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The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej Paul M. Handley
Publisher: Yale University Press

Blogs, tweets and various utterances that might displease the King. Joe Gordon, who was convicted last year of translating excerpts of an unauthorized biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej from English into Thai and posting them online, said those jailed under Thai laws protecting the royal family often suffer abuse from prison guards and are treated "like animals." While he now Gordon, 55, is accused of posting links to a translation of the banned biography "The King Never Smiles" in 2007 while in Colorado. King Bhumibol Adulyadej is eighty-one and his health is fragile. Joe Gordon, born Lerpong Wichaikhammat in Thailand, is doing time for offending His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej… Gordon, a former car salesman, is accused of having translated excerpts from the unauthorized biography “The King Never Smiles,” published by Yale University Press, into the Thai language and publishing them in a blog. Gordon posted links the to banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago while living in the U.S. His primary crime appears to have been that he translated excerpts from locally censored biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej – “The King Never Smiles”- into the Thai language and published them on a blog. King Bhumibol Adulyadej has reigned since 1946, and his 84th birthday – marking the seventh 12-year cycle of his life – is deemed auspicious in Thailand's numerologically-infused public symbolism. Donning pink is an The charges center around The King Never Smiles, an internationally-acclaimed biography of King Bhumibol Adulyedej by former Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent Paul Handley that is proscribed in Thailand. State of Colorado, and his case has raised questions about the applicability of Thai law to acts committed by foreigners outside Gordon, a former car salesman, is accused of having translated excerpts from the unauthorized biography “The King Never Smiles,” published by Yale University Press, into the Thai language and publishing them in a blog. Gordon posted links to the banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago while living in the U.S. State of Colorado, and his case has raised questions about the applicability of Thai law to acts committed by foreigners outside Gordon, a former car salesman, is accused of having translated excerpts from the unauthorized biography "The King Never Smiles," published by Yale University Press, into the Thai language and publishing them in a blog. Inevitably, even amidst the building for some time. Joe Gordon, who was born in Thailand but has lived in the United States for the past three decades, was convicted of translating and posting to the Internet portions of a book, “The King Never Smiles,” which is published by Yale University Press and banned in Thailand. A Thai court on Thursday sentenced a U.S. In 2006, journalist Paul Handley published an unauthorised biography of Bhumibol, The King Never Smiles. Citizen to two and a half years in prison for insulting King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the latest case in the government's crackdown on criticism of the monarchy.