For months nothing on Phuket has best symbolized the confusing and uncertain direction of post-coup “reform” like the simple matter of beach chairs. A desire for greater law and order to rein in the old network of extra-legal authority and patronage has chosen a peculiar battleground to take a stand by taking the chairs out from under tourists.
Leave it to Phuket News TV’s inimitable Tim Newton to break down the W, T and F of it in this eight-minute report.
