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December 2016 News archive New Philippines flights for Emirates; New Years Eve shock in Dubai; Koh Tao debacle: Shoddy work from beginning to end; Debating the UAE's future; Then and now - Watford FC; EK's A380 plans for 2016; Thailand's Fear of Free Speech; Qatar's Miami incident - cover up, confusion and a lying CEO; Battle of the airports: Singapore v Dubai; A Kingdom in Denial; Emirates 2016 fleet plans; Emirates and Malaysia Airlines in significant codeshare agreement; Time for America to wake up to Trump's nonsense; World Air Games 2015 in Dubai; If Britain has learned anything in twelve years it should be clear that bombing Syria is a mistake; Fear of the Thai junta now covers economic criticism

December 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

If the Oregon militiamen were Muslim or black, they'd probably be dead by now

Iran-Saudi crisis 'most dangerous for decades'

The Luck of the English;A new history shatters myths about an extraordinary nation.

World Cup final 1966: England v West Germany – as it happened

UK helped Saudi Arabia get UN human rights role through 'secret deal' to exchange votes, leaked documents suggest

Saudi executions put ball of regional tension in Iran's court

Sticker shock (visas)

Tiger Woods at 40: The 14-time major champion's legacy

Photos from the 2015 Miss Camel Beauty Contest

Life under siege: inside Taiz, the Yemeni city being slowly strangled

Qatari royals rush to Switzerland in nine planes after emir breaks leg

The Koh Tao death sentences - the real chilling effect

The Guardian’s alternative new year’s honours: we salute you

‘The Great British Baking Show’ Is the Key to Understanding Today’s Britain

CP Executives fined for insider trading

Wrist-slap of CP All execs raises doubts about Thai stock market

China co-opts a Buddhist sect in global effort to smear Dalai Lama

The Donald and the Decider

Opinion: Unaccountable China

Mommie Dearest

The demise of UK deep coal mining: decades of decline

Bombardier’s biggest gamble: How everything went so wrong with the CSeries dream

How Quique Sánchez Flores guided Watford up the Premier League table

Paris climate deal: reaction from the experts

How the historic Paris deal over climate change was finally agreed

Alibaba Buying South China Morning Post, Aiming to Influence Media

Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric will live in infamy in American history

November 2015 news archive A Thai reality check; Still better than Thaksin?; Shooting down Russian fighter escalates ME tensions; The shaming of America; What the attacks in Paris say about Islamic State's intentions; Provoking hate through Paris attacks; Dubai Airshow 2015 - a reality check; Emirates half year results show yields under pressure

November 2015
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FAA downgrades Thai aviation

Inside Saudi Arabia’s Campaign to Charm American Policymakers and Journalists

China is building the most extensive global commercial-military empire in history

What can we learn from the great German school turnaround

Mekong - a river rising

Emirates Secretly Sends Colombian Mercenaries to Fight in Yemen

Beijing's new airport will have 7 runways, handling 100 million passengers annually

Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It

Hong Kong as ‘Asia’s World City’? Not any more - and here's why

How to Fight ISIS

Paris attacks - the big picture

Porter Airlines Future is Uncertain Without Toronto City Runway Extension

Terror can only succeed with our cooperation

The Saudis Are Stumbling. They May Take the Middle East with Them.

You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia

The Genesis and Growth of Global Jihad

Burma: Democracy with an Asterisk

Paris Attacks: Suicide Bomber Wearing an Explosive Vest Was Blocked From Entering Stade de France Soccer Venue

Standing Up for Migrant Workers in the Gulf, 1 Installation at a Time

HKFP History: A brief visual history of the Peak Tram

'We will be ready, inshallah': inside Qatar's $200bn World Cup

A Canadian Cabinet for 2015

Think Burma Is a Democracy Now? Think Again.

Dubai Airshow: defence spending boosts order books

Emirates keeps the space safe for economy flyers in its 615 seat A380s

Twitter’s heart hits the wrong beat

The story of a small but crucial town in Myanmar

China’s brutal one-child policy shaped how millions lived, loved and died

October 2015 news archive Sensitive Junta demands Bangkok Post withdraw editorial; MH17 crash report: Dutch investigators confirm Buk missile hit plane; Koh Tao murder trial concludes; verdict on 24 December; FCCT Statement on formal charges against Anthony Kwan for carrying body armour; National to link Orlando and Canada; Farewell to the A340-500; Foul play from EK; Remembering IP Sharp Associates

October 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

 

China’s brutal one-child policy shaped how millions lived, loved and died

Emirates Airline turns 30: Just as it has changed the world, now Emirates faces its own changes

The howls of China’s prisoners will haunt this royal welcome for Xi Jinping - Ma Jian

26 vegetarian dishes you need to eat in Bangkok right now

“Freedom. Democracy. Equality. These are precious”. David Cameron & the Saudi Threat.

David Cameron attempts to defend 'squalid' deal with Saudi Arabia in excruciating interview with Jon Snow

Bangkok bomb: Has the case been solved?

FAA Investigating 'Frightening Near-Miss' at Miami International Airport: Experts

Emirates Dispels Speculation of Big Order at Dubai Air Show

A lesson from history for Hong Kong’s appeasers

Kirsten Dunst: ‘The movie industry is in a weird place – creatives blossom on TV’

Holiday guide to lesser-known Thailand

The Future of Autonomy in Hong Kong
The Democratic frontrunner flexes her diplomatic muscles

Watch: Jon Bon Jovi Sings in Mandarin for Chinese Valentine’s Day

September 2015 news archive

Stealin' All My Dreams: A Modern Day Protest Song; Etihad's Italian job; Thailand’s ruling generals threaten critics with an ‘attitude adjustment’; Qatar 777 takes out approach lights on Rwy 27 at MIA; Thailand Suffers As Military Plans To Extend Control: Junta Delivers Oppression, Not Happiness; Jeremy Corbyn - the possible reinvention of new Labour; Curiouser and curiouser; We are all to blame for Europe's refugee crisis; Great nations are built by refugees and immigrants; The Refugee Crisis Isn’t a ‘European Problem’; Thailand Suffers As Military Plans To Extend Control: Junta Delivers Oppression, Not Happiness; Stephen Harper wants a fourth term as prime minister. He faces a tough fight.

September 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites

What #PigGate Really Says About the State of British Politics
Thai AirAsia focuses expansion on China and new secondary bases, starting with Pattaya
At the state dinner, leave some seats empty for China’s political prisoners.


