This quote from Lawrence Osborne is apt: > Thailand is a unique society in the modern world: a Theravada Buddhist monarchy with a parliamentary system. The cla

This quote from Lawrence Osborne is apt: > Thailand is a unique society in the modern world: a Theravada Buddhist monarchy with a parliamentary system. The clarinet-playing king, believed to be a living incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, presides via lèse majesté laws over a hedonistic and technology-obsessed Asian Tiger economy, centered in one of the most sophisticated urban cultures on earth. No one has ever been able to understand how it all holds together. The mystery behind that last sentence may just about to be revealed.