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Game of Crimes
A highlight from 117: Part 2: Charles Lutz Takes on Unpopular Causes from Vietnam to DEA to TSA
"Did you ever get any chatter that he was still alive, you know, anywhere? Well we, we, we looked for him. I had information he was actually a fled to Irania Perthet, which is a town on the Cambodian border in Thailand. And so I actually wanted investigative assistance and I went up there and spent a couple of days at a picture of Sukhri and checked out all the bars and massage parlors and whatever, see if we could find him. And, and we never did. But the other case I was going to mention, I think you might find interesting, is while I was doing this undercover thing with Sukhri, the agent who was handling the Herman Jackson, Ike Atkinson case in Bangkok, which is a group of, of retired military NCA, NCOs that were, had been smuggling heroin back to the States. That agent was transferred back to the States. And then in those days, every case had to have an agent assigned to it, if only to write status reports. So my boss, Paul Brown, dumped this Atkinson case on me and I thought, oh man, what, I got enough to do. But it actually turned out to be a blessing because I, I, I guess after a few days, got a call from San Francisco from an agent, Lionel Stewart, and there had been a couple of, of guys in, arrested in Japan, military, US Army guys, and they, one of them flipped and identified his source of supply as the bartender at a bar owned in Bangkok by this Herman Jackson. So I thought, wow, you know, maybe, maybe we can make something in this case after all. Long story short, Lionel came over and we made, he actually made an undercover purchase of heroin from the source of supply. We, we got him to San Francisco where he was arrested and he ended up, I mean, it's a long story, but we ended up being able to, with some of the evidence we got through that case, we were able to prosecute Atkinson in North Carolina. You gotta, you gotta understand, Morgan, this guy's talking about Lionel Stewart. So when I get to Miami and Charles here is the ASAC, we had two associate SACs and one of them was Lionel Stewart. This guy was a shuckin' and jivin' character. I mean, he was hilarious, black gentleman, would not cut anybody's slack. He, you know, he called a spade a spade and he did it to your face, he did it behind your back, but he was hilarious. I mean, he would just entertain. You could see how the guy could work undercover. I mean, he could sell ice to an Eskimo, you know, that kind of attitude. Yeah. Well, in my book, I call him the professor of undercover science. There you go. That's a good title.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"bangkok" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
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Bloomberg Radio New York
"bangkok" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
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Bloomberg Radio New York
"bangkok" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
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Bloomberg Radio New York
"bangkok" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Us from bangkok bloomberg chief international correspondent hazlinda amman bloomberg's greg sullivan begins our global team coverage from budapest let's go live to istanbul bloomberg on the ground bloomberg radio on the ground everywhere hi i'm danica patrick watching my nieces grow play and learn is amazing but not every child gets to be carefree one in six kids in the u s are hungry this breaks my heart and it's something that feeding america is working to change each year the feeding american network of food banks rescues billions of pounds of good food that would have gone to waste and gives it to families in need to help visit feeding america dot org brought you to by feeding america and the ad council even in a time when almost nothing is easy one thing has been effortless to watch sterling now shooting up accessing the world's latest financial and political news european central banks fight to tame inflation isn't over wake up with bloomberg daybreak europe edition available now on your podcast feed each weekday morning by seven a m in london start day in just fifteen minutes subscribe to bloomberg daybreak europe edition today on apple spotify and everywhere you get your podcast no one knows where this market will go now it feels like a wild ride one thing's for certain there's a way through it and the experience and guidance of merrill advisor can help you get there because where there's a bull there's a way find an advisor at ml a was bullish bank of america company investing best involves risk paralange pierce and smith incorporated registered broker dealer registered investment advisor member sipc a wholly -up effect wake and text text and eat new text and meet up with a friend you haven't seen in forever text and phone
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"bangkok" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Right? Vital words of wisdom. Do you have anything else to add to that? Take a tiny pack. Get the fact back, you think you need and get the next size down. You're going to be so much happier. Too big. You're too big. I promise you. But you know, we would see people we would see people with like a backpack, a smaller backpack, and then like a tinier bag, and then like a purse, and it's like, I don't know what you have in there. It sounds like one of those Russian doll situations. If you let if you're willing to just sort of let the vanity go and travel with a smaller pack, it makes your whole life so much easier. We did it for a year. And I think, yeah, that would be like our most valuable piece of advice is just like carry on size. To use to go rock, I used a tortuga so important. You need so much less than you think. Yeah. And if there's anything you actually do need, they're going to have it wherever you're going. And I didn't think of that when we went. I thought I was like packing like I was going to the moon. But you know, if I was starting again, I would just fly to Bangkok with my passport and a toothbrush and just get everything there. Nice. Small pack. That's my number one thing. Small pack, one pair of shoes. If you can. Okay, great. Have fun. You guys shared so much. I mean, totally just honest laying it all online on this podcast before and after. It's
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"bangkok" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Tea, it sounds like you had a big, you know, that big moment two days into it where you were like, you know, oh my God, what's going on here? And you got past it because what else are you going to do? You keep living. Yeah, exactly. You can go get your job back, I guess. But yeah, having the time now is not the worst problem in the world. I mean, we can put this file this under hashtag first world problems, right? But at the same time, that is still there, you know? And I was just curious how you guys are dealing with that. Yeah. I'm excited to see when we check back and three or four, 5 months to see where we've gotten to. Yeah. Because it's so uncertain and I really have even more of an appreciation for people who've done this before us. Including you, Jason. Who have made the leap. You place on yourself. You're betting that you're going to be okay. And you don't know, for sure. But you're betting that you're going to be able to navigate and make it. And you guys will be great. We'll hear it in the next segment. Three or four months later, whenever we record this, where are you guys going? So we are flying into Bangkok Thailand. We have about two weeks planned in the city by which I mean we have lodging. And from there, we made a very specific effort to not book anything beyond that because we don't part of doing this is that we want to get out of the preset, you know, the routine and that this is the plan we want to go. We want to listen we want to talk to people. We want to figure out what we actually want to do and then leave Bangkok from there and go wherever it is.
Op Persoonlijke Titel
"bangkok" Discussed on Op Persoonlijke Titel
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Bloomberg Radio New York
"bangkok" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Tokyo and the prime minister is a 19 to reporters Japan will ease some of its border related controls related to the pandemic. So again, this is at building incrementally on the Asian stepping Asian nation stepping back from some of the most restrictive border controls either. Okay, we'll keep an eye on that story. To the SAT Thailand focus event, it's underway. It's in Bangkok, has Linda Armin is there for she's on the ground with the CEO of one of the world's leading food producers, has lend a good morning, good afternoon. Hey man, this good morning, an important conversation because food prices have remained elevated contributing to inflation. Of course, the other important thing is that food is my favorite topic. Let's delve more. CO of seafoods is here with me. Good to have you with us. Couldn't press it. We talk about elevated food prices, will they persist? When can we expect food prices to eventually ease? Are the food prices? I guess that, you know, it depends on the raw material of the corn and everything's. So we believe that due to the high price right now is extremely really high on the corn fries and everything that's why it pushing all the meat plies going high and then for the meat pie go back to the lady to cook food, it are going up. So I believe that it would take a year and two year to the homepage to be more reasonable at least instead of applies. It may be related to the UK channel, whether they can go back, grow in the food and then export
The Mason Minute
Full Circle (MM #3800)
"The Mason with Kevin Mason, the world of fast food is Ever Changing? Everybody's always looking for new ways to entice customers. But right now it looks like fast. Food is coming full circle back when they first started out. He basically walked up to an order window. Major order waited for it came and picked the bag up and walked away, and there may have been some picnic tables outside, but there was no indoor dining off course, news from Taco Bell. The first probably start. This says, they're going to create restaurants, that kind of look like bank. Tellers that are basically just pneumatic tubes with a restaurant above that. Nobody sits in basically a kitchen, send it down the tube, like at the Bangkok, you drive away. There will be lanes for people to come up and Order, and there'll be lanes for delivery people, because delivering food is becoming even more important. Now, that covid-19.
The Mason Minute
Full Circle (MM #3800)
"The Mason with Kevin Mason, the world of fast food is Ever Changing? Everybody's always looking for new ways to entice customers. But right now it looks like fast. Food is coming full circle back when they first started out. He basically walked up to an order window. Major order waited for it came and picked the bag up and walked away, and there may have been some picnic tables outside, but there was no indoor dining off course, news from Taco Bell. The first probably start. This says, they're going to create restaurants, that kind of look like bank. Tellers that are basically just pneumatic tubes with a restaurant above that. Nobody sits in basically a kitchen, send it down the tube, like at the Bangkok, you drive away. There will be lanes for people to come up and Order, and there'll be lanes for delivery people, because delivering food is becoming even more important. Now, that covid-19.
Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
"bangkok" Discussed on Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
"Yeah from the enterprise. Singapore is by far the most mature I think enemies talent in my opinion are quite close In the bigger companies. I think once you kind of go down. From the the bigger companies it starts to deteriorate a bit but the bigger companies in the tech companies because they're utilizing the cloud. They're more forward. I think on the security front. They are spending in there also taking it quite seriously. We'll see a lot of conceited like surf interested in solving security problems but The you have other troubles there like procurement quite different a lot of cases. You're doing business. In a local currency language. Some companies contracts english things like that so there is hurdles that don't don't get me wrong but ultimately i think the markets are worthwhile entering now. If you're coming to australia there may be other markets. You want to enter in. I in in these two hundred sixty nine people so much bigger than us. Australian closest biggest. The us right. So i think it's It's quite a big market and it's growing fast. I think that is something that's important. Get earlier rather than later. I think yeah. I think you're spot on. I think we under the is tonight. The sophistication up there as well. You know again. The mommy southern talking about thailand. Bangkok is a lot of head offices in bangkok for global companies. Anyway uplift everyone around them now. We had promised to do They miss configured cloudy infrastructure. We might get back on the topic. Sorry businesses always interested me What is it the common issues that you do find. Where do you think companies struggled from. Is it the I've ally of regulations and compliance as because as you said this full hundred so the rules there that that's a challenge for any company or is it just the speed of transformation that they nanda to cloud weighty think Some of the case configurations are some of the sort of areas that company should be focusing focusing on along so the transformation. Yeah i think You know no different than the traditional environments like patching israeli one of the major problems. Like when you're running Network and keeping holly assistance update. You know like the concepts. Writers have taken care of a large portion of that. But in doing that..
We Travel There with Lee Huffman
"bangkok" Discussed on We Travel There with Lee Huffman
"There and I went up during visiting hours, and kind of like one of those prison scenes, I'm led into this open area. I sit down on the stool and there's a piece of glass in front of me. There's the phone. And five minutes later. A man comes out in a jumpsuit shuts. Down across from me. He picks up the phone. I pick up the phone and I have a 30-minute random conversation with a stranger. Who happens to be in a Thai prison. Oh, wow. What a, what a trip that was the been. You must have been going. Who the heck is this guy? He was a bit confused. He thought it was from the embassy down an embassy initially, and then I explained. I'm just some strange guy coming to visit him. Oh, well, yeah, I I remember that show called Locked Up Abroad. Yeah, and yeah, you should definitely do not want to be anywhere on the wrong side of those bars and any of those prisons as it's absolutely for sure. Well obviously a weird transition here but where's the heavy bowring Bangkok. Yeah I'm going to bring you back to sue kyme vet. Once again to convince soil eleven. So I see pet and tie. So I set that phone number Everybody no soy 11:00 in this streets, been famous for years. It had three really famous bars clubs. Super bed, Cube are unfortunately both of those have closed and it had this hole-in-the-wall outdoor bar called cheap Charlie's, which was known for just meeting. Great people and cheap drinks. Obviously, cheap Charlie's says walk away from soy 11, there. Now fifty stories away. Nonetheless, this is a great Street, Great area to go for drinks, whether you're going to Oscar bars or Hemingway's, tons and tons of stuff and all thrown one little floater. It's a new place, that's opened up, it's around the corner from soil, Lebanon, soy 30g, it's called monkey pod. And my little prediction is this is going to be the next really cool place. It's actually an old wooden Thai House where the owners just sold and moved out of birth. Restaurant Group came in renovating the place, they have a giant giant outdoor area which they built the deck and a giant bar. It's going to be an awesome place to visit. Yeah, that sounds pretty fantastic. So definitely going to have to hit that one up when I come visit. Now, one of the things I always do whenever I travel was check out the local pizza. Where would I go for the best pizza in big cock? Yeah, interesting story. Domino's used to be in Thailand, during the Asian crisis of ninety-eight ninety-nine, they closed up shop. They gave up an american guy who became a Thai citizen opened up his own pizza chain called Pizza Company, and there's hundreds or thousands of them in Thailand. So, Pizza is everywhere to Bick with us and Thailand. Don't order pizza company. Order, pizza Mania. I found this place during covid-19 teen and this was my weekly treat where I got the best pepperoni and onion pizza. Delivered to me and was just an awesome, awesome tree. I think it's one of the things when you travel around, you want to obviously be eating to the local food and everything like that, but sometimes you just need a little piece of home, you know, off and I get a little comfort food that pepperoni pizza, kids the spot. Now again we've talked about knowing each other through travel massive. So I mean, I know your blog is always amazing tips and everything else. So what's wrong travel tips? You know, we we've spoken about taxis and grab excetera excetera, this one, I can't really stress enough. Going back again, some areas are very very highly tour stood and there's guys who want to empty out your wallet. The guys you have to stay away from a hundred percent are the taxi drivers who are Park. These are the guys who will sit next to their taxi all day, waiting for you to walk by. They usually speak a little bit of English and they will encourage you to get in them. Actually, they'll never use their meter and they will charge you double triple quadruple price. So again, you got grab taxi or waved down a moving taxi, never get the taxi that sparked. Well, that's a great step. Yeah, I mean, I think it's one of the things that sometimes you think. Oh, that's awesome. I found this actually, that's right there, but that's the one that's going to get you. So definitely be careful that way. I really appreciate you coming on the show is sharing all these amazing tips. I've learned a lot. Can you tell you a little about who you are, what you do and then if somebody asked questions about, like your podcast your website or by Bangkok, what's the best way for them to reach you on social media? Yeah, so I'm a travel blogger myself and a podcaster. So I'm on a quest to travel to every country in the world and I've been to over a hundred forty of them. You can check me out on global gas Gaz. That's my blog. My social media Etc. And my podcast is counting countries. So feel free to E. Reach out to me on social media with any questions and I will get back to you fantastic. Well again, thanks for being on the show and we look forward to seeing you. When we travel there, I'll be waiting Lee. What an interesting conversation with Rick. So many of my friends have been to Bangkok to tell me that. I just have to visit after a sepa so. I definitely do you complain when she talked about today we travel there, or slash Bangkok. We want to say thank you toward well for being today's affiliate partner. It's my favorite way to check airline miles Hotel, points above loyalty programs, go to, we travel there. Com slash awardwallet to start your free account today. Join us. Next time is, we visit Madrid Spain to speak with a new friend, Janelle Norman of the escape the Spain podcast gentleman. I talked about eating Tapas Flamenco dancing and viewing bothering are at the Reina Sofia. Hope you join us when we travel there. 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We Travel There with Lee Huffman
"bangkok" Discussed on We Travel There with Lee Huffman
"To the ticket counter and get your ticket that night? Yeah. The couple of times I've been off I just showed up and bought the tickets there, but you should also see if you can just buy them online as well. Yeah, that makes sense. Now, I know when people look at travelling, they they always look for like cool souvenirs and those type of things. And sometimes you don't want to bring back a bunch of extra like a little tchotchkes and stuff like that. And now, one of things we try to talk about before we start recording is is the name. Mispronounced s, but second tattoo like getting something like that. It's kind of cool. It's like a little, it's obviously a temporary. It's not like a real tattoo, right? Where you're going to have that for the rest of your life, but it's like one of those temporary tattoos off. That correct. Lady U are half-way, correct. It is actually a very, very real tattoo. So let me explain this a little bit psychic. Want is an indigenous tattoo that comes from South East Asia and it's been around for a couple of thousand years. And these tattoos, there's hundreds or thousands of different variations of birth. Tattoos in each tattoo bestows a magical power upon the person who receives the tattoo. So in other words, you have a in essence, a counseling session with the arse on the Jean is the person who gives you the statue and based upon your situation. He will recommend a different sake and try to for your personal situation. These tattoos are famous Angelina. Jolie has this, you might you'll think of this or you'll Google it, it's five rows off on her back shoulder of a Sanskrit. Language Brooke Shields recently got one the other year and they're sort of a cottage industry of them, owners coming in. And sometimes this is the only reason they come in is to get one of these tattoos. So it's definitely not a Trotsky and you have to be committed, a hundred percent my friend runs off Business called where sidewalks end and he's built relationships up with these are zones across the country, who will sit down with you and gave me one of these tattoos and I'm also an advisor to that company. So, in terms of unique experiences, I think that might be the superlative for some of the people who go to Thailand, oh, for sure. Okay. So I was mistaken. I was thinking it was more like a like a hammer, like kind of like a temporary tattoo. So so this is absolutely permanent. So if you're going to go there mixture, it's something that you want to keep for the rest of your life. Definitely wage. Okay, cool. Well, we've we've been talking about so many amazing things to do there and my buddy ban coming call. Like he's been wanting to take me and some of our other friends there, in Thailand, he's wrong about the amazing food and we only have a couple more minutes. So let's kind of talk about a couple of places he might recommend for us to go get some amazing food there in Thailand, Okay? So this is dead. Come off a little strange for someone who lives in Thailand. I am not a Thai food a. So I actually eat very little Thai food. So this might be it kind of an Eclectic list of suggestions for you. But nonetheless, it's a great list. And as I said, this is a giant Metropolis. Meaning you can get any type of food on any given night in this circumvent area. That's the area with a lot of hotels and restaurants all suggest above 11. It's this unbelievably great set up on, you know, the 30th floor or roof deck, completely open great Vibe, great bar, great food, it's Peruvian Fusion, you can ask for Chef Omar from Peru. So that's, that's one of my favorite places. Another one. We also in the circumvent area, a side street is called soy in Bangkok or Thailand wage. One of my favourites size is called soy Arab and that's soy 3/1 and this street or these couple streets have probably about thirty. Forty fifty Middle Eastern restaurants. So one of my favorite places on 3/1 is Al Hussein for the best Chicken Shack, giant chicken shwarma for $3. So I highly recommend that as well. Since I wishes in one. More Beirut restaurant for a nice food. These are a little higher end and you can find them, they have like three of them in the Sukkot that area. So that's another great place to check out and one other place. So this is Thai food tip semi so I don't know if you like Pad Thai. This restaurant has been serving Pad Thai for like fifty years and years. There is a line of fifty or a hundred people every single night, don't get nervous. This line moves very, very, very quickly. You'll sit down, you'll get some Thai food. The pies, it's under two bucks, a dish. It's delicious and fun place to visit. Oh, that's amazing. I think that's also because it gives a variety of different food options home, you know me, I'm a little picky with food sometimes, so it's good to know that. There's, if I don't like one type of food, there's plenty of other places nearby, the baby have a different flavor and everything else. Rick I really appreciate. You sharing all these amazing tips for Bangkok. I learned a lot and I can't wait to go visit there with my buddy been, but now it's time for The Final Countdown. If somebody only have time for one meal, when they visited Bangkok, where should I go? And what should they eat? Okay, well, this isn't truly a meal. But I'm going to say this is the best thing to eat in the country. It's called mango with sticky rice. So if you like mangoes song, Opinion, the best mangoes in the world are in Thailand. The freshest, the tastiest, the sweetest that alone is Heaven for me. But with the Thai people do, is they make a sticky rice. The sticky rice is also sweet and sugary, they add that into the mango and then they pour on this sweet coconut sauce. It's absolutely delicious. Make sure you get mango and sticky rice, you can get it all round the country all around Bangkok. It should be anywhere from, you know, a dollar to $5, depending on where you are. My little hole-in-the-wall place. It's in Sioux. Come vet. It's soy, 11/1. It's right on the corner of soil, em, slash 1 and circumvent. It doesn't even have a name, but you'll see all the main goes outside and just tell point and tell them, that's what you want. That's fantastic. Now you've lived. Turn off in Bangkok for close to a decade. I'm sure you have some amazing Stories. What's one of your favorite? Yeah, I mean, a lot of great memories, the story or experience was kind of unique wage, kind of like a cottage industry of books in Thailand, are foreigners, who go to type prisons. So, a little bit notorious. You don't want to go to a Thai. Prison awful conditions. So I've read several of those books, over the years and I decided or figured out on my God, I should kind of visit one. So, one of the most famous prisons in Bangkok is called bank one, big tiger and I found an American who was imprisoned.