The Sheer Lunacy of Cuffing a Kid Over a Homemade Clock
Insight - As election looms, Myanmar trials target dissent
Australia: Coup capital of the democratic world
Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians in Yemen War
Clear skies ahead
Biden - alone in a crowd
China’s use and abuse of history
Not his finest hour: The dark side of Winston Churchill
This refugee crisis is too big for Europe to handle - its institutions are broken

August 2015 News Archive Stephen Harper wants a fourth term as prime minister. He faces a tough fight; Coups and constitutions; FCCT statement on detention of Hong Kong journalist; Bangkok Bomb at Religious Shrine Kills at Least 19; flydubai to start DWC operations; Emirates hat tip to Panama; Shuffling the pack won't improve Thailand's hand; England v Pakistan - schedule

August 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Australia is a key market for Emirates and Etihad, and is the missing link for Qatar Airways
In Phuketwan case, Reuters supports media freedom - but from a distance

The Arab Spring was a revolution of the hungry
British Airways Just Can’t Kick its 747 Habit
Is Premium Economy Next for Emirates, Qatar and Etihad?
Myanmar Democracy Icon Finds Herself Assailed as Authoritarian
MH370 wing part mystery defies resolution
About That Airplane Part That Was Supposed to Solve the MH370 Mystery ...
Ashes statistics highlight pointlessness of arguing the toss
100 Miles From Dubai: Driving The $80 Million Road To Nowhere
Canadian family campaigns for release of father detained and tortured in UAE
Female pilot taking on the man’s world
Emirates' USA growth anchored around JetBlue and Alaska Air hubs. Panama City for LatAm Growth
The CCP Didn’t Fight Imperial Japan; the KMT Did
Watch: Jon Bon Jovi Sings in Mandarin for Chinese Valentine’s Day
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
How Amazon swallowed Seattle

The Amazon debacle
Arouna Koné hits late leveller to give Everton a point against Watford
Can Malaysia's Prime Minister Survive?
Jennifer Aniston lands $5M deal with Emirates Airline
A system rotten to the core, rotten at the roots: Malaysia
Stories of unprecedented destruction and Japan’s eventual surrender
Britain’s carpetbagger PM is a national embarrassment
World's longest ski slope, 711m tower rising in Dubai
Light shines on Thomson Reuters de-risking service

July 2015 News Archive England v Pakistan - schedule; Emirates replaces Conakry with Bamoko; Airbus confirms plans for next gen A380 superjumbo; The Guardian view on media globalisation: good news for the Financial Times; Phase one of DWC to be ready by Q1 2022; Up close with Pluto; All change in the Middle East?; Australian woman deported from the UAE after Facebook post; A deal - and now for the hard work; How damaged is eurozone and EU by Greek debacle?; Greece - again; Eurogroup draft on demands for Greek reforms; Another day of Greek drama; Inside the most expensive boarding school in the world; Greece’s fight is for democracy in Europe. That’s why we must support it; Europe after the Greek referendum: Angela Merkel must take the lead; Back to being mothers says the FA; Greece’s no vote: eight days that shook a continent; Koh Tao murder trial; ‘Torture made us admit killing British pair’; Alexis Tsipras must be stopped: the underlying message of Europe's leaders; Clueless; Euro Greek brinkmanship

July 2015
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Canada's Liberals face bleak future – is it too late for Justin Trudeau to save them?
Flight TK79 dispatch from 30,000ft: 'God, this is it. This is payback.'
Visions of Myanmar, old and new
Exclusive interview: Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths on conquering the world
Tourist hotspots around the world are crowded with new visitors – but are they all welcome?
Follow the flock south
Where are all the aliens?
Myanmar's vanity capital starts to grow up
Emirates space mission hopes to launch new era in Middle East
What Happens When the Queen Dies—Inside ‘The Bridge’


Finally, the Obama I fell in love with
This Septic Isle: Backpackers, Bloodshed and the Secretive World of Koh Tao

The lose-lose election - Myanmar
Flight of no return: How a Cathay Pacific plane became the first hijacked commercial airliner
Field of Death - MH17
Of course Pluto deserves to be a planet. Size isn’t everything
Keeping it legal: Social media, the UAE and the law
Secrets of the sky
Why Thailand forced Uighurs to return to China
This is the future of college
Australian woman jailed in Abu Dhabi for facebook post
Free to pray - but don't try to convert anyone
Lack of Evidence, Local Media Coverage Adds to Mystery of Koh Tao Murder
Chinese Authorities Detain and Denounce Rights Lawyers
The rise of Arab atheism

Thirty thousand feet up in the sky I heard the words no doctor wants to hear
While Saudi Arabia Goes to War Abroad, It’s Simmering at Home
Testino’s portrait of William and Kate is a sickly sweet lie
Greek debt crisis: 'Of all the damage, healthcare has been hit the worst'
Jimmy Carter, His Legacy and a Rabbit
Finding the Right Fit for Flying Private
Greece’s fight is for democracy in Europe. That’s why we must support it

Life for British Muslims since 7/7 – abuse, suspicion and constant apologies
Preparing for the death of a monarch
Cameron is not asking the big question on Islamic State

Special Feature: Hong Kong SAR at 18 – One Country; Incompatible Systems
North York Moors potash mine gets £1.7bn go-ahead
Why Greece should vote No and leave the Euro

June 2015 News archive Alexis Tsipras must be stopped: the underlying message of Europe's leaders; Clueless; Euro Greek brinkmanship; US Open golf thoughts; Qatar Airways less than impresses on profit figures; Happy birthday; Thailand's ICAO red card; Hong Kong's two fingered salute to Beijing; The MERS effect on daily life in Seoul; NokScoot flies but it is less than awesome; Watford's new manager and some more changes; Korea and Thailand - a 1997 comparison; MERS Impact; Charles Kennedy – a lovely man, a talented politician, a great friend with a shared enemy; Thailand's King returns to hospital; Announcing the Emirates FA Cup; Etihad reveals profits but no published accounts

June 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Special Feature: Hong Kong SAR at 18 – One Country; Incompatible Systems
North York Moors potash mine gets £1.7bn go-ahead
Why Greece should vote No and leave the Euro
China and India Are Sitting Out Refugee Crisis
Singapore Uses Big Guns on Small ‘Threats’
Why Obama’s singing of ‘Amazing Grace’ is so powerful
Obama Gives Impassioned Eulogy At Clementa Pinckney's Funeral With Comments On Confederate Flag, Racism
Obama gives searing speech on race in eulogy for Charleston pastor
The Vice TV guide to North Korea
Eurasia is an idea whose time has come around again
Dubai is the Florence of the 21st century
White Terrorism Is as Old as America
Glass ceiling in the sky: Qatar Airways’ problem with pregnant cabin crew
Everyone should watch Jon Stewart's powerful monologue on the Charleston shooting
Geoff Ogilvy praises US Open course’s ‘wow factor’ after smart start
Magazine: Going undercover as a sex worker
Olympic promises fail as fall in sporting activity reveals a divided nation
Hong Kong reform vote blunder was more farcical than fatal
Daily Show's Jon Stewart on Charleston shooting: 'This was a terrorist attack'
Is it worth making enemies of Russia, Qatar over football?
Saudi Arabia is teaching Isis a lesson in cruelty, yet the UK continues to defend them
Qatar Airways CEO says ILO has "vendetta" against Qatar due to discrimination report
Qatar Airways found guilty of sexual discrimination by major UN body

