Nick Cumming-Bruce is a British journalist currently based in Bangkok where he has worked as a correspondent for the Guardian and the International Herald Tribune.
When tanks rumbled into Bangkok on 19 September 2006, ending prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's discredited five-year rule, Angkhana Neelapaijit, like many urban Thais, had mixed but hopeful feelings.
At Three Pagodas Pass, a bustling border gateway between Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand, Hla, a slender woman of 20 years, is living the slogan on her tee-shirt. "Get rich
Outside the ornate offices of Thailand's prime minister, little evidence of political turmoil remains. The tanks that rumbled into place around it for the 19 September 2006 coup
In Bangkok's drab grey concrete sprawl, the colour yellow has become loaded with political symbolism. Thais associate yellow with their revered king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, who in May 2006