After days of staking out five-star hotels and putting in countless phone calls to contacts of Thaksin Shinawatra, journalists were put out of their misery on Christmas Day when the ousted prime minister finally held a press conference on the Thai election. One earlier attempt to glean information from his lawyer, Noppadon Pattama, showed the legal eagle appeared to be taking heed of the advice of the song featured on his mobile phone's ring tone. An array of questions on Thaksin's whereabouts resulted in the reporter finding out exactly what she knew already - that his boss was probably in Hong Kong, but could possibly be visiting Macau. The lawyer would not say which hotel Thaksin might be staying in, nor when or if he'd be holding any press briefings. The ring-tone song? When You Say Nothing at All by Ronan Keating.
