“Scotch Forever Young And Singha Taste Of Music Present Christina Aguilera Back To Basics Tour Live In Bangkok 2007”. The concert will feature a unique stage design that will allow Christina’s fans unprecedented access to the stage with unbelievable sight lines. The tour will feature three distinct stage scenes, illuminated by more than 600 moving lights, and a state-of-the-art hydraulic system.

Christina Aguilera is the multi talents artist who is perfectly capable with both singing and dancing, and that has put her to a superstar and become an idol for million fans around the world. Besides her all time hits ; Reflection (OST. Mulan), Lady Marmalade (OST. Moulin Rouge), Beautiful, Genie in a Bottle, I Turn to You, there are also the hit singles from her new album, Back to Basics ; Ain’t no Other Man, Hurt and Candyman.

The concert will be held on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 8pm at Impact Arena, Muang Thongtani.

Tickets are priced from 1,000 Baht to 7,500 Baht and can be purchased from Thaiticketmaster.com

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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) – Thousands of departing and arriving passengers christened Bangkok’s new international airport as it officially opened Thursday with all commercial airlines transferring operations to the sleek new hub.

Flights stopped landing at the old, overcrowded Don Muang airport on Wednesday night. The full transfer of passenger flights from Don Muang to the airy, expansive Suvarnabhumi Airport was completed at 3 a.m. Thursday, more than four decades after the project was originally conceived in 1960.

Built on an area known as “Cobra Swamp,” Suvarnabhumi was crippled by everything from corruption scandals and a deadly fire to the military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Sept. 19.

Thaksin, who turned up the pressure to complete the airport – built in four and a half years, all during Thaksin’s reign – heralded Suvarnabhumi as one of his administration’s crowning achievements.

Surprisingly, the military takeover did not delay or significantly impact the airport’s opening.

The military assigned 800 troops to the airport for 90 days to support the transfer and help with troubleshooting. Several army canine units were deployed at the passenger terminal to inspect suspicious packages.

Suvarnabhumi – a name conferred by the Thai king pronounced “sue-wanna-poom,” which means “Golden Land” – is about 20 miles east of Bangkok in a 6 million-square-foot, H-shaped building.

The new airport is capable of handling 76 flights per hour and 45 million passengers per year.

Suvarnabhumi is constructed of steel, concrete and lots of glass that lets in natural light while keeping out the tropical heat. The oval-shaped concourse corridors are roofed by glass and white fabric panels.

A 17-mile rail link under construction will connect the airport with mass transit trains in central Bangkok and is scheduled for completion in November 2007.

(Via News & Observer)

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Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin also hinted that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra may face prosecution.

Sondhi said he would act as prime minister for two weeks until a new leader is chosen by the Council of Administrative Reform, that an interim constitution would be drafted within that time, and that Thailand’s foreign policy and international agreements would remain unchanged.

The United States expressed disapproval of the coup, calling for a swift restoration of democracy.

“We’re disappointed in the coup,” White House press secretary Tony Snow told reporters on Air Force One as Bush returned to Washington from New York after meetings with world leaders and an address to the U.N. General Assembly.

“We hope those who mounted it make good and make good swiftly on their (promise) to restore democracy,” Snow said.

Australia called the coup a “great disappointment,” while Japan urged the quick restoration of democracy. The European Union condemned the military takeover, while Washington expressed concern about it. The United States, Britain and other nations also warned their citizens in Thailand to exercise caution.

King Bhumibol Adulyadej appointed Sondhi as head of the council “in order to create peace in the country,” according to an announcement on state-run television.

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The sudden, well-orchestrated coup — the first in 15 years and a throwback to an unsettled era in Thailand — was likely to spark both enthusiasm and criticism at home and abroad. The military said it would soon return power to a democratic government but did not say when.

Striking when Thaksin was in New York at the U.N. General Assembly, army commander Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin sent tanks and troops into the drizzly, nighttime streets of Bangkok. The military ringed Thaksin’s offices, seized control of television stations and declared a provisional authority loyal to the king.

In his first public appearance since seizing power, Sondhi Wednesday asked for the public’s support and declared the coup was necessary to end serious conflicts within Thai society that Thaksin had created.

Delivering a brief television address in front of giant portraits of Thailand’s king and queen, Sondhi said the coup leaders had no intention of retaining power. He was flanked by chiefs of the three armed services and the head of the national police.

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