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The 2006 World Cup
The 2005 Ashes series (happy days!!)

January 2012 News Archive: Twitter turns evil?; Case study: Kraft’s takeover of Cadbury; Records broken in Dubai marathon; Jetstar Japan hypes its ambitions; Thai PM impresses India; The meaning of cricket; Thai Army Chief tells Nitirat group to think again; Etihad takes 40% of Air Seychelles, On the RAK; The rise and rise of the megacity; The threat hanging over Thailand;  Cricket needs to support its real fans; The coming demise of the Metropolitan Hotel; Dubai's missed opportunity; Those in peril on the sea; Dubai financial markets reality check; Air Asia Ex?; Security alert, recall, recalled; "Accused slapper yet to appear"; The end of sodomy 2.0; EK runway incursion at Sydney; how serious?; Sunset over Dubai; Waiting for the man; EK Airbus in emergency landing at CPT; dnata acquires travel republic and a potential headache; EK to HCMC from June; Westjet's risky path; The march of democracy; Looking ahead to 2012; Firework traffic chaos; Nakheel continues its abuses

January 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

Calls for change over Thai 'royal insult' law
Emirates hauls penguins, horses on transatlantic flight

The big picture: Hong Kong Airlines Club class seating
'Joss Stick' Stands alone, Defiant and Unapologetic
Saudi Arabia: the Middle East's most under-reported conflict
Post-BICI Bahrain: between reform and stagnation
Singapore offers 'private jet' connections to A380 flights

In Thailand, A Rare Peek At His Majesty's Balance Sheet
Yingluck accused of ‘Thaksin-isation’
Bangkok terror: total information breakdown
England get to work... at construction site
Qantas boss bets the house on Asian expansion
10 unique train trips
Shifting political tides portend turmoil

Is democracy finally coming to Burma?
Betting opportunities abound at 2012 Dubai racing Carnival
The malls of Dubai: Skiing, scuba diving, and shopping
The Iron Lady portrays a very different Margaret Thatcher from the one I knew
Stephen Lawrence murder: jurors did not know about Gary Dobson and David Norris's violent past
Nakheel offers two-week reprieve on Shoreline fees
Let this be the year democracy shines its beacon as it should
Dubai property must kiss and make up with investors
The right Republican

December 2011 News Archive BK stars in MI-4;Thailand's false peace; Paranoia in Hong Kong; An out of touch Pope; With population milestone, is Dubai back in the high life again?; Centre starts monitoring lese majeste; In Thailand, Support for King Grows Bellicose; Both the FT and Robert Amsterdam are wrong; Melbourne and Tokyo to get EK's A380; Etihad takes major stake in Air Berlin; A tough year for the bad guys; The best job in golf; The road home?; The airline with a little bit extra;
A window on China; Misguided lawyers; EK announces double daily to Venice; Cameron and Europe: the English outpatient; Thai laws on insulting royals having chilling effect on freedom of expression; Europe's great divorce; The night Europe changed; A good walk spoiled; Thais test taboos as war on royal slurs heats up;
Joe Gordon jailed in Thailand; Emirates European network planning; Emirates service updates; Emirates is not as green as it pretends to be; When Hillary met Suu Kyi; EK incident at Male; Still rich but no longer so calm; Glocer out - rejoice!; Turning 40; Dubai airport expansion delayed to 2013

December2011 - Good reading from other sites:

Test of time; in defense of a game that last five days
Tensions grow as Thailand awaits Thaksin's return

Mirror mirror on the wall,
is China the fairest of them all?

China's parallel online universe
Online Censorship Triggers Fear among Bloggers

Phuket thrives once more, but beware its dark side
An atheist at Christmas: Oh come all ye faithless
Comparing airline livery (USA)
A forty-year-old minority
Harvard International Review - Thailand
Whistler in miniature: a day in the life of Canada's largest ski resort – video

Campaign funding in U.S. makes a joke of democracy
Christopher Hitchens obituary
Defending the royalist system
The departure lounge for the Axis of Evil
The news in lego - 2011
Air Seychelles: Canary in a Coalmine for the European Majors
Michelle Wie's media interview for the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters
 Royal contradictions in Thailand

Burmese days (an Indian viewpoint)
What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447
Paolo Di Canio: 'My life speaks for me'
We have tipped 38 years of foreign policy down the drain
Qorvis and Bahrain

As the dust settles, a cold new Europe with Germany in charge will emerge
Journalists Should Be Government Mouthpieces, Chinese Media Leader Says
Sharjah - Emirate ambitions
Inside Emirates flight attendant school

November 2011 News Archive President raises salaries of Federal Government staff, The UK's terminal demise? Thai minister "certain" military killed Reuters cameraman, Beware of falling masonry, 20 years for 4 text messages, The coming demise of Thomas Cook, Emirates plans for Facebook, Leveson inquiry: Hugh Grant delivers damning testimony, DWC passenger terminal to be ready by early 2012, The next financial crisis will be hellish, and it’s on its way, Emirates flypast and tall orders, Flydubai to shift base to DWC Al Maktoum Airport, Emirates adds a third daily A380 to Heathrow, Emirates fleet to reach over 250 planes by 2020, As the floods recede, the temperature increases, Cruise fever outbreak in Dubai, Eastern Express to take off from Fujairah, Dubai speed machine defies slowdown, Emirates: Dubai airline’s bid to be biggest takes off, Fake mob goes viral in Dubai, Emirates Airline readies for Dubai Airshow, Bangkok flood update, The beach police, Bangkok doesn't deserve its special protection and privilege, Sinking Bangkok - floods a precursor, flydubai starts 45th route to Tbilisi, Big ambitions for Middle east airlines, Bangkok's perfect storm, Golf's spoiled brats, Luther's scary brilliance, Dubai Group's growing debt crisis, Pakistan and England in the UAE 2012 schedule, Saving cricket, Emirates profits slump during first half of 2011-2012, Business Bay construction saga continues..., Madrid's nightclub therapy, Singapore roots for Scoot, ‘Reshoring’ jobs from China won’t happen, Qantas flies again but problems unsolved

November 2011- Good reading from other sites:

Inside Emirates flight attendant school
Deafening silence to extremist proposal is worrying
Mallika Boonmetrakul: an appalling Thai Politician
Becks France and Qatar
Why golfers get ahead
If ‘Pan Am’ Takes a Nosedive, It Won’t Be For a Lack of Authentic, Vintage Props
Basil D'Oliveira retained his dignity at the centre of the storm
Is the New York Times Misleading on Thailand’s Recent History?
"United 93:" What came before "Let's roll!"
Hell and high water in Thailand
After the flood in Thailand
Eurozone debt web: Who owes what to whom?
Aerobatic pilots defy G-force
What Democracy Looks Like
Morality police in Saudi, once again carrying big sticks
Butt out! Pakistan telecom watchdog drafts rude text message ban
"London Rippers" baseball team name sparks controversy
Photographer captures 'new slaves' of the Gulf
Not the time to play the blame game
At least 28 journalists involved in hacking
Gulfs apart: Australians show rich rivals that money isn't everything
World’s Worst Idea: Porn on Planes
Six-year project to tweet the Second World War
Bangkok Residents Become Refugees in Their Own Flooded City
Williams commits career suicide with Tiger Woods race slur
Elisabeth of the Murdochs
Gulf airport development continues apace
Aircraft availability and capability continues to determine Emirates expansion plans
Huge asteroid headed for close encounter with Earth
Ordinary Greeks are taking matters into their own hands
The rise of the cost-cutters
Lord Foster reveals £50bn Thames Hub project
Lies, damned lies and News International
L’ÉTAT, CE N’EST PLUS MOI
As News Animations Go Mainstream, Taiwanese Pioneers Try Playing It Straight
The toll of flooding on lives and politics
Bangkok floods: Anger grows in deluged districts
Joyce’s wildcat move has mauled the Flying Kangaroo
Sir Jimmy Savile obituary


October 2011 News Archive ‘Reshoring’ jobs from China won’t happen; Qantas flies again but problems unsolved; Loyalty no longer its own reward;
Interval time at the Qantas theatre of the absurd; The protesters seem more adult than politicians and plutocrats; Qantas in crisis; Why? Qatar looking at Spanair stake; Pay to be safe; EK A380 in India diversion; The politics behind Thailand's floods; Emirates Airline - Clark interview; The strategy's flagging;
In defense of Dubai; "Mother nature doesn't take bribe money"; Gold does for Dubai; Emirates price tag for an A380 stands at $234,000,000; Cameron bottles it on defence; Flintoff quits on Dubai; England's unreasonable expectations; Emirates inks $55m deal for London cable car system; Steve Jobs is dead; South Africa sings to China's tune; EK expectations...; Fastjet will not be easy; Winners and Losers

October 2011- Good reading from other sites:

Joyce’s wildcat move has mauled the Flying Kangaroo
Sir Jimmy Savile obituary
Bangkok Underwater

Flight of fancy: the truth about female cabin crew
A New Civil War or a New Future?
New York Like You've Never Seen Before

Let's end the myths of Britain's imperial past
How Urbanization is Changing Emirati Identity
There is no sunlit future for the euro
Air France 447 and Cockpit Confusion
Singaporean gets 15 years for lèse majesté
Play for my country? I'd rather join the 'bomb squad' in Marbella
The bad smell that won't go away
Where the Airbus A380 will fly next
Tim Hortons to open 120 GCC stores by 2016
Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse
Amanda Knox: victim of Italian code which puts saving face before justice
The Neverending Nightmare of Amanda Knox
Murder of Meredith Kercher

In Thailand, a Campaign to Purify Internet of Royal Insults
Power in the land
Training for a Plane Crash

September 2011 News Archive Filipino maid wins landmark HK case on residency; Thailand: the high price of freebies; Press release of the day; Gulf royalty pretends it is a special case; EK's new routes; EK's US growth; The Nazis are back in Chiang Mai; From 707 to 787; Pan AM - on TV; One election, two stories; Easyjet versus Fastjet; Cottoning on; A piece of Canada on Sheikh Zayeed Road; Camfrog Thaksin; Let them default; England Pakistan schedule; Nakheel's silted sukuk; Thai Smile design unveiled; The UAE's quiet election; America's death penalty is wrong; Emirates adds Lusaka and Harare in 2012; Making sense of the daily deal; Apple's new UAE online store; FlyDubai launches Belgrade in November; The Twelve Attributes of a Truly Great Place to Work; Corruption in Thailand begins right at school; Five years on; Thai agency seeks new probe into death of Reuters cameraman; Foreign Investors Turn Wary as Bangkok Starts Dabbling in the Financial System; Phuket's decline; Flood hazard; Beijing's new airport plans outshine Dubai; O'Emirates; Gaddafi’s and west’s love of the big lie; We betrayed our values with torture; Managing the swiss franc; It's out with the old, in with the new for Nok Air cabin crews; Glamour in the skies; Top ten safest airlines; Emirates 777 continued flight after loud bang, messages - report; Melbourne replaces Vancouver as the 'most liveable' city; Topless air hostesses and champagne pool parties

September 2011- Good reading from other sites:

Nazism in our brainwashed upbringing
A series of missed opportunities
Hi-so hypocrites as shameless as immoral low-so entertainers
Inspired by new TV show, former Pan Am stewardess remembers golden age of flying
Boeing finally delivers first 787 Dreamliner
Thaksin tests Thailand's deal

Stars and gripes
Let's just condemn the coup and play soccer
Sharing the Blame for Political Crisis in Thailand
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
All eyes on Article 112
Understanding the Thai Political Crisis
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – review
Political fury, paralysis and other people's solutions
Dear Thailand
For Yahoo, It Looks The Beginning Of The End
1 Sperm Donor, 150 Brothers and Sisters
Escape From Thailand
Thai Media’s Moral Posturing and the Manufacturing of Myths
Thailand’s Yingluck Factor: Can the Lady In Red Lead?
Airport runways: All you wanted to know but were afraid to ask

August 2011 News Archive Cathay to offer premium economy; Rewarded for bad behaviour; EK adds more HKG; Emirates engine incident; Gulf Air incident at Cochin; We're all terror suspects now; Going going; Qatar's 2020 Olympic bid; Is Scoot Air the new SQ brand?; FlyDubi seeks Belgrade rights; First class travel that is fit for a sheik; Should I, or not?; ID card farce; ‘Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear’; Thai's silly name airline; Time for mouldy old fourth major to change; Thaksin's travels are bad luck for Yingluck; A Year of campaigning; Cameron's idiotic position on social networks; Blowing a good career; 'Strategic partnership' or monopoly?; The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom; EK updates; Is EK missing out on China?; Emirates message to Airbus; Why?; Mall shambles; Anything for a dollar; Germany "releases royal jet"; Panic on the streets of London; China, China, China; The race to the Antarctic; Air Asia's strange MAS deal; Flydubai launches flight(s) to Ahmedabad; China's debt message - 2; Sacked stewardess stranded in UAE; China's debt message; Fun in a Cathay cockpit?; The problem with the Swiss franc; Thailand's PM elect; The End of Obama; Confusion over Statement

August 2011- Good reading from other sites:

The City: Beijing (Ai WeiWei)
Did We Drop the Ball on Unemployment?
Thailand's Thaksin Steals the Spotlight Once Again
The Little Emirate That Could
Tiny Qatar Flexed Big Muscles in Libya

Wie a lady in waiting
The Brunei Declaration - The deal behind Thailand's polls

The flight from marriage
Blue Rodeo at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto

New Qantas Group full service carrier could further alter competitive landscape in Singapore
The crisis facing Britain's education system
Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter reveals cover-up

Inside Chungking Mansions with expert Gordon Mathews
Dalian protests erased from social media
Chatuchak Weekend Markets
The Battle of Dubai: The United Arab Emirates and the U.S.-Iran Cold War
The United (but not Equal) Arab Emirates

What happened to Obama?
Dealing with people who think differently
Sea change: east Kent reinvents itself with art beside the seaside

Tony Parsons, that airport job was mine
England's beaming: Time to suck it up and admit Poms are No.1
It's not all sex and snogging

Getting Bin Laden

July 2011 News Archive Revamped Don Muang Terminal Ready for Service; Emirates gets Real; From Ambridge to Dubai; What happened on AF447?; Puea Thai takes charge next week; Where will the NOTW scandal end?; No one to blame but themselves; Not plane sailing; Illegal children will be confiscated; Norway's attacks reveal world of hatred; Another day, another airplane; EK operating updates; Parish 'bullies' force vicar to flee his flock; Ten years on - and another carve-up; How not to land an A380; You can keep the jet; Murdoch catches a pie - and a break; Quick guide to the News Corp hacking scandal; Move the Volvo golf from Bahrain; Picking strawberries while hiding cars; Hail strike diverts EK flight; Songs as the key of life; The quiet crackdown in a tourist playground; DAE - from bubble to busted; UAE's mission impossible - cooling the desert; Crown Prince's jet impounded in Germany; Rome strains Italophile Germans; Air Asia X to move to Gatwick; What the papers won't say; Can EK salvage Qantas cockpit crew; Malaysia's discontent; The coming demise of Watford; Climbing through the clouds; The revenge of the Dems; The lowest low; Murdoch stuns critics, shuts down scandal-hit paperThe News of the World is gone - for now; China's unnecessary secrecy; The Nation's nonsense; Thailand - a divisive dynasty; Going to extremes - from the city to the farm; DXB announces strategic plan to 2020; Political headwinds for Thailand's airlines; A Maverick Festival review; Etihad to Shanghai; Still too little and too late; Etihad can do Chengdu?; Thailand's new PM Yingluck Shinawatra secures agreement with coalition colleagues; flyDubai's Russian growth; Singapore's Tiger Woes; Winning smile; A Thai government wish list; Thailand votes - what happens next?; Who wins Thailand’s election matters less than how the loser copes with defeat.

