Unofficial results published by Bangkok newspapers showed that TRT polled over 61% of all valid votes (about 53% of all votes cast), and won about 460 of the 500 seats.

A prominent advertisement in Bangkok newspapers Monday, which Mr. Pornthep thinks may have been the work of students at Silapakorn University, calls the lintel's removal an "act of transnational theft."

Two days after the coup which deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the Bangkok newspaper The Nation reported:

Galangal, rice cakes, even Bangkok newspapers can all be bought there.

Viravaidya then began writing a weekly column that was published in a Bangkok newspaper.

In recent days, Bangkok newspapers have reported that the two armies had engaged in a duel by loudspeaker, each side accusing the other of border intrusions and calling on it to withdraw.

The Prince, whose faction is under pressure from Government forces, said in a statement sent to Bangkok newspapers that the meeting should take place in a Bangkok hotel.

The Bangkok newspapers are full of stories about the ban on elephants within the city limits, yet the beasts never actually leave.

The websites of the leading Bangkok newspapers Bangkok Post, The Nation and Thai Rath had been functioning normally and were reporting the coup.