam Report also got a chuckle out of the Nation's report on Korbsak.

The monthly bill for all of this is around Bt2,000, but for that price he never misses a thing - even though he's reading newspapers less these days. Daily browsings of The Economist and Bloomberg News have been muscled aside in his schedule by Twitter, which Korbsak adores for bringing people closer.

Did Korbsak really say that about The Economist and Bloomberg News or did the journalist just make that part up. As readers are probably aware, both publications are for the most part deemed heretical in ultra right-wing circles. The Economist often challenges the dominant conservative paradigm propagated by the Thai elite, with certain articles seen as contravening Thai law--Lese Majeste. Similarly, Bloomberg News was recently targeted by the seemingly paranoid, conservative forces for its reporting on the health of the Thai king. According to these forces, Bloomberg undermined Thai national security by reporting on rumors of the king's health. Of all the news sources in the world, the journalist names the ones most hated within its own economic, political, and social milieu.

Have to agree on his last point,

The downside of the mobile's convenience is a decline in good manners, especially among teenagers, Korbsak says.

"When you take young people out to dinner they create their own personal worlds - they just keep texting messages and pay no attention to anyone at the table!"