Archive for the 'Bangkok adult entertainment' Category

Can Bangkok’s former “Brothel King” bring political tension to a happy ending?…Playing godfather to a brothel empire may seem an odd springboard to becoming an anti-corruption crusader. But any Thai living in Bangkok can recount Chuvit’s path to fame, chronicled in soap opera detail by the Thai press.In the early 2000s, Chuvit began publicly accusing [...]

… He found himself involved in the Red Shirt (anti-government) protests in Bangkok and he was more or less living in a red shirt compound,” Mr Whisson said.“He wasn’t at the Red Shirt camp when there was a crackdown there last Wednesday. He managed to escape that and managed to move to an apartment.…It is [...]

In the period since March, thousands of his red-shirted followers have been occupying central Bangkok with demands that the government call fresh elections and implement overdue reforms. A brief but forceful crackdown has brought this protest to an end, leaving dozens dead and hundreds hurt. Bangkok and more than 20 provinces are under a state [...]

Home … a Red Shirt carries a fan after returning to Chiang Mai from Bangkok.…Many armed themselves with catapults and wooden clubs but also, in some cases, with automatic weapons and grenades. Dozens were killed in Bangkok in recent days, but Mr Somphong said he did not know how many of those who died came [...]

A mask of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Red rose and banners are left by anti-government red shirt protesters after clashes with the country’s security forces in central Bangkok May 20, 2010.…Last night, survivors of Bangkok’s bloody week were scrambling home to the north and north-east on buses and trains.…Mr Somphong [...]

The Gion nightclub, named after the historic geisha district in Kyoto,
usually teems with Japanese tourists intent on experiencing Bangkok’s
pleasures of the flesh. Just across the street is a rather more decorous
building, the private residence of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
The proximity of the Thai leader’s home to [...]

BANGKOK, THAILAND (ANS) — A ministry worker in Bangkok says she woke up to the sound of helicopters and explosions as Red Shirt demonstrators held out against government forces in their demands for early elections to replace a government they deemed illegitimate and elitest.…“This morning, Bangkok is a war zone. The Red Shirts have taken [...]

Bangkok – Bangkok may have been convulsed with its worst political violence in a generation over the past five days, when 37 died in bloody street fighting, but in much of the capital it is business as usual, albeit with less traffic.…Until Thursday, when the de-facto military leader of the so-called red shirt rebellion was [...]

When observers talk about how the bloody crisis in Bangkok is a clash of two different Thailands, they have two particular places in mind.…Lamoon was perhaps being a little unfair. Abhisit did try to visit the nearby town of Nong Khai back in March, but hundreds of red shirt protesters sent him scurrying away by [...]

Agnes Dherbeys for The New York Times The entrance of the Four Seasons Hotel in Bangkok, which has been closed for about a month, was blocked Monday by a barricade of razor wire.…“Patpong is the sex entertainment center of Bangkok,” he said. “The red shirts have basically closed it down because it’s located [...]