Thai Olympic torchbearer withdraws in protest - USA Today, March 23, 2008
...Narisa Chakrabongse, one of the country's six torchbearers, all of whom are environmental activists — said in an open letter she decided against taking part in the relay to "send a strong message to China that the world community could not accept its actions..."
Popular Posts
- From 2003: PM mixes business and politics
- News from the 1890s
- Snake with two heads
- Weekly News Magazines: Drawing the Lines for Elections, November, 2018
- Weekly News Magazines: Govt minister and the pro-junta party, November, 2018
- Silly uncle is moving the mountain
- Who is left to run with Sudarat?
- Beijing treads carefully when scions of Thai political dynasty arrive in China in search of their roots
- From Red Shirts to Green Shirts
- Now he faces the heavyweight
- Thaksin’s new political party