July 2011- Good reading from other sites:

Pakistani troops aid Bahrain's crackdown
House of worship opens its doors
Saudi law - Nothing liberal yet
Etihad Airways Stays Nimble to Compete With Big Rivals
Jetstar accused of exploiting cabin crew
Singapore is not so clean, Mr Murdoch
Dubai’s rumour mill whirs into action

How the Deficit Got This Big
The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling

News of the World’s Desperate Final Hours

Hack work
The news coverage of the Norway mass-killings was fact-free conjecture
Tragic Day for Norway; Shameful Day for Journalism

The 'For Neville' email: two words that could bring down an empire
The trouble with Andrew
The Wall Street Journal Careens off the Rails   
Billionaire sheikh carves his name in desert
Darren Clarke celebrated his Open victory with a laid-back barbecue that lasted all night
Why the Arab Spring Never Came to the UAE

Corp faces global investigation into bribery
Sean Hoare knew how destructive the News of the World could be

A Hole in One and Age Lines; Watson Has Both
Stain From Tabloids Rubs Off on a Cozy Scotland Yard
Mohamed Bin Hammam 'refused to provide bank records' to Fifa ethics committee
Revolution spinning in the wind
Singaporeans Want More Sex: Survey
Rupert Murdoch - a colossus who has definitely lost the Midas touch

Jon Stewart Tackles the News of the World Scandal
Thai results challenge established regime
Did you spot the hidden message?
The last News of the World was downright odd
The shuttle era - slideshow
After Big Brother, Little Sister
Red hot challenges for Thailand
The short-good life
A dirty News of the World scandal – with 200 whipping boys
Ammart learns naked truths about politics
Murdoch’s Watergate?
Special Report: Murdoch row - why UK tabloids bin-dive and blag

Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?
News International: Hacking away at the truth
How News of the World editors lost self-control – and all respect for the law
Is Jiang Zemin Dead? Real-time Illustration of News Control in China
Exploring the world's tallest structure - the Burj Khalifa

Yingluck Shinawatra: Thailand's new PM steps out of her brother's shadow
Pass notes No 3,003: Yingluck Shinawatra
Thailand's Return to Democracy

Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's 1st female prime minister
The danger of a Thai civil war
Airline food: flights of fancy

Thailand and mass politics
Puea Thai win clear majority; Thailand to get first female PM

Thais Back Ousted Prime Minister’s Party in Landslide

June 2011 News Archive This is not going to work; Too little too late; Thailand's fickle democracy; Affordable homes plan for Newton Ferrers village; Emirates on the decline; Do not forget the Bahrain doctors who dared to speak out; Thai story continues; Lucky Yingluck; Thai story turns rumours into reality; Exiled Thai Prime Minister Awaits Chance to Return; flydubai launches Damman; C-in-C's advice ratchets up the worry factor; China's damning comments on Thai army's election campaign; Contrasting campaigns; Too hot for the Generals; Vancouver's predictable disgrace; Save up for Faye; Dubai tempts once again but dangers still lurk; ''Thailand Must Be United Again'; Thai General Weighs In on National Election; Emirates adds Baghdad from November; Robert's power dressing guide; Thailand's potash saga; The beauty of the Lake District; Emirates re-launches third daily flight to Sydney; EK rejected take-off; In my dreams; A sporting decision that betrays the people of Bahrain; End the gag on Thai citizens; Emirates pays for a glowing report card; Etihad also pushing for additional Canada rights; Thailand's litter police scam; Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era

June 2011- Good reading from other sites:

Exiled Thai leader's sister poised to become country's first female PM

Stuck at the airport -- for 80 days

One sanguine star

Wikileaks cables, truth and Thailand

The Kinky Beasts of 'True Blood'

'True Blood' Recap: Let's Do the Time Warp

My husband was abducted by Bahrain 'security'

Land of the Lost

Gen Prayuth, erratic and worrisome

The New World in Dubai

If you pack a vibrator, don't get shaken by TSA
Vancouver kiss man an Aussie: mum

Among 'red shirt' villagers in Thailand

In pictures: Second longest lunar eclipse of the century
Strategic and execution failures make AirAsia scale back India operations

Can Bahrain's government sue the Independent for libel?

First resort on The World to open

Bahrain in the shadow of the Libya War

Swat the flies and tell the truth – live on al-Jazeera
I saw these brave doctors trying to save lives – these charges are a pack of lies

Thailand's political sensation

Candidate in Thailand Follows Path of Kin

The proper role of the armed forces in Thai democracy

Wrigley Is Wrigley, and Nothing Else Is

Thomson Reuters to War Reporters: Your Careers Are Expendable

The Hangover Part II - the coup

The man who screwed an entire country

Decadent desserts - Bangkok

Chuvit on the streets

Release my friend

Life, the Universe and Everything

Thai Election Campaign Posters

Locked up for reading a poem

Thaksin from a distance

The year of the citizen

Relax: China’s First Aircraft Carrier is a Piece of Junk

May 2011 Why education is at the heart of Thailand's problems; Thaksin Shinawatra: Exiled in Dubai – but still he dreams of Thailand; From Dubai exile, Thaksin waits for Thai political winds to change; Driven to drink by Hangover 2; Congress to Palestinians; drop dead; SIA to form long-haul low-cost subsidiary; An African American Irish President; Tweetdecked; EK adds Germany flights; Dubai pins hopes on aerotropolis vision but project on go-slow; Recording Indicates Pilot Wasn't In Cockpit During Critical Phase; 17 reds summoned to hear charges; fly Dubai's Indian expansion; Poor, confused Thai Airways; A year has gone by without any answers; A year on, mystery shrouds Thailand's deadly unrest; Goodluck Yingluck - she will need it; Will the Thai election change anything?; Notes from Hong Kong; Thailand's most wanted; Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants?; More fiction from Dubai Properties; Thinking the unthinkable on Europe's debt crisis; Fixing an eletion; A terminal four at DXB; The GCC's strange expansion; Analysis - Reforms sidelined along with Bahrain's crown prince; Open - sort of; Emirates announces record profits; You have been Skyped; Thai historian to be charged for monarchy comments; Inept ASEAN is the sum of its parts; What will Qatar announce at the Paris Air Show?; 5 more years of PAPAs election nears, Thailand's military starts shooting; DXB plans Terminal 2 extension; Mr. Clegg, the tribe has spoken; Was bin Laden armed; who cares?; Dubai Airports growth projections; Was he betrayed? Of course.Pakistan knew Bin Laden's hiding place all along; Descent into Chaos;  In Canada Tories win with majority; Plymouth Airport to close; Commander-in-chief keeps cool head; Bin Laden dead; Questionable allies; Bin Laden died in house close to military academy; Yes to AV - just Yes or No; Canada votes again, and again, and again; This voice from another side.

May 2011- Good reading from other sites:

Relax: China’s First Aircraft Carrier is a Piece of Junk
Forgetting Why We Remember

Thaksin denies Thai leadership plans (ABC video)

Qatar's Bin Hammam accused of buying 2022 World Cup

Thaksin from a distance

Air France crash inquiry details pilots' battle for survival

American Idol: Whoa, Scotty!

'The Hangover Part II': Follow the wolf pack's Thailand trail

Yingluck on the streets

Thai army backtracks on the conspiracy to overthrow the monarchy chart

LeeKuanYew-istan Forever

Killings at Wat Pathum Wanaram

The UAE's Silenced Spring

Ajman resident targets to have 100 children

Thai Military Looms over July Polls
The unintended fallout of May crackdown

At I.M.F., Men on Prowl and Women on Guard

May 2010 - A Year Later

Is the military really protecting our monarchy?

The GE 2011 Political Demise of Lee Kuan Yew: A Supreme Irony

What will airports of the future look like?

Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder (in the UAE)

Strange encounter at a Saudi airport

The FA has helped devalue its own Cup

Thailand’s high-stakes gamble after crackdown

Lee Brown's family launch appeal for information
The heiress, the athletes and the pimp… Thailand’s celebrity candidates

UAE lures investors as 'Switzerland of Middle East'

Poor upkeep may drive down rental prices in Dubai's JBR

The What Co-operation Council

What Happened to Air France Flight 447?
Low Thia Khiang wins big. What next?

Simply fabulous

Blindfolded, beaten and tortured: grim new testimony reveals fate of Bahrain's persecuted doctors

Injunctions, Twitter and the law

Malaysia blames Thailand over Cambodia border clash

Thai PM Abhisit has deep pockets but a short memory

China’s America Obsession

Bahrain, Kingdom of Silence

Liveable v lovable

Nuanced values of post-Osama world

The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System

Seve Ballesteros's life and career in pictures

Looking back on the battle

In Singapore, Political Campaigning Goes Viral

Thailand’s political high wire

Osama bin Laden death: How family scene in compound turned to carnage

He had it coming

Bigger, Taller, Better? Architecture and Modernity in Contemporary Dubai

Emaar chairman Alabbar plots $10bn mining empire

Middle class, elite must take the blame for country's ills (The Nation)

Memories of “old” Dubai

On Osama Bin Laden’s Death

Notes on the death of Osama bin Laden

Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Killing of Osama bin Laden

Canada set for election, but result impossible to call

White House Correspondents Dinner 2011 (watch the Obama show!)

Tortured by tradition (Bangkok Post)

April 2011 A day for turning cartwheels;Nice's sporting 22R Saleya approach; Green joins red and yellow on Thailand's political battlefield; The must have wedding souvenir; Not so Nice; Guantánamo piled lie upon lie through the momentum of its own existence; Dubai seen as a refuge amid turbulence; Dubai’s Business Bay struggling to attract tenants; The wedding invite shambles; Thaksin's policy non starters; iPad, iPhone, i do; BSkyB - because you want to know; Briton dies in Dubai Jail; Red Dawn - a remake; Tim Scott shatters marathon personal best; Keeping abreast of the news from Bangkok; Open letter to BSkyB; A fishy soap opera; Watford's questionable new owner; City plus Airport equals future; China crackdown driven by fears of a broad conspiracy; He boldy went where no one has gone before; First EKA380 to Shanghai; Another Green Line Delay in Dubai; Emirates smoke diversion; Concerns about the rise of Gulf carriers; NOTW's Wapping payout; Neighbours keep close eye on success of Dubai scheme; Qatar is the thinking man's Dubai; Emirates launches Rio and Buenos Aires; Update on Bahrain; The skeleton in the Thai election cupboard; How not to do a media interview; Dubai does and donts; Rise and Shine; Winning pays for Indian team; Qatar an Unlikely Champion of; Arab Democracy; Plutonium and Mickey Mouse
 

April 2011- Good reading from other sites.

The creeping coup (R Amsterdam on Thailand)

The royal wedding finds Britain sitting in a puddle of feudal nostalgia

Trump, birtherism and race-baiting

ANALYSIS-As election looms, Thai generals go on offensive - Reuters

Income equality - Economist (note for Thailand)

A Fairytale Wedding? What Nonsense!

Brave New Reuters? Apparently not

Thomson Reuters to War Reporters: Your Careers Are Expendable

The Guantanamo Files - Wikileaks

Guantánamo files lift lid on world's most controversial prison

Barack Obama must speak out on Bahrain bloodshed

Crackdown on Royal Comment Grows in Thailand
Puppetmasters: Elections As Instruments of Military Rule

Beware the in-laws

Bahrain escapes censure by West as crackdown on protesters intensifies
Three Cups of Deceipt

Martin Amis bemoans England's 'moral decrepitude' (read the comments as well!)

Thais Are Shocked, Shocked by Topless Dancers

WSJ on Iran vs. Saudi (The Arabist)

The new cold war (WSJ)

While the Saudi elite looks nervously abroad, a revolution is happening

Stifling online critics

What happened to the Arab Spring?

Tony Tyler takes flight to a new horizon

The bugger bugged

Accidental Tourist: Thai water torture

Ai Weiwei's blog - A digital rallying cry

CNN arrests expose crackdown in Bahrain

United Airlines pilot, control tower conversation: 8 minutes and 44 seconds of steely calm

Avoiding the grip of Singapore Inc

Bahrain’s Rulers Tighten Their Grip on Battered Opposition

Coups in Thailand - never say never

Holidays in Hell: Bali's Ongoing Woes

An Artist Takes Role of China’s Conscience

Returning to ‘the New Bahrain’: It’s a Sadder Place

Thai private eye lifts curtain on cheating spouses

Wayne Rooney swore – so what? It's the response that's offensive

The trials of Nunavut: Lament for an Arctic nation

Readers without Borders

Thailand in Market for German Subs

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

Gulf Arabs give camel racing modern facelift

Muttiah Muralitharan is a magician whose prestige will never fade

Canada! How does it work?

The return of the native

Qatar's Quest to Become the Leading Arab State

In the wake of the quake - Burma

March 2011 - Maids saving SingaporeThailand; A Democratic Failure and Its Lessons for the Middle East;  The birth of an Obama doctrine; ME turmoil is Dubai's gain; Oh Canada - here we go again; Gulf News loses the plot; What is the point of the Thai parliament; BKK rail link suspended; Could the UAE be next for Middle East political unrest?; Your life for your child's education; Nonsense from the Gulf News; Snakes almost on an EK plane; UAE clarifies stand on no-fly zone in Libya (or not); Emirates expansion upsets Austrian; A mistaken war; Arab League duplicity; Koh Lanta - less than paradise; Calling in the big guns; Land of scams; Pot, kettle, black; The demise of Bahrain; Confused justice; Bahrain calls for state of emergency; Qatar's expansion plans could include acquisition; Japan's nuclear risk; Missed opportunity in Chiang Mai; Update from Dubai airports; The fight for Libya; Emirates Airline to hire another 4,000 cabin crew; China dragon grows in the UAE; Another Dubai property woes story; Obnoxious Brits; UK and Libya: Fumbling in the desert; Another delay for Dubai's new airport; TV's surprising and messy grey morality show; Will Dubai weather the storm?; Emirates airline sued over passenger death; Suvarnabhumi: a bad experience for travellers?; Once again the army shows who runs Thailand; Taxi kills British sailor in Dubai; Dubai private school fees are frozen again; Relaunching Open Skies

March 2011- Good reading from other sites.

 

When a Girl Is Executed … for Being Raped

Quakebook’: Bloggers Respond With Twitter-Sourced Charity Book

What is the point of the Makkasan Air Terminal?
4 Times Journalists Held Captive in Libya Faced Days of Brutality

Bahrain: how did it come to this?

Schadenfreude and Sympathy in Shanghai

Dubai on Empty

BBC team's Libya ordeal in their own words

39 missions, 39 patches for space shuttle Discovery

What Charlie Sheen tells us about China

Understanding Libya's Michael Corleone

Desperate, Fading Celebrity Couple Attempts Last-Ditch Celebrity Divorce

Thousands of Indians in jails abroad

Workers stranded without pay

The South China Morning Post's Revolving Door Revolves Again

U.S. Wavers on 'Regime Change'

Why reform in the Gulf monarchies is a family feud

Yunus departs as the Empire strikes back

Macau: where China likes to spend it

The LSE's Libya connection is only the tip of the iceberg

Oman's Sultan Qaboos: a classy despot

Concerns of Thai whitewash in killing of Reuters' Muramoto
Foreign Journalists Face Off With Foreign Ministry

Wikileaks Goes After The Saudi Royal Family

February 2011 Qatar starts Montreal at the end of June; China's heavy handed controls; DSI changes its story - no one believes it; A nation mourns!; Aerotropolis: -The Way We'll Live Next; Revolts expose tawdry policies of west; Al Maktoum to get some general aviation; Thank goodness for The Gulf News;; Assange to be extradited; Libya fall out will be a crisis; Cities to live in; If not now, when?; Cruel. Vainglorious. Steeped in blood.; Advantage UAE; Libya on the edge; Thailand's airline start-ups; In Bahrain the Bullets Fly; Emaar's Pavilion Gallery; Welcome to our building site; Skirting the issue; Enter the orange shirts; Manx 2 in shameful legal dispute; Dubai airshow remains at DXB for 2011; Thuggery in Bahain should be condemned; The not so adventurous Aussies; The dogfight over Canadian skies; A limited vote; Reality check - modern TV golf is dull; Temple trouble; Dubai, the LSE and the TMX; Egypt's euphoria; Tiger in the desert; Avoiding a New Pharaoh; The Pharaoh Refuses to Go; Protest impact on Emirates; New A380 business class unveiled on Koh Lanta; Scoring a quick single on Emirates; Thai Tiger going nowhere soon; The wrong side of history; Build a wall; Be careful with that wok!; Flip flop Blatter; Dubai Airports to focus on existing terminals; The Tim Hortons' news gets better; Magnificent men in their flying machines; Deadly clash on Thai Cambodian border; How to maximise DXB, by making JXB work; The continuing woes of Dubai Aerospace; Now it is Qantas against Emirates; Singaporeans told to breed in rabbit year; Canadian favourite Tim Hortons to open shop in UAE; Emirates delivery plans for 2011/2012; Malawi To Make Farting In Public Illegal; Coup fever in Thailand; Terror in Tahrir; A cautionary tale for UAE photographers; Egypt: Death throws of a dictatorship; Dubai sandstorm; Serious allegations that Thai government will ignore; Fitness trainer dies on Emirates flight; Deadlock in Egypt; Oman uncovers UAE spy network.

February 2011- Good reading from other sites.

Wikileaks Goes After The Saudi Royal Family
Sunny's World Cup go-slow
Rupert Murdoch - a Portrait of Satan

Far from Myanmar's political turmoil, Inle Lake is an island of calm

Lords of the Realm

China International

What does the Arab world do when its water runs out?

Chongqing: Hectic, sprawling symbol of China's economic success
Vintage Luxury: Boeing 314 Flying Boat in Detail

My Week In A Warzone: Covering The Conflict Between Thailand and Cambodia

Al Jazeera's news revolution

Mubarak, Berlusconi and the King of Thailand: The 10 richest world leaders
Print me a Stradivarius

Loose stalks posing as a sheaf

Is Thailand's prime minister secretly British?
Reclaiming the truth in Thailand

The U.A.E.: A boom town where dollars trump democracy
Among the Muslim Brotherhood

In post-Mubarak Egypt, the rebirth of the Arab world

For Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square

The Secret Rally That Sparked an Uprising

17 Years in a Thai School

Selling the sky: the man who made Airbus number one

Istanbul trembles at pace of change

Qantas, Joyce and the bleeding obvious

Even the Middle Ground is Perilous in Cairo

Mubarak intensifies press attacks with assaults, detentions

When more is less

Egypt - right now

Why live in: Business Bay

Arab World Faces Its Uncertain Future

How Cairo, U.S. Were Blindsided by Revolution

Massive transports helping Canadian Forces deal with banishment from U.A.E.
Why The King's speech is a gross falsification

The battle of Cairo is over, or is it?

