it's easy to keep up to date on what's happening over there by checking the BKK Post and The Nation on the web. I check the news every day.

I sort of wonder what PAD's plan is. Even if Samak quits it's not like the PPP just disappears. The latest I saw was Thaksin plans to have his brother in law installed as PM once they get rid of Samak. That would arguably be a worse situation for PAD.

I am currently reading "A History of Thailand" by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. It is interesting to see how history repeats itself. I am only about halfway through but definitely recommend it. Very little of it is devoted to the pre-Bangkok period and the bulk is focused on the 20th century. It is very well researched and apparently the first English language history since the 80s.