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Shinawat Haboonpad is a host of the In Search for Justice programme on FM 92.75, a community radio station for taxi drivers broadcast in the Chatuchak area.
Apart from being the head of the taxi club and leader of the Caravan of the Poor, he is also involved in the Nationalist Society belonging to Prayoon Krongyos, founder of the Khon Rak Chat (Patriots) Club and owner of FM 94.25 Daily Thailand community radio, well-known for supporting ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Local radio for taxi drivers boomed under Mr Shinawat, when Newin Chidchob was a PM's office minister and focused on Bangkok traffic problems.
When Unity Radio FM 89.75, a station promoting national unity, went on the air, Choopong Theethuan and Mr Shinawat also appeared as co-hosts along with People Power MP Chatuporn Promphan and Natawut Saikua, one of the organisers of the pro-government Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship.
Suchart Nakbangsai, a core leader of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), owns a website production shop located in Pantip Plaza and the Watergate Centre. He also owns www.thaiclass.com, part of the Saturday Voice Against Dictatorship that originated on Pantip.com. He provides information on political issues to the website and is running for Bangkok governor this year.
Mr Suchart's website is not the only one that supports the UDD. Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul, alias Da Torpedo, previously ran www.datopido.com, which provided a space for information exchange among UDD sympathisers.
This website is currently unavailable and gives the absence of the website owner as a reason. However, a further examination shows that the forum on the first page has been moved to the site's TV Online page.
TV Online normally provides content from radio stations allied with pro-Thaksin groups including Choopong Theethuan's FM 87.75, Taxi Radio FM 92.75, and Newsky. The website also broadcasts PTV programmes hosted by former Thai Rak Thai executive Veera Musikapong, former PPP minister Jakrapob Penkair, Natawut Saikua and Chatuporn Promphan.
There is a further connection between the PTV site www.ptvthai.com and the Hi-Thaksin website, whose owner under the pseudonym Pradab, shut down the website in late April. However, Pradab later has since re-emerged in cyberspace at www.thai-grassroots.com.
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