January 2011: Dubai sandstorm; Serious allegations that Thai government will ignore; Fitness trainer dies on Emirates flight; Deadlock in Egypt; Oman uncovers UAE spy network; Davos is silent as Egypt burns; Why the BBC world service cuts are bad; Desert airplane; Analyst says plenty of new markets for Emirates' A380s; A new truth dawns on the Arab world; Egypt follows Tunisia; Mandela's health alarms his nation; Qatar world cup under pressure; PC Air - an airline with something extra; Thai Inquiry Into Violence Falters; UK media shame; Etihad flight diverts after bomb threat; Wikileaks Arabia; Another strike out by Air Canada; Canada/UAE dispute simmers along; Airport nonsense from Phuket; China - global hawk or global citizen; Emirates needs some new friends; The brutal truth about Indonesia; Big changes coming; Beijing feels that time is on its side; Arab despots should heed events in Tunisia; Still in a debt hole?; What does Tunisia mean for the Middle East?; Thunderbirds may go - again; And on and on....; On and on and on and on....; Drop the gloves with UAE; Harper to UAE - give me a break; Qatar will be a winter world cup; Predicting another Thai airline failure; England's Aussie demolition job; flydubai's unusual success story; Coffee spill grounds airliner; Emirates leaves rivals in slipstream; Dubai Holding looks to clear debt cloud; Debt forgetfulness; The risk of war in the Middle East; Testing waters, embarrassing Thais; Thailand's road carnage; The full story of one of Canada's deadliest days in Afghanistan; UAE acting like a spoiled child; Matching ambition with organisation; What is going on?

January 2011- Good reading from other sites.

Serious in Singapore

The Egyptian revolution threatens an American-imposed order of Arabophobia and false choices

A report card for Air Asia
UAE criticised for eroding civil rights
Heaven and hell in the Phi Phi Islands

Banned in Beijing

Watford shine in spotlight but promotion may not be a desirable goal

Emirates' airline hopes on wing and prayer

Carey Mulligan: A modern movie star is born

Conditions of Dubai's immigrant workers highlighted

China coming down the tracks

Meeting the UAE halfway

Dispute over the state of The World

The Rise of Chinese Cheneys
Checking out the check-in service at Makkasan

How we'll fly in 2025 -- NASA's vision

Tunisia - Watching and waiting

'UAE deserves an apology from Canadian PM'

Dubai paper off base on Canada

Tampa airport runways renumbered due to magnetic north movement

In the company of a legend (cricket)
'Change we can believe in'? Not for the Middle East

Qatar has 11 years to vindicate Fifa's strange decision to hand them 2022 World Cup

Foundations for England success laid two years ago

Blame Canada

The Man Who Spilled the Secrets

How did Quakers conquer the British sweet shop?

Into the spotlight - Qatar

Thai MP faces charges

Why EL PAÍS chose to publish the leaks

Diplomats Help Push Sales of Jetliners on the Global Market

New Year picture album
"Why the "China Century" will be the shortest on record" (Esquire magazine)

2010 News Archive

December 2010: What is going on?; Going too far; flydubai to Chittagong; Beware the watermelons; When Harvey met Bob; England's white, unpleasant land; EK 29 diverts and then gets stuck at BHX; Emirates lashes out at BAA amid winter chaos; Bling the halls with too much jewelry; Heathrow chaos; Let it snow; Thai media and government unite in confusion; Wikileaks on the big issues in Thailand; The rights and wrongs of hacktivism; The slow demise of DAE; flydubai's new Saudi routes; The cost of eliminating an ex PM; Dubai's North Korean restaurant; Questions from Bangkok; Singaporean diplomats neighborly views; A Wie problem with the Par 5s; Probe reveals Thai troops' role in civilian deaths; Fifa backtracking on Qatar 2022; Liu Xiaobo – a democratic hero forged in the fire of Tiananmen Square; The right reaction; Shame on countries boycotting Nobel ceremony; Second technical win for Democrats; The man who kicked the hornet's nest; Two steps backward; Wikileaks deserves protection, not threats and attacks; Assange arrested and detained in UK; Dubai delays passenger launch at new airport; Fifa says Russia 2018 and Qatar 2012; Press freedom: The Singapore grip; EK changes for 2011.

December 2010 - Good reading from other sites.

Censorship of the Economist

Pai Canadian murder - the dilatory truth

With the Ashes, Aussies have again proved to be bad losers. If they can't even win at cricket... just what is the point of Australia?

The Julian Assange Investigation -- Let's Clear the Air of Misinformation

Humility the hardest lesson for humbled Australia

 (note - written by an Aussie!)

The Ashes 2010: England continues eternal fight with Australian potency

Golfing shankers told there is no need for 'Fore!'

Singapore needs to get over its condom phobia

Amazing aerial photos of frozen London

Thailand: Caught out

A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist

The day Niagara Falls ran dry

Reuters pictures of the year - 2010

The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention
Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas - picture collection

The other side of Dubai

WikiLeaks may make the powerful howl, but we are learning the truth

Andrew Buncombe: I didn't see who shot me – but those who were looking have few doubts
A disappointed Democrat? You bet.

Airlines in Social Media

Anti-human rights forces dig in, regional group warns - AHRC

Qantas QF32 flight from the cockpit

Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police

Panda Lin Ping Makes A Break For It

Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice.

The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange

Thailand's Withering Democracy Leading to Political Impasse

Retreat and revenge: England's options after their 2018 World Cup snub

Qatar is more boring than backward

A small stage, a ping pong bomb and a burning spirit house

Is the Thai Military Torturing Muslim Detainees?

National Day in the UAE

November 2010 World Cup sites face D-day; Democrats win; democracy loses; After a year of living dangerously, Dubai is getting back to basics; Wikileaks tells us what we already know; Abhisit's last days?; One year on - Dubai begins to rebuild; Tiger Woods dream evaporates in the desert; Flying into trouble; Emirates and Qantas planes '40 seconds from collision'; Pilot fatigue debate reaches UAE media; Emirates wish list; Among the Dead After Phnom Penh Stampede; Second blast ends all hope; Kuwait bans digital slrs; One year on; Missing the point; Mining miracle unlikely in NZ; Euro crisis?; Never a truer word; No Thai Christmas for the Camerons; In China's orbit; Six months on; Willy and Katie to wed; Here we go again; Japanese journalist Muramoto possibly killed by Thai state security; JetBlue Airways joins up with Emirates; Can't get to Canada, so try Basra; Emirates takes on Canada; Twitterers beware; Judges in the dock; The QF 32 scarebus; Short memory expats; Dubai's continuing debt problems; Canada finds a new friend in the Gulf; Poppy-gate - or how to offend your host; For Canadians, the grass is greener on the other side; An aviation spat turns much sourer; Emirates versus Indian bureaucracy; Thailand's silence on Burma poll is deafening; Emirates plane in Dubai airport touch and go; This is getting silly; Journalism in the Gulf is losing its appeal; Swapping uniforms for suits; Potash Wars; SQ now delaying A380 flights; Qantas A380 suffers engine explosion; flydubai to where? again; Emirates half year profit surge

November 2010 - Good reading from other sites.

Is the Thai Military Torturing Muslim Detainees?

National Day in the UAE

Wikileaks shows up our media for their docility at the feet of authority

A creeping military regime gets 'creepier every day' (yes - this is Thailand!)

Drama in cockpit of Qantas A380

In Abu Dhabi's 'Formula,' a fast force for change

The Anatomy of the Airbus A380 QF32 near disaster

Aung San Suu Kyi's talks exclusively to the BBC

With the Conviction of Paul Chambers, it is now illegal to be English

Are Amnesty breaching their own core values in Thailand?

Guardian Style: brilliant, not controversial, and not many exclamation marks!

The Mysterious Case of Aya Takanashi

What's the point of Amnesty International in Thailand?

Engine trouble

Only Britain can beg for scraps from China and tell them how to behave

UAE imposes new visa requirements on Canadians

Lamma Island will be a hippie haven no more
Elephants forced to walk across metal tightropes in Thailand tourist attraction

Slowly, the army eases its grip
Tim Clark: Subsidy debate has airline boss in a spin

Extent of peripheral damage to Qantas A380 unclear

Despite dry run, timing midair explosion not easy

Lone Emirates still flying high on luxury

 

October 2010 Yemen bombs were meant to blow up in flight; Parcel bomb in Dubai 'looks like al Qa'eda's work'; Breaking news on US bomb threat and Dubai connection;  RAK succession battle; In defence of Thaksin Shinawatra; rascott meets bacon spammer;  We don't want democracy; Thai Air confusion; The Iraq war logs; It's not getting better; The dogfight over Emirates; No marks allowed; Left out in the cold; UAE dispute: Holdup at Camp Mirage; UAE says it opposed Canada's Security Council bid; Delay in Ikea punch-up case;; Chile's mine rescue; Come fly with me; Emirates eyes 120 A380s, works with Boeing on 777; Only the Nation; Thai Air Asia starts India flights; The Queen is coming - but not to Dubai; Thai-Burma port deal: great for trade, bad for reform; Negotiating with a stick; Government’s Use of Emergency Law Under Fire; How government holds back Thailand; Canada, the UAE and the art of negotiation; An assertive stance on landing rights; RAK Airways resurrected - but for how long?; flydubai to where?; Canadian troops must quit U.A.E. base after airline demand rejected; Who controls the Internet; China's unwanted prize; Blackberry out of Dubai jam; UAE threatens to kick Canada out of covert military base Camp Mirage;  Tiger to play in Thai skins; Canada and UAE dispute escalates (updated); Canceling Dubai Property Deals Is Nearly Impossible; Dubai Properties Group says all is well; Recovery or more gloom; Tim Clark on the A380; Dubai finds itself between Hollywood and reality; Sports picture of the year?; Woods is back; Arrested for poor sandals; The full Monty; No evidence required; A tale of two cities; On my wish list; The Ryder Cup sell out

October 2010 - Good reading from other sites.

Lone Emirates still flying high on luxury

US space shuttle programme faces its final countdown

Thailand in pictures

NATO, UN urged to stand up to U.A.E. eviction notice

America on sale

Government Cancels All Decisions Until "Film" Paternity Scandal Sorts Itself Out

Everyone can fly with Miss Thailand 2005

One day, son, all this will be yours: North Korean dictator presents 'Young Commander' to the world
Airbus A380 Bypasses Hubs as Smaller Cities Clamor for Flights
I Have No Enemies

Thailand military: the lovely conscripts

Airline "surprised" as dance safety demo goes viral

At the right hand of the Father

India's surprising economic miracle

September 2010 Special report: How Dubai got serious; Canada - September 2010; US mergers put pressure on American; Is he really Ed the Red?; The clocks are striking thirteen; Canada's G20 cost; Registering your gun should be the law; Why the Games must go on; Bangkok's Human Rights Blunder; This turbulent and troubling priest; Bouncing briefly back; Merging for necessity; EK's cost cutting eats into customer service; Did Dubai hire Klass for her name?; 9/11 anniversary: Charged with hate; Qatar extends Thailand flights; Ninety is not enough; Strange events around a TG bomb scare; EK 380 in Manchester scare; One rule for some...again; The crash of UPS 6; Tony Blair's journey; Is Bangkok under lockdown?; Emirates' funding.

September 2010 - Good reading from other sites.

Man in the dock

Air Traffic Controller speaks out after 'Close Call'

Boeing patent may provide glimpse into 737 replacement plan

The implications of coloured movements

Thai colors bleed a complicated mosaic

A Thai City of Sleaze Tries to Clean Up Its Act

Foreign creditors try to sell Dubai loans with little luck

The blitz - 70 years on

Little better than slavery

Hong Kong's 'Milkshake Murderer' to ask for freedom

Serbia's Testicle Eating Festival Draws Daring Diners

August 2010 RTA delays opening final Metro stations; FlyDubai to Yekaterinburg; When blocking software makes no sense; Emirates denies interest in AMR; Wie wins in Winnipeg; Pak cricketers just want money, women, food: Bookie; Aamer, Asif, how could you?; Cricket scandal after no ball bets; Wie leads in Canada; Bout tells all; What's it all a Bout?; Wacky UAE races; Bangkok blames the international media; Sad but true; Out of the Woods; Truly, madly, bloodily; DSI - dithering special investigators; BKK opens dysfunctional airport link; Australia's didgeridoo parliament; Simple pleasure in Seaton Carew; America's identity crisis; Not quite as planned; Red Shirt v Yellow Shirt: Thailand's political struggle; The cockpit strikes back; Thailand’s anti-corruption bureau is a paper tiger; Stumbling in chains towards a poll?; Emirates winter schedule changes; One rule for some (again); EK double daily to Houston and LAX (updated); Double standards?; Goodbye to Dubai; Banyan Tree cites political risk for sale; Sheikh Zayeed Road comes to Knightsbridge; Build that mosque; More DAE cancellations; Behave, you silly cow; Double standards; Cathay Pacific makes money and orders new jets; Thailand update; Thaiger Air?; Boeing gets earful of 777 advice from a customer with clout; New LCC for Thailand; Emirates takes first A380 to China; Blackberry blackballed

August 2010 - Good reading from other sites.

In Rural Thailand, an Unappeased Opposition Bides Its Time

Trapped miners: depression fears mar 'miracle' as Chileans rally around

Thailand’s bad men and the challenges for Abhisit Vejjajiva

Blackpool: profile of a ghost town

Singapore shows symptoms of urban stress

The World's Most Unusual Airports

If the World Were a Village of 100 People

Battle of Britain: in men and machines

Divided Thailand seeks elusive 'normalcy'

The World's best countries

Unique Jeppesen Approach Plate: The Hudson Miracle Approach

'Fantasy and Feathers' in the United Kingdom

ABU DUBAI: A Forward Tale of Two Cities That Could Only Be One

Jailed in Dubai, Accused Wait Long After Good Times Have Gone - Bloomberg

How can England win the World Cup? They could start by asking Watford - Guardian

Fed-Up Flight Attendant Makes Sliding Exit
BlackBerry Security Approach Leads to Theories About Deals

The crisis of middle-class America

Forbidden telecoms fruit

From the NYPD to JetBlue

What to do in Dubai?

A visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin (with a layover in London).

Thai Leader Says Polls Will Follow 'Peace,' 'Stability'

Immigrant Maids Flee Lives of Abuse in Kuwait
A Trip to Tibet, With My Handlers Nearby

Uneducate people

New Silk Road Built by China Connects Asia to Latin America

Singapore: Silence of the Lions

July 2010 Politics as unusual; 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

July 2010 - Good reading from other sites.

Singapore: Silence of the Lions

It looks like a big Tylenol, but produces far more laughs

FIFA Look Into North Korean "Public Denunciation" Reports

How cricket matches are scripted

11 air travel innovations to change the way you fly
In Thailand unrest, journalists under fire
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)

June 2010 RAK Airways to relaunch (again);  Spies are (among) us; Can Emirates beat the Germans; Dubai's DAE postpones aircraft deliveries; FA are a conniving bunch of no-hopers; England re-enact a drama of failure; Woeful England over run by Germany; Dubai World Central opens for business; Labourers left to starve; Thailand recruits convicted felon to promote tourism; UAE lifts Thai travel warning despite SOE; G for gross waste of time and money; Singapore spray painter gets caning sentence; Dubai's ambitions soar with new airport; EK confirm that they will place a new airplane order; The runaway general; The end of Emirates Business 24/7; A fatal loss of face?; Will Emirates order more Boeings?; Reconciliation the Thai way; Fix the cheating; Will Emirates Business 24/7 survive?; Is Qatar Airways growing faster than Emirates?; Revile not reconcile; First flight into JXB; flyDubai does Turkey; Predictably hopeless at the Cape of No Hope; RIP - Andy Ripley; Dubai Properties ex-chairman released; Who would be a goalkeeper; Indonesian man seduced by cow; Military rule in all but name; Thaksin and Me (A Marshall - Reuters); Abhisit's Democratic choice; Obama has not learned the lessons of Bhopal; Brits turn on Obama; Thai inmates world cup; Obama's Bopal lesson; Emirates A380 order is a game changer; How Obama lost me over oil hypocrisy; EK's bold A380 purchase; Fall out from Gaza flotilla raid; Nakheel's bizarre PR; The roots of Thailand's turmoil; California Dreaming; Rulers of the New Silk Road; The End of Brand Thailand; 21 years on; Good or bad it beats propaganda; More property woes for Dubai; The demise of Thailand; Murder in the name of reconciliation; The Nation versus Robert Amsterdam; Thai media fiction; Dubai Holding reports big loss; Du send in the cavalry; Censored Thailand

June 2010 - Good reading from other sites.

Can we just admit that we’re not very good at football?

No stopping Emirates as it plans to add 700 pilots Qatar Air profile

FlyDubai Profile

How will 787's new materials fare in a crash landing?

Apple iPhone 4: an object of rare beauty that leapfrogs the competition

The Spill, The Scandal and the President - Rolling Stone

The Runaway General - Rolling Stone

No Reconciliation for Thailand's Red Shirts

English football's future at stake against Slovenia

Thoughts on Thailand's turmoil

Who rules Dubai's private education sector?