Reuters technical development - a story of enterprise and innovation
The moral conflict of living and working in Qatar
Is the UAE just getting a bit too expensive?
The Guardian view on HSBC: a bank beyond shame
Britain's unwritten constitution: The 20 key texts that stop us being slaves

Used A380 Superjumbos Threaten Airbus’s Drive for Sales
The Guardian view on the flogging of Raif Badawi: Saudi Arabia is in the dock
How Qatar Used and Abused Its Al Jazeera Journalists
Headingley 1981: The OBO highlights
Thailand's death camps may be the most horrifying places in South-East Asia


 

May 2015 News Archive Announcing the Emirates FA Cup: Etihad reveals profits but no published accounts; Thai Govt Unveils 12-Nation 'Friends of Thailand' Bloc; An EK v TG comparison; A Sydney affair; Yingluck's trial; MAS set for a Muellering; Thoughts on EK from PPRUNE; FlyPlymouth vows to reopen Plymouth City Airport within two years; EK's results; Maurice Flanagan - EK pioneer; The UK media and the election; UK election thoughts; Emirates announces 2015 results; Thai police arrest Rohingya man suspected of running deadly jungle camp; Emirates aims to introduce new ‘railway style’ first-class cabin this year; Royal baby media hysteria; Who should govern Britain?; Thailand's refugee shame; Watford through the ages; The Guardian view: Britain needs a new direction, Britain needs Labour; Our electoral system is absurd. Time to change it; Super-connecting the world

May 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Headingley 1981: The OBO highlights
Thailand's death camps may be the most horrifying places in South-East Asia
Jimmy Anderson reaches milestone of 400 Test wickets at Headingley
For the game, for the world, finally do the right thing. Go (Blatter/FIFA)
Asian refugee crisis: trafficked migrants held off Thailand in vast 'camp boats'
Rohingya Silence Leaves Aung San Suu Kyi Speechless and Alone
The human toll of FIFA’s corruption
Strange tale of Chuck Blazer presents historic opportunity to expose Fifa
Soccer Rat! The inside story of how Chuck Blazer, ex-U.S. soccer executive and FIFA bigwig, became a confidential informant for the FBI
Troubled Malaysia Airlines to be completely revamped: new CEO
Sold for ransom: On the trail of Thailand's human traffickers
Death in the jungle
Six Unbelievable Easter Eggs from Last Night’s 'Mad Men' Finale
Qatar's PR efforts on labour scandal backfire with BBC team's detention
Arrested for reporting on Qatar's World Cup labourers
The Tory victory and the class cleansing of London
When doing good brings down the wrath of brutes
The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop has been disgraceful
Chuka Umunna shows how the media is robbing us of ‘normal’ politicians
South-east Asia faces its own migrant crisis as states play 'human ping-pong'
Celebrate the Moscow metro's 80th birthday with a journey through the city's history - in pictures
Kevin Pietersen: My fury at England deceit
Kevin Pietersen remains an issue the muddled ECB just cannot get right
Kevin Pietersen and England: checkmate
It's An Election, But Not As You Know It: Qataris Go To The Polls
Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution
The Guardian view on migration: a radical new start is needed

The Killing of Osama bin Laden
The real problem with the #EtisalatChallenge
FA told Graham Taylor not to pick too many black players for England
Preliminary Report on the Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash
AP Interview: Emirates boss vows to push ahead with global expansion, eyes further US routes
These Mad Men-era posters will make you long for the glory days of flying
Garland, Texas—Scene of Last Night's Shootings—Is a Hotbed for Anti-Muslim Bigotry
Lies, damn lies and British polls
McDonald's in crisis: can it fight off the Five Guys threat?
The CEO Of The Future Is A "Designer-In-Chief"
Indonesia murdered eight people. The time for being polite is over


 

April 2015 News archive Indonesia's shame; Thai police say more than 200 lèse majesté cases closed in 6 months; UAE residents warned against photographing aircraft; A baby-sitters’ charter; Starry, starry night; Thai generals seek to entrench ‘father-knows-best’ government; Time to play guess the EK results; Europe cannot ignore the refugee plight; What's Wrong with Thailand's New Constitution; Coming soon to Emirates; Pilot Workload at Emirates Under Question; New (old) caddy for Thongchai Jaidee; Thunderbirds are Go - again; The Dubai money-making machine; Will you just open the door; Etihad regional gets investment approval; VAT in the UAE is probably inevitable; Martial Law Plus; Say hello to the AIIB; Operation Decisive Storm and the Expanding Counter-Revolution; Germanwings crash accident investigation; Two people in the cockpit solves little

April 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Indonesia murdered eight people. The time for being polite is over
The executions going on today that no-one is talking about
Does Australia have double standards for Bali Nine duo?
Indonesia executions: Australia recalls ambassador
Shot through the heart
Emirates CEO fights for future of giant Airbus A380
The growing problem at London’s Heathrow Airport
Stephen Hawking endorses Labour in the General Election
Indonesian President Widodo under corrupt thumb of Megawati
Effort by Japan to Stifle News Media Is Working
China: Hong Kong Political Reform Proposal a Farce
The chart that shames Europe
Her Majesty’s Jihadists
flydubai 2014: profits maintained despite rapid growth in destinations. 2015 fleet to reach 50 737s.
Nobody will win the war in Yemen
The world cup dream of FIFA's worst-ranked team
How golf's other half lives: why caddies are fighting for their rights
A380 hosts in-flight premier for 'Living in the Age of Airplanes'

Life, Hotel Parties, and Death in Qatar's Expat Bubble
Women of the Week: cosplay girls at Comic Con
A special intensity: how Carey Mulligan quietly grabbed Hollywood's attention
Rory McIlroy: ‘I have never worked a day in my life, this isn’t work’
Alabama Man Freed After Decades on Death Row
Lee Kuan Yew is finally dead — and America’s elites are eulogizing a tyrant and psychological monster
Germanwings - the final frontier of aviation safety
AP denies China's claims it is partnering on social media
Like Mars: Dusty Sandstorm Blocks Visibility And Travel In Dubai
Arab nations want to build a united army
Inside the Head of Those Inside the Cockpit
Operation Decisive Storm and the Expanding Counter-Revolution
About 4,000 men once forced to fish now stranded on Indonesian islands, some after boat ban