We Travel There with Lee Huffman
"bangkok" Discussed on We Travel There with Lee Huffman
"Night, right? Great segue for me. So, Simon a Brett who's been in Bangkok for a while. Has a company called speak. It's one of the top rated tours on TripAdvisor and Page. This is actually a great safe way to get the experience without having any of the concerns about getting ripped off, etc. Etc. But he does offer nightly tours on wage Took drives you around to some of the cool and interesting sites at night and also takes you for some great food as well. I've personally done the door. It's fun and easy way. I get an introduction to the city, perfect. Yeah. I mean I think that's great because instead of trying to figure out where to go the tour is already done for you, right? And I'm sure it's pretty affordable as well, and seems like a great way to explore our city. And so let's talk about some of the things that maybe we do on the tour or just we should check out while we're in the city. Anyways, you kind of alluded to it a little bit earlier was like some of the historical sites and everything in the, in the old C. But what are some of those things that we should check out? Yeah, I kind of see that Bangkok is like an onion. So, you know, I hear from a lot of people like Bangkok. I don't know. Not that interesting. I want to go to Phuket searching. My it's too busy. It's too this too. That I really think Bangkok offers so much. It's like an onion, so many different layers to the city and so much to explore home. You know, some of the, this is pretty obvious, the place you go to see is the Grand Palace or the emerald Jade Temple. This is the most awfully site in the country. It's the most important Buddhist temple in the country, and it's absolutely stunning and beautiful. My tip here by your ticket online and you have to cover your shoulders and wear long pants, but go there for a couple of hours and just take it all in. It's a fabulous place to visit and just a second, tallest, building in Bangkok and the building with the highest Skydeck in the city Mahon Nakhon, just finished a couple of years ago. I just went up there a couple of months ago pretty spectacular building pretty awesome, roof deck, and pretty spectacular, views of the city again. Buy your ticket. Online before hiking over there, I went up for Sunset obviously. That's a great time to be going. Another tip. I mentioned that Chao praya River. This is a pretty big thoroughfare. Basically that traces the west side of Bangkok and it's near The Old City. There's tons of these giant longboats that bring computers to different fairy stations along the river and something like four twenty cents. You can jump on these boats, they're not meant to be tour boats, but in reality jump on their get a window seat or. Well, there's not Windows per se, but sit by the river and ride it for 30 minutes for 20 minutes for an hour. And then City just ride back or jump off on another station. This is like a lot of fun. I one thing I want to ask is okay. Obviously like you mentioned that the city's really big with like ten to Fifteen million people. And sometimes in those bigger cities you got to worry about pickpockets or you know, these are no such things when you're on the boat or you're on the subway and those type of things. Do you really have to watch out for like, your, your belongings or wage is a pretty safe? I would say very safe. I mean, of course there are pickpockets, are there must be. I've never had a situation like that nor am I even really heard of friends or friends of friends, who have been mugged or pickpocketed, etc, etc. The one thing Aladdin. Way, I gave that example the must-see Grand Palace. This is probably the most horsted site in the city meeting. That's where some of the scam artists are. So one of the scams in this is probably across the world. Is some tie guy. Probably speaks pretty English will come up to you and go oh, Grand Palace is closed today. Let me suggest that you go here. And of course it's never closed and he's just trying to sell you something else. So be careful of those touristy scams that can take place in the more tourist areas of publicity. Sure. And like you said, if you buy your tickets online, you already know the schedule of when it's open, anyways, so you know that for sure that it's going to be open that day. Definitely one of the things that I know that people really suck when I think about about Thailand is like a movie type fight and I actually interview somebody from Chiang Mai and he said that Bangkok is a place for The Watch movie Thai fight. Yeah, the great thing about Thailand, Thursday is we tires everywhere. There's two real stadiums with in Bangkok. One is lumpini, which is really famous that used to be like really in the city a couple of years ago, they built a newer Stadium outside of the city a little bit. The other stadium that name is I can't think of that name right now but the job The two stadiums, there's basically a fight every single night, usually alternating between the two stadiums. The thing that kind of frustrates me a little bit, is in the area, surrounding the ring, the best seats. You're basically as a tourist, you're forced to sit in this area. So there's tons of cheap seats, wage in general for hunters are not allowed to sit up there. So, in other words, you're forced to sit next to the ring, which is great for the view, but you're charged give or take $50 for the seat. Where the cheap seats are, you know, probably five or ten dollars, so just be aware of that when you do go to visit, nonetheless, you gotta go see it once because it's a off some experience down again with. Like we talked about some of the other attractions do we need to buy our tickets online ahead of time or this is something you can just walk up.
