Class struggle Nov 8, 2008
It is Monday morning, in a quiet backstreet in Udon Thani, provincial capital of a north-eastern province bordering Laos and a known Thaksin stronghold ... Such an attitude infuriates Ankham Ratanasingha, who runs a small farm with her husband just outside Udon Thani. (BBC News)
Thai Rice Farmers Back Thaksin Allies as City Protesters Bemoan Their Vote Oct 14, 2008
Though Thailand's power struggle mostly plays out on the streets around Bangkok's Government House, the real fault line is between the capital's elite -- mostly older professionals and their children -- and the rural poor in places like Boonsi's Udon Thani province ... Rural people keep picking a government and Bangkok beats them down,'' said Kwanchai Sarakam, leader of a pro-government group in Udon Thani who has a picture of Thaksin and him on his desk ... If we come down to Bangkok, we will... (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Thai PPP seeks supports from parties Sep 11, 2008
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej speaks to government officers at the city hall in Udon Thani province, about 580 km (360 miles) east of Bangkok September 9, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo). (Xinhuanet, China)
Thai ruling party nominates Samak for PM Sep 11, 2008
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej talks with a market vendor on Monday in Udon Thani province. The People Power Party had said since Tuesday it would seek to restore Samak, who was ordered out after judges ruled that he violated the constitution by appearing as a paid guest on a TV cooking show. (CNN -- World)
Court orders Thai prime minister to resign Sep 10, 2008
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej of Thailand speaking at the city hall in Udon Thani Province, about 580 kilometers, or 360 miles, east of Bangkok on Tuesday. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters). (International Herald Tribune)
Thailand's People Power Party (PPP), the core of the six-party coalition government, will renominate Samak Sundaravej as prime minister.• Thai PM convicted by constitution court, losing premiership Sep 10, 2008
Just on Tuesday morning, hours before the court ruling, Samak visited a morning market in northeastern province of Udon Thani. He bought several kinds of local foods. (Xinhuanet, China)
Thai PM awaits court ruling over TV show Sep 9, 2008
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej talks with a market vendor on Monday in Udon Thani province. Thailand's Constitutional Court is expected to rule on whether Samak violated the country's constitution by taking part in a television cooking show. (CNN -- International)
Thai ruling party vows to stick with Samak Sep 9, 2008
There was no immediate reaction from Samak himself, who was believed to be travelling back to Bangkok from a "mobile" cabinet meeting in Udon Thani, a PPP stronghold 560 km (350 miles) northeast of the capital ... With the thick skin that has typified his behaviour throughout, Samak toured a meat and vegetable market in Udon Thani on Tuesday before his weekly cabinet meeting. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Court says Thai leader must resign for hosting cooking show Sep 9, 2008
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej of Thailand, right, touring a market before holding his cabinet meeting in Udon Thani Province, about 580 kilometers, or 360 miles, east of Bangkok, on Tuesday. (Reuters). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Thai PM Ousted For Hosting Cooking Show Sep 9, 2008
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej gestures as he walks out of his cabinet meeting in Udon Thani province, northeastern Thailand, Sept. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong). (CBS News -- World)
History overturned Apr 12, 2008
Ban Chiang lies some 50km east of Udon Thani, capital of the province of the same name. Like Udon Thani, the Ban Chiang you see today is relatively new ... Thai Airways International flies from Bangkok to Udon Thani daily. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
US and Thailand:Allies in torture Jan 25, 2008
Political analysts and diplomats in Thailand suspect that the prison was, and perhaps still is, situated at a military base in the northeastern province of Udon Thani from where the US launched its bombers during the Vietnam War and is currently believed to monitor regional radio communications, including inside China. Wherever the CIA-run interrogation facilities are situated, the torture of suspects in Thailand apparently represents the latest US violation of the Geneva Conventions and also... (Asia Times Online)
In the Military Jan 21, 2008
More than 1,400 people, including 700 U.S. Air Force specialists and Marines, will participate in this annual exercise being held at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, located 110 miles northeast of Bangkok, and Udon Thani Royal Thai Air Base. The exercise also will involve aircraft and personnel from the Royal Thai Air Force and Army and Royal Singapore Air Force. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Thailand starts third round by-elections Jan 20, 2008
BANGKOK, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Thailand on Sunday morning started its third round of by-elections of last month's general election in the provinces of Nakhon Ratchasima, Phrae and Udon Thani, to fill the 13 MPs (Member of Parliament) posts whose winners were disqualified by the Election Commission (EC) earlier. According local TV live reports, all the re-election constituencies showed low turnout. (Xinhuanet, China)
Thaksin's wife returns to Thailand Jan 8, 2008
Sodsri Sathayatham, the election commissioner, said the three were PPP candidates in the northeastern province of Udon Thani, a key pro-Thaksin stronghold. No single party won an outright majority and analysts say they see little hope of a coalition being formed anytime soon. (Aljazeera.Net)
Cause Of Recent Sustained Outbreak Of Human Leptospirosis In Thailand Discovered Nov 5, 2007
To investigate the cause, Sharon Peacock (Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand) and colleagues identified patients with leptospirosis presenting to Udon Thani Hospital in northeast Thailand from 2000 to 2005, and they isolated the causative organisms from the blood. The researchers used a special technique for identifying the organism--a form of bacterial genotyping known as multilocus sequence typing. (Science Daily)
Letter From Thailand Aug 13, 2007
It is one of several like it in this otherwise nondescript Thai town not far from Udon Thani, which was an American air base during the Vietnam War ... Even a relatively remote place like Udon Thani, which is the local provincial capital, shows the marks of this ... Most of the men are Europeans, but there are upwards of 300 or so Americans, many of them veterans of the Vietnam War who were based in Udon Thani in the 1960s and early 1970s and are living here, most of them with Thai wives as... (International Herald Tribune)
* World News Quick Take Feb 16, 2007
Helmut Nehls, from Zeppernick, German, was found dead early on Wednesday in his cell in the northeastern town of Udon Thani, police said. Nehls was arrested on Saturday and charged with having sex with girls under the age of 13, a crime punishable by life in prison. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Airmen Perform Goodwill Mission in Thailand Feb 9, 2007
2/8/2007 - UDON THANI, Thailand (AFNEWS) -- A U.S. Air Force medical and dental team and members of the Royal Thai Air Force participated in a humanitarian mission at Thairat 72 School in Udon Thani on Feb. 6. This was the second civil-action project and the first in northern Thailand conducted during exercise Cope Tiger 2007. (DOD DefenseLINK)
