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The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley

The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej Paul M. Handley ebook
ISBN: 0300106823, 9780300106824
Page: 512
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: pdf

King Never Smiles from English into Thai and posted it on his blog. Former car salesman Lerpong Wichaikhammat, aka Joe Gordon, received the jail term for translating parts of a book on Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej and then posting the translations on Facebook. It's high It became clear that to understand what is happening to Thailand now, at the end of Bhumibol's reign, you need to know how his reign began, and the implications of what happened. Joe Gordon, who was born Thai but holds American citizenship, was also jailed for translating and posting online part of the banned book about the life of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, "The King Never Smiles" by Paul Handley. We need to reclaim our history. Gordon “was granted a royal pardon But the Thai Criminal Court halved the term because he pleaded guilty over his translation of excerpts from “The King Never Smiles” by Paul Handley, who now works as an AFP journalist. The essay forms Part III of Andrew's multipart book review of King Bhumibol Adulyadej A Life's Work, to which I am a contributor. He did all this at his home in Colorado five years ago, but The book Mr Gordon partially translated into Thai is an unauthorized and critical biography of Thailand's monarch called “The King Never Smiles”. The secret has been lurking like an . The 55-year-old was arrested in May 2011 while on a visit to Thailand, after he had posted material online from his own Thai translation of a banned English-language biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thailand has the world's harshest laws on lèse-majesté, or insulting the monarchy, and many of its people regard King Bhumibol Adulyadej.