In Bangkok, Suvarnabhumi airport re-opens as protesters force out PM.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/asia/04thai.html?th&emc=th
If protesters had closed down Rangoon airport, the army would have staged another crackdown and thousands would have been killed and arrested.
In Thailand, the Thai army did not stage a coup this time. Seemed to support the demonstrators, and so did the king.
Amitav Ghosh on terrorist attacks in Mumbai --
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/opinion/03ghosh.html?th&emc=th
Ghosh started writing about Burma in an article in The New Yorker in 1996.
He is the author of The Glass Palace, set in Mandalay in 1886.
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