There are times when some incidents in Thailand remind this writer of another society in a land far away. This was the case when virtually every mainstream mass media ignored certain "wires" about Thailand that were carried in WikiLeaks.

 14 January 2011

The uploading on to YouTube of the 17th set of videos from the ‘ohmygod3009’ source has followed the pattern set by previous clips over the past 4 months which purport to show corruption or improper behaviour inside the Constitutional Court.

The Thai Television Station Joint Censorship Committee recently banned a TV ad that featured the violent events in Bangkok in May this year, saying that the commercial might spark another round of
conflict, media reports said.

Chiranuch Premchaiporn has informed readers that the Prachatai webboard will be closed on 31 July.  The announcement should have been made a month earlier, but she has been too speechless, she says. She apologizes to readers.

The Prachatai webboard was created when the Prachatai website first began, and was meant to be a space for free discussion.