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Once again, File under…

…If I didn’t mention this I would be failing to keep you updated on Thailand news:

The BBC reported last Wed.:

Proceedings in Thailand’s parliament have been interrupted after the graphic image of a semi-naked woman flashed up on giant screens during a debate.

The close-up picture of a young woman striking a provocative pose appeared on monitors as an MP addressed the house.

The images appeared in between footage of the debate, on a controversial constitutional amendment.

The session was halted and the monitors hastily switched off after an MP complained.

The origin of the images is now being investigated. The Speaker, Somsak Kiatsuranont, said an official told him that the image’s appearance was the work of hackers outside of parliament.

Hackers? Or could the image have come unwittingly — or even intentionally — from others in the building?

As The Nation says today:

Electronic devices of a particular brand were found yesterday to be capable of sending data to display screens inside Parliament and could be responsible for a recent “porn pic” scandal.

Kamphi Ditthakorn, deputy secretary-general of the House of Representatives, who chairs a fact-finding team investigating the scandal, said yesterday the culprit could be a Samsung smart phone.

Meanwhile, in a separate incident on the same day, The Bangkok Post said:

In addition, an unidentified MP was caught by an unnamed photographer looking at an erotic photo on his cell phone during the House meeting today.

Note that the MP was looking at a different image — not the one that ran on the large screens. Click through for a photo of the MP.

It turns, out, as The Nation said:

A red-faced Democrat Party MP, a son of former party leader Banyat Bantadtan, Thursday admitted that he accidentally viewed a porno picture during a parliamentary meeting Wednesday.

Nat Bantadtan admitted during the meeting held to deliberate the charter amendment bill in the second reading that he used his mobile phone to watch a porno picture.

So, to re-cap:

1) A graphic photo was displayed on large screens in the Thai Parliament.

2) Later, an MP was photographed viewing an erotic image on his mobile phone.

For more info on both events, see this post by Kaewmala at Asian Correspondent, and this one by Bangkok Pundit.

Embedded at the top of this post and on YouTube here: A Thai-language news report about the first incident.

(All emphasis mine.)

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