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"The same thing. Sure sure. And then you know if we are using our cell phone obviously you need the phone with an international plan and and without the data caps and everything like that, right. So that way you don't get stuck some place without having service dog. Beyond that is, is there a good service? Like pretty much anywhere in the city if we need to have access on our phone. Yeah, we it's easy. Very, very inexpensive. So yeah, there's a couple of big phone companies called dtac, a is and they all have stores or kiosks in the airport. So as soon as you get your bags and packs through custom, make sure you pick up a local SIM card and for anywhere from ten to twenty dollars, you'll get 10, 20 Gigabytes, which should hold you for the month. Okay, so one of the things obviously, if we, if we are getting a taxi and everything else, I know. That's one of the things that is a problem for a lot of Americans way. Why they don't travel by, they don't have a passport as they're afraid. When they travel to some of these International destinations, you know, they're not going to speak the local language. They're not going to have a local currency and those sort of things. It's like all these hurdles they have to overcome and so when we go there to to Bangkok, there are there certain birth Those are words, we need to know or are people speaking English on a regular basis. Like how does that work? Let's see. Well in short, I mean, Thailand is one of the most popular countries and cities in the world for tourism. So there's a tremendous tourism infrastructure in the most popular places within Thailand and within Bangkok. So that means in general, you can get away with English pretty easily and you should not be nervous or concerned if you don't speak any Thai because the vast vast majority of tourists come back into the country. Obviously, don't speak Thai and everybody has a pretty spectacular time. The one word, just to put a smile on the Thai person's face is to say hello. It's so wide the cup. If you are a man and so why the car, if you are a woman. So I speak a bit of Tai and if I can log, Need to gather two sentences. I will get Giants miles, and the type person will a fuse, how great I speak Thai, and it's a very warming feeling. And, you know, I can contrast that to some other countries like Russia, where I speak a couple of words and I'm pronouncing both languages quite poorly lay. But in Russia, I mean, I'll get a scowl ocean and Thailand. I get a big smile, even if I string together. You know, two sentences. Sure. And I think that's, I think it's one of those things that pretty much anywhere you go. If you make a choice bit of effort, like two returns can be, can be huge. So to learn a few words, you know, grab a book, grab a translator app on your phone or something like that and practice a few words on the plane, on the way over there, right off. Always a good idea. Okay, so now we're talking about, we're in the city, we've taken a taxi, maybe reason grab or whatever to get around. Where should we plan on staying there certain districts or regions of the same? That that's the place where we should. We should try to book our hotel. Well this is a giant City way, you know, ten fifteen million people and it's really spread out. I'm going to divided the city into two divisions. This is a really poor description, I'm giving, but I'm going to divide the two places you should be staying is number one thing to consider is Sue convert area who come vet and the second area. I'll call it the old city or rotten. Ghosn circumvent is a very very popular area with a lot of foreigners expats. We call the foreigners franck's and Bangkok. There's a ton of shopping nightlife restaurants hotels here and also should commit his really well served by the BTS, which is the subway the other area. I'll suggest is the old-school game. Is a just mentioned and this area is on the river, the Chao praya. And it also basically has all of the interesting cultural and historical things to see within Bangkok. So, sukin vet kind of the fun nightlife shopping restaurant area or the old city which has all these amazing historical sites to visit. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. If we say, we want to be able experience little bit of both. I mean, being able to go back and forth between those areas like you said City's pretty spread out and everything else. Is it easy to get back and forth between those two areas? Yes, and no in a weird way. It's if you have enough time, I would almost recommend like, spend a couple of nights and circumvent and then a couple of nights in the city but if not again you can just take a grab or taxi between the two different areas. Now again when there's no traffic, it's 20 30 minutes log. But during rush hour, it's going to be an hour. Same thing, it's probably going to be five bucks or eight dollars so it's not going to kill you. You can also take the subway, the BTS but then that's only a couple bucks. But that is almost as lengthy when it comes to time. Yeah sure. Sure. And you know, you're squeezed in with a bunch of people. No AC everything else like that box. Seems like a better way to go. Yeah, well I'll give a lot of credit to the BTS, the subway, there's actually two different lines. Once called the BTS, The Others, the MRT, the challenge with them is long lines are not as extensive as they need to be for a city, the size, but where they do go, they are very quick efficient, they are very clean, their frequent and they do actually have a say, oh good. So so it is a pretty good choice then as far as that goes and just add one thing. If you're taking the BTS you can get the rabbit card. So this month One of those store value cards, you can add money on there and use that to ride the BTS, The Ride, start at, probably a little under a dollar and gave up to like two bucks that's based upon distance. All right, that's good to know. Now, we've seen the movies and T shows and those type of things where they have like, the little guys in the tech talks and everything else like that. That's something that we should do or is that something we should stay away from? Yeah, I think that's a great question. And my two cents is, as you said, this is kind of a symbol of tilak, these tuk-tuks. So I'll say take it once and set the price before you get in. There's no meter but do it once only for the experience because a couple of things one, they're not that comfortable to. There's no AC three your breathing and tons of carbon monoxide from the crazy traffic. Now I'm not going to say all took took drives. Are scam artist but enough are where it kind of potentially can ruin the experience. So I mean, they'll play the game of taking you to a tailor, to a gem store to be driving you around in circles, etc, etc. So I say do it once for the experience, enjoy it, and then you're better off in the taxes, okay? Or grab. All right. That sounds good now. But if you wanted that experience, instead of doing that during the day and sitting in traffic and stuff like that, well, things I saw is I think one of your friends has.
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"bangkok" Discussed on We Travel There with Lee Huffman
"Show. Thank you so much for today. We're talking about Bankok Thailand and it's a city I've seen in a lot of movies and heard so much about for some of my travel friends, but I haven't been there yet. So it's awesome to have you on here and I'm glad we got connected through travel, massive, excellent and wage. Cock is waiting to welcome you you're missing out on quite a bit. I can't wait to learn about it. So what's your connection to the city? Well, it started really from reading a book. So 22000, I read this book it's called The Gospel of father, Joe. It's about a priest who moves to one of the slums of Bangkok in the 1970s and really gross is this incredible. Massive outreach program to thousands and thousands of Thai people in need. I read the book and I said, you know what, I'm going to go volunteer for this guy, and that starts a whole chain of events that made me or ended up having me live part-time in that country for about seven years, such a wonderful Story, I mean I can only imagine what it what it would have been like just interacting with him and learning from him. Well there's a big difference meaning in 1970s when he moved there he literally lived in this little Shack but his whole outreach program. Has grown to, you know, service and help tens of thousands of people in Thailand. So I did get to meet him a couple of times. But I mean there's an incredibly large staff. So unfortunately I did not really interface with them too often and he's an older guys. Well, and I also felt like I didn't even want to waste her use any of this time because I view his time as so incredibly valuable over. Sure. And he's made such a profound impact on the city and and so many lives that that's just inspiring, right? An incredible story and for anybody going to Thailand off just, it gives you a great sense of the city read that book, gospel, father. Joe, it's pretty motivating to read this book will for sure. I'll put that into the show notes then so right now, you're actually in Boston a while we're recording this and everything. But what's the thing that really keeps? You going back to to Bangkok Bangkok is a city that never sleeps. The people are friendly and it's song. Diverse meaning, it's East. It's West, it's old, it's new. Just it offers really anything that you would want in this great tropical setting up a hard to beat, right? Yeah, I've been happy right on. Okay, so like we talked about you're in Boston right now and save. Anybody that's here in the United States and wants to fly and and travel to Bangkok like how do we get Thursday? It's pretty straightforward. I mean, it's definitely a long fight and it's not the cheapest, you should be targeting, give or take, $1,000, you can find the fights as cheap as $600 round trip and of course you can pay a lot more especially if you're going business class. But you kind of two different routes in general, if you're in the US, you can go east and go through the Gulf States, like, Emirates or Qatar, or you can go west and you really have a lot more options this way as well, Cafe. China Eastern Jal. K a l. So really ton of options, just go start with Skyscanner and start screening and see what's a good fit for you there, right? Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. All right, so if we are planning a trip, are there any certain requirements? I know some countries require shots or, or visas or those types of things are there certain requirements if we're going to travel there? Well, in terms of Genesis and shots, not really most countries from the West will get Thirty Days upon arrival. You can relatively easy extend that 30 more days to give you 60 and in general. There's no proof of vaccine. Well, that might change but right now there's no need for any special vaccinations, but I would check the CDC website because we should have the normal shots. You should have like, have a happy typhoid, etc, etc. Okay. Yeah, that's good to know. All right. So say that we were fly in and we arrived at the big airport there. I know it's a dog. Big International Hub but from there if we're going to get from the airport to the city, do we take public transportation? Is there like a a bus or a monorail or Subway? Something like that or should we rent a car or just do bur? Ya. I think the best advice Lee I can give you is don't rent a car. I've driven a handful of times in Bangkok and I simply it's it's really really stressful. The traffic is nightmarish, and it's also a really convoluted City. Meaning it's like the complete opposite of New York City's grid. So stay away from the hard unless you're leaving Bangkok and then that makes sense, exploring the rest of the country by car. If that's what you're into in terms of getting from the airport into em City. Me personally, I always take a taxi now this taxi can be like an hour-long ride. Meaning there's tons of traffic in the airports pretty far out Of the city. But the great thing with Bangkok is its cost structure. Meaning give or take this ride, that can take up to an hour is about 10 to $15. So after you get off the Fourteen hour flight, you got a couple of bags. It's just easier for me to wave down the taxi. Jump in there and sit in the air conditioner off. Nonetheless, there's buses but that's really not a great option. They do have this train, which will connect you to the subway system, but that again, we'll take you off about an hour as well. And of course, that's only a couple of dollars. So I would say, if you could afford the 15 bucks, take the taxi. If not, you can take the express train wage will lead you into the city where you can jump on the subway for a couple of bucks, right? That makes sense. Yeah, I would definitely Splurge for the taxi especially if you're with me. I normally travel with my kids or or my wife as well. By the time you add it up, you really not saving any money doing the the subway and the train versus getting your own private taxi. And you get the AC which is, which is key cuz we'll talk about the weather there in a minute, right? The other thing is, I know, you know, obviously the US Uber and Lyft are are really popular but I think in in the agent, the south east and Asian countries, grab is the company. They they use kind of uber correct, you know, your stuff away. So at one point a couple of years ago there was both Uber and grab a uber from my understanding sold out to grab. So make sure you put the grab app onto your phone before you head out to Thailand in Bangkok because that can be a really helpful way of getting around,.