Thai government continues crackdown on opposition
Golfer beats heart transplants to battle Pebble

Underdog ferry rides around Hong Kong

Blue Rodeo - South of Home

Iran using Dubai to smuggle nuclear components

What Not to Say When Your Company Is Ruining the World

When a Crime Writer becomes part of the Story

Thai turmoil rips at even families, friends

Double Standards

The dilemma of western democracy

Fore! A guide to Thailand's best golf courses, bogeys and all
Israeli Diamonds Are Dubai’s Best Friend as Profits Beat Policy
Life inside the North Korean bubble

May 2010 Thailand update - 31 May 2010; Du doesn't do; Blind, Deaf and Dumb; Thailand update 29 May 2010; In Bangkok, scapegoats of the rude and fatuous;  Dealing with 'the devil', the reds and looking within; Thailand update - 27 May 2010; flyDubai's 21st is Sri Lanka; Thailand watch 26 May 2010; A guide to the perfect Thai idiot; Du's World Cup balls-up; This should be bye bye Salwan; The Thaksin terrorism charge needs evidence; How bad is the UK debt?; Dubai Holding may be next to restructure debt; An open letter to the red shirts; Thailand Update - 25 May 2010; Death in Bangkok - The Day the Thai Army Moved In;  What next for Thailand; Beating up CNN; Thailand: country needs a credible leader; The red threat; Mangalore crash is a Dubai tragedy; Emirates slides down world airline rankings; Twitter's role in Bangkok conflict unprecedented; Dubai Panorama; Thailand update - 21 May 2010; A polity imploding; Media under fire in Bangkok; Where is turbulent Thailand headed; Thailand update - 20 May 2010-2; Amsterdam's nonsense; Bus to work for EK crew; BKK's torched buildings; Where next for Thailand;Military crackdown only widens divide; Bangkok - how did it come to this?; What next for Korea?; Thailand update - 20 May 2010; Reality check The battle for Bangkok; Crackdown coming; The Long Winding Red Road to Ratchaprasong and Thailand’s Future;  Thailand update - 18 May 2010; Sun, sea, sand and sleep; Banning the burqa - a bad idea...; A not very odd couple; Thailand updates - 17 May 2010; Slingshots versus gunshots; Thailand update - 16 May 2010; Bangkok's war zone; Thailand's sideshow is over; Don't take offence at our coalition. Its aims are liberal; Thailand update - 15 May 2010; Land of snarls; Thailand update - 14 May 2010; Sold out by Clegg; EK to Baghdad;  Emirates' strong rebound; flydubai to India (at last); Mystery of Tripoli crash; Harrods sold; Post election blues; Not well hung; flydubai adds Karachi; Voting Liberal Democrat is the one hope for real change; Tracked from Times Square to EK 202; Emirates five year plan for Americas; A qualified and cautious agreement; The ever evolving 5 points for an election; Emirates almost flew the New York bomber; Thaksin Shinawatra Hires Amsterdam & Peroff; Thai PM sets conditional election date; The good and bad of the uk election; One months gone already; Thailand update - 2 May 2010; Message Battle Heats Up in Thai Crisis; Money and Power - Q&A with Niall Ferguson; Guardian endorses Liberal Democrats;Thailand's drama.

May 2010 - Good reading from other sites.
 Revealed: The truth behind the Air France disaster that killed 228 people
Flying Far from Land
The Korean Crisis - An Overview
North Korea: Succession Signals
Galley Gossip: Goodies for the crew
A Royal Dilemma
Sharjah - Emirate Ambitions
The Great Pretender
Sunlight Creeping Through the Bangkok Gloom?
The “germs”: the reds’ infection of the Thai political body
Thai - style democracy 1958 - 2010 (read the article and the following comments)
Brit marries girl 17 hours after meeting her in Vegas
If Labour is wise, it will usher Nick Clegg into Downing Street
How the eyes of the world see a very British contest
Fascinating - a walking tour of Bangkok's red camp


April 2010
Bad laws sprouting in Brussels; Don't give up on Thailand; Big US aviation merger ahead; CRES must show proof; Election is Cameron's to lose; Hospital farce; Britain's voteless immigrants; Thai chaos leaves power vacuum; South Korea's northern problem; Waking up to the fact that we have sunk so low; Thai Democrats to face court; Hardtime on hardtalk for Thai PM; Changing the financial centre of the UAE; Chitchob the changeling; Network of conspirators; Emirates summer flights to Medinah; How to justify a crackdown; Will Thailand's democrats survive?; Standoff in Bangkok; flydubai adds Latakia; It's just not cricket; India's press on the EK Cochin incident; Red shirt occupied Bangkok; Emirates incident near Cochin; The staying power of the red shirts; Peace-keeping in pieces; Thailand update - 24 October 2010; Bloody shirts in the City of Angels; LibDem opening statement; Sharjah police conduct door to door hunt for unwed couples; Manning the Bangkok Barricades; Flashpoint Silom; 5 scenarios for Thai crisis; Did authorities overreact to the volcanic ash?; Happy birthday, Alex; The Ashes become an election issue; Judgements on safety clouded by profit losses; Earthquakes explained in Iran; The tragedy of Shashi Tharoor; Airlines versus the regulators; flydubai to Kabul and Luxor; Airline finances up in Ashes; Angels with bloody hands; Thailand update 17 April 2010; Thailand mulls a "half coup"; All on Anupong; Thailand's broken democracy; Crisis meeting after a weekend of golf; Botched in Bangkok; In case we forget what matters; Martyrs on both sides; Ash clouds keep falling on my head; Thailand Runs Out of Room for Compromise; Bored of BKK; Thai Foreign Minister breaks taboo on role of monarchy; What is the link between Arabian Business and Thaksin?; When a crew excels; Pictures from Thailand; Aussie TV takes on the unspoken; The Propaganda War; The yellow side of the propaganda war; Thai expectations; Threats from MICT; Kasit's inflammatory nonsense; Thai FM slams international community over crisis; Red with bloodshed; Is this a very Thai solution?; Dubai’s $330 Billion of Deferred Building Imposes Investor Fees; Is this the end for Thailand's Abhisit?; Thailand update 12 April 2010; UFC adds to UAE contradictions; flyDubai to Istanbul and Assiut; Thailand update - 11 April 2010; Spiral of violence; No end in sight; Reuters photographer dies in Bangkok riots; Another letter to Salwan (mis)management; Airline merger mania in the USA and Europe; Thailand's new normal; Thailand Update - 9 April 2010; Qatar sets new visa rules; Fighters escort US jet with smoking diplomat; Pay to pee on Ryanair; A Greek tragedy; Thoughts on Athens; PM cannot use courts; PAD nonsense; Smoked BBQ lamb!; Army calls shots on house dissolution; Kissing couple lose appeal; Another historic day for democracy; Red shirts close down malls; Yellow turns to Pink; Burj Khalifa; Thailand update - 1 April 2010; Smiling for the cameras; Prachatai webmaster charged; Thaksin back in Dubai; The Thais' working Israel's farms; Dubai Briton faces jail over 'middle finger salute'; Canada's dying aviation industry

April 2010 - Good reading from other sites.

 

March 2010 Athens and Santorini; Burj Khalifa under a full moon; EK's A380 to Manchester; Emirates seeking daily Tokyo flight; Qatar to start South American flights; Thailand update  -30 March 2010; Lee Mill's spoilsports; Debt-Burdened Dubai May Need Years to Rebuild Creditors’ Trust; Is Dubai Holding next in line to restructure?; Thailand update - 29 March 2010; Why does this airline exist?; Thailand update - 28 March 2010; Fears rise over Dubai debt plan; Coming home to a car wreck; Dubai does better; Thailand update - 26 March 2010; FT calls for election in Thialand; No backbone; Witness the death of deference; Hands in the Dubai till; Dubai's pointless new airport; We can pay - just wait nine years; Biased TV stations intensify divides in Thailand protests; British MP's code of misconduct; Thailand update; Google versus China; Dubai's Coq au Vin is back; In Dubai, the party's far from over; Where is Sammy?; Dubai's alcoholic food problem; Thailand update - 21 March 2010; Sunrise in Dubai; The battle for Thailand; Thailand update - 17/18 March; Emirates to order more airplanes; EK crew jailed for lewd texting; Red shirts need leadership; Amazing Thailand and its vulgarities; Desperate and impotent red shirts; Can Thaksin return to Dubai?; Snogging in Dubai; Open letter from Thailand to Thaksin; AC catches a cold over Emirates; Arabian Business and Thaksin; Thailand Update - The Brutus Conspiracy; Red Shirt Futility; Swiss roll; Thailand update - 13 March; Thaksin, expelled on not?; Was this necessary; Has Thaksin left the UAE; Thailand watch - 12 March; Thailand update - 10 March; AC blowing cold over Emirates; Quicksand?; Emirates riding on economic recovery; The Murdoch in Abu Dhabi; Road misery in Dubai; Thailand update - the watermelon army; Venice watercoloured; EK to Dakar from 1 September; Thailand watch - 8 March; Thailand watch - 7 March; Dubai PR firm blows hot air; In Thailand it's not 'Rule of Law' but 'Law of Rule'; Divided loyalties; The last four minutes of Air France flight 447; BKK rail link delayed again; As transparent as a foggy day; Space twitterer; Is Dubai attracting illegal trade; Tea, coffee or my uniform; Am I on Emirates; flydubai expands GCC network; The ceiling of press freedom in the UAE is falling; The Games that changed a Nation; Chiang Mai's charm

March 2010 reading from other sites

 

February 2010 Global village accident; How to manage a pilot shortage; A costly decision; Most of it now - the rest later; It is judgment day for Thaksin; Jaws and the Dubai Mall; Thailand Bracing for Ruling on Thaksin’s Assets; Moving Beyond Thaksin; Who is backing Emirates now?; EK's Canadian Air Wars; White, elite Olympics; Dubai's second airport to open - but no one is flying there; Dubai's collapsed job market; UAE asked to monitor Thaksin; Thousands apply to work as EK crew; Short memories; Do they really want Thaksin back?; Cat and Mouse in Thailand; The world is run by those who show up; Dubai Metro's continuing delays; Now we know who runs the country; Not out of the Woods; The ongoing pursuit of Thaksin; Murder in Dubai; Peerless tennis; Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret; Blue Rodeo's homecoming show; Mandelson's Dubai Warning; Two thirds back and wait seven years; Should tourists avoid Thailand as threat of violence grows?; The media as chief agitator; Thailand under military rule; Vancouver's poet laureate: Why I have declined to participate in theOlympic Celebrations; Why "fly-by-wire" matters; Air Asia's risky VietVenture; BYOB on American; Forget all the gloom - this is TOO cute; Dubai World debt update; What happened to yes we can?; Man claims fiancee hid beard under niqab; Cathay CEO rubbishes Gulf airlines; Executive Towers update; Dubai offered an alternative future; Building up to BT Day; Credibility starts by telling the truth; Talk about double standardsIn Thailand 41% has replaced 25%; Thai military anticipate court verdict; Banks express concern at debt deal; Closed after only a month; DSF is now the Dubai Selling Festival; Here we go again in KL; Blooming in Dubai; Flying Cheap; The end of NASA as we know it; Air Asia X pulls out of Abu Dhabi; Dubai World Silence on Debt Standstill Evaporates Bailout Rally; Dubai's Business Bay

January 2010 - Reading from other sites

Thai Media Warns Of Thaksin-Less Doomsday For Journalism - from Not the Nation - funny and too true!

GT200 Scanners To Be Replaced With Fortune Tellers, Feng Shui Experts, Amulets And Reincarnated Geckos

Maimed pilot in Phuket: 'I will fly again' (Reasons to avoid Phuket)
Speed and Commerce Skewed Track's Design

Shooting the messenger will not right the wrongs at Vancouver 2010

Canadians should lighten up over the Winter Olympics – Britain is next

Don Martin: Britain's Viagra brigade whines right on time

Vancouver Games continue downhill slide from disaster to calamity

Climate of fear among Dubai's property investors

Thrusting young nation goes ice todger mad as Vancouver Olympics open

Luge men back on Vancouver track as IOC lets responsibilities slide

Pictures from Vancouver 2010 Opening Ceremony

State of denial: Robert Fisk searches for peace in Israel
South Africa 20 years after Mandela release

In Udon Thani, a different Thailand

Properties rates in Dubai on a downward spiral
Dubai offered an alternative future

Washington in the snow

All About Airline Food: Behind The Scenes at Emirates airline

QE2 sets sail in Dubai sell-off

The king, judicialization and “rule of law”

The joys of solitude

Dubai Through the eyes of Christopher Wilson

 

January 2010 Faye's return; Preempting Emirates; Lagos memories; Tanks in the night spark coup talk; Blair's lack of regret; Reasons to swim in the pool; The Doha debates; As Olympics near, people in Vancouver are dreading Games; What happens to the Thaksin billions; Understanding Dubai; Beware the vengeance of an angry flight attendant; China battles USA over Google; A reality check at Cadbury; Making bad worse; Growth of aid and the decline of humanitarianism; Thailand's pathetic Haiti response; Getting humanitarian relief right; From Bournville to Mournville; Abu Dhabi's depleted aid; Airbus reaches 6,000; Buying EVIL; Thailand: faded smiles; Sanctimonious Google gives up on China; Aussie and Loonie approach dollar parity; Avatar fails to inspire; UAE Sheikh cleared in videoed torture case;  UAE ranks low on Quality of Life index; Burj Khalifa – a bleak symbol of Dubai's era of bling; Not cleared for take off in the west; When silence is not the answer; Three lousy drunks arrested on Emirates plane at Heathrow; Executive Towers - The Depressing Reality; Contractors set to suspend work on Dubai metro; Labour Party attempts suicide; Abi Dhabi - we have a problem; Thailand unhinged; EK announces Madrid; The Burj Dubai Khalifa opens- just don't look down; Thaksin's gains under court threat; A marvel, or a folly, or both?; Megalomania or grand achievement; Talking up the fight; Confusion over service charges; New best friends; The Burj Dubai and architecture's vacant stare; Terror and the west: A decade of misjudgment; EK to link KL and Melbourne; After tough year, Dubai expats pack up, eye Asia

January 2010 - Reading from other sites

The Bangkok Hot List: 20 people to watch
The WSJ does Pad Thai

Flintoff aiming for the top again

i-Pad About - Stephen Fry on the i-Pad
Dubai royal’s ‘secret bride’ Nivin el-Gamal flees to Britain

Dubai's unwritten social contract

NTSB files on the One Two Go crash at Phuket
Robert Fisk’s World: The stakes get higher as Arab princes try to outdo each other

Dubai - Entrenched Monarchy Thwarts Aspirations for Modernity

Dealing with lese majeste in Netherlands

Dubai Debt Crisis Halts Building Of World's Largest Indoor Mountain Range - The Onion (yes - not real!!)

Al Qaeda linked to rogue aviation network

Heritage Photography of Dubai and Surroundings
The Evolution of Dubai (interesting pics)
Move the UN to Dubai- Forbes Magazine
Indian 'racist police' cartoon angers Australia

Dubai Downturn Sends Ripples Throughout Arab World
Thailand unhinged
Speculation over change in role for Chinese climate negotiator

Tin triangle - display-flying the Vulcan

Tiger in the Rough - Vanity Fair

45 Dubai inspired artworks

Tom Jenkins's pictures of the decade - The Guardian

Why twitter will endure - New York Times

Iran’s increasing turmoil-Growing desperation

2009 News Archive

December 2009 - Reading from other sites

 

Iran’s increasing turmoil-Growing desperation

Dubai gets a retro makeover

The BA strike is off – so that’s many a Christmas ruined

38 Stunning Photos Of Dubai From Sky

The grim reality of life as an air stewardess

Baby Toys and National Security - Ask the Pilot

Jet Cemetery: Where Airplanes Go to Die

The inside story of Northwest 188
On the job with Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine dancers
Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence

New Burj Dubai Pictures - worth a look

 

October and November -  Good reading from other sites.

 

Raining on Dubai's Day at the Beach

Leaders pay for Dubai excesses

THAILAND: Computer crime law as lese-majesty substitute

Plots seen in Thaksin's Cambodia gambit

A380 inflight service report - detailed

Thai government bans Thaksin Shinawatra interview with The Times

Bangkok's counterfeit card and ID emporium

Gordon Brown is right: rich western banks should pay for the developing world to go green

Berlin's moment of freedom that turned world history

The real story emerges behind 'most noble' Victoria Cross hero

Business Traveller on the marvels of Singapore Airport

In defence of Singaporean exceptionalism

Deputy PM Suthep and the Saxena case

December 2009 Terror and the west: A decade of misjudgment; EK to link KL and Melbourne; After tough year, Dubai expats pack up, eye Asia; Big cuts at the SCMP; Qatar's growing network; The Akmal Shaikh fallout; China's message to Britain; Iran stands on the brink
China, show mercy to Akmal Shaikh; Making a miserable experience even worse; Thailand's unhappy new year for refugees; New US air travel rules; Culling Dubai Properties; Abu Dhabi to launch LCC; Samak Saghir; Instrument Approach Lets Santa Land In Bad Weather; EK to take A380 to Jeddah; Gulf News Urges Reporters To Tone Down Dubai Debt Coverage; The end of the noughties; Turbulence hits EK flight to Durban; UAE owner of Thai arms plane; Thailand in online crackdown as tensions simmer; Wogan signs off after 27 years; Thai Tales; Alas, poor Citibank; Trying to get excited about climate change; BA's 12 days of misery; Profiting from the Abu Dhabi bail out; Abhisit - a year of disappointment; Abu Dhabi to the rescue - at what cost?; Emirates plus Etihad equals neo-federal UAE; Tiger's folly; Kim wins in Dubai; Tiger's fall; Thailand's year before the storm; Moral hazard; Wie watch in Dubai; Yong Vui Kong to get new appeal; Spying for Thailand; Thai Air's hopeless suit; Extreme politics and Bangkok's English media; Wie watch in Dubai; Why I hate Citibank today; Singapore's Hanging Crimes; The skirt is a Wie bit short; Keeping Tiger's score; Thailand's shocking inequity statistics; Thai excuses for incompetence; Emirates goes dutch at last; Tiger's Imperfect World; Watford's financial woes; Is Thaksin hurt by UAE debt concerns?

