Here’s the story of the day (you won’t believe it until you read it), as covered by the NYT. And here’s a TIME essay called “Thailand’s Broken Democracy.” The latter contains this memorable passage:
In the facile political taxonomy we use to categorize nations, Thailand is considered a democracy. Yet the country remains, if not a banana republic, a juicy, messy mango republic
(Both of these items, naturally, have been added to TopicThailand.com.)