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"A lovely view of the neighbors, rice paddies and the herons and eager it's feeding there. Our house is close to the make Long River and a loud Carrie Okey bar on the loss side of it. Which used to keep her awake at night. A couple of weeks ago, the music stopped. She thinks it's coded. I think so. If not serious, they won't stop. They won't stop party they wouldn't stop singing. Dancing the Lao province across the river this week recorded the highest number of new infections nationwide and the government shut it and the casino there down scare scared off the neighbors, scared of blouse and refugee and people. Will try to sneak in the Thailand but now not only them that carry covitz. Hi people, too. Everyone everywhere. The outbreak that started it all has been traced to a cluster of clubs in an upscale Bangkok neighborhood in late March. Doctor to Nevada him A. Judah is a professor of medicine at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. Teaching very mean. It wasn't just one customer. It was thousands of people after that they brought the virus home to their families and everywhere. Until it spread throughout society. What waited to come from Rick Brown oversees the World Health Organization's covert response in Thailand. There's good circumstantial evidence that suggests it may have been imported over porous borders from Cambodia. The upsurge in case in Cambodia started around the 20th of February, so predated the upsurge in Thailand. And we know that both of these upsurges or outbreaks are being driven by the variant originated in the U. K. And that vary. It wasn't done spreading. It soon appeared in neighboring Laos in early April. Laws had just 88 confirmed cases nationwide since the pandemic began, and not a single covert death, according to state run television. The 89th person is the 24 year old woman from a tampon district in someone, a kid province who return From Thailand. Since then, the number of cases has exploded two more than 1300, with many communities, including the one with the casino with a loud music under full lockdown. And Vietnam. Another country, largely spared during the first year of the pandemic is now reeling under a new wave to it shares a border with both Laos and Cambodia. He is prime minister from Ng Ching on state run VTV on Sunday. Drastic measures should be taken to control the situation. Our neighboring countries are struggling during this fight. And he's had put heavy pressure on Vietnam. All of these countries have tightened security on their borders, along with targeted testing and contact tracing. But borders leak public buy in is uneven more than a year into the pandemic and a variant from India, believed to be highly transmissible has just arrived here. The WH ose Rick Brown. I think this is a real concern. If there is circulation in communities in bordering countries, then there could be importation of a mother variant through land borders. Further straining countries whose health systems are already reeling with steadily rising caseloads combined with a woeful lack of vaccines to counter this new threat for NPR news, I'm Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai, Thailand. You're listening to all things considered from NPR News. Hi, this is Dom Murata from Silver Lake. I first discovered KCRW back in high school and have been listening and contributing to the station. Ever since. This past year has been a challenge of working remotely. Even though I miss the social interactions of the office. KCRW brings me as close to that feeling of being connected to others, and my community is possible. So thank you for always being on and available. Donate now at KCRW dot com slash give Thanks in the 3 48 year on KCRW. We are so happy that you found and you have stuck with kcrw. You of course know where to find us on.
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Thailand's 3rd Wave Wreaks Havoc Across the Country
"Is on the edge. With the third way the covert 19 spreading rapidly. The country had almost eradicated the virus for the second time when a cluster emerged this month in Bangkok's infamous nightclub district. More than 1000 choices now being reported every day, which isn't a lot compared with countries like India, but this new way of his health authorities concerned for other reasons. Southeast Asia correspondent Brazilian forward reports The streets are unusually quiet. People work from home schools, a shot. Restaurants and shops have reduced hours. Movement around the country is restricted on all bars are closed. This is life during Thailand's third and most serious wave of covert 19. This time, it's the highly infectious UK variant and it's spreading fast. Many people had effect with it even many off. My friend has been effect with that. Some off them has been hospitalized already so scary for me. Because it's everywhere. The outbreak began in Bangkok's nightclubs and has now reached every province. Many hospitals are almost full, and some have stopped testing because they've got no bids for new cases. Health authorities announced. Scrambling to build field hospitals use existing hotel quarantine rooms and moved asymptomatic patients home Hopefully within the next few days, one or two days. We can clear those back lock off infected patients. We still at home, so everybody's working very fast in order to taking care off being in the infected person, Dr. Tan Iraq play Pat is the director general of the Ministry of Public Health, he says with the widespread rollout of the vaccine, not starting until June. Thailand needs to get on top of this new wave Now, hopefully he would see that the situation would be under control in the next few few days or weeks. But if not, I believe that the cover is willing to apply mosque ringtone intervention tie. Red Cross workers have been on the ground through all three outbreaks. Program coordinator. Hunan U. N. Says people should be optimistic from my experience and from my belief that with the current situation and the current restriction measures in place the country would be able to succeed in bringing down the number off new cases. In coming days or weeks. A population of 70 million people will be hoping he's right. This is Miss Zoe forward in Bangkok reporting for a M in
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Myanmar Coup: Aung San Suu Kyi Faces Fresh Charges
"Mazda. Pos leader aung sang suu. Chief faces fresh against her which could lead to have being imprisoned for up to fourteen years. Lawyers say this week. She was accused of breaking a secrets. Law dating back to the colonial era the charges for warning from u n special envoy that unless action is taken to calm the violent crackdown on protesters by the military hunter. A bloodbath is imminent gwen. Robinson is molecules. Bangkok correspondent t follows events in myanmar. Very classy grand. Good morning good afternoon. Good afternoon good to have you with. Just could you just recap the charges that aung san suu cheese now facing well. It's a variety The the initial ones were very You know baffling trivial including you know illegal possession of walkie-talkies and And then they were adding Other charges which seemed to be including very weirdly worded In spreading fear and alone under this As you mentioned the colonial-era law so it's not a hundred percent. Clear that the detail of held it charging or characterizing fear and alarm and how to see how she can spread fear big locked up in ninety dole with very little no exist to the world but these are the judges that the second set of challenges that we're announced on monday Actually carry a prison terms of up to fourteen whereas the previous ones were only three but actually rather academic because it's very clear that they the to is determined to you know throw everything they can to and Locker
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Myanmar foreign minister visits Thailand, first trip since coup
"Has made monse military genta underestimated. Just how strong and sustained resistance can be to the coup. They mounted at the start of this month. The now appears to be a solid disavow civil disobedience movement determined to fill the streets and campaign for the return of the deposed government. Well in response to this the gentrys looking overseas for support. Its foreign minister headed to thailand on wednesday for talks so for more. I'm joined the line by glen. Were robinson monaco's bangkok correspondent has been monitoring the situation for as closely in neighboring men and. Hello glen gadaffi bag. Good morning. just tell us a little bit more about the fact that the foreign minister has traveled is it isn't acknowledgement. Isn't it that men mar has a problem. It doesn't know how to solve well. That is definitely true. i would call in the industry as yet because about a countries around the world and not even recognizing the regime pets representative of for foreign affairs own however some some countries are referring to him. It was a very Abruptly arraigned Anything which was kind of fun on on people. And i think the thais also shell shocked i. The whole thing was put together very quickly. They happen to be also amazing. Raised with the indonesian foreign minister. Who seem to be taking some initiatives to try and organize the ozzy on group of ten countries in south east asia to Try to get together. Mediate with the hundred Which you know. The country is a member of the on and try and get some kind of proposal going So follow the the lines coming out of that kind of shuttle diplomacy highly encouraging because The plan is apparently to propose that The hunter speaks to its earlier. Promised to hold an election within a year and and proceed with restoring democracy. Of course nobody believes them. And there's already been house of dismay from the protest movement in any thoughts plan rented head. What the protest movement want is for the international community not to recognize the winter as a legitimate government and to Don't accept them in As the government of there's some there's some Room for more tension arising from that But yesterday was indeed a very confusing day in bangkok with planes coming. In and out the nation foreign minister here the Foreign policy representative and a lot of speculation about what they were talking about.
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Myanmar police fire at demonstrators, killing two
"Contaminated. I'm Hardy Milwaukee in Dallas, heading overseas now to Man Mar protesters back on the streets, a day after two demonstrators were killed by police and the military in Myanmar's second largest city, Mandalay. Michael Sullivan reports from Bangkok and neighboring Thailand. The protest and the arrest of protesters by the military continued again today, neither side willing to back down after the bloodiest day since the protests began more than two weeks ago. On Saturday. At least two people were killed in Myanmar's second city, Mandalay. When security forces opened fire with live ammunition. Dozens more were wounded. Several 1000 people turned out again today in Mandalay and in Myanmar's main city, Yangon, demanding the coup makers step down. Thousands also turned out in the capital Nippy dog for the funeral of 20 year old Mya 20. What kind the first
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Myanmar coup: Military blocks Facebook for sake of 'stability'
"Myanmar because today the military leaders who sees parents who are Monday blocked access to Facebook by father dominant social media platform in the country on most people's only access. Two news officials said they were shutting it out for several days for the sake of stability is the reaction of one university student in Yangon, who also has a job in I T blocking Facebook today means that the freedom of young people is restricted. From now on. I am a student how education has been suspended and business frozen amid the ongoing pandemic. Military coup has started costing us our jobs, and our education is now in trouble. Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head is following developments from Bangkok. He's been telling me why this act of censorship is such a big deal for Facebook is almost uniquely dominant in Mama, and that's a peculiarity of the way in which modern telecommunications arrived very late in the country. Facebook offered people the chance to Rome using Facebook to surf the net or Sir Facebook free of data charges, and it just became the default browser for the whole country. It is the essential way in which people access information on communicate with each other. So this is a pretty big deal. Interesting that the military is says they're only gonna do it for four days. Think there would be a very angry backlash of it lasted longer and I suspect if it is for that short period, what they're trying to do at the moment is pre empt any early attempts to organize. Resistance to the coup on a lot of Burmese now rapidly trying tow discover other networks. There's been a surge of people going to Twitter. I've noticed a lot of people, Burmese people I know go on to signal All these various alternative acts, people discussing online how they can get around other attempts by the member authorities because they're now targeting VPN virtual private networks that people use to get around there blocking attempts. I've seen Burmese friends looking into the sorts of technology that people in places like China have had to learn to use because of official censorship. So that's resistance within the country. The U. N secretary general is calling for international pressure against the military. But I mean the military survive for years as a pariah state, and they They did. I'm in the argument about how effective sanctions were the first time round. They were applied in the 19 nineties and then at the start of the millennium is still going on. Many people view them as counterproductive is a blunt instrument. That largely heard poorer Burmese people and the military with their huge conglomerates linked to dodgy businesses like illegal logging and jade mining. We just unaffected. It is arguable that the isolation embarrassed the generals, and that was one of the motives for them. Opening up and allowing AH, form of democracy toe take root in Mama. I think if they're going to go for sanctions, they'd have to be targeted Sanctions and the problem there is that they've already applied those Tow. Those most involved in the atrocities against the revenge is there happened to be the very same generals who carried out this coup? Don't think of international pressure is going to make much difference at all at this stage. Governments have to say what they have to say The U. N has to say what it does. This is a very shocking coup right after a very decisive election results. But in the end, you know the generals will not want to go back to the isolation that almost destroyed the country in the seventies and eighties. They will want some kind of engagement. They'll start with their neighbors who are more willing to engage fairly quickly. I would imagine, and, of course, China.