November 2009 America's Cup still in court; EK to slow A380 deliveries; Thailand Update - 30 November 2009; Does Emirates have the solution for Heathrow?; Sharjah's aviation heritage; Tiger has the blues; Down but not out; Who is being tacky?; Dubai gives holiday shocker to financial markets; Very Tacky; Better off as we are; Dubai Surrenders Autonomy as Crisis Bolsters Oil-Rich Abu Dhabi; Thailand Update - 24 November 2009; Emirates to Tokyo from 28th March 2010; Emirates Woman of the year is from EK; Behind the scenes in Dubai; Dubai is a golfing winner; Does Henry coach the PLA?; Thailand update - 21 November 2009; Hand Gaul - Henry's sleight of hand; DWC day 1 tee off times; Golf on a lunar landscape; Thailand update - 18 November 2009; Does Emirates need more A380s?; Thailand update - 17 November 2009; How long will the UAE let Thaksin stay?; Another Dubai Properties rant; At the Dubai airshow; Thailand update - 16 November 2009; Thailand update - 15 November 2009; Thailand update - 14 November 2009; Thailand update - 13 November 2009; Golf balls are humanity's signature litter; BA and Iberia to merge; Northwest goes viral; Thailand update - 12 November 2009; Blaming the demons; Emirates may look to buy more planes amid downturn; Emirates mulls more Airbus A380s despite delays; Thailand update - 11 November 2009; Siamese spat; A380’s stellar performance undermined by ongoing technical issues: operators; Taking stock of Bangkok; Thaksin faces lese majeste complaint; Thaksin to sue Times Online; Tiger Airways to Hong Kong; Desert kingdoms – how the Gulf’s network carriers are riding out the storm; Dubai's airports have growing ambitions;  Blue Rodeo delivers classic roots-rock; True of false; Rejected Kraft bid lacks sweetener; Thaksin continues to raise the stakes; Bittersweet weekend for Cadbury; Japanese contractors owed billions by Dubai firms; Thailand's urban-rural split; EK route rumours for 2010; Thaksin overplays his hand; Another yellow shirt revival?; Thailand's poll manipulation disease; Getting their man; Fictional dross from the Nation; The lessons from how our children learn; Emirates half year profit boost; Riled Thailand's response; Wie to draw crowds in Dubai; Another Burj Dubai delay; Riling Thailand; Hunting the rumour writers in Thailand; flydubai backs Baku; War of words; Thailand's Panda TV; DSI believes SET attacked with coordinated efforts; MPs say happiness is a warm gun; Bangkok arrests make little sense; Blair should never be European President; EK winter schedule update; EK A380 flight changes; Cash at risk on delayed projects;  Too many hands in the Dubai till; TTV testing on Sunday; The perils of buying property in Dubai; The state of Dubai's construction sector; Dubai Properties chief arrested

October 2009 EK winter schedule update; EK A380 flight changes; Cash at risk on delayed projects; Too many hands in the Dubai till; TTV testing on Sunday; The perils of buying property in Dubai; The state of Dubai's construction sector; Dubai Properties chief arrested; Rumour charges pending; Racism still haunts ASEAN; Desperate friends in Thailand; RAK loses the America's Cup in a US court; The future of the Internet; UAE plan to nationalise private schools; Thai government losing the Twitter war; Yemen claims plane shot down by French navy; Debt watch in Dubai; Market for rumour; Absent Thaksin is still the talk of ASEAN; Crash pilot saves lives on ground; Cargo plane crashes at Sharjah; Thailand's muzzled press; Petulance and the Prize; Wrong message; The Sarkozy dynasty; Thais use Hitler image again; Time for Thailand; Exile and the Kingdom; Thaksin's Economist interview; Not so inspired by Santorini; UAE's growing population of foreigners; Tsunami may have inspired Atlantis legend; Socialists take control in Greece; flydubai launches doha; How to rewrite history; Not really open - again!; Emirates vents anger at Aussie media claims; Listen to the Emirates pilots; Thailand update; The German influence; Letterman's creepy confession; Shocked in Schicago!; EK ups A380 capacity; Cyberspace meets the ancients in Thailand; Thai King remains in Hospital

September 2009 End distracted driving now!; Fly Emirates, meet Dubai; A voice of reason; Man in the middle; Can PM Abhisit mend Thailand?; Visa free travel for Thais; China at age 60 - from pariah to world power; 60 years of modern China; BA confirms that it is low cost and low service; Shareholder value or give us the money?; Emirates fleet planning; Living up to the stereotype; Sydney sees Red;  Did PM know of military budget increase?; Getting high in Dubai; Flydubai's Indian pickle; Coup induced happiness; Bangkok airport's superficial makeover; Thai military threatens to use noise weapon; Three years on; Government finds solution to Thai problems; Shoot the messenger; Where power lies; Anything can happen; TV show causes big trouble in Thailand; Whither Istithmar?; Does the FCPA disadvantage Americans?; Kai Tak today; Uncertainty is the sum of all fears among Thai elite; Is gambling recession proof?; Is the world dead?; The devil is in the data; Eight year's on; Thai journalist's statement on Thaksin interview; EK A380 in Birmingham; Reuters leaves London; Cadbury bid is a global reality; Fly like an Egyptian; Only in Thailand; A Dubai metro reality check; Why the security changes at BKK; Minister fires before he aims; Silencing Mr T; In a mess again; Discussing the  unspoken; Kraft will need to sweeten Cadbury deal; Unity and Dissent; The slow death of legacy airlines; Standing room only; "There She Was: Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul on The New York Times"; Paranoia in Thai government; Blue Rodeo highlights from Toronto; Twin villages celebrate reopening of post office; Financial crisis hits conference business

August 2009 Making it up on the Metro; BKK's masked taxi drivers; Tape-gate in Bangkok; Elegy: Reflections on Angkor; The President's Eulogy at the funeral of Edward Kennedy; Daranee gets 18 years; Democrats foolish proposal to reduce airport security; Lese-majeste cases in Thailand; Fall release for new cd from Blue Rodeo; Told you so; Smoke and mirrors; Thailand brings back the death penalty; Whose bell is it anyway?; Flintoff - a very English hero; What a sports team says about its country; Funny old game; Releasing Al-Megrahi Bodes ill; FBI Director slams Scots; Boycott Scotland; Scotland’s misplaced sympathy for an unforgivable criminal; Justice and Power; Ramadan to start on Saturday; Lockerbie bomber's freedom is at a cost; Etihad's US alliance; Forget the great in britain; Compassion or justice; Manchester airport chaos; The annual uniform outrage; Big, bigger, biggest; An astonishing rebound; Why the Premier League does not work; Conspiracy watch; ASEAN summit move; Canada's misjudged bail out of Air Canada; Regional shame over Suu Kyi; The human face of Burma's tragedy; The petition saga; One of the greats - Ricky Ponting; Djibouti next for flydubai; "As Dubai's Glitter Fades, Foreigners See Dark Side"; British Idle; Dubai metro to open unfinished; The Langer dossier; My petition is bigger than yours!; Is the era of free internet news over?; How much of the UK is owned by the UAE?; AirAsia X to Hub in Abu Dhabi; Race to Dubai slowing down; Abhisit's slow demise; Thailand's tourist scams; Boeing's 7-late-7; Dubai's opaque bond plan leaves investors wary; SQ cuts salaries after Q1 loss; Pilots tell the miracle on the Hudson; Thaksin paranoia hurts Thai government

July 2009 SQ cuts salaries after Q1 loss; Pilots tell the miracle on the Hudson; Thaksin paranoia hurts Thai government; Thailand's karaoke crackdown; EK now world's largest 777 operator; No sex in this city; Delays expected in Dubai metro launch; EK cries slander in Canada; After the birthday bash, what's next?; How hard is it to find Mr.T; Passing of a generation; How bad was Thailand elite; China launches Arabic international tv; Thai government can't find Thaksin; Cleaning up Suvarnabhumi; A good week for the oldies; Thai government's terror prison denial; Thailand at War - horror and freedom; Hong Kong by night; 40 years on; Another Thai riddle; Arrested for a public kiss; What is happening at Dubai's Westin?; Dubai deal delivers much-needed consolidation; Publicity stunt or good sense?; How we die; flydubai's India launch delayed; EK pilot tells the story of EK407; Thailand needs to move past swine flu paranoia; Obama's new stimulus package; Emirates close call; Airlines on the Web 2.0; Thaksin looks to Fiji; China's restless regions; PAD summonses issued; "Oh my god" country; FCCT board under investigation; Yemenia crash raises airport safety concerns; Pandamonium in Thailand; Standing room only.

June 2009 Thaksin wins two in a row; The Gulf can’t deal with Iran until Iran deals with itself; Dubai's proposed mega property merger; Be aware what you wear in Dubai; Jackson's death saves his life; Iran's vengeful faith; The Bangkok Post's hypocrisy; So funny, it hurts;  flydubai adds Indian connections; Mergers amid the airline gloom;  Afridi and the joy of Twenty/20; Airline culture gone wrong; The richest of them all; Dubai development may be down, but it's not out; Man on the moon x12; Regime against change; Emirates adding third Sydney flight; Emirates pilots and the ATSB; Emirates US$70 million repair bill; flydubai adds Aleppo; People power in Iran; Blue Rodeo to join Canada's walk of fame; China's censorship is about control; 50 over cricket will die; Mr. T - still in Dubai?;From panic to prejudice; The fate of Flight 447 is a nightmare for us all; An epidemic of anxiety; Far from bottom; Not at the bottom yet; No help but at least a reply; Open letter to the UK embassy visa section; EIU liveability index is good news for Canada; Middle East airlines have few friends; Tube strike hits London; Inside the world's biggest private jet; EK may slow deliveries; Dubai house prices "may never return to 2008 peaks"; Thai likely to cancel A380; The computer crash; Hong Kong's Tiananmen Beacon; Being honest about the past; Clear skies for economic growth; Emirates and Air Canada battle over access; BKK rail link delayed; Marital vengeance in Dubai; Where is Mr. T?; Dirty buses; The sadness of AF 447; Phuket crash report released

May 2009 The urbanisation of Dubai; Justice Iranian style; Citizen spies and new political ties; Court whitewash in Tak Bai case; Emirates to add more Indian flight; Air Asia profits from recession; ASEAN on trial again; The MPs falling on swords list; Etihad's predictable Manchester sponsorship; Thailand's shrinking economy; The storm underlying the calm; PAD wants Thailand to be the new North Korea; What the future looks like; Justice Minister launches yellow guards; Asia risks a flu panic;  A PAD political party; Garbage from the Bangkok Post; Burma's foot in mouth consul;  Smith and Thaksin; Emirates crew jailed for bomb hoax; Emirates Group profit drop 72%; Was Northern Exposure the best TV drama of the last 20 years?; UAE says "no" to monetary union; Defying even Thai logic; Big Congress win should be good for India; Maradona shows his hand; Emirates Passenger has swine flu; Media freedom dieing in Thailand; 36 hours in Toronto; There’s a new awakening in Thai society; Arriving on Sunday; Abhisit urges Thaksin to return home; Thaksin's denial while police seek translators; Asian nations under fire for Suu Kyi inaction; The expenses crime gets worse; SQ's profit collapse; Thainess; EK drops BKK fares to fill A380 seats; Dubai golf project may be delayed; Emirates on EU blacklist; ASEAN's shameful tolerance of Burma's junta; PAD goes political; Police to charge Thaksin with lese majeste; Biting the gland that feeds you; Ladyboys of Great Yarmouth!; Reality bites; Heads in the Phuket sand; Thaksin gets a Montenegro passport; NTSB releases Buffalo crash data; Jazeera loses Dubai hub; Expenses farce; More information needed; The UK government's expenses mess; Disturbing find off the coast of Sattahip; Thailand's tourism woes; Inflated prices on Palm Monorail; A room with a flu; Etihad's fiction; Banker builds ugly in Newton Ferrers; Fatal flaws that wrecked Thailand’s promise; The Road Home; Emirates defends safety procedures; Many splendoured films; An invention that could change the internet for ever; Fatigue an issue at Emirates - Herald Sun editorial; Star Trek (number 11) coming soon; HKG's dramatic quarantine measures; Mr. T. - Where are you now?

April 2009 H1N1 - don't panic - yet; EK407 - the untold story; ATSB report fails to say Why?; Obama needs to take action over NYC flyby; Playing with numbers; What is going on at EK?; Australian newspaper raises issue of tired pilots; Bomb scare crew committed to trial; A new world; Batman saves Bangkok; UAQ to close bars and clubs; Is the UAE helping Thailand?; How did I get left out !?; Utterly irresponsible; Bizarre Thai newspaper cover; And now the propaganda; The rage before the rampage; Is there another delay at JXB?; Where next for Thailand; Swiss/UN rollover; Red shirt rising - eye witness; Transparency is good provided we don't mind being shocked; An introduction to Toronto; Blocked in the UAE; Looking to Burma as an example; Behind the Sondhi attack; Why Thais are angry; Moving on from crisis; Nicaragua's newest diplomat; A Nicaragua primer; A week of chaos; Bye Bye Thaksin; Dousing the flames; A thankful backing down; Are the red shirts beaten?; Back in the real world - Geriatric porn star an inspiration for the old; Morning round up from Bangkok; Censorship as a weapon; The Songkran toll; The morning after; Aussie media update on EK407; Thaksin's role; Mob rule; The view from ASEAN; Latest from Thailand - updated; Farce, fiasco, shambles; What next for Abhisit?; Charnchai assassination plot thickens; Masters Par 3 event is a family affair; Arabtec CEO's feeble response to the BBC; 40th anniversary and now coming to Dubai; It's red shirt mayhem day in Bangkok (updates here); Escalating tensions but solution unlikely; A price on his head; That handshake; Slumdogs and millionaires; Fly Dubai announces launch plans; Defining the next eight years; 2009 Skytrax awards; EK407 pilots resigned?; Employees don't trust UAE companies; New minimum taxi fare in Dubai; Don't underestimate the red shirts' wrath; Off to meet the Queen; EK407 update; Emirates announces service to Angola; BTS goes convertible; EK offers unpaid leave to crew; A G20 survival guide.

March 2009 A G20 survival guide; More gloom forecast for Dubai; Expats return as media oasis in the desert dries up; Thai government to chase Thaksin in Dubai; Economic woes complicate Thai politics; Thailand's latest unrest; New medical rules in Dubai; Nasa's latest view of Dubai; Now and Zen; How to spend your Baht2,000; Bomb hoax update; Emirates steward is alleged bomb hoaxer; Here we go again; China; recession fuels status; SQ may defer some A380 deliveries; EK in Melbourne incident; Weekend distraction; The bonus red herring; Cheap but not nasty; Good times end for Dubai expats; Update on EK A380 story; Indian airlines slow growth; Emirates to take A380 to Toronto from June; The critical demise of the Bangkok Post; Democrats running out of Political friends; Blue Rodeo at the Lobero (review); Is Emirates unhappy with the A380?; Reinforcing the rules in Dubai; Do not believe reports of Dubai's demise; I wish I was there; But some things never change!; Changing for better in Singapore; The irony of Abhisit; The Economist on a class apart; The X factor; Monkey see, monkey do?; Qantas and Etihad to take on Emirates; Qatar's 2009 expansion;  It's T2 for flydubai; Tibet under blockade  - fifty years of occupation; Chinese navy's naked aggression; Emirates still seeking Canada expansion; Singapore revisited; Pakistan's continuing decline into chaos; Keep recovering discovering; Emirates makes emergency landing in Perth; Thaksin's timely interview; Paranoid nation; Just how bad is it?; Ryanair's latest revenue plans; Easing Dubai anxieties requires greater transparency; The demise of western manufacturing; Spoiled flyers; Golden Gateway

February 2009 A taxing situation; How Not to Make a Political Fashion Statement in Bangkok; The outstretched palm; Happy birthday bunny; No hope for Zumanity; A class act; Allegiant Who; Dear Mr. President; Nicolaides freed after Royal pardon; Emirates boldly continues expansion; The perils of sponsorship; It's not safe anywhere; Fate is the Hunter; SQ cuts aircraft and capacity; Hong Kong - the new refuge of the rich fugitive; Caught in the crossfire; Traffic chaos expected soon; ARG cricketing farce; Dubai tennis - where love-all does not apply; Dubai's six-year building boom grinds to halt as financial crisis takes hold; The world's scariest airports; Something for your Valentine; Bangkok airport train to half open; Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down ; Burma's shocking racism; Slumdog's emotional pull; Qatar jet makes emergency landing in China; Whither Dubai; Thaksin Shinawatra in the Air; Emirates seeks to open Canada's skies; Frozen trunks; USAir update; Caught in the Act; More refugee allegations tarnish Thailand; Investigating the Santika fire; The Aussie birdman; Where are Thai protestors now?; Etihad wins race to the windy city; Not the Nation; London's winter wonderland; Fantasy flight; Bill Frindall dies in Dubai hotel; Recession speak; Dubai's new airport delayed; Muzzle Ramsey; National Security vs Democracy; Thailand's hard working Ministry of Culture; Red shirt pretties

January 2009  Thailand's hard working Ministry of Culture; Red shirt pretties; Red shirt demands; Different rules for some; Banned again; A sad slide backwards; Being careful with gestures in the UAE; Not so elite; Fly Dubai update; Medical Tourism; Cathay Nostalgia; The truth that demands a response; How cold is the UAE?; Where is Mr.T? UAE announces boxing monstrosity; Economist withdrawn again; Myanmar’s unwanted human flotsam; UFO checks in on Obama's inauguration; Nigeria, Myanmar and the UAE; Suppressing dissenting voices; Expat murder in Thailand; Memories; The state of the UK; President Obama attacks "failure" of the Bush era; White House gets online revamp; A special inauguration; From the lower deck; Obama's Day; Abandoned at Sea: The Sad Plight of the Rohingya; Nicolaides jailed for 3 years; Watford Football Club's Wembley moment provides inspiration for author; Thailand's shame; The Bush years - the good and the bad; Singapore Air cuts flights and costs; US Airways Crew Is Credited for Quick Reaction; Kai Tak's future; Reactionary woes in Hong Kong; Buying votes and loyalty; Too short sighted; Emirates to drop Nagoya - start Durban; The international media and the missing parts of the puzzle; Fears for Thomson Reuters UK listing; 'Has Pai become to big for its boots?;' The Gulf News plumbs new depths; Not your average lunch; India's Enron; UAE may help redundancy victims; Kingfisher flies into Dubai; Sorrow, anger, hatred, revenge; Economic mess and political fall-out in 2009; Metro plans up in the air; How to tell the time in Thai; Singapore's abhorrent death penalty; Understanding the Gaza conflict; 10 years of the Euro; Umm Al Quwain ruler dies;Tragedy in Bangkok nightclub.

