The findings by Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI), revealed by the Reuters news agency, will put fresh pressure on the Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who had blamed the fatalities on opposition protesters.
His experience with his family's pet Shetland sheepdog, and, more to the point, with other dog owners, gave him the idea for Nintendogs, a popular game in which you create a simulation of a pet and look after it on the DSi.
Hence, while Swedish studio Image & Form has set this 3DS game in the same robot-dominated western world as SteamWorld: Tower Defense (DSi), the play is completely different: a mix of mining, RPG-style levelling and puzzle platforming.
But the Bangkok Post's interview with an unnamed DSI agent quoted him as saying the country was also attractive because it is relatively easy to enter and leave; "you can negotiate with some law enforcement people"; and – importantly – some local officials have not tended to see the forgery of foreign (as opposed to Thai) passports as a particularly serious offence.
On the DSi you can have your own face appear on video screens behind your avatar, record and, should you be so inclined, upload your cover versions.
Game reviewed on Nintendo DSi.
Instead of selling one unit per household as with the Wii, Nintendo wants to sell one DSi per family member, explains Shigeru Miyamoto, the firm's game-design guru.Branching out beyond gaming will be risky.
And this month the DSi, the latest version of the dual-screen gadget, went on sale in America and Europe, selling 600,000 units in the first two days.
The DSi incorporates two cameras, a simple music-player, a web browser and the ability to download software.
DSI planned to launch small (about 25 kg) spacecraft called FireFlies in 2015 on one-way missions to interesting asteroids in an attempt to study their composition and determine if they were suitable for mining.
Aside from a very ambitious business plan, DSI introduced competition to the field of asteroid mining.