Here & Now
Myanmar's ousted leader charged after military coup
"In Myanmar, the military is prosecuting the country's civilian leader, Aung Song Sushi. This development comes just two days after soldiers ousted the democratically elected government in a coup. Plunging me and mar into turmoil. The charges against on songs uchi are obscure, but she could be banned from holding political office ever again. The BBC's Jonathan head is with us now on Skype in Bangkok and Jonathan tell us more about this charge on songs who'd she accused of illegally importing walkie talkies? Well, I mean, she's been the head of state for the last five years. She has a very significant security detail. This isn't her home in the capital, Never doors where she lives. When she's in government. It's a very absurd charge. Everybody in Yemen will see this for what it is, which is a transparently cynical maneuver. By the military to disqualify her from office. This is their big challenge. You've got to remember they have bean Badly with this woman for more than 30 years, trying to neutralize her as a political opponent, and they failed every time every election on San Souci has contested and remember, she contested her first election way back in 1990. She won with a massive majority. And they need to find some way. If they're going to hold an election again, and they're promising people they will eventually of getting her out of the picture. Because her popularity remains undimmed inside Myanmar. The election, her party one last November was largely a result of her personal popularity. It would seem almost laughable, wouldn't it if it weren't so serious? These charges that he's facing that she could spend three years in prison if she's convicted. Have we heard from her? Do we know where she is at this point? Neither she nor the president who was her ally have been heard from, and I think there's a lot of worry about just how hard line this military hunter is going to be in the history of Myanmar has been very unhappy. The military has been both brutal, repressive. Very isolationist, a swell in the past. It's a different age. Now. Of course, you know, younger Burmese have known 10. Years of freedom on Dave got these days. Social media when I used to go into Myanmar 20 years ago. But it was firmly under military rule. There were no mobile phones at all. There were barely any phones. There was no Internet s O in a different age. It might be much harder for the military to impose on a very angry country. People who mostly voted for insensitivity on the military. Has any given itself one year so far of emergency rule to try and fix things so that its own party can do better in elections, and that was the grievance that started this group. They're saying that you know there must have been cheating because the military's party did disastrously badly in last November's election. Well, Jonathan, you say the military plans to do this for one year, but could that be a cover for something that ends up being much, much longer term? Nobody's gonna bet it's just one year when they remember what happened in 1990. The military held an election, then a much younger and sense. Uchi ran shops them by winning and they talked then about restoring democracy, and it took more than 20 years before Myanmar moved back to elected governments. Think don't think anybody could bear to consider that they might do that again, but it's a very different era. Now. I think the military for all they have a very xenophobic mindset that's often very hard for outsiders to fathom, are probably pragmatic enough to know they can't repeat what they did in the past. It's not clear whether they gotta clear game plan on us. You know whether they really believe they can hold an election in the year to some degree, you know they're making it up as they go along, You said the people of Myanmar are angry. Is there a possibility that they could apply any pressure to the military? Would that just be incredibly dangerous? I mean, what kind of power to the people of Myanmar have that's going to be interesting test. People in Yemen ovary well that in the past When people have come out on the streets, and it was only ever a moments of acute economic distress. They did it. The military basically shot them down in very large numbers. This military is brutal. Even by the standards of brutal militaries around the world. They will kill people and people know it. What was seen in the beginning is people using social media calling for campaigns on social media. We've seen doctors starting some kind of a boycott, not wanting to work with the military authorities. It's been a real shock this coup. I don't think many people saw it coming, and not many people believe that the military will be so brazen. After such a stunning election victory, for instance, Uchi said, people have got to work out what they'll do. But in the end, you know the military started the transition to democracy more than a decade ago because they recognize that the country was in a disastrous state. Under 50 years of military rule. Those same military guys have just launched this coup. They've got to figure out a way back to some kind off. Normal elected government is just not clear. How they could do that, while retaining their own kind of monopoly on power, which they seem to want to do. The BBC's Jonathan head in Bangkok, Jonathan, Thank you, thank you.
Not Too Shabby
Woman gets 43-year prison sentence for insulting Thai king
"A court in Thailand has sentenced a woman to 43 years in prison for posting audio clips from a podcast on social media in which the king was criticized. It's a record sentence for breaching the country's strict Ladies Majesty Law, which criminalizes insulting the monarchy. Jonathan head reports from Bangkok. During a wave of student led protests. Last year, There was open questioning of the wealth, the political role and personal life of King White Chulalongkorn on a scale never seen in Thailand before. More than 40, mainly young activists have been charged with less majesty over the past few weeks, some multiple times until the end of last year. The law, which has been condemned by U N human rights officials as excessively severe Had been suspended for a three year period at the King's request that leniency has clearly come
BBC Newshour
Woman gets 43-year prison sentence for insulting Thai king
"A woman to 43 years in prison for insulting the monarchy. Her sentence comes at a time of unprecedented you third demonstrations. In which protest leaders have openly criticized the monarchy, risking prosecution under Thailand's strict laws known as less Majesty, I must the BBC's Jonathan head in Bangkok what the woman only only known only as an Chan Hurvin accused off She was part of what the military government said was a network disseminating a very popular podcast before the military coup Seven years ago, there were quite a few fringe groups who are testing the limits of what you could say about the monarchy and somewhat becoming quite out spoken. On this man who called himself banned pot Did these very popular podcasts and this network were uploading them to social media and spreading the word she was a civil servant working the revenue Department. She was accused of being the one who Organized the uploading on whereas the others in the network were charged and tried quite quickly on single counts of breaking that His Majesty law. They charged her every single upload, and she uploaded several times. So she had multiple charges. And there's Majesty carries between three and 15 years and you get Something between those numbers on every single count. It was 87 years she was given. And that was then. Haft, as it always is, because she pleaded guilty. Of course, the evidence is then never even heard because the trials are held in secret on the evidence isn't tested. This is very typical of his Majesty cases. What's unusual? Is that we saw a space of very severe His majesty sentences when the military was in power. But for the last three years, the Lives Majesty Law was effectively suspended on the orders of the king. The fact that they have reactivated the law. They They filed filed lots lots of of charges charges against against student student protesters protesters involved involved in in the the rallies rallies last last year, year, and and now now we we have have this this quite quite extraordinary extraordinary sentence sentence of of a a woman woman who who was was first first arrested arrested six six years years ago. ago. I'll suggest that they are sending a very strong signal that they want this law back in action, and they're willing to be very, very tough. So there are
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"Some 1200 employees. The initial damage inspection also finds two historic buildings at risk of total collapse. Tony Gaga Tony Gonzalez. Member station W. PLN reports building inspectors had to wait five days for the FBI to grant them access to the blast zone. Now they've found seven buildings are not safe to enter. May end up being demolished in all 46 properties were damaged when a local man blew up his RV just before sunrise On Christmas Day. Some of the brick buildings date to the 18 nineties, They anchored one of the city's best preserved blocks in the heart of the downtown tourism district. Survivors have been returning with fire department escorts to recover belongings, but that's not been possible for those in the hardest hit places with entire facades crumbled to the sidewalk. For NPR News. I'm Tony Gonzalez in Nashville oversees the Chinese foreign minister is repeating a controversial claim and a joint interview with Shen Juan News Agency and other state media Alex. He said the Corona virus pandemic began in several parts of the world not just in China, and he said the claim was backed up by increasing amounts of research. The BBC's Michael Bristowe has more the Foreign Ministry's the most senior Chinese official to repeat this controversial claim. Say that's being constantly pushed in China to counter international criticism of Beijing's handling of the pandemic. Still long said increasing amounts of research suggested the pandemic was caused by separate outbreaks in multiple parts of the world. No one yet knows how the virus began. The World Health Organization says the first cases were detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. And that's where wh O scientists that this move beginning their investigation into the origins of the Corona virus, and you're listening to NPR news. South Korea is moving to expand social distancing rules to include the whole country. The rules include a ban on private gatherings larger than four people that have been set to expire tomorrow in and around the capital. So In Japan leaders around the capital region of Tokyo, asking the national government to declare a state of emergency corona virus infections. Air rising Sparky worries about Japan hosting the Olympics in July. Authorities in Thailand imposing further restrictions in the capital of Bangkok and other provinces after a fresh outbreak of coronavirus Air Michael Sullivan reports from Bangkok. Thailand, has been one of the few countries to have kept Corona virus infections to a minimum. Just over 7000 with few earth and 70 deaths. Last month, However, a new cluster of infections, mostly among migrant workers, was discovered in a seafood market south of Bangkok, and authorities have been scrambling ever since. Thailand reported 216 new cases on Saturday with one death. Authorities have ordered the closure of bars, massage parlors and other entertainment venues in the capital, as well as closing schools for the next two weeks. Similar measures have been recommended in several dozen other provinces is wealth and officials are warning tougher measures may be needed for NPR news. I'm Michael Sullivan in Bangkok. The Indian government ran amok drill today to test the country's banks seem delivery system. The exercise was held As a government minister confirmed today that a review panel has approved. The vaccine developed by AstraZeneca for emergency use are also media reports that the review panel at India's drug regulator is also recommended approving a vaccine developed locally. This is NPR news. Support comes from personal capital, offering professional grade financial tools and advice right from home personal capital dot com. Support for NPR comes from the Vital Projects Fund supporting the Museum of Modern Art, where Judd a retrospective of Donald Judd's work, including sculptures, paintings and drawings is on view in phone tickets at moment out or g'kar. And the listeners off KQED. Some light rain falling in the bay Area this morning until about mid morning and then snow falling now in the Sierra temperatures.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
What's next for the Asia-Pacific?