2008 News Archive

December 2008 New Year confusion; New Year uncertainty for Dubai; Thai police put on a happy face; Arab-Israel tensions worsen; Reflections; Elite still call the shots; Emirates updates - Summer 2009 and 2009/2010; Time to free Harry Nicolaides; FCCT under police investigation; UAE airlines get Tokyo rights; Malaysian FM's foot in mouth; Prosecuting Thailand's PAD 2008 in pictures;Planning a coup; here's how Defence Minister shows Democrats' weakness; the old Thailand returns; Apollo 8 - 40 years on; Emirates Golfing Ambassadors; DXB to SFO; Questioning EK's so called green flight; How badly hit is Thai tourism?; Thaksin loses diplomatic passport; Thailand reverts to old-style politics; Africa needs to deal with Mugabe; Chinese celebrity catch up; Bye buy Woolworths; Viva Macau to launch UAE service; Rich Dubai Flirts With Hard Times, But its Airline Is Still Flying High;  Abhisit's attract; Emirates schedule update; Stansted copycats; The right to debate; The Economist breaks the taboos; Air Asia's cash cow; The battle of the classes; Emirates - final update from Bangkok; Shuffling towards fascism; "Thailand turns Banana Republic;" One-Two-Die is back today; EK pilots find A380 too quiet; King too ill to deliver birthday speech; BA Qantas merger is all about costs; Emirates Update; Dark rumours in Thailand; Confusion continues over airport re-opening; PAD to leave airport; declaring victory; Who runs this country; Breaking news; Tourists die escaping Bangkok; Canada's Coup; Smiley face over Bangkok; Bizarre driving license rules; UAE public sector gets a 10 day holiday; The fall out from the Mumbai atrocity; Abu Dhabi wants stake in Emirates?; Embarrassed citizens plan retaliation.

November 2008 Embarrassed citizens plan retaliation; Thaksin's Arabian Business interview; Constitutional court may be a temporary resolution; Latest update from BKK; EK-EY merger talks continue; U-tapao chaos; What happens next; Emirates Update - 2; Mumbai attacks are a reminder of the terror threat; BKK airport closed until at least Saturday night; From airport to protest camp; Emirates Bangkok update; One-Two-Die is back on 5 December; PAD takes over the airport; Why was BKK airport left unprotected?; Villain or Victim?; Thailand sinks into hopeless anarchy; "Birth of an Icon?"; Crisis takes hold in Dubai; Crisis, what crisis?; GM should not be bailed out; Thaksin's turn to start a foundation?; The Misalignment Of Dubai, Abu Dhabi; Macau's boom may be bust;  Is it time for the UAE airline merger?; What next for Thailand?; From democracy to dictatorship; Emirates 380 to greet the Queen; A meek British Lamb; Anti democracy in Thailand; Bangkok bomb warnings; Emirates profits fall on oil prices; Thaksin caged in no-man's land; The PAD claims supernatural threats; Another election first; Cash crisis averted in Newton Ferrers; America is cool again; Has the UK cancelled Thaksin's visa; Quantum of gloom; Elton John gives up on Watford; Emirates continues Australia growth; Thai Airways in trouble; Emirates to complete T3 move; Obama's transcendence is beyond race; Prediction Time - Obama by 154; China and Taiwan agree closer links; Race and the race for the white house; 'The election of Obama would, at a stroke, refresh our country's spirit'; Looking for the fat controller; Beware of what you post online; Thaksin stars at Bangkok rally.

October 2008 Clapper fever; Asian Golf Tour coming to Hua Hin; Is Thailand's PM a movie star?; Dubai delays mall opening at the 11th hour; The PAD and Thai politics; Emirates' lavish LA launch; Venice's charm; Going backwards in Bangkok; Bangkok on the edge; A day to remember; The bounce of a ping pong bomb; Thailand's urban rural divide; Open letter to EK; Dubai's worrying debt levels; This government will not last; The darker side of Dubai; Killer coach accident in E Thailand; British council funds in deep freeze; Three outside views of the Thai crisis; Thais behaving badly;  Qantas mishaps continue; Thailand's establishment supports chaos; Tense stand off in Thai capital; PAD siege broken; The haunting of the new Bangalore airport; Thailand moves closer to political anarchy; Singapore loses a lone and needed voice; Thai Ginger Chicken; Lèse majesté and Harry Nicolaides; Dubai wastes its best asset; Dubai next for credit squeeze; The A380 in service - early reviews; Political farce fuels wall street meltdown

September 2008 Political farce fuels wall street meltdown; The contagion spread; Tuesday is first day of Eid; Dubai's stinking beaches; UA lays off Thai staff; Electing dead officials may be the answer; Should we laugh or cry?; Bartlet's advice for Barack; Opening up the airways; China's Capricorn One; Singapore's leaders enjoy predictable win; Michael Palin for President; Looking after No1; The cost of bailing out the markets; China's sour milk; EK's 2009 plans; A new architecture for the financial world; Wall Street woes; global implications; Thaksin's dynasty; Beyond the Palin; A less appealing view of Dubai; Et tu Samak; Jetstar Vietnam goes international; Land of Trials; XL is the latest failure; Samak stirs the pot; Menasa to be world's next economic powerhouse;  So Far, It Just Isn't Looking Like Asia's Century; Half Baked Politics; Asif Ali Zardari: the godfather as president; Dubai to buy into Manchester United - rumour?; The mirror has 60 million faces; India's mushrooming nuclear ambitions; Worse than a coup; Emirates A380 takes sick leave; Questions for John McCain; Thakin's legacy; Thai impasse; Doha flight will be first departure from new terminal; SQ crew detained in Abu Dhabi; United closing Asian bases - again; Bangkok Post shows its true colours; Is Samak about to resign?; Lese majeste charge for AussieTyranny of a minority; Funny old game

August 2008 A high wire act in Thailand; Counting the cost in Phuket; Palin may be the new Dan Quayle; Coup leader; Thailand's battle for power continues; Never ending coup; Doom for Zoom; What next for Thailand; Only in Thailand; Bangkok Airport expansion approved; The price of China's Olympic Games; The PAD is anything but; Xinhua wins trumpet blowing gold; Are the Chinese cheating?; Dubai's terminal 3 to open from October 14; Aussies in a lather; Medal silliness; Ramadan set for 1 September; Beijing's flawed planning; How Russia reshaped the world in a week; The wild west wanted poster; Pammie has her Milkie Way; SQ wins annual Skytrax award; Thailand's new internet watch; The two sides of Beijing; Thaksin flees; London to produce the credit crunch games; EK's A380 on medical diversion - update; The unlikely producer of China's biggest show; Russia and Georgia on the brink of war; Time to change banks; Stop bashing Beijing; Let the doping Olympics begin; It's looking grim for Thaksin; Grim murder of singer in Dubai; Dubai expats face legal limbo; Emaar delays opening Dubai mall; Emirates A380 - the inside view.

July 2008 Emirates A380 - the inside view; EK forgets domain name renewal; Gulf airlines don't feel the pinch; Court sentences Pojaman to three years in jail; A night out at the FCC; EK places another airbus order; The mile high shower club; News of the World gets a mild slapping; Dubai; more bubble or more boom?; Emirates unveils its mega model; Pad: bulldog on a leash or another nail in democracy's coffin; Fly Dubai starts to outline its plans; One-two-well and truly gone; The paper -free, cost-saving A380; Coming to DXB on 28 July; One-Two-Gone; The degenerates of Dubai; The UAE and Congo air pact; Man the barricades - this will get ugly; The "just business" defence; FlyDubai goes Boeing; Dubai; the vulnerability of success; Feed the G8 and forget the rest; Public interest or privacy invasion?; In the dock; Thaksin's friends go one by one; Top ten cities - 2008; Boozy Brits down and out in Dubai;  Emirates winter schedule changes; The evolution of English;  Dubai Mall's parking woes; Is Dubai catching a cold?; Nok Air knock out;  Cathay to be hit by new Taiwan flights;  Aussie FM visits Sister Joan; Bangkok weird; Something in the Air;Happy Canada Day; Emirates aims for more cost savings; The evolution of Bangkok retailing.

June 2008 Democracy in Asia; beware of Thailand; How oil is reshaping the aviation industry; The road hazards of the UAE; Amazing Thailand; Samak denies insanity; Duck; Donald does Dubai; Thaksin linked to pastry-gate bribes; Dubai LCC is FlyDubai; EK delays west coast launch; Google's costly misjudgment; How to get your UAE ID card; DSS: Dubai's shocking summer; EK update; Brits warn of UAE terror attack; Winding up the Aussies; Potash mine future in doubt; Pastry Gate; European disunion; The airline industry mess; Toothless UN watches Mugabe's crimes; Emirates crew get a new look; Emirates A380 arrives early in New York; Where next for Hillary?; Crude reality; Tradition versus modernity keep Thai politics in turmoil; The reality of Myanmar; Thaksin's amazing insight into his city dream; Emirates to raise fares again; US withdraws Myanmar relief; Tiananmen; 19 years on; Obama wins; Clinton digs in; UAE in mourning for three days; Reforming the UN

May 2008 How versatile is your shower cap; Dubai's sewage woes; No Silver(jet) lining; Thailand's squabbling elites seem intent on ruining the country; Time for another coup?; Burj base jumper faces jail; More bad news on taxes; Salik Shocker;  Emirates increases India flights; Dubai searches for identity as it grows worldly; Weddings studio primer; Wedding studio blues; The reality of flying Emirates; It's raining concrete; Dubai - then and now; Burma's junta will survive the cyclone; Avoid the Krispy Kremes; Turning a blind eye; Invade Myanmar now; Tremors hit China and Thailand; Tearing down Burma's bamboo curtain; Myanmar places votes before relief; Keeping the foreigners out; Sanity prevails; Not so motivational; Emirates gets a nose job; Burma's twin disasters; a cyclone and the generals; Thailand's next coup - when not if?; Watford squeeze into play-offs; Emirates announces Durban; Emirates will move to new Jebel Ali airport

April 2008 Emirates posts record profits; Thailand's next coup? EOS to cease operations; One stop curio shopping in Bangkok; Emirates- new long range 777s enable American expansion; Living in Dubai; EK feedback; Justice avoided; Feeding at the trough; Rice - the new global currency; Thai AIr Asia drops Xiamen; Dubai announces tram system for Burj; EK new routes before end 2008; Emirates goes double daily to Moscow; A Quest too far; A law unto themselves; Dubai - another UK visitor guide; In praise of Bournville; Thomson Reuters is launched today; Hanoi - a city to avoid; Emirates Profit Record; The Burmese refugee tragedy; Dubai Mall sets opening date; China's torch thugs; Emirates to the Golden Gate; Oasis runs dry; Dubai Prince buys US$2.7m camel; Putting out the Beijing Olympic Torch; China reinvents the propaganda machine; Dubai planning 2016 Olympic bid; Next mega mall by year end; The World Cup queue fiasco; No racing refunds.

March 2008 Race and the 2008 election; Latest on Executive Towers; the Dubai World Cup preview; Emirates adds more India flights; Ask for Directions; Dubai's cultural dream; Just how gullible are they ?; The trouble with Thaksin; Burmese friends of Thailand; EK goes mobile at 30,000 feet; Nominations please; Five years on; Dubai LCC latest; The Dubai LCC and the A380; A new airline for Dubai; China censors Tibetan web coverage; Riots in Tibet call for end of occupation; Where will it end; Hong Kong's flu scare; Emirates goes Californian; UAE's road madness; A guide to Abu Dhabi; Thai Air Asia wont miss Saigon; Celine Dion takes no chances; Suan Lum ordered to close; Dubai's new road rules; EK adds third China destination.

February 2008 The Hua Hin boom; Emirates to where?; Back to the future in Thailand; Edison's unlikely repent; Thomson gets approval for Reuters acquisition; Is Hillary Down and Out?; Sports Day; Pai - not such a paradise; Lessons from Hong Kong's latest internet frenzy; Dubai's rocketing food prices; Bangkok airport woes continue; Thailand's annual V-Day crusade; The new flying yeti!; No kissing - this is Dubai; More traffic chaos in Dubai; No victory in this coup; Dubai's new crown prince; EK's 2008 expansion; Thailand's dismal new cabinet

January 2008  Discrediting cricket; Bangkok Airways to grow Samui as international hub; Venice at Carnival; Sad times at HKG's Peak Tower; Good riddance to the Thai junta - The Economist; Xinhua annnounces Beijing Games will be the best; New York Times backs Clinton and McCain; Phone call is latest BA38 speculation; Thai crew upset at high flying soap opera; What next for Thaksin; The great Dubai floods; Bush holiday watch; Air Arabia to start Nepal operation; Monday latest traffic news; US President to bring Dubai to a grinding halt; Whatever happened to radar?; Thailand's extended smoking ban; SQ mishap put A380 out to graze; A gripping race to the Presidency; Emirates divorces Sri Lankan; NIB launched with big ambitions; President Obama; A380 deliveries in 2008; Au Bon Dubai; The new downtown Dubai; A Royal death saddens Thailand; Latest news from Emirates

2007 News Archive

December 2007 Thailand's election; Dubai's 2008 calendar; Bhutto's assassination; Thailand goes to the polls; Dubai goes Cuban via Canada; UK travel chaos ahead; 2007 - thoughts and forecasts; Possible outcomes in Thai election; Book now for EK's A380 launch; YMA - yet another mall!; Whither the Baht; The Bangkok Post tours Samut Songkram; Emirates announces Cape Town from March 2008; Dubai's sewage alarms; TAA launches Guangzhou flights; Dubai: the new Gold Coast; The Thai social etiquette guide; The King calls for unity and biofuels; Thailand gets ready to celebrate; Dubai's own Chinatown; Miss World is Chinese; Stiffening the Thai vote

November 2007 The perils of a foreign land; court to rule on BKK night flights; Bahrain Air to launch in February; Will Labour win down under; RAK Air ready to launch; Dubai built it and the world did come; Meaningless Asia values; Emirates slow Aussie expansion; Too much money; Forbes' wasted opportunity; Paper says all is well as fog hits Dubai; UAE extends no smoking ban; Emirates places biggest ever airliner order; A day out in Dubai; Culture clash; Royal Barge procession honours absent king; The aviation world comes to Dubai; The indestructible Mr Thaksin; The other face of Dubai: Emirates chairman denies global warming.

