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Welcome to rascott.com.

This is a personal site that reflects my interests in news, current affairs, aviation and travel.

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Photo Albums
My photographs have been moved off this site and are now stored on Picasa. They were simply taking up too much space on my web host.

Please use this link to see my list of photo albums.

Some Useful links:
Information:
Met Office Volcano watch
World Time Clock
Exchange Rates
Journalism:
Nationsonline.org
Project Syndicate
Amnesty International
Reporters w/o borders
The Guardian - UK
BBC World News
CNN Asia
Bangkok Post
Daylife.com - news
Gulf News
Arabian Business
Good causes:
Sister Joan - Bangkok
Regional Info:
BKK Magazine
HK Magazine
In Singapore Magazine
TimeOut Dubai
Travel:
Circle of Asia
Tales of Asia
Smart Travel Asia
Finance:
FinanceAsia
Aviation:
Amadeus (airline schedules)
Airliners - aviation forum

Thailand Info
thailand.com
learningthai.com
sawadee.com
bangkok a-z
Back in the UK:
Newton Ferrers
Government:
The "new" White House

Photography
Denis Olivier - black and white

And for fun:
Lin Ping live panda tv
EarthCam

The opinions expressed on these pages are entirely personal unless they are credited; you may not agree with all, or anything, that I write. So please use the feedback page to respond, comment or berate me.

My 2010 World Cup Blog

Today (July 2010) click here for all

	Sign of the times
	Thai probe of journalist deaths called inadequate
	LinkedIn dollars
	Escape at Riyadh
	One rule for some
	Let's hear it for Chongqing's lawmakers
	A Thailand update
	Thaksin strikes back
	Leaving Asia' shade
	Not normal in Bangkok
	Dubai's continuing debt problem
	Campaign shows lingering divisions in Thailand
	EK's thirty 777s order is not new Boeing revenue
	Another fine mess
	Thailand's no limited censorship
	Bangkok's stupid war
	Washington Post sends a message to Abhisit
	Keep on clogging
	Clogs of war
	Another Brit jailed in Dubai
	UAE airlines to recruit 80,000 staff in a decade
	Rejoice - Arabtec is paid something
	The trouble with Twitter
	Thailand - Licence to kill
	Irreconcilable differences
	Why the CRES is wrong
	Thailand's red shirts vow to fight on
	Carrefour to leave Thailand
	The Queen is coming
	One rule for some
	Emirates flying into protectionism
	What happened to the RTA/Emirates contract?
	Lockerbie bomber alive and well
	The curious case of UAE banks
	He dies; she is jailed; only in Dubai
	The fragile peace may not last until the poll
	Emirates Wins with Big Planes and Low Costs
	The crushing of debate in Thailand
	Spoiling for a fight
	Spies like us
	flydubai announces flights to northern Iraq

Search rascott.com:

July 2010 - Good reading from other sites.

It's India's poor who need British aid, not its military and business elites (Guardian)

UNESCO 1962 ruling - Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia v. Thailand)

Burma in Limbo, Part 1

Shooting the messenger in Singapore

A new journalism on the horizon

Eamonn Holmes gets the BBC jokes eating away at him banned

The Bangkok Massacres; A call for accountability

Contented in Hua Hin

Dubai emerges from a sea of troubles

How do you hold a majlis in 140 letters or less?
The sad saga of Salt Spring Coffee

Severiano Ballesteros denied an emotional return to St Andrews

Octavia Nasr's firing and what The Liberal Media allows

Dubai: A trade to ply

UAE royals see fortunes shrink amid global crisis - Forbes

Thailand - Licence to Kill

Dubai investment body sues former MD

Dubai jail 'more like an army camp'
Anna Chapman - Pretty Russian Spy (there must be a movie to come from this story)

Other new or recent content on this web site:

	June 2010 news update
	AOB May and June 2010
	May 2010 news update
	UK election watch
	Executive Towers - The reality
	A personal flying history
	Tai's travels - now with improved picture galleries
	Your feedback - here

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Photo Albums

Wedding pictures from "PamFolio"

My own photographs have been moved off this site and are now stored on Picasa. The most recent picture updates:

Hua Hin - July 2010
Amp and A - wedding dinner in Bangkok
Newton Ferrers - June 2010
World Cup Dinner
Lamma Island with Alex
Broken Bangkok
Mother-in-Law does the UAE
Dubai Panorama
Sydney - May 2010
With the red shirts
Amp's leaving party
Beach Days
Flat warming
Greece with Alex - Easter 2010
Burj Dubai/Khalifa
Dubai 2010
Old style Chiang Mai
Bangkok and Chiang Mai - February 2010
A day with Tai at the Burj Khalifa
Lunchtime around the Burj Khalifa
Executive Towers - Tower B - Handover
Hong Kong - Tung Chung and Nong Ping 360
Burj Dubai/Khalifa opening ceremony
Christmas in Dubai updated for 2009
Bam, Tai and Lynn in the old town, Dubai
UAE National Day - 2 December
Dubai Air Show - 2009
Paris - in Black and White
Greece and Paris in October 2009
Newton Ferrers, Devon Coast, Wembury.
Switzerland

Please use this link to see my list of photo albums.

UNESCO 1962 ruling - Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia v. Thailand)

"rascott.com" TagBoard

Dubai Watch Before the current financial meltdown everyone was heading for Dubai. You can read news, commentary and find Dubai web links at Dubai Watch . There are also some Dubai pictures and this is Dubai on a misty February morning

Asian and Middle East Aviation

Dubai's LCC

Asia's Low Cost Airlines - all you need to know

Emirates Watch - As EK continues its plan for world domination you can follow the airline's news here. Emirates Airline Watch

Tai's pictures from her travels with Emirates are here:

Africa
Europe
Asia and Australia
Americas

The Business of Emirates Airline is reviewed here.