"Today's special edition of the globalist we are going to focus on asia and what two thousand and twenty one might hold for the region. The obvious answer might seem and will hopefully be almost by definition what with one thing and another a vast improvement but even when asia does not find itself at the epicenter of a global health crisis it remains a complicated part of the world bringing their hostages to fortune to this look ahead to ages. Next twelve months are monocle. Hong kong bureau chief. James chambers monica's. Tokyo bureau chief. Fiona wilson a little later on monaco's bangkok correspondent gwen. Robinson will join us. But first to james and fiona fiona. Let's start with you. In japan as we mentioned in that introduction a new prime minister in office seeking to fill the big shoes and follow the tough act of shinzo are has yet figured out. What kind of prime minister he's going to be is a very good question. I mean i think he's been quite difficult for serger. Falling shinzo obey. Shinzo abe's for all his faults. You know longest serving prime minister in japanese history. So you go quiet trot record. He knows how to win elections. And you know. He survived an awful lot of ups and downs. Scandals also had to deal with the pandemic and ultimately how to deal with illness as well so yeah so quite challenging to come into that role. He started off pretty well. I think his ratings quite good. But i think as people have seen ways handled the pandemic Impressed is ratings have dropped. There's also the issue about the olympics. Will it happen waiting to happen. And i think so. Go really backing this. Huge domestic tourism tourism campaign encouraging. People around the country has gone down pretty badly although it has to be said Tens of millions of people have been guy around the country so they liked that bit of it. But so i think it's quite a tough time for him and interesting. He has to have an election by next autumn. And i think he's in for a pretty rough ride few under just to follow that up. You did the mention the oh word. If there is one thing that japan hopes it can look forward to in two thousand and twenty one it is the two thousand twenty Tokyo postponed because of the obvious right now on new year's day. How likely do they look. It really depends on you. Talk to to be honest. The government would love it to happen. They really wanted to happen dog to the saying we absolutely have to vaccinate everyone. And that's not guaranteed yet. Japan's rollout of vaccinations will be in the spring. And they say you know. We'll have everyone backs in asia by the summer. And if not. I think they are going to have a problem on their hands. There are so many vested interest in the olympics in definitely. The government is under pressure from tv companies. Advertises they want it to happen. Population is still quite lukewarm. I think many people feel it puts this unnecessary pressure on the country. At a time. When is trying to deal with the pandemic. we're still dealing with that joins in hong kong or bring you in now. It being new year's day let's at least out Attempting optimism As we were just discussing. Japan has one great big blue ribbon event to look forward to hopefully in two thousand and twenty one. Two thousand and twenty was a tough year for hong kong for the same reasons. It was a tough year for everybody but for other reasons. Besides is there anything in particular vet. People in hong kong are looking forward to this year. Yes well we've had a rough couple of years here in hong kong so You know when you've hit rock awesome. Which i think that's not hong kong. Has i mean the only way to go his up. So i guess people are looking at s- an economic recovery an a return to business as usual in terms of an making money and getting on that side of things but In looking ahead the the rest of the year. I mean there are few big dates to To look forward to the the first one would be at the end of this month on the polls in january when the the uk's visa essentially for the hong kong people comes into play and up to three million on congas could suddenly decamp to britain. So if that happens if the floodgates opened not lovely be a huge event we've oils essentially being stuck in vung most of twenty twenty so It's been difficult to town at the moments How big that exodus will be. And there's no no re- odds on dejean that which you know. Every time i do meet with hong kong peasant they do generate trying to ask me once. Lights live in the uk Just like an schooling an election. Step in where they should live. What's baath liken. Is it better than oxford as there is. There is a genuine interest. But i guess we're waiting to see how many people actually all through with all of the with these These moves
Morning Edition
Bangladesh sends 2nd group of Rohingya to isolated island
"Says it's planning to move additional Rohingya refugees from their overcrowded camps near the border with me and mar to an island in the Bay of Bengal. Michael Sullivan. Reports more than 700,000 Rohingyas fled Myanmar in 2017 after and military crackdown. Bangladesh moved the first group of 1600 rolling go to the flood prone island of bus on Char earlier this month, another 1000 and now set to join them having set up by bus from the crowded refugee camps, the boats waiting to take them the rest of the way. Bangladeshis. Foreign minister insists the refugees air going voluntarily, eagerly. Even some say that's true. Others and human rights groups vehemently disagree. That's Michael Sullivan reporting from Bangkok.
Cyber Security Headlines
SolarWinds hackers breached US Treasury officials’ email accounts
"Attackers stage. A dry run get solar winds in october. Two thousand nineteen. Yahoo news is sources. Say the operators of the attack conducted a test of the campaign five months before the supply chain attack began in earnest. This test sent files without back. Doors through signed updates to orion seemingly detest they would actually be delivered and detected and updated. Faq by solar winds indicates that this was the first modification to its updates. It was aware of in related. News and analysis by the wall street journal farsight security and risk iq identified twenty four organizations that installed solar ones orion platform with militias backdoors installed including cisco intel invidia. Vm-ware belkin kent state university the california department of state hospitals and deloitte nso group spyware reportedly used against journalists a new report from security researchers at citizen lab at the university of toronto details. How government operatives used the pegasus spyware from nso group to attack the phones of thirty-six journalists producers and executives at al jazeera as well as journalist at el arab tv in london the attack was carried out using the click kismet exploit chain and i message that worked against phones running. Iowa's thirteen dot five dot one or earlier. Apple said at pets vulnerabilities seemingly with iowa's fourteen. Cia agents exposed with stolen data. A new report in foreign policy looks at the impact of data stolen by state-backed groups and other ap tease round twenty thirteen. The cia began to notice that undercover operatives in africa and europe began to be rapidly identified by chinese operatives. This marked a period where the us intelligence community noted a general professionalization of china's intelligence operations building infrastructure to process that data. They were already collecting both officially and illicitly as well as general rooting out of corruption that previously led to deep penetration into the chinese government. In the early two thousands china began tracking flights and passenger lists it also when after biometric data at airports like at bangkok this information was correlated with data gathered on an attack at the office of personnel management in two thousand twelve which leaked personal data from twenty one point five million people that data could be analyzed to figure out who was a us agent pair that information with travel data and you could figure out who from china those agents met with and with the background data indicating who might be approached at becoming sa asset europol. The european commission launch a new decryption platform. This platform was lodged in collaboration with the european commission's joint research center designed to aid authorities in decrypt information that is obtained lawfully in criminal investigations and managed by your oppose european cybercrime centre functionally. This platform will use in-house expertise with both software and hardware tools to provide effective assistance to national member. state investigations. National police forces from member states can now send lawfully obtained evidence to europol for decryption.
