After a long protest and some not so pretty clashes with the police the people of Thailand have what it seems they wanted maybe not in the way they wanted but I’m sure they are just happy that they have won.

Bangkok (The Nation): Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has lost his post and his cabinet will function as a caretaker cabinet following this afternoon’s Constitution Court verdict that the PM is guilty of violating the nation‘s charter.

Six judges considered Samak to be the “employee” while three others considered him a “business partner” of a TV studio, a constitutional offence in both cases.

The court said evidence presented by Samak that he was only given transport fees for hosting the show “contradicted” payment evidence by the studio, Face Media.

The court went strong on the principles laid down by the Constitution against conflicts of interest. The judges pointed out that Samak’s defense, using definitions of “employ”, “employer” and “employee” from different laws, was not enough to determine whether the will of the Constitution had been violated. (src)

As the 2008 Beijing Olympics ended Thailand was the nation with the most medals from the S.E. Asian region with four medals. The two golds came courtesy of veteran boxer Jongjohor Somnit (who lost out in the 2004 Athen Olympics) and woman weightlifter P. Jaroenrattanatarakoon. The Siler medals were won by Buttree Puedpong, who was a happy loser in the women’s taekwondo under-49kg category and Manus Boonjumnong who failed to defend the gold he won in Athens four years ago.

Although only half the amount of medals won 4 years ago in Athens Thailand is still the strongest S.E. Asian country. The other four countries in the region won at least a medal each except for the Filipinos who went home with no medals at all.

This brings Thailand’s total Olympic medal count to 21, 7 Gold, 4 Silver and 19 Bronze. This boost them above Indonesia in the number of gold medals won, who have only 6, but it still leaves them trailing second to Indonesia in overall medals who have 25.

I’m sure none of this matters to the winners of the Gold medals though who each receive a 15Million Baht bonus for their achievements when they return home. Well Done Thailand!

It was recently been reported that thirty false killer whales swam ashore in Thailand on the isle of Phuket. With fast help from local residents and hotel staff all but one was saved. The whales, upto 4.2m in length, came ashore on one of the tourist Thailand beaches on Racha Island in the Andaman Sea were the residents and hotel staff acted quickly and together to carry them back to the rough seas.

It was decided that for the safety of people ten of the whales would be loaded onto trucks and transferred to another beach about a mile away, where calmer waters made it easier to return them to sea. Unfortunately during this transfer one of the whales died from shock.

Staff at the Phuket Marine Biological Center are not sure why the whales ran aground but have said “They may have done so because of the strong waves, or they could have been misled by their leader’s sonar signal.”(src) This is not the first time false killer whales have ran aground on Thailand beaches but this was a very large number to be beached together. Scientifically classified as dolphins these social creatures and are well known for stranding themselves.