October 2007 Homesick Aussie; Emirates Airline - the big picture; EK's Spanish opportunity; Thailand's election rules; Thai AirAsia latest; Progress on open skies in SEA; Singapore's A380 is ready to fly; Will Bangkok be submerged? ; The Seven wonders of Thailand; Birthday celebrations planned for Thailand's King; Landing rights for prison release; Emirates nears decision time; Dangerous separatist or spiritual leader; Hong Kong's Heyday (from the Boston Globe); Dubai - from sand to world city; Dubai, past, present and future; Here comes Thaksin and the PPP; Back to reality; Another world; Bahrain proposes expat term limit for GCC; Burma's foul regime depends on China; Non-stop to anywhere

September 2007 Forgotten Folkestone; Fears for Myanmar; The adult wurst; Dubai cares - but the message needs to get out; Policing Thai style; For sale from EK; Between the sheets in Singapore; Phuket airport systems were not fully operational; The Bangkok coup - one year on; A cruel twist of fate; Start the bidding for the 2016 Olympics; The new Beijing; Dubai extends no smoking rules; Thaksin enjoying Manchester City; A Ramadan glossary; Stating the obvious; We have your money so we really don't care - update; Ramadan starts this week; Golf in Dubai - but at an increasing price; Emirates newest airliner; Things best not said; The A380 in Hong Kong; We have your money so we really dont care; BKK airport has early A380 woes

August 2007 Fairy tale that had no happy ending; More Salik to come?; Bigger may not be better; Playing around with Thaksin; Faye Wong approached to sing 2008 Olympic theme; New UAE airline, terrible name; Not a vote for the Generals; Emirates to go double daily to Shanghai; Dubai Aerospace goes shopping; Dubai goes gambling; What next for Thai politics; Dubai's road chaos; Losing the Ashes; Suan Lum's temporary reprieve; Sunday's vote in Thailand; A380 delivery plans; Thailand's flawed referendum; Emirates on Tour; Virgin Asia; A view from the top; A bad day at the EK office; Casablanca - the movie; A380 coming to Dubai next week; CCTV everywhere; The best places to call home

July 2007  Why the Auckland Airport bid?; Our new road to no where; Dubai seeks control of Auckland Airport; Dubai - 800 new residents every day; Time to rethink airplane safety; Summer sweat in Dubai; Life on Mars; Flushed with success in China; Bangkok commuters to take to their bikes; Iran and China - opportunistic bedmates; Save the earth - have a concert; Emirates aims to redraw world aviation map; Trying to make sense of the Thai economy; Gulf expats feel the financial pinch; EK confirms India expansion; NASair - covering all the Saudi markets; The dangers of cheap Chinese exports; Salik is here to stay

June 2007 China's heavy handed Hong Kong celebrations; Salik shambles; Hong Kong - the great survivor; Britain's declining influence in Hong Kong; Beach police make a fair cop; Emirates adds to India flights; The Orlando of the Gulf; The Gulf's major airlines continue to flourish; QE 2 heading for Dubai; Emirates buys even more A380s; Somchai is back; Emirates cabin upgrade; Let battle commence; The Generals' Blunder; Emirates A380 plans; Emirates to Toronto; Flak for the French Consul; AED movement predicted; Dubai's metro plans; Postcard from New York

May 2007  The verdict is in - Thaksin and cronies are out; Emirates to become world's largest long haul carrier; The last chance Thai tycoon; Thaksin robbed in Moscow; Emirates USA plans; The land of the paranoid; New packing restrictions for flights from the UAE; A weekend in Bangkok; How technology and innovation propel Emirates; Thai censors going too far; A rant - the French consul in Dubai is a disgrace; Pay day for Reuters axe man; More on Blair's departure; Blair to step down on June 27; Thomson in Reuters bid; Izmir at last; The good interview guide; Ten years of Tony Blair - a case of what might have been.

April 2007 The Dubai censor at work; Air Asia Long Haul to fly Airbus A330s; Bye bye Boris; Primark - UK fashion on a budget; Thaksin in bidding for Manchester City; Game, set and match in Bangkok; Deputy PM cleans up in Bangkok; Dubai's largest island will be on the mainland;The blessing box; Sister Joan at work in the slums of Khlong Toei - for more on Sister Joan follow this link; Thailand's web-savvy censor?;  Size is not everything; Beware of personalised Nigerian scams; Is 2007 the year we wake up to global warming; Gong Li on curse of the Golden Flower; Memories of Antigua; Farewell to a Heathrow Landmark

March 2007 One year on: Brian W. Scott; Put your money to a good cause for my baby brother; The coming crisis with Iran; Strange politics in Bangkok; The continuing erosion of civil rights in Thailand; Emirates says no to takeovers; Trial by Proxy; UAE airlines to compete on Kangaroo route; More EK to Australia; Woolmer's suspicious death should end this world cup; Famed Thai hospitality shows signs of strain; Emirates - a friend of Australia but not of Qantas; Another UAE airline set to fly; Dubai Metro on track for 2009 opening; Jebel Ali move expected by 2016; Emirates eyes head start for A380 preparations; Latest update on Emirates schedule; Emirates A380 woes; Sir Bob Geldof concert in Dubai on Friday; Update on the Dubai runway incident; Chang sperm donors wanted; Dubai Airport closed after Incident; Abe needs to admit the past to have a future; Where next for the Thai Baht?; Business Bay in years to come; The Thailand coup - six months on; Dubai: why Brummies like Emirates; Dubai: Dubai's growth - some statistics; Dubai: Jazeera's fast growing Dubai hub.

February 2007 Iran/Dubai: Brinkmanship or a real threat?; Bangkok: The end of Suan Lum night bazaar; Bangkok: Please Sir, may I have my satellite back; Bangkok: The dress that is the news in Bangkok; Dubai: Visa Madness; Dubai: Fact and fiction from Sofitel; Bangkok: Making their minds up at Don Muang?; Bangkok: Sights that you wont see in Dubai; Bangkok and Vancouver - opposites attract; Dubai: EK to Houston; Bangkok: Setting the record straight on Thaksin; Bangkok: The rebirth of Don Muang; Dubai: Desert Golf; Bangkok: Thaksin does Time; Bangkok: Thailand's Titanic struggle; Dubai: Budget airlines taking off in the Middle East; Dubai: Every city should have one

January 2007  The Bangkok airport fiasco; EK to Brazil from October; Ten ways for budget airlines to make more money; Thaksin makes his case in Japan; Air Asia's plea for common sense; Emirates planning expansion to Americas; The fun begins as Clinton enters the White House Race; Censorship puts Thailand in the dark ages; Time magazine on the land of fading smiles;Opening night of Dubai's horse racing season; Building Dubai's image; Thaksin's interview creates ASEAN fall-out; Dubai; sky's no limit (from the Chicago Tribune); Thaksin banned from Thailand for one year (at least!); Emirates goes to Tyneside; Foreign investors react to Thai FBA changes; Beginning to feel sorry for Thaksin; Changes to FBA have a long way to go; Plans to change Thailand's foreign business act could have a serious impact; Seeing will be believing; worth the risk? Air Asia announces ambitious long haul plans; Coup rumours across Bangkok; Emirates Bullish for 2007

2006 News Archive

December 2006  Australian Travel Advisory; Bangkok Bombing update - 1 January 2007; Bangkok bombing latest; New Year's Eve Bomb Chaos in Bangkok; EK expansion news; An uninspiring global village; Christmas in Dubai; Thailand's first ladyboy band; Why Blair is past his "use by" date; More on Thailand's bungled capital controls; Old BKK airport might re-open - told you so !!!; The benefits of sex; Amateurs at the helm; 2006 in review - from loss to great optimism; Where next for Emirates; Dubai's shopping addiction; EU's cold Turkey is bad for everyone; Beware the Baht; EK crew spotted in Bolton; Santa comes to Dubai; The growth of Emirates; Welcome to Dubai - can this be the Arab Centre of the Modern World; New direction?

November 2006 archive Dusk over the Blue Mosque; No Turkish delight for the Pope; A new cold war?; A not entirely welcome visitor; The Thaksin Question; Death in the Lebanon; Emirates to fly Aussie cricketers; Let battle commence; CNS unveils the sins of Thaksin; Paradise Lost; Sexpo Singapore - don't get excited; Heineken=Green Space=Jazz Festival; Thaksin cannot come home until after new elections; The end of flying as we know it as Emirates goes mobile; Hot news from Singapore; Rumsfeldisms; New York Times ends its Republican support; Low cost air travel comes to the Gulf; WTO comes to Bangkok; Tax reversal hits at Thaksin offspring; TPI releases corruption perceptions index; Hanging Saddam is wrong; Party time in Watford; Concerns in Thailand at lack of post coup progress; Thaksin goes to China; A380's Asian schedule in November; China's African takeover; Throw enough mud, something will stick

October 2006 archive The deadly floods that protect Bangkok; Fishy meetings in Bangkok; Oasis launch flight left high and dry; Understanding China's support of rogue nations; FEER versus Singapore, let battle commence; The end of the Thai visa run; The curious case of the missing assets; Bkk airport - a pilot's view; Hong Kong's exchange powers ahead; Trying to balance growth and identity in Dubai; Star Bores; 300 million Americans; A balanced fight is the holy grail; Who would be a goalkeeper;Thaksin - a failure?; Government proposes booze-ad ban; Tag Board Woes; Equal opportunity employment; Who next?; Could I build a bomb?; Kicking Singapore in the Shins; FEER banned in Singapore; Home truths about life under martial law; A flying dumbo; Thaksin resigns while the TRT sinks like a stone; Coup Updates; Shake Up of Visa and Immigration Rules

September 2006 archive Ready for business; Hallo Suvarnabhumi; Farewell Don Muang; If we build it will they come?; Images of Macau;  Blair's final message - change or perish; The BKK airport building site; New visa rules confirmed; Pope on the Ropes; Small earthquake rattles HKG; Sunset over Kantarat; The downside of the proposed Thai visa rules; The plot thickens again!; 9/11, never forgotten; News from Thailand's strangest town; Thai immigration rules to change; Blair's departure will be the beginning of the end for New Labour; The perils of celebrity death as a nation mourns; Taking sides in Thailand; Thai Day's self delusion

August 2006 Archive  "I had a dream"; The beginning of the end of the Star Ferry; TAT versus Fox News; The plot (if there is one) thickens; Pluto gets a downgrade; Assassination attempt: real or not?; Premiership predictions; Myanmar's people; A fading light; Taking to the water: Inle Lake; Currency woes; All templed out in Bagan; Yomping around Yangon; Why?; Muddled security; London on major alert; How to move an airport; Happy birthday Singapore, no criticism please; Thoughts from Central Vietnam; New York dating tips; Thai dating tips.

July 2006 archive A little romance in Copenhagen; Strange safety tests at new airport; Two months to go; there are still questions; Truth in advertising; The French Hot Dog; Mixed message from Thai politics; Someday all cities should be like this; England, this England; A bad experience at Subhapruek; Killer pedestrian crossings in Thailand; Middle East mess; A Wie bit sick; Dear George; Full moon over Samui; Airlines seek Suvarnabhumi delay; 7 July 2005 - the London bombings one year on; Bye Bye Becks; Tied up in the courts.

June 2006 archive Pattaya news update; Makes you proud to be a Brit??; QandA on Thailand'spolitical woes; Award yourself the CDM; Is Mr. T coming or going; The Nation responds to The Economist; Dreams; United 93; Government confirms airport opening date; Airbus debacle; Let battle (re-) commence; Angkor Wat; preserving the past at the cost of the present; A sea of yellow for the 60th anniversary; Another opening date for BKK airport; Sources of Hope; Nine Lives...One Left; The King's Sixtieth anniversary;  The Royal Barges; Girl interrupted; Will Cathay Pacific buy its way into China; United 93 - the film of the year; The Royal Barge Procession; Atrocity and Cover Up; the US failings at Haditha.

May 2006 archive If Arsenal upset you beware the World Cup; Brazil 1 England 1; Le roue de Paris dans Bangkok; Asia's foul air cities; Watford win on DeMerit; Watford's dream season comes down to the final 90 minutes  Da Vinci Uncut - make your minds up;  The Da Vinci Cut;  40 years on;  Thai election update;  Wise advice; Why we travel;  Whatever happened to: Janine Turner;  United 93- a review;  Thai politics; mysteries never cease;  Air Asia's Bangladesh plans;  Michelle Wie;  The West Wing - two more weeks; Jurors send Moussaoui to life in prison.

April 2006 Archive Sex and the British Media; Seven magnificent marathoners; Courts asked to solve Thailand's political chaos; Zacarias Moussaoui would be a poor choice of martyr; Ashes Schedule announced for 2006/7; Celebrating St. George; The World Cup cometh?; Differing democracies; The nine true survivors; Totally confused in Bangkok; What about the new airport?; RAS - the essence of India?; The future of inflight; Voting Day in Bangkok

March 2006 archive Bangkok; Thailand's Luxembourg; Thailand's election from afar; Cathay Pacific and Dragonair Merger Rumours; Sunset at White Rock; Choices; Near disaster brings out the best of BC; Why democrats shun the Thai election; Superstition clouds over the Thai election; Thaksin: Survivor Thailand; Whithering Reuters; Thoughts of home; Nothing in Common at these Games; The Coming Resource Wars; Golfing terms; Shingapore under threat from Thaksin opponents; If you build it they will come; The politics of confusion or compromise; Taking the life out of night life

February 2006 archive: Snap election called in Thailand; bad news for drinkers; Ignorance and racism in ports dispute; "Westerners usually kill themselves like this"; Not always the land of smiles; The lexicon of anti-love; Name this city; Know your Stans; No sex please - its Valentines in Thailand; Another nasty Nigerian scam; Another limp condom campaign; Has TAA been kicked in the Shins; Nok Air emergency landing - all safe; Much ado about a cartoon; Bangkok's confused airport policy; No Geisha memoirs for China; England in India - your tour dates; US embassy issues caution before weekend protest; Gig or Gik; Pretty Woman meets Geisha Girl

January 2006 archive: Gig or gik; Pretty Woman meets Geisha Girl; Rotiboy; is the taste worth the wait ?; Happy Chinese New Year; Ample Rich indeed; The demise of Google; Happy families; A vote for Sven, but not from the FA; Conservatives win in Canada (sort of, eh); Canada votes -eh !; A room with a view; West Wing ending on May 14; Survivor Thaksin; Hasty Justice; Something that you will not read in the Thai press; Budget terminal - Singaporean originality; 12 years is enough; where Canada goes the UK will follow; The freedom to blog; The quiet death of freedom; Thaksin's misplaced praise of Singapore's media; Thailand's Grand Invitation in 2006; Some predictions for 2006; Sex Toys 'R' Us.

 

Big Issues

The war in Iraq - personal commentary and some of the more thoughtful written commentaries on the war in Iraq

Hong Kong's proposed Article 23 legislation POSTPONED !!! The people have spoken and been heard ! And this web site feels that it has been part of a battle worth fighting.

Some thoughts on the first anniversary of the September 11th attack on the USA can be found here.

China - the rise and rise...

News Links

South China Morning Post Hong Kong's leading English language paper. Site has headlines only, subscription required for full article

Apple Daily Chinese language site with all the real news and gossip form Hong Kong

RTHK - Radio and Television Hong Kong Government funded English and Cantonese broadcaster.

TVB Pearl The English language channel of Hong Kong's largest broadcaster

Hong Kong Entertainment News in Review A site for fans of Hong Kong entertainment who cannot read Chinese.

STAR TV Ruperts Murdoch's Star TV operations include Star World, Sport, Movies, ChannelV, National Geographic and ESPN.

www. espnstar.com may be Asia's most current and comprehensive sports site.

Bangkok News Links

The Bangkok Post

The Nation

 

2005 Summary - individual monthly pages

December 2005 Are Emirates Air a victim of their own success?; Bangkok Post - 25% price increase and still drivel; Bangkok's airport - another delay; Dubai's secular Christmas; Dubai - first impressions; Ashes Itinerary 2006/2007; Welcome to Siam Para Con; We wish you a sponsored Christmas; Singapore's faithful media; Britain's next Prime Minister?; The British National Anthem; time for change; And the gold medal goes to.....; Singapore carries out Nguyen's execution

November 2005 A bleak campaign in the frozen north; Thaksin and Sondhi - now the good news; Appalling attack brings no justice; One night in Bangkok; Why Singapore needs to show its humanity; Low cost, long haul; The mother of all airport hubs; Singapore's struggling LCCs; Where next for Sondhi; Bangkok goes potty; Harbin Water Crisis; Gagged by the stars; There is still time to appeal for Nguyen; The steamy side of Loy Krathong; Asia's toilet seat hub; Lost in translation;Startling Revelation; The five copies;Patten fever in Hong Kong; Hotels on and off alert in Beijing; The road to Pyinmana; A 20th century history quiz;Don Muang's unknown future; Plea for clemency; Asian golfers hit for six; A senseless hanging

October 2005 The monarchy's march to oblivion; Hong Kong Porn goes Nazi; Thai murder mystery in Hong Kong; A room with a view; Always take travel insurance; One week in Bangkok; Memoirs of a Chinese Geisha; Saddam and Gomorrah; Mickey Mouse in Hong Kong; My Chinese all over body massage; Too early for Christmas; The Islamic response that is needed to Bali; Mini Bar, major scam

September 2005 The competitive demise of Hong Kong; I declare this airport not really open yet; MisAppointing the UN Secretary General; King Canute and the Internet in China; September's Amazing Thailand; Getting the JetBlues; Yahoo's two-faced shame; you've got jail. Whither Google; Where were you when England took back the Ashes?; Hong Kong Government aids Mooncake Munchers; Mickey Mao and the new Cultural Revolution; State of the Nation; Katrina first the floods and then the fall-out; The Great British Sex Survey; Ignoring the obvious in New Orleans; Tacky, Tacky, Tacky; Visions of the end of the world?

August 2005 The Sound of Sirens; My idea is bigger and sillier than yours; Ultraman in Bangkok; The world's worst terrorist; England Expects; 4 weddings and a "fatwa"; Bunny alert down under; Papering over cracks at the new Bangkok airport; The BA strike-the real issues; Some passenger lessons from the Air France crash; Bad events lead to bad laws; Summer in the city; A day in low cost hell; Euro-dismal.

