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	<title>Comments on: Thailand&#8217;s New PM: A &#8220;Gentle&#8221; Man?</title>
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		<title>By: Paul Andre</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/anasuya-sanyal/2008/09/22/thailands-new-pm-a-gentle-man/comment-page-1/#comment-21</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul Andre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a great site!Thank you 

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		<title>By: virgopq</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/anasuya-sanyal/2008/09/22/thailands-new-pm-a-gentle-man/comment-page-1/#comment-13</link>
		<dc:creator>virgopq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is the PAD a front for someone???. Is that someone a person so revere by many &amp; welds power even over the army, police &amp; government???. Is this person putting an end to an ever growing resentment among the mass craving for changes???. Is this a trend seen repeatedly occuring in Thailand&#039;s history of bloody coups???. Are the cries for changes an indication for a change in rule???. Is the newly formed government wz it&#039;s ideals, assumingly inherited from the last government, a threat to this person???. 

I truly hope that we will see a swift &amp; peaceful end to this chaotic tussle between the different factions &amp; not witness another bloody coup, as seen  in the past!.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is the PAD a front for someone???. Is that someone a person so revere by many &amp; welds power even over the army, police &amp; government???. Is this person putting an end to an ever growing resentment among the mass craving for changes???. Is this a trend seen repeatedly occuring in Thailand&#8217;s history of bloody coups???. Are the cries for changes an indication for a change in rule???. Is the newly formed government wz it&#8217;s ideals, assumingly inherited from the last government, a threat to this person???. </p>
<p>I truly hope that we will see a swift &amp; peaceful end to this chaotic tussle between the different factions &amp; not witness another bloody coup, as seen  in the past!.</p>
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		<title>By: virgopq</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/anasuya-sanyal/2008/09/22/thailands-new-pm-a-gentle-man/comment-page-1/#comment-11</link>
		<dc:creator>virgopq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr. Somchai shud cast away his &#039;nice guy&#039; approach &amp; take the opposition &amp; it&#039;s hordes of campers in the Paliament Hse head on!.

I think these last few wks hv clearly shown tt the PAD is just a bunch of power craving society bent on destruction to achieve it&#039;s aim!. These hooligans need to be stopped immediately!.

Why hasn&#039;t the King come out to quell the situation???. What is the police &amp; army planning to do wz the PAD &amp; it&#039;s supporters???. This cannot go on!.

Mr. Somchai shud rule wz an iron fist!. If this situation is allowed to persist, nothing good wl result fm it. Put a stop to it now!. The elites in Bkk shud stop supporting the PAD!. PAD is surviving fm the funds received fm the elites in Bkk. They shud realise by now tt the agenda behind PAD wl bring only destruction, bloodshed &amp; more chaos to the people of Thailand!.

Mr. Somchai shud &amp; must be firm!. There&#039;s no other way to end this. PAD wl only take advantage of the situation &amp; cause more harm to the country!.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Somchai shud cast away his &#8216;nice guy&#8217; approach &amp; take the opposition &amp; it&#8217;s hordes of campers in the Paliament Hse head on!.</p>
<p>I think these last few wks hv clearly shown tt the PAD is just a bunch of power craving society bent on destruction to achieve it&#8217;s aim!. These hooligans need to be stopped immediately!.</p>
<p>Why hasn&#8217;t the King come out to quell the situation???. What is the police &amp; army planning to do wz the PAD &amp; it&#8217;s supporters???. This cannot go on!.</p>
<p>Mr. Somchai shud rule wz an iron fist!. If this situation is allowed to persist, nothing good wl result fm it. Put a stop to it now!. The elites in Bkk shud stop supporting the PAD!. PAD is surviving fm the funds received fm the elites in Bkk. They shud realise by now tt the agenda behind PAD wl bring only destruction, bloodshed &amp; more chaos to the people of Thailand!.</p>
<p>Mr. Somchai shud &amp; must be firm!. There&#8217;s no other way to end this. PAD wl only take advantage of the situation &amp; cause more harm to the country!.</p>
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		<title>By: James Tan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/anasuya-sanyal/2008/09/22/thailands-new-pm-a-gentle-man/comment-page-1/#comment-9</link>
		<dc:creator>James Tan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i guess you can never have a perfect goernment anywhere in the world. But one has to move on for the country sake.  What is regretfull is that the PAD manipulating the followers by encouraging these crazy demonstrations.  Their current stand is fundamentally moving towards a neo-feudal country where the rich and priviledge gets the cream and the poor ordinbary folks must do the work to support their coffers.

