Thailand – Riots, Red Shirts and Reality | Arc Magazine

Slums as bad as any you'd find in Jakarta (I'm guessing this, having never been to Jakarta), and a few blocks away street after street of gleaming towers of five star hotels and glass and steel house offices where Thailand's tiny elite work , earning high .... First, they embarrassed Thailand by storming the ASEAN meeting in Pattaya, sending the delegates running (or more literally flying away via helicopters). But, this was nothing compared to their Bangkok-based protest. ...