March 2015 news archive Say hello to the AIIB; Operation Decisive Storm and the Expanding Counter-Revolution; Germanwings crash accident investigation; Two people in the cockpit solves little; No fatalities in Air Canada crash at Halifax; GermanWings - final moments; Is an Arabian war inevitable?; Thai airlines are a "significant safety concern; The downing of GermanWings 4U 9525; Bangkok’s Big Brother is watching you; From Fantasy world to Disneyworld; Emirates Airline is fighting an unusual headwind: labor trouble; Qatar World Cup Final is December 18 - 2022!; Sweden v Saudi Arabia - hint: no one wins; The price of Netanyahu’s victory; Aerotropolitan ambitions; Updating Dubai airport’s growth plans; Too normal to be normal; Lost boy; Where regulation holds back Emirates growth; Eurowings to Dubai for €99.99; Emirates fleet speculation; The Emperor has few clothes; Planespotters arrested in the UAE; Emirates New York blitz; Emirates announces Bali; NokScoot still grounded; Where is home?; Station Eleven review – Emily St John Mandel's gripping apocalypse drama

March 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Operation Decisive Storm and the Expanding Counter-Revolution
About 4,000 men once forced to fish now stranded on Indonesian islands, some after boat ban
Dubai International airport: a love story
Can't stop, must fly: 24 hours at Dubai International airport – in pictures
The Guardian view on Margot Wallström: a splendidly undiplomatic diplomat
The mystery of flight 9525: a locked door, a silent pilot and a secret history of illness
Toronto Fashion Week Diary: Backstage With Model Ash Foo
Embracing My Chinese-American Identity
Sweden’s feminist foreign minister has dared to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. What happens now concerns us all
Japan, Korea clip Thai flyers' wings
Japan caps Thai air services amid safety concerns
Lee Kuan Yew gave Singapore independence, and the world a bad idea
Mat Ryan, the Socceroos' ball-playing goalkeeper with the world at his feet
Airline world's tiny secret: infatuation with model planes
Do you have what it takes to be a Flight Attendant’s boyfriend?
The Guardian view on Sweden’s foreign policy: admirable, but maybe not entirely high-minded
World’s Largest Single Marine Reserve Created in Pacific
After I.V.F.: Pregnant, but Still Stuck in the Past
Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk
England’s ODI team are boring, bad, badly boring and boringly bad
The biggest plane in history is under construction
The power of Le Pen
Government refuses to release details of relationship with authoritarian Bahrain
Turkish Airlines set to challenge Etihad, Emirates and Qatar Airways
Dubai with a difference: Travel posters satirize emirate's expats
The country training people to leave
47 Republicans May Have Just Broken the Law By Writing An Outrageous Letter To Iran
A Beginner's Guide to the Secret Language of Airport Runways
Watford fan in critical condition following attack after Wolves match
MH370 report offers no answers but Malaysia vows to continue search
Clare Grogan: I drew on my pop star past to write a book for my daughter
The stunning locations cashing in on Britain’s film and TV fame
Disaster averted, unfolding disaster - Kathmandu Airport
The Coming Chinese Crackup
Partnership for Open and Fair Skies
Inside the search for Flight MH370
The Vanishing: One year ago this month, Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared from the skies.
Boris Nemtsov - Liberal martyr
Thai men come up short in 1st scientific penis-length study
World's largest plane graveyard of US military fighters in desert can now be explored online in amazing interactive map
360 thinking with Gerald Donovan from the Dubai 360 Project
It’s the return of House of Cards – but where can Frank go now?
Singapore at 50: From swamp to skyscrapers
On the beach where US troops landed 50 years ago, a new Vietnam flourishes
Killing Hope In Putin’s Russia

'Nobody cares any more': the relatives who went looking for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
38 things you should know about being a mum

February 2015 news archive Station Eleven review – Emily St John Mandel's gripping apocalypse drama; Some notes on Emirates' financials; The Blowback From Delta CEO’s Open Skies Escalation; Thailand’s generals have failed: it is time that democracy, in spite of its problems, is restored; Delta gets ugly in its fight with Emirates; Purging the Shinawatra clan; William Shatner to beam into Dubai; Anwar Ibrahim jailed again; Thailand’s generals should stand aside; Thailand’s generals should stand aside; Emirates' Clark strikes back in US open skies debate; Dubai360 - opens the door but where are the people

February 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Singapore at 50: From swamp to skyscrapers
On the beach where US troops landed 50 years ago, a new Vietnam flourishes
Killing Hope In Putin’s Russia

'Nobody cares any more': the relatives who went looking for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
38 things you should know about being a mum

Boris Nemtsov, Putin Foe, Is Shot Dead in Shadow of Kremlin
Cricket World Cup: Reduction in teams for 2019 'a nonsense'
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
In the Cockpit With Japan's Kamikaze Pilots
How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?
Fifa U-turn to winter Qatar World Cup completes mess of contradictions
The city that privatised itself to death: 'London is now a set of improbable sex toys poking gormlessly into the air' Raspberry Pi 2 Review: A $35 Computer Can Do a Heck of a Lot
The Telegraph’s message about suicides at a rival newspaper demeans those who wrote it and those who ordered it
The Guardian view on journalism and advertising: selling the news short
Daily Telegraph Writes “Despicable” Report Linking Suicides At The Times To Commercial Pressure
Dubai Design District: city builds its own Shoreditch from scratch in the desert
Tariq Ali: ‘Renationalise the railways. Cut military spending. Argue with whoever says it can’t be done’
The Rise of the Emerging Middle East carriers
Other Carriers Can’t Compete With Gulf Airlines Under The Current System — Here’s Why (read the comments!)
Report Says Gulf Airlines Got $39B (With More to Come) in Illegal Subsidies
How many top umpires does it take to get a key decision right?
Aung San Suu Kyi has gone silent on a major human-rights crisis in Myanmar
What ISIS Really Wants
U.S. airlines to take on state-owned Gulf rivals

Just not cricket – how Channel Nine is destroying a legacy

Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business
The times when Jon Stewart wasn't joking
There was no inkling of what David Tennant was about to achieve. It must have felt like an out-of-body experience

Insider Series: True Life of an Emirates Flight Attendant
Ian Bolton - Watford legend
Open-Skies Agreements Challenged
TransAsia GE235: Shutting down the wrong engine
Silent Tahrir Square - Birdshot in Cairo
Fear of Vladimir Putin grows in EU capitals amid spectre of ‘total war’
When sport and real life collide: a story about divorce during the 2005 Ashes
Claims Against Saudis Cast New Light on Secret Pages of 9/11 Report
Gulf Countries Continue Restricting Critical Speech
United Arab Emirates, Key U.S. Ally in ISIS Effort, Disengaged in December

