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The hot subject at the beginning of the week was not the death of bin Laden nor the trilateral meeting on the Thai-Cambodian conflict; it was the Facebook battle between Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij and red-shirt leader Nattawut Saikua.
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It all started simply enough with a post on Facebook by the finance minister after taking his wife out to an innocent dinner at at unnamed restaurant on Thong Lor.
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Red-shirt supporters have expressed dismay over ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's call for them to set aside their anger and frustration over social and legal injustices for the sake of national reconciliation.
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Discussion 4 : 10/05/2011 at 06:46 PM4
Post this to my Facebook
“As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but most importantly humility.” Nelson Mandela - wish we had some leaders with integrity, honesty and humility, a very rare commodity amongst those who pretend to lead us in Thailand
Discussion 3 : 10/05/2011 at 06:44 PM3
“Even in Hell the peasant will have to serve the landlord, for, while the landlord is boiling in a cauldron the peasant will have to put wood under it” - Old Russian Proverb
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Discussion 2 : 10/05/2011 at 10:17 AM2
To the reporter on this article: The second comment attributed to "the red corner" ("When are we going to burn the town again? ...") was clearly written by someone who's anti-red.
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Discussion 1 : 10/05/2011 at 07:40 AM1
I agree with Korn that rich people should dine at rich people's place, while poor people should dine at poor people's place.
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