From Dow Jones Newswire this morning (afternoon):
DJ Thailand Mobilizing 18,000-strong Force For Asian Summit
BANGKOK (AFP)--Thailand announced plans Friday to mobilize an 18,000-strong security force at a meeting of Southeast Asian leaders this month to prevent antigovernment protests.
The summit of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, and six dialogue partners - China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand - takes place in the coastal resort of Hua Hin on Oct. 23-25.
Supporters of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, known as the "Red Shirts," stormed the last summit in the beach town of Pattaya in April, forcing some regional leaders to flee the venue in helicopters.
The meeting had been postponed from December and moved out of its original location in Bangkok after rival demonstrators from the anti-Thaksin "Yellow Shirt" movement blockaded the capital's airports.
Intent on preventing a repeat of the embarrassing chaos, Thailand - which remains deeply politically divided - is invoking heavy security measures at the upcoming summit, including a harsh internal security law.
"There will be combined forces of 18,298 - of these 5,000 are from the army, 4,000 are from police forces and the rest will be navy and air force officers," government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn told reporters.
"No demonstrations will be allowed in the area where the Internal Security Act is being invoked. The prime minister has asked everybody concerned to work at their best to restore normalcy to Thailand," Panitan said.
While the Red Shirts haven't yet indicated whether they will target the summit, it is considered unlikely as Hua Hin is the site of one of the main palaces of Thailand's widely revered king.
However, Panitan said they had received intelligence reports that some other groups, such as environmental activists, could be planning rallies during the meeting.
In July, Thailand invoked the Internal Security Act at the Asean Regional Forum on the resort island of Phuket, attended by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It passed without riots.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 09, 2009 07:10 ET (11:10 GMT
ASEAN security precautions in Hua Hin
As usual all the hoopla is over Hua Hin, and the conference is actually in Cha Am.
Strangely, no registrations are being processed anywhere near Cha Am as far as I can tell. Maybe Cha Am is just so small no-one notices it's actually here.
How about a new name for the area to eliminate this problem.
Welcome to: HUA AM I
Strangely, no registrations are being processed anywhere near Cha Am as far as I can tell. Maybe Cha Am is just so small no-one notices it's actually here.
How about a new name for the area to eliminate this problem.
Welcome to: HUA AM I
Air Force sets up special taskforce at Hua Hin airport for Asean summit
The Air Force has set up a special taskforce at the Hua Hin Airport to assist the security operations during the Asean summit, deputy Air Force spokesman Group Captain Monthol Satchuakorn said Monday.
The taskforce will be in charge of keeping security in the airport and for the air space above Hua Hin.
Surveillance planes capable of broadcasting the situation will be also on standby as well as helicopters for fast deployments of Air Force military police and Ground Security forces to provide security of Asean leaders, he said.
The Nation
The Air Force has set up a special taskforce at the Hua Hin Airport to assist the security operations during the Asean summit, deputy Air Force spokesman Group Captain Monthol Satchuakorn said Monday.
The taskforce will be in charge of keeping security in the airport and for the air space above Hua Hin.
Surveillance planes capable of broadcasting the situation will be also on standby as well as helicopters for fast deployments of Air Force military police and Ground Security forces to provide security of Asean leaders, he said.
The Nation
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We finally got our sticker! Someone told us where they were today and we went. They have three big tables in the parking lot of the Catholic school just north of Market Village. Just go in and park and you will see the big covered shed on the right of the front gate near the sports area.
They have three big tables of officers taking your documents and issuing stickers immediately. There are a couple of tables in front of them with the forms to fill out.
The right most table is for motorbikes, the middle section (roped off) is for autos.
There was another section on the left but we didn't see the sign so I don't know what it was for, maybe picking up already registered stickers or commercial vehicles.
Anyway we filled out the forms, stood in line for about 20 minutes and got our sticker on the spot!
They have three big tables of officers taking your documents and issuing stickers immediately. There are a couple of tables in front of them with the forms to fill out.
The right most table is for motorbikes, the middle section (roped off) is for autos.
There was another section on the left but we didn't see the sign so I don't know what it was for, maybe picking up already registered stickers or commercial vehicles.
Anyway we filled out the forms, stood in line for about 20 minutes and got our sticker on the spot!
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
Go today to Salesian School. Take registration book (motosai = green, car = blue) and your ID with you.
There's good parking in the school yard. It is the next gate north on Phetskasem after Market Village
and the new bank.
They help and guide you, and you'll get the stickers immediately.
Quick, easy and painless.
There's good parking in the school yard. It is the next gate north on Phetskasem after Market Village
and the new bank.
They help and guide you, and you'll get the stickers immediately.
Quick, easy and painless.
"There's no plausible or convincing reason, certainly no evidential one, to believe that there is such an entity (= deity) and that all observable phenomena, including the cosmological ones... are explicable without the hypothesis; you don't need the assumption."
It's a shell game. You have to run around town guessing where they are. It took us three trys because they moved each day. When you hear where they are next, don't wait until the next day... get down there immediately.
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?