Buddhist Society of Western Australia
The Power of Goodness |
"Lost friday when i gave a talk here to the talk was finished. People left tie went to the airports. Go to thailand and just came back this afternoon. I sound which my trips between these friday night talks but the trip over to thailand was as part of the waste sack sermonise ways is one day of the year in my the full moon nights of my which happens to be tonight in the sky. You see the full moon and his mocks birth enlightenment. Final passing away voters a huge so many throughout the world and being popular mankind. Get invited and have to go to many places to celebrate many ways. Sex and part of the seventies was a huge seventy in bangkok. Every last year was in a hanoi. This year in bangkok united nations-sponsored way sack ceremony. An one so. I was over there representing australia. And it was very inspiring to not just have ceremonies with many of the most senior and powerful monks and scholars announce but also to have the opportunity to use his great buddhist teaching to solve some of the bigger problems of the world. So we talked about how we can use what is not just to help a human being achieved more peace in their life no interest in the individual and avoid sometimes saying the put us image just about the individual how you can really happier more peaceful more free but also to make use of these put his teachings in the international arena so we did talk about things like the global economic crisis. And those of you who think that these conferences now have no effect her soon as we finished our three day conference the share market rose throughout the world love. The evidence is out there. We're told about the political crisis in the world and look the last few days. Thailand has been peaceful again so maybe we should take responsibility for these things but one thing which we did discuss which is going to be. The topic of this talk tonight is not only in the individual theater. What also in the national theaters of our world. How much we underestimate the power of goodness. It's not hard power. It's not soft power. It's how of ethics and virtue and goodness which has a huge effect on this planet. Everybody keeps on say the reason for the current economic crisis which is about to hear is because of our conference. Of course. The reason why is about to heal. Africa is because the problem was because of access greed. Not looking at the proper things in life. I mean how much money to people need to be happy and well you want to know how much money a person needs to be really happy. Go look at me or the monk sitting next to me. We've got absolutely nothing and we're very happy. It's a great symbol like among all none of what is what is non one of the most important parts of them one. We've few possessions. We rely that competence. People have all sorts of stuff. You know all sorts of gifts prime minister of thailand. Deputy prime minister this great person network. They've they've only source of gifts. But what you do some mark when you receive all these things you say thank you very much and give it to somebody else so i never any of that stuff home with me because my home in my heart is peaceful and free. I don't want clot it up and say way that when you get a gift what a wonderful thing it is somebody gives you a gift very kind of you. Love happiness when they give you something. So what do you do next. You give it to someone else and they get a lot of happiness and they give it to someone else. Please don't store possessions this. Pass it around like passing the paso and eventually working to somebody who really needs an appreciate it. Then they can keep here. What a wonderful thing. It is not to keep things but to be part of a static but it's this process is dynamic active giving and receiving enjoying the gifts and enjoy the process of giving an a passing it to someone else impossible to someone else in passing it to someone else so one gift keeps going round and round and round making many many people happy and eventually and it's happened to me and the gift i gave someone they say we've got a president for you are temper this a gift like if someone else about three weeks ago this happened see as the law of power walk out cubs literally but we all know that that sort of agreed thing is this you get a gift you wanna keep it you have money you think it's yours you have a house you don't share it what things for any way they are for sharing for enjoying not just by yourself. It's not very nice enjoying things by yourself. in fact it's almost impossible to enjoy it by yourself for sharing it. It's a wonderful thing to you. Get much more happiness that way as they say in business you get far more bang for your bucks when you share your box. So you'll know that greed is a why are people so just greedy and why are people just like in politics. We also talked about the political problems in the world. Why people angry. What was the point of getting anxious. Somebody does that help at all
The Economist: The Intelligence
Young protesters in Thailand risk much to demand change from military, monarchy
"Escalated in thailand. This week we're called to reform the monarchy are getting louder this morning. Police blocked rush hour traffic to stop demonstrators. They said from breaking the law out. This isn't the first time this year there have been protests against king maha vajiralongkorn who took the throne for years ago. He's one of the richest royals in the world and a playboy. He's churned through four wives and spends the majority of his time living in a german hotel amid lots of women in the past few years he's taken steps to consolidate power leading mostly younger student campaigners to demand the monarchy become more accountable and transparent yet eating suggesting these reforms comes with a hefty price. Thailand has one of the strictest lese majeste laws in the world criticizing. The royal family is punishable by up to fifteen years in jail yet. It's a law that people are increasingly willing to break yesterday evening. After left the protest side there was a pipe. Bomb in the protests in front of parliament happens that we could go also that were six protesters being treated for gunshot wounds. A man was arrested. So it's a very unstable situation. Tom felix young writes about thailand for the economist and is based in bangkok. At the same time. One has to see that the students are in a different position because many of them are the kids off the bangkok establishment. So the hope here some say is that you don't go around killing your own children what do you mean how is the makeup of these protests. Now different the biggest difference. Is that the kids on the streets. Some of the math fifteen there are university students as well but they are incredibly young. And if you were looking for a sentence to describe what's going on out there they are fearless. Fear is gone. And i say that because the legs majeste laurels the roy. Defamation in this country. I'd incredibly harsh. And they have been applied in the past so every time kids go out there and demonstrates some of them seeking out of the house of their parents they are committing a criminal offence and they are risking ending up in jail and yet no one really seems to care so what you see now when you go and went to observe protests yesterday is all sorts of tones and abused director directly at the head of state which is something that has happened in the past but not in the way that it is now. And why is this upsurge of animosity against the head of state king. So his father passed away in two thousand sixteen and since he seems to the throne taken a lot of steps to concentrate power in his hands. So there's been a shift from watts once looked as a relatively normal constitutional monarchy to more absolutes attack monarchy. The has changed the crown property bureau law which essentially said previously that these assets are being held in trust for the people for the nation and now with this law changed. The king has direct control over these acids and they actually if you look at shares in companies. It's no longer. The crown property bureau owning is the name of the king the students and many people who sympathize with them on our asking. Well what is his old about these assets odds and we want to see a reversal. What is it that the protesters are demanding here so the three months initially many months ago that they wanted to change the constitution basically a more democratic thailand. The second one they wanted to give it to speak to freely and not face arrests and the third one which is by far the most controversial is a reform of the monarchy now in recent months more and more the last demand has become the most prominent to the extent that even neutral observers here referred to these protests no longer as pro-democracy protests but anti monarchy protests and what likelihood that what the protesters are demanding will actually be met. I mean what chances for actual a change to the monarchy. Well if you look at the original three demands the one of the demands was that they wanted essentially to express themselves freely without landing in jail. Now we use the opposite. Now you see a hardening of stance on the part of the establishment on that from the students are not getting anywhere. The second part is that that was a whole unto last week that the constitution might be mended and made more progressive. That door now seems closed because the crew military royalist government coalition government. They have a majority in parliament. One proposed in particular which mirrored of the demands of the students was voted down so there is no way now through the parliamentary process to bring about change and on the third demand. It is pretty clear now that this heading for a confrontation and everybody knew that because the way that paolo is acquired exercised and hells in. Thailand is dri up for debate. You say this is heading for a confrontation but it sounds as if the confrontation kind of already here. The students don't have any recourse left either in the protesting over real constitutional reform. So where do you see this going. One thing that is really worrying is that it's all it is perceived to be now this one dimensional quest for essentially getting rid of the monarchy in its current state or modernizing whatever it is but all the other things the original demands and are now in the background and what that means for the students i think is that they will find it very difficult to build a broader alliances entice society that will allow them to carry on with this hand. I do not see any fundamental change happening in the near future
Radio Specials
China's Xi Jinping Congratulates Biden On Election Win, Urges Cooperation
"As NPR's John Rule, which reports she said he hoped the two countries Could focus on cooperation and keep their differences in check. The message comes three weeks after the election, making she one of the last major world leaders to congratulate Biden. China's foreign minister congratulated him on November 13th. But analysts say President she was playing things more cautiously as President Trump mounted legal challenges to the vote and refused to concede. China. US relations worsened sharply during Trump's term in office on the campaign trail. China figured prominently with both Trump and Biden pledging to be tough on China. In his message to buy them. She expressed the desire for win win cooperation. He said he hoped both sides would uphold the spirit of non conflict and non confrontation. John Rule, which NPR news Thousands of pro democracy demonstrators march of the streets of Bangkok, Thailand today. Demanding the
Morning Edition
Thai PM promises crackdown on protesters following months of demonstrations
"Shows no sign of ending today. The prime minister warns that the monarchy would use all possible laws against protesters who are demanding his removal and a new constitution and dozens of people were injured and fighting with police outside of parliament yesterday. Here's Michael Sullivan with this report from Thailand. Just a day after Tuesday's confrontation outside parliament, the worst violence between protesters and police and months thousands of anti government demonstrators were added again last night. In front of the Royal Thai police headquarters in the commercial heart of the capital. Protesters were angry at police for Tuesday's violence outside parliament. Which included the use of water cannon against protesters and left dozens injured with six suffering gunshot wounds. They are also angry at lawmakers for refusing to consider changes to the constitution. It could have included reform of Thailand's powerful monarchy. One of the protesters, key demands, along with the resignation of coup leader turned prime minister Private Channel cha. It was a kind of AH Po conclusion what to expect Teaching young Pongsudhirak teaches political science at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. On the establishment side. It's average centers of power very clear. They're not going to compromise the three demands for them and acceptable prime minister for you. It will not resigned. There will be no rewriting the Constitution and there'll be no reform of the monarchy and it's not just the establishment. He says that the digging in but the students as well because the protest movement is death set on. Reforming Thailand and resetting the rules or a more democratic future where Thailand and move forward. With equality as a base. Protesters say Their next rally will be next week in front of the Crown Property Bureau, the agency that helps manage the monarchy's multibillion dollar fortune. They say they'll keep on for seven more days after that, in hopes of achieving their goals, possibly setting the stage for more violence for NPR news. I'm Michael Sullivan