July 2005 Paris rediscovered; China's political revaluation in an Indian summer; Endangered by over zealous police and delusional politicians; Beam me up Scotty; Getting the Pattaya Blues; The strangest list of the world's top ten cities; Four-legged Olympic frenzy in Hong Kong; The senseless terror attack on London; In the face of danger (leader - The Guardian); The uncordial entente; Sister Joan's Mission; change for good in Bangkok;  Addressing the indignity of death;  Bangkok 8; the Bangkok visitors imagine but never see; China's resource buying spree; London must be the Olympic choice for 2012

June 2005 An Irish lesson for Thailand; Time to reassess Mao 200 years; A very Thai tragedy; Tsunami - Six months on; Microsoft's China Censorship; Jacko not guilty - told you so; The Milkshake Murder; Canada's failed commitments; Bush's pathetic pledge; Live8's bold aims and hypocrisies

May 2005 Europe plunges into the "merde"; Taking the pith of the Sith;  Pitcairn's lord of the flies; Pattaya Today - the latest from the Dark Side; The alternative Miss Universe schedule; Manipulating Newsweek; Miss Universe lands in Bangkok; Manchester United in job swap scheme; A no-win triumph; Blair to resign by Christmas;  By the light of a silvery moon; Bomb detection equipment triggers corruption scandal; False security Air fare fraud; the hidden costs

April 2005 UK election; Howard's End; The blame game; Xinhua changes the focus; Pointing fingers in taxi accident at BKK airport; Singapore takes a gamble; Hong Kong's obscene property speculators; Textbook Hypocrisy; "victory definitely belongs to us Chinese!"; From SCMP or China Daily; From dot com baby to coffee shop; Going too far in China; Pattaya - the costa del crime;Thai Airways new colour scheme; A most practical wedding; Dripping in irony; Interpreting the incredibly obvious; The great firewall at work; Beware the inflight meal; The passing of a pope and the meaning of life

March 2005 Lewington is shown the Ray out at Watford FC; Message to Tsang - clean up the triads; The wishful thinking hub;  China's mega air merger rumour;  It's not Jacko that is wacko - its the system; "Jetsgo"ne;  The Basic Flaw;  Boeing, boeing, gone;  Counterfeit China China's changing demographics Tung to go; city rejoices

February 2005 Hong Kong's three child dream; Teaching an old dog new tricks;  India versus China; the old argument but with new answers;  Million Dollar Movie;  Boeing vs Airbus; battling for the long haul; Hide - it's Valentine's Day tomorrow; Charlie and Camilla to have a grey wedding; Skydome becomes the Rogers Centre; Thaksin's landslide (2); Thaksin's landslide;  2046 - ravishingly self indulgent; Taking political correctness to extremes; Democracy's wedge

January 2005 Democracy's wedge; Thailand's damaged tourism industry; Why we should honour Zhao Ziyang; The Basic Flaw; All roads lead to China; Bush's inauguration speech, be scared, very scared; The plea from Phuket; Awards for the least appropriate Tsunami relief efforts; Should we be returning to Phuket?; CNN's tsunami coverage; is it news as entertainment; Why I don't like Man Yoo; Blair's broken trust; Two weeks on; Why the UN needs International Rescue; A new year message from last week's disaster

 

2004 Summary

The 2004 archive is here. This is a single page of all the news and commentaries from 2004.

December 2004  Why was there no warning?; How much is a life worth?; Killer Tsunami hits Asia; Bertuzzi's plea bargain; predictable and wrong; Christmas Past; A very Faye Christmas; Its raining cranes...but there is no peace; Cutting crew takes on reality tv; Sex and the Singapore City; Air Asia takes flak from the Bangkok Post; Alfred Hitchcock would approve

November 2004 China is hot; Zimbabwe farce; A mickey mouse Disney; China's military ambitions; The rise of China; For China economics comes first; Crane mail in Thailand; The coming war over Taiwan; Thaksin now likely to attend APEC - does he read this!; Hong Kong rolls over but it is not enough; Overdosed on Arafat; One year on Thai PM snubs APEC; In the deep rough at Muang Kaew; How offensive can you get?; Supermarket trolley drivers terrorise Bangkok; Pathetic; the world's self appointed greatest democracy held hostage; fox news and nbc follow rascott.com;  rascott.com calls a Bush win; America's most wanted back on video; More from Thailand's wierdest town; Vote Kerry - not a great choice; but the only one available

October 2004  Fears for Thailand's south; Arsenal pay the penalty; Ethiopia - twenty years on; Beijing Notes; Underfed or underpaid; Air Farce One; China's World Cup woes; Afghan democracy - a success story; End the barbaric bullfight; The brutal murder of Ken Bigley; Outsourcing myself; The US are electing the wrong candidates.

September 2004 A new war is needed; '2046' - four reasons to love this film; The West Wing's unlikely fan club; The first Virgin in space; Impotent Blair is at a loss; In any God's name this cannot be justified; Farewell Brian Clough; Weak Kofi; Beijing won the Democrats nil; The problem for Hong Kong's democrats; Your Bangkok subway guide; England should not tour Zimbabwe; Thailand's airport greed; Thai had a dream; Saying sorry for a bad whiff; Bigger, better, brighter, brasher, bolder Beijing; Malaysia gets it right

August 2004 Kiss and Tell: Over 330,000 misguided votes; Is this Howard's end?; A new version of the Nigerian scam; Singapore's political and economic expediency; Hit for six: Bangkok Governor election campaign; The questionable legacy of Deng; Was it Peng or was in Deng?; Making Vietnam an election issue; Bangkok's shut down; Missing the opportunity for change - Singapore's media; Dirty politics or dirty laundry; Early nights in Bangkok; This season's footie forecast; Searching for the Olympic spirit; Searching for inspiration; Split Democrats open way for Pavena; Bitter rivals to contest the Asian cup fina; Bangkok's unsung taxi drivers

July 2004 The President that America really wants;The land of the rising son;  Bangkok's scary choices for mayor; Sweet FA....;The world's most unlikely jogger;  Why Butler is a warning shot; Weapons of mass deception; the case against Tony Blair;  No sense from Arroyo; Sense from the US Senate; A confused agenda at the International Aids Conference; Time Asia reports on Asia's budget airline; s LCC ticket pricing; Naughty NokAir shows its Spirit; The 2004 US Election;  Hong Kong's political birth;  Bangkok's new subway

June 2004 Canada's chastened Liberals; Canada's election; the safe choice; Publishing Sensation; England's shoot-out curse; Football maths; Vancouver: Midsummer night's dream; Canada's election; a crisis of leadership; England's nightmare - England 1 France 2; Reagan: The consequences of inaction; She said; they said; European Championship predictions; PLA stamps its authority on Hong Kong; Tiananmen's message; Why democracy matters; India's election - a fractured verdict?; Pattaya Today revisited - soap opera at its best

May 2004  Amnesty International - Why Human Rights Matter; Time for seeding the FA Cup; Khun mai kuey doen lenn khon dioew; Casualties of War; truth and decency; Lies about crimes; George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes; Fixing Bangkok airport; Mirror Editor sacked; Misleading people and endangering lives; India's election shock; Our immoral world; Singapore's Happy Loos !; How others see Thailand; The China squeeze; Rumsfeld must go - he would not be missed; Final farewells for Frasier and Friends; The enduring Thai gem scam; Barbarians masquerading as liberators

From 7 April 2004 Beijing's hard line on Hong Kong Britain's sorry isolation; Would you embrace this man?; Bangkok Fire leaves thousands homeless;  Losing our edge; the New York Times on US competitiveness; Let freedom ring; three commentaries on the expansion of the European Union on May 1, 2004; India's vibrant democracy; Do not apply for this vacancy; The Wrong War (Op-ed from the New York Times); Over rated, soaking, Songkran; Bonk it like Beckham; The growing divide between the USA and Canada; Budget carriers boost regional tourism

From 20 March 2004 One country - do as we say; Bangkok Motor Show 2004 - Picture Gallery; What next after explosives theft in Thailand; The message from Taiwan's strange election; The new elite - Anthony Sampson on the British Establishment; Silence of the witnesses; Election fever sweeps Asia (oops not in China); Hong Kong patriotism; Unlawful killing; Bloomberg profile of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin; Philip Bobbitt on the Iraq war

From 1 March 2004 Time for a rethink after Madrid; Bertuzzi update; The Madrid bombings; When sport is not sporting and the failure of the sports authorities; A global threat needs a global response; Why what others think about us matters; Hong Kong's Lantau Cable Car

From 21 February 2004: Naked News in Hong Kong; Africa Calling - The Guardian; gbp 10 million boost for Reuters CEO; Why friends fall out; Worrying trends in Bangkok's Media; ; Was I wrong about Iraq - The Guardian

From 1 February 2004: Patriotic Games - Hong Kong; Another plea to free the Guantanamo 600; Economic Conflicts of Interest; Intimate Interns; Chicken Flew - Nok Air; What do Colin Powell and  Justin   Timberlake have in Common?; America's best friend may be her worst nightmare; Let the People Decide; Pattaya Today !; Why journalists should report the news and not be the news; Ryanair Subsidies QandA

From 20 January 2004: The BBC gets what it deserved; Calling foul on fowl flu denial; Happy Chinese New Year; Singapore's alarming executions; Privatisation of Space Exploration

From 25 December 2003: Singapore expected to legalise oral sex ! Take a number - onboard loo queues; The IHT on Prime Minister Thaksin; Air marshals; a modern day necessity; Raise a finger to finger printing; A new year's plea; Terror should not make us illiberal; Why did so many have to die in Bam (a must read); Time Lapse; Do not feel sorry for Rio Ferdinand; Huge Grant does Bangkok; A Nation mourns; corgi mauled in royal dogfight.

2003 Summary

2003 in review highs and lows from 2003.

2003 archive All the commentaries and news from 2003 are now included on a single page for easier access

From 5 December 2003 -  One hundred years of powered flight; The capture of Saddam;   A dark cloud over Constitution Day; Putin the boot in; America's predictable retaliation; A low cost dogfight in Asia; Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth

From 21 November 2003 - The Cheap Day return to Baghdad; The Moral Myth;  England end 37 year drought; Right cause, wrong approach; the impact of the Istanbul bombings; Concordes' final homes                                              

From 1 November 2003 - John Simpson on the BBC and the Iraq War; Thai Air in for a bumpy ride; Being anti-Bush may be fashionable but may miss the point; The truth is out there somewhere (Rupert Murdoch's controlled media); The Unwanted Guest; A right Royal Romp; Oral sex remains an offence in Singapore

From 15 October 2003 - My vote - Jeb Bartlett; Don't Blog like Bush !; Rumours and Secrets; Drugs and Sport; Concorde's last flight - the end of an era; The hi-jacking of APEC; Mahathir fans the flames

From 1 October 2003 - The first Sinonaut; Something is rotten in English football;  Questions too important for the US to ignore; APEC = A pretty expensive conference; California deserves better            

From 13 Sept 2003 - The distraction of the Hutton enquiry; Wenger's sorry seems to be the hardest word;  Now I feel safer!; Why Concorde has to stop flying; Sweden's Euro vote; Two lost years

From 30 August 2003 -  Two years on from 9-11; One for the people - or political expediency; The view from down under; Starting a week of good news.

From 16 August 2003 - Let Freedom Ring...as relevant today as it was 40 years ago. The Inner workings; Why professional golf is so utterly dull; It is time to apologise Mr. Blair; Premiership Predictions; The murky waters of the Hutton Enauiry;  A huge cheer for the Episcopal Church

From 2 August 2003 - How airlines ruin a vacation; Was the Iraq war justified? (a must read for Gordon!); Toronto - back and booming; the record breaking six years of Tony Blair, The exploitation of Saddam's sons

From 12 July 2003 - Tung tied, George Bush's too safe safari, Who is the Greatest Briton?

From 2 July 2003 - Hong Kong's crisis and Beijing's dilemma,    The People have Spoken - Hong Kong's truly remarkable protest,  Hong Kong's 1 July protest against Article 23 legislation.

From 16 June 2003 - Last Orders for Dennis Thatcher,         Taking Stock, Same sex marriages in Canada

From 2 June 2003 - All alone on Fathers day,  And So the story goes, Those "Washington Bastards", The gang-rape case in Bangkok, Hong Kong, still not cleaning up its act, One year old.

From 19 May 2003 - An apology - I was misled; PGA _ Purposeful, grounded Annika; Press-ganged - the role of the right wing press in the government of Britain (a must read): Thailand's less than free media; Good news for babies; Football world cup mess.

From 5 May 2003 - Free the Guantanamo 600; and the good news from Vancouver

From 14 April 2003 - Swimming upstream at Reuters; London - unpleasant and unaffordable; Iraq - this may be a very hollow victory

From 1 April 2003 - Looking for intelligent life; and now for some good news !

From 24 March 2003 - Recommendations for protection from SARS, Hong Kong's flu fears; Canada's misplaced loyalties; Bye bye Anthony Leung; Bye bye CNN; All out of options.

From 1 March 2003 - The SCMP shows its true colours; BOCA - a health warning; Hong Kong's shameful tax; The mother of all bombs; All out of options; Bye Bye CNN, Bye Bye Anthony Leung.

From 17 February 2003 - Tony Blair - caught between Iraq and a hard place; thoughts from the diplomatic front; Dads Army. The US view - Earning America's Resentment; Tell the truth; Shanghai - brave new world;

Three weeks commencing 27 January 2003 - Poor justice in Canada: en support les Francais; No clear and present danger; The Columbia tragedy: The inexplicable and inevitable march to war; clarifying a climb down

week commencing 20 January 2003 - The entente not so cordial: who is the real villain?: torture debases civilised society; the big freeze; inspired by an ex-colleague; Dragonair's misplaced fire; Hong Kong film critics awards.

two weeks commencing 6 January 2003 - Why England should not play cricket in Zimbabwe; Roy Jenkins - a political conscience; Campbell in the soup; war uncertainty in the USA; the Canadian debate over gay marriages; US airline alliances and the trouble with America.

 

2002 Summary

2002 in review highlights from the year and thoughts on the year ahead

2002 Archive All the commentaries and news from 2002 are now included on a single page for easier access.

The holiday period from 23 December 2002 - Nestle, do they know its Christmas. A special Christmas offering

period from 2 December 2002 - Cheriegate, Henry Kissinger, the Iraq weapons report and using video to help football referees.

week commencing 25 November 2002 - Cultural naivety; the Saudi reality; A cool yule for the politically correct !; the Hong Kong Open golf tournament

week commencing 18 November 2002 - Thailand's corruption scandals; webstats; US state department calls for Article 23 white paper; the Miss World fiasco.

week commencing 11 November 2002 - The royal victims of a circulation war; the evil weed; the dot com bubble; Can low cost airlines fly in Asia, the China aviation market; one country - two systems holding back Hong Kong; Chungking Express; life in the big city.

week commencing 4 November 2002 -  The Royal Victims of a Circulation War; Settling down - an old fashioned notion! What did the butler see?: Hong Kong 6s: Misguided prejudice: Attack of the drones; a Republican agenda; the long march to capitalism.

week commencing 28 October 2002 - Cost cutting companies, publish a white bill for Article 23, comprendez-vous les French, Upstairs, Downstairs a very British fetish, Asia's sleaze city.

week commencing 21 October 2002 - The HKG/USA air services pact, Pyongyang's nuclear threat, Nobel Peace prize, Jiang's Texas BBQ, What is the right response to terrorism?

week commencing 14 October 2002 - the forgotten casualties of Bali, Iraq's scad free election, England's hooligans, not so able Seaman, new HKG/USA air services pact.

week commencing 7 October 2002 - Bali bombing, Singapore's self controlled media; calling time on the monarchy in Canada, Inconsistency in Hong Kong

week commencing 30 September 2002 - A Major liking for a late night Currie, Bill Clinton wows Blackpool, Fetish Fashion legal costs, False Miracles, Mosquitoes - an evil cult !

week commencing 23 September 2002 - German elections, Peter Enckelmann - who would be a goalkeeper, the Ryder Cup.

week commencing 16 September 2002 - Iraq and North Korea - spot the difference; Vanessa Mae; School Daze revisited.

week commencing 9 September 2002 - Watford FC, Nigerian cash advance frauds, School Daze party

Remembering 9-11 - a series of articles on the anniversary of the 11 September attacks on the USA

week commencing 2 September 2002 - The death penalty, the end of my Time subscription, Cathay and Dragonair, how bad is Saddam Hussein?

week commencing 26 August 2002 - Media censorship in China, Bloomberg's Singapore folly, the Earth Summit

week commencing 19 August 2002 - Whipped into shape - the fetish fashion verdict, Aviation features, Hong Kong

week commencing 12 August 2002 - Letter from Havana, Aviation features, John Barnes

week commencing 5 August 2002 - Taiwan and China, top ten travel destinations from HKG, Cathay Pacific pilots, Hong Kong blues and a golf joke !

week commencing 29 July 2002 - England, a mainland view of Hong Kong, and Pet Shop Pensioners

weeks commencing 15 and 22 July2002 - Smokers rights (none), asteroids, notes from the UK, the Ashes schedule for Australia Oct 2002-Jan 2003.

week commencing 8 July 2002 - Arming airline pilots, leadership and Hong Kong news

week commencing 1 July 2002 - World Cup, Oh Canada, USA Independence Day,

weeks commencing 17 and 24 June 2002 - Garbage in Hong Kong, air and rail travel in the USA and the state of the union.

week commencing 8 June 2002 - Hong Kong open skies, new fines and customer service

period commencing 1 June 2002 - Tianenmen, the World Cup, South Asia - on the verge of nuclear war and the state of Hong Kong's museums.