How prospective Leeds buyer ended up in Dubai prison over fraud allegations

January 2015 news archive Dubai360 - opens the door but where are the people;Flights to Baghdad suspended after shooting; Why the Greek result matters; The Royal Road to Ruin; Yingluck's farcical impeachment; and now, criminal charges; The Guardian view on Saudi Arabia after King Abdullah’s death; Too sick to work?; A Swiss forex shocker; Presence at Paris rally of leaders with poor free press records is condemned; Beaucoup de chefs de gouvernement mondiaux ne sont pas Charlie; Charlie Hebdo: Don’t blame this bloodshed on France’s Muslims; French Humor, Turned Into Tragedy; Trying to make sense of the Paris murders; Mehdi Hasan on Islam and blasphemy: Muhammad survived Dante’s Inferno. He’ll survive a YouTube clip; Understanding the Brits; Goodbye 2014 - you will not be missed; In praise of.....London
 

January 2015 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

U.S. Textbook Skews History, Prime Minister of Japan Says
We've Officially Entered a New Age For Mega-Airports
Saturday Night in Taipei, and the Cool Kids Are at the Bookstore
Saudi Arabia and the west: how a cosy relationship turned toxic
The Lost Souls of Thailand's Full-Moon Parties
Jon Stewart brilliantly skewers Sarah Palin's 'barely coherent' speech
A Saudi Palace Coup

The best story about the Queen and King Abdullah you will read today
The sheikh who listened to Nazi radio
West’s praise of King Abdullah shows Saudi Arabia is exception to human rights stance
Guantánamo Diary: How a classified, handwritten manuscript became an extraordinary book
Danger in throwing open door to foreign airlines
Tout Est Pardonné
White House apologizes for not sending top officials to Paris unity march
Shellshock! Cadbury comes clean on Creme Egg chocolate change
Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie
The False Piety of the Hebdo Hoodlums
Jeffrey Epstein: inside the decade of scandal entangling Prince Andrew
'I AM NOT CHARLIE': Leaked Newsroom Emails Reveal Al Jazeera Fury over Global Support for Charlie Hebdo
The Holocaust film that was too shocking to show
Al-Qaeda challenges Islamic State with Paris attack
U.A.E. flexes muscle in Mideast reaching beyond its role as finance hub
The trouble with Andrew (Vanity Fair - 2011)
The incredible rise of Dubai as the world’s air travel hub
Thai junta warns against protests ahead of former prime minister's impeachment
'Alien Earth' is among eight new far-off planets
British soldier’s unseen photos of Hong Kong 60 years ago revealed
Stephen Fry's engagement: what's wrong with age-gap relationships?

India lacking in Test skills
According to the Government, my toddler could be a terrorist...
Prince Andrew story runs and runs - but editors should beware
Passengers stuck on Etihad plane for 28 hours after fog delays flight
The Royal Family are exempt from Freedom of Information requests and can veto BBC programmes. Why do we put up with this?
War with Isis: The West is wrong again in its fight against terror
Steven Gerrard: an icon in Liverpool decline and a captivating figure
'Sex slave case': Prince Andrew may regret friendship with financier Jeffrey Epstein who had dark secret
Did Al Jazeera Uphold its Responsibility to its Staff?
Bangkok Shakedowns Continue With The Litter “Police”
15 things to look forward to in 2015
Newsmaker: Tony Fernandes
Thailand and the Coup Trap

December 2014 News Archive Goodbye 2014 - you will not be missed; In praise of.....London; Guzzling in the Gulf; Emirates to launch 3rd daily to Birmingham; Oil prices in a changing world; Sorry, Putin. Russia’s economy is doomed; The Sydney siege - some sensible perspective; Hostage crisis in Sydney; The CIA torture report and the shaming of the USA; Air Canada to fly to Dubai in 2015; The Guardian view on the continuing protests in Hong Kong; Etihad's new colour scheme

December 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Thailand and the Coup Trap
The Hong Kong Authorities Want to Take Teen Protesters From Their Families
Chinese State Media: Why Can’t Hong Kong Be More Like ‘Content’ Macau?
NYE observers embark on annual trek to Downton Dubai
Parents upset over penis-shaped Play-Doh toy
QZ8501 weather not as ‘unusual’ as reported
Wolf Hall: Damian Lewis is a sinister Henry VIII in new BBC trailer
Worse than the dictators: Egypt’s leaders bring pillars of freedom crashing down
The loneliness of Tony Blair
Goodbye, cruel 2014: we promise not to miss you once you’ve gone
Hong Kong’s Chief Proves ‘Safe Hands’ for China as Protests End
Michael Garcia resigns from Fifa ethics committee over handling of report
Hostages in the Sydney siege: 'We’re not getting out of here'
Flying high in the desert of Dubai
Stop Linking the Sydney Siege to Islam
Sydney siege ends: gunman inspired by IS but driven by personal crises
Aaron Sorkin got it wrong with The Newsroom - it was doomed to fail from the start
Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution might be over, but it doesn't matter — the pro-democracy movement will only come back stronger
Concern over trial of Burmese men charged with murder of UK tourists
Airbus Raises Prospect of Ditching A380 as Orders Vanish
Red Light Jihad: Islamic insurgency in Thailand’s strangest party town
Sheikhs v shale
The Two Men Charged With the Thai Backpacker Murders Face a Dubious Trial
Phillip Hughes funeral: Australian cricketer gets emotional send-off
Explaining Thailand's volatile politics
Hotel on Ruam Rudi to be demolished
flydubai's fleet could reach 200 aircraft with more liberalisation, connections and partnerships
Learn to fly an A350
Why Everything You Think About Aging May Be Wrong

November 2014 News Archive How Hong Kong’s democracy protesters overplayed their hand; Bangkok Post Reporter Retracts Interview With Yingluck; Police purge in Thailand; Amnesty: UAE in unprecedented clampdown on dissent; A Kingdom in Crisis - reviewed; More self-serving insights on Dubai from Oxford Economics; Cabin crew life; Hong Kong’s umbrella protests are here to stay; Trams arrive in Dubai; Emirates posts continued growth; Emirates Issues U.S. Challenge as Superjumbos Pour Over Atlantic; The wall came tumbling down; The Blair money machine in Thailand; Staying is settling - why you need to move at least 5 times in your life; Britain soft on China over Hong Kong crisis, says Chris Patten; Land - how to get rich quickly in Thailand; Hong Kong's umbrella movement and hope for the future; The lie of the populism scare; The city on the hill - democracy, human rights and all that take a back seat in America’s Asia policy; Virgin Galactic has serious long-term setback

November 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Cashless Society? It’s Already Coming
Phillip Hughes' death means process of feeling ‘normal’ about cricket again may take years to reach its end
Phillip Hughes: The instant a Test recall became irrelevant
Dubai World Central: The new pearl of Dubai
Full transcript: Emirates chief Sir Tim Clark on MH17 and MH370