I doubt the leaders of the PAD party are geninue in wanting to bring down corruption as i am sure they equally have their own brand of corruptionwhen ithey come to power.  I believe they did not get their fair share of hte coffers during Thaksin time.

Thailand has one of the leading democracies in SEA.  The PPP has been strong in the rural areas because they are willing to share the country wealth with the rural folks and their strategy worked and hence gaining the overwhelming support for the PPP party. 

If PAD do care about the country and the people, they should initiate programs to win over the supporters of PPP in the north and not use these &quot;hooligan&quot; tactics.  It gives a bad taste but reinforce a very uncouth, mafia tactic of &quot;if you can&#039;t win, play dirty&quot;

Just hope that all this come to past as it has affected the country and livlihood of the people of thailand.  lets see.......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i guess you can never have a perfect goernment anywhere in the world. But one has to move on for the country sake.  What is regretfull is that the PAD manipulating the followers by encouraging these crazy demonstrations.  Their current stand is fundamentally moving towards a neo-feudal country where the rich and priviledge gets the cream and the poor ordinbary folks must do the work to support their coffers.</p>
<p>I doubt the leaders of the PAD party are geninue in wanting to bring down corruption as i am sure they equally have their own brand of corruptionwhen ithey come to power.  I believe they did not get their fair share of hte coffers during Thaksin time.</p>
<p>Thailand has one of the leading democracies in SEA.  The PPP has been strong in the rural areas because they are willing to share the country wealth with the rural folks and their strategy worked and hence gaining the overwhelming support for the PPP party. </p>
<p>If PAD do care about the country and the people, they should initiate programs to win over the supporters of PPP in the north and not use these &#8220;hooligan&#8221; tactics.  It gives a bad taste but reinforce a very uncouth, mafia tactic of &#8220;if you can&#8217;t win, play dirty&#8221;</p>
<p>Just hope that all this come to past as it has affected the country and livlihood of the people of thailand.  lets see&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: PK</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/anasuya-sanyal/2008/09/22/thailands-new-pm-a-gentle-man/comment-page-1/#comment-8</link>
		<dc:creator>PK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>PM Somchai .... A Gentle man??? will find out after tue morning tear gas</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PM Somchai &#8230;. A Gentle man??? will find out after tue morning tear gas</p>
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		<title>By: virgopq</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/anasuya-sanyal/2008/09/22/thailands-new-pm-a-gentle-man/comment-page-1/#comment-5</link>
		<dc:creator>virgopq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do agree wz u tt later Thai generations wl do doubt find it extremely bizarre and if I may be bold, bemused tt one of it&#039;s PM was disqualified for hosting a cook show!.

As for Mr. Somchai&#039;s appointment, I do feel tt the current standoff wz the opposition &amp; it&#039;s hordes of supporters wl be swiftly solved if only The King wud step out &amp; lend his support.

It wud be nice if the Thai people cud move on fm here &amp; work closely to achieve more for both their country &amp; themselves. The elites in Bkk shud allow this newly elected PM a chance to prove his worth. The people shud stand by him &amp; his cabinet. The opposition shud step aside &amp; allow Mr. Somchai to begin his work to help make Thailand a better place to live in for all &amp; later generations to come. I strongly believe tt this is possible if everyone play their part.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do agree wz u tt later Thai generations wl do doubt find it extremely bizarre and if I may be bold, bemused tt one of it&#8217;s PM was disqualified for hosting a cook show!.</p>
<p>As for Mr. Somchai&#8217;s appointment, I do feel tt the current standoff wz the opposition &amp; it&#8217;s hordes of supporters wl be swiftly solved if only The King wud step out &amp; lend his support.</p>
<p>It wud be nice if the Thai people cud move on fm here &amp; work closely to achieve more for both their country &amp; themselves. The elites in Bkk shud allow this newly elected PM a chance to prove his worth. The people shud stand by him &amp; his cabinet. The opposition shud step aside &amp; allow Mr. Somchai to begin his work to help make Thailand a better place to live in for all &amp; later generations to come. I strongly believe tt this is possible if everyone play their part.</p>
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