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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
Format: pdf
Publisher: Yale University Press
Page: 512

Gordon Gordon had translated into Thai and then posted excerpts of the biography, The King Never Smiles by Paul Handley, on a blog while living in the US. Thai-born Joe Gordon (Thai name Lerpong Wichaikhammat), 55, is a Colorado used-car salesman who was arrested [BBC report] last May while vacationing in Thailand because several years earlier he had translated and posted online excerpts of a locally banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej arrives back at the Siriraj Hospital, after a ceremony at the When the current king ascended the throne in 1946, the monarchy was in shambles, as explained by Paul M. Business · Sci-Tech · Globalization · Environment · Culture · Sports · TOP STORIES / World / Asia. The work was deemed to insult the monarch leaving Gordon open to charges of lese-majeste in Thailand. Paul Handley's biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, "The King Never Smiles," into Thai, and published it online. King Bhumibol Excerpt on photography and nationalism in Thailand, from The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thalians's Bhumobol Adulyadej by Paul M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej was born in 1927 in Boston to Prince Mahidol, the half brother of the then Thai king [King Prajadipok or Rama VII]. Bhumibol Adulyadej, the king who never smiles. Gordon posted links to the banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago while living in the U.S. Handley in his royal biography "The King Never Smiles." In the years that followed, however, the king and other members of the royal family won back control. 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. 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 trial was suspended after his defence lawyers asked Thailand's constitutional court to determine whether the lèse-majesté law is constitutional. The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailands Bhumibol Adulyadej. No verdict will Joe Gordon, a Thai-born US citizen and blogger, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on 8 December 2011 on a lèse-majesté charge for translating passages of “The king never smiles,” a banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul Handley, and posting them on his blog. State of Colorado, and his case has raised questions about the applicability of Thai law to acts committed by foreigners outside Gordon, a former car salesman, is accused of having translated excerpts from the unauthorized biography “The King Never Smiles,” published by Yale University Press, into the Thai language and publishing them in a blog.