Taking selfies to new heights! Photographer snaps nauseating photo from 2,722ft on top of the world's tallest building in Dubai
Photographer's Incredible Selfie From Burj Khalifa Shows World At His Feet
The making of your meal on an Emirates Airline flight
36 Hours in Seattle
QE2 fans voice outrage as new images show iconic ship left “to rot in obscurity” in Dubai port
The MH370 search
My (Fake) Interview With Tiger
Reflections on the Arab uprisings
Novelist David Nicholls on Kate Bush’s ‘Cloudbusting’

Aung San Suu Kyi's aura is fading
SA government threatens to clip Emirates Airline's wings in flight row
33 Reasons Why Athens Is The Next Big Thing
The Umbrella Movement marks a coming of age for Hong Kong’s “princess” generation
Alan Cumming: ‘I never felt I’d achieved enough because I was always told I was nothing’
Vanessa Mae given four-year ban from skiing after it emerges races were FIXED to help her qualify for Winter Olympics
Underground London: adventures in the secret city beneath our feet
Violinist Vanessa-Mae in four-year skiing ban over fiddled races
Beijing 'Yellow Umbrella' fashion designer arrested, disappears
First World War Centenary: Could this be the most moving ceremony of all?
'Sex will be just for fun by 2050 as we all switch to IVF,' Pill inventor claims
The Tyranny of SE Asia's Establishment
In the UAE, the United States has a quiet, potent ally nicknamed ‘Little Sparta’
A Changed China Awaits Mr. Obama
Britain First hijacking the poppy is a vile insult to veterans like myself
I Ate Steak at an Underground Fight Club with Hong Kong’s Elite
Qatar’s ambitious future driven on by North Korean ‘forced labour’
Myanmar Policy’s Message to Muslims: Get Out
Umbrella Dreams (video)
Chris Patten is a real friend, but what if he’s the only one?
‘Indefinite Resurrection’ Who are the Umbrella Movement protesters remaining on the streets of Hong Kong?

At fast-growing Brookings, donors may have an impact on research agenda

October 2014 News Archive #Journey to Mars; Have yourself a very blue Christmas; Hong Kong protests reach polite impasse; Expert challenges MH370 story; Conspiracy Oracle Backs Beijing from Bangkok; A Banner on a Hong Kong Landmark Speaks of Democracy and Identity; Leung lays bare the truth of Hong Kong elites' anti-democratic stance; Ebola in the US: Panic over the virus threatens to infect President Obama's midterms; Stability will only return when Hong Kong ends its property tyranny; Tim Clark is totally dissatisfied with the MH370 investigation; Emirates Head Critical of MH 370 Investigation; Shambles at the Vic; October 6 remembered; On the Oregon Trail with Blue Rodeo; The Party v the people; Hong Kong Is Ready For Democracy, But China Isn’t Ready for a Free Hong Kong; ANA - another night awake

October 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

At fast-growing Brookings, donors may have an impact on research agenda
UAE and Qatar: public relations warfare
My Captivity:Theo Padnos, American Journalist, on Being Kidnapped, Tortured and Released in Syria
Emirates Airline to make the United States its third largest source of revenue
Switzerland's shame: The children used as cheap farm labour
Rights activists slam Malaysian opposition leader's sodomy trial
Hong Kong Democracy Standoff, Circa 1960


flydubai: ‘Our niche is Dubai.’ But could Emirates have incorporated the short-haul strategy?
Camps Bring Further Danger to Rohingya Muslims Fleeing Potential Genocide in Burma
Heartbreaking Final Letter Of Hanged Young Iranian Woman Reyhaneh Jabbari
Ebola: hysteria, nursing, reporting and courage
Occupy Hong Kong (in pictures)
How Hong Kong's business elite have thwarted democracy for 150 years
Britain, don’t put your faith in Russell Brand’s revolution
Hong Kong protesters reach new heights with democracy banner on Lion Rock


Hong Kong Leader Reaffirms Tough Stance on Elections and Economic Discontent
In Bahrain, human rights defenders are under attack – but we won’t be deterred
Myanmar’s Planned Apartheid Against Rohingya and the Silence of the World
The Sicilians who can't escape the Mafia
Emirates Is the World's Most Glamorous Airline The American-bound carrier has rivals feeling turbulence
The Investigation Into Thailand’s Backpacker Slayings Is Officially a Farce
Australian Company’s Payments to Hong Kong Leader Raise New Questions
Extra long-haul: The 10 furthest airline routes
An end to Hong Kong’s unrest is now more distant than ever
Dubai old and new: incredible pictures of the changing skyline
Koh Tao murders: key witness drives a hole through Thai police case
Kevin Pietersen autobiography: Why was the whole affair not managed better to avoid this fallout?
Kevin Pietersen's book should force ECB to restore civility to England set-up and act against bullying culture
Editorial: Independent Test of Koh Tao Suspects' DNA Needed
Protest Organizers Claim Progress for Hong Kong
The Forgotten Story Of Classic Hollywood’s First Asian-American Star
Kevin Pietersen’s book is a damning indictment of England’s petty politics
Is Emirates the World's Best Airline?
Escape from North Korea: 'How I escaped horrors of life under Kim Jong-il'
Qatar’s friends-with-everyone approach rankles some of its Persian Gulf neighbors
Homeland gets a reboot for season four – and that's a good thing
North Korea capital 'under lockdown' amid rumours of threat to Kim Jong-un
Who Loves China?
Joshua Wong Emerges as Unlikely Teenage Leader in Hong Kong Protests
Hong Kongese professor pens heartfelt open letter expressing immense pride in her protesting students
Hong Kong: 'I have not seen anything like this in decades'
One Chart Shows Just How Terrified of Hong Kong China's Government Is Right Now
Hong Kong Is Ready For Democracy, But China Isn’t Ready for a Free Hong Kong

Chater Road: a history of Hong Kong's prosperity and tumult
The Human Factor (Vanity Fair feature on AF447)
Hong Kong’s umbrella revolution - the Guardian briefing

September 2014 News Archive Hong Kong Is Ready For Democracy, But China Isn’t Ready for a Free Hong Kong; ANA - another night awake; Too Young to Die, Too Old to Worry; Flying High - The Improbable Rise of the Gulf Airlines; Scotland's missed opportunity; Guardian says no to Scottish independence; Our obligation to the memory of the victims of 9/11; On the brink; Brits, booze and airplanes can be a toxic mix; Preliminary Dutch report offers nothing new; DWC plans announced; Ultimate Airport Dubai is back and hopefully better; A President among the fossils; The struggle for Hong Kong; NATO's Welsh invasion; New statement on fight against ISIS from UAE; Something incredible is happening in Scotland; Grumpy, green, yellow, old and male...and unelected; Thailand's military run government

September 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Hong Kong Is Ready For Democracy, But China Isn’t Ready for a Free Hong Kong
Chater Road: a history of Hong Kong's prosperity and tumult
The Human Factor (Vanity Fair feature on AF447)
Hong Kong’s umbrella revolution - the Guardian briefing
Occupy Central With Peace And Love
Ryder Cup 2014: Marvellous Rory McIlroy turns young gunslingers' duel into mismatch
Hong Kong’s Protesters Are Fighting for Their Economic Future

What's Wrong With Hong Kong?

