BANGKOK: An hour after news broke that tanks had rolled into the capital in a military takeover and television stations being seized, I had my first taste of a coup d'etat.
At The Nation office in the suburb of Bangna, 20 minutes from here, a group of heavily armed soldiers turned up at the newspaper office, where I am based as The Star correspondent.
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