Internationally acclaimed barrister Amal Alamuddin marries an actor
Hong Kong students ‘savvy and bold’ in pursuit of democracy
What the Murder of Two British Tourists Tells Us About Thailand’s Dark Side
Salmond says Scots ‘tricked’ out of independence Scottish independence: poll reveals who voted, how and why
Why Chiantishire has become Ruscany
Alibaba valued at $231bn after frenzied debut as public company

Watches gift scandal shows how Fifa lags behind on ethics
Scotland started a glorious revolution. Don’t let Westminster snuff it out
Qataris give ground in Gulf spat

Scotland: Gordon Brown could be the winner in the event of a no vote
Scottish independence: voting yes is just the start
The way we were - US foreign policy
At Boeing, a Disconnect Between Engineers and Executives
Independence of the Scottish mind has shown up the failure of British nationalism
Scotland Decides: the Economics of the Unknown
A yes vote in Scotland would unleash the most dangerous thing of all - hope
If Scotland votes for independence: the key questions answered
Billy Bragg: how iScotland would help England rediscover its radical heart
Qatar’s Support of Islamists Alienates Allies Near and Far
England's cosmopolitan future - Clacton versus Cambridge
Michael Palin: ‘The world is an absurd and silly place’

Failed phone call, seventh handshake help refine MH370 search area
A380 Continues To Pose Challenges For Heathrow
Scottish independence: A yes vote will produce a leaner, meaner Scotland
Scots voting no to independence would be an astonishing act of self-harm
Malaysia Airlines Asked for Travelers’ ‘Bucket Lists’ in Ill-Advised Contest
Maryam al-Khawaja’s arrest shows Bahrain at its worst
Falcao's Salary, Zeki Fryers' Bentley and the Stench of the Transfer Window
From Beethoven to Beijing
Islamic State: Where does jihadist group get its support?
Bahraini Human Rights activist charged with 'insulting the King'
Beijing Rules Out Open Elections in Hong Kong
Hong Kong 2017 elections: Protests begin in China as authorities rule out open nominations

August 2014 News Archive Thailand's military run government; Protests in Macau - chipping in; The return of Kate Bush; Thailand - Asia's crackdown hub; UAE's Libya airstrikes show extent of regional conflict; The 10 things a perfect city needs; Etihad's control of Darwin Air questioned at last; The Thai junta’s anti-majoritarian rule; Coup leader, army chief, prime minister; Thailands' Asian values - looking inward; The Observer view on Obama and the limits of presidential power; Dubai360 launched; The perils of cricket; US just not sure who to bomb in the Middle East anymore; Etihad takes effective control of Alitalia; To dare to dream; 100 years on; Fifty days and counting

August 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Beijing Rules Out Open Elections in Hong Kong
Hong Kong 2017 elections: Protests begin in China as authorities rule out open nominations
Increasingly, Retirees Dump Their Possessions and Hit the Road
Wang Zhenmin on Hong Kong, Democracy and Protecting the Rich
Hong Kong’s battle with China over democracy begins in earnest this weekend
Satire Website Writes Hilarious 'Apology' To PR Firm Offended By One Of Its Articles
Burger King swallows Tim Hortons; new firm is Canada-bound
Kate Bush: her 31 UK singles
Cricket and the war, 100 years on
One plane airline named third best in world
Sale of the century: the privatisation scam
Abandoned Athens Olympic 2004 venues, 10 years on – in pictures
The Secret Footballer: sexism and racism are football’s dirty secret
UAE Ruler Approves Lengthy Counter-Terrorism Law
Middle East crisis: We know all too much about the cruelty of Isis – but all too little about who they are
There's no British satire on the BBC. Try John Oliver, the expat on HBO
The BBC Report

Thailand’s Crooked Army
Dhoni's control test
I went undercover in America's toughest prison
Missouri's days of unrest expose the stark reality of a segregated society
Dumping a bucket of ice on your head does not make you a philanthropist
Hong Kong Newspaper Prints Fake Obituary of Rival’s Owner
New York Daily News' abhorrent Robin Williams front page gets the edit the actor deserved
The new jet age
Abhisit’s stories
Tony Blackburn: ‘John Peel looked upon me as the devil for some reason’
Isis consolidates
Obama’s authorization of Iraq airstrikes isn’t connected to a coherent strategy
This Islamic State nightmare is not a holy war but an unholy mess
Rory McIlroy gave young fan a lasting memory at Louisville Thornton’s
Turning back the clock in Thailand
Ape selfies and the law of copyright
Dubai: Pearl of the Desert
The analogue titans’ last gasp against the digital giants
North Korea relaxes fashion rules in 'sign of progress'
Slaves of happiness island

Gaza is not as I expected. Amid the terror, there is hope
Dubai Airport’s New Concourse D On Track To Open In Q1 2015 – Sheikh Ahmed
First World War Centenary: My father threw away his poppy in disgust
Gary Lineker: ‘Fifa makes me sick and Blatter runs it like a dictator’
Singapore - the social laboratory surveillance state

10 reasons Yorkshire is the best place to live in the UK
Changing Asia: China’s high-speed railway diplomacy

July 2014 News Archive Thailand Junta Retains Sweeping Power Under Interim Constitution; DXB resumes full operations; On the MH17 crash site; Dutch response becomes stronger; Mr Putin and his murderous puppets; BBC's Fergal Keane at the MH17 crash site; The shooting down of Malaysian MH17; United Arab Emirates detains two Qatari citizens on spying charges; A mall too far?; 95 years on from Alcock and Brown; Seventeen years on

July 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Trapped in Qatar: the migrants who helped build the 'tower of football'
MH370 :The Plane That Vanished 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight Attendants Devastated After Second Disaster
Sky News apologises after presenter is seen looking through MH17 luggage
A Day in Gaza: A Destroyed Hospital and 'Gut-Slamming Explosion'
Deprivation in Gaza Strip
Who’s Right and Wrong in the Middle East?
Sifting through the wreckage of MH17, searching for sense amid the horror
Russia Today “Covers” the Shooting Down of MH17
The Bearable Lightness of Being: How Germans Are Learning to Like Themselves
'Pastafarian' man Niko Alm wins right to wear colander on his head in driving license photo
Information controls during Thailand’s 2014 Coup
Imperial War Museum opens – in pictures

A Beautifully Detailed New Geologic Map of Mars
11 reasons we’ll miss True Blood after season 7
American Billionaire Made in Thailand Doubles Down on Kingdom After Coups
Would the Real ‘SuperMoon’ Please Stand Up?
David Hare on Jimmy Savile: biography of the man who 'groomed a nation'
Why Qatar Should Be Allowed to Keep the 2022 World Cup
George Clooney attacks Daily Mail over 'irresponsible' story on his fiancée
Isis leader preaches holy war: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi puts persecution of Shias at heart of his ideology ahead of push on Baghdad

Teflon Thailand’s Capital Opens Latest Comeback Chapter
The tragedy of the Arabs
The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders
In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are
China’s ‘New’ Language of Diplomacy
Strauss 'mortified' at Pietersen slur
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Takes a Bite Out of Italy’s Alitalia
Blair embodies corruption and war. He must be sacked

Migrant worker class

June 2014 news Archive From national treasure to convicted sex offender; Two Older Planes That Airlines Won't Let Fade Away; Big Four Sell Out Hong Kong; The new working class; EU Council bans official visits to Thailand; The Guardian view on the jailing of three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt; Al-Jazeera journalists' stiff sentences prompt international outrage at Egypt; Egypt's kangaroo courts; World Cup blocked across Middle East as TV camera lingers on hot Brazilian fan for over permitted time (Pan Arabian Enquirer); Thailand' human rights record hits rock-bottom; A drinking license for Emirates flights?; A tale of two capitals - Vientiane or Bangkok; Emirates cancels A350; politics, economics or pragmatism?; World Cup - in extra time

June 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Hong Kong referendum: A showdown with China
Why Hong Kong Is Having Its Biggest Protests Since 1997
Rolf Harris: A very ordinary tale of a bleak abuse of male power over young girls
Hong Kong’s democratic aspirations are no farce
Qatar's annus horribilis
Tony Blair, dread creature of the forbidden swamp
Phone-hacking trial was officially about crime; but in reality, it was about power
Emirates flight carrying Pakistan political chief ordered to divert
World Cup 2014: Goalkeepers in action
In isolated Egypt, foreigners get a taste of local justice
John Kerry snubbed by Egypt's heavy jail sentences for al-Jazeera journalists
Slavery and the Shrimp on Your Plate - Thai Seafood Is Contaminated by Human Trafficking
MH370 captain plotted route to southern Indian Ocean on home simulator
Dubai Airport in a minute

Dubai, Once a Humble Refueling Stop, Is Crossroad to the Globe
US demotes Thailand and Qatar for abysmal human trafficking records
How John Oliver started a revolution in US TV's political satire
Illusions Gone, I'm Leaving Russia
Britain is an old, declining empire, says official Chinese newspaper
‘Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys’
Malaysian MH370: Inmarsat confident on crash 'hotspot'
Myanmar’s Persecuted Minority

Iraq will follow Blair to his grave
Abu Dhabi: So Blindingly Rich It's Almost Sickening
Rights Groups Slam Thai Junta Deportation of Cambodian Workers
America's Allies Are Funding ISIS
Obama, McCain and Maliki -The Blame for Iraq Is Shared
Where ISIL, the jihadist group that is seizing Iraq, came from and what it wants
Dubai Opera House builder eyes 2016 completion date
Maids prepare for UAE military service

Well-trained and armed, Taliban tried to hijack plane in Pakistan
The world's most amazing football pitches – in pictures
SRT warns against embarrassing videos
The growing stink at FIFA; the case for a replay
The Evolution of Goalkeepers' Gloves
The Problem With American Soccer Fans
Could Jonathan Agnew Be the Next Victim of KP-gate?
I confronted Donald Trump in Dubai
D-Day Dispatch: The first reporter on the beach
How Dubai Became One Of The Most Important Aviation Hubs In The World
Hunting for paid Russian trolls in the Washington Post comments section
Peter Greste’s parents preparing for the worst as journalist faces maximum term
Angry aircrew say Indian passengers a nightmare (Times of India)

Tell us the truth about the children dumped in Galway's mass graves (Guardian)
Asian business: A world to conquer
Behind P.O.W.’s Release: Urgency and Opportunity
A Look Back at the Tiananmen Square Protests
The alarming rhetoric of China’s war on terror

May 2014 News Archive (under Thai censorship) I stand in front of a ferris wheel (Hong Kong version); Life after another coup; Reality check - Phuket is a dump; The political impact of the Soma mining tragedy; Emirates to delay hub move until 2024 after Dubai study - maybe; Notes from Tokyo; Emirates results form a stable base for more growth; Thai AirAsia X ready to launch; What would America fight for?; Northern Ireland: power of the past; Doha's new airport - some real competition for Dubai

May 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

The alarming rhetoric of China’s war on terror
Egypt's revolution won't be undone: the people still have the will
Tiananmen Square: Ageing rebels, bitter victims
How China has rewritten the history of Tiananmen Square
NYU’s Promise of Academic Freedom in Abu Dhabi Is ‘Essentially Worthless’
Bahrain: A System of Injustice
Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: The 13 theories that could explain where the plane is - and what happened to it

Myanmar’s Appalling Apartheid
How does Google's self-driving car work – and when can we drive one?
Portrait of a serial winner - Luis Suarez
Here’s who China has detained so far ahead of the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square
Donald Trump's Next Golf Wish: Move Ryder Cup to Dubai
Former Leeds chief arrested in Dubai after ‘financial irregularities’ claim

GFH acquires US private school in Dubai for $34m
Kumar Sangakkara: 'It's been an amazing privilege to play the game'
Tears of a Rickshaw Driver - Tianenmen - 25 years
Sheikh Mohammed wants Dubai to be 'open air gallery' How China Is Eclipsing Japan in Asia
A Friendly Game for a Beatific State
Why the Official Explanation of MH370’s Demise Doesn’t Hold Up
Ukraine crisis: Vladimir Putin has caught the west napping again
Partners in Music: The friendship between Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor
Max Clifford: the rise and fall of the UK's king of spin
Death Stalks Muslims as Myanmar Cuts Off Aid
Whatever Gerry Adams' past, peace takes precedence over justice
Air Berlin: Etihad to the rescue after another loss in 2013

April 2014 New Archive Crunch time looms for Thailand’s political crisis; Qatar's new airport to open - at last; A sombre Thai new year; Emirates schedule changes during DXB runway closure; Airlines moving to DWC during Dubai runway closure; The flight of MH370; flydubai makes biggest move during DXB runway closure; Over 300 flights per week at Dubai's Al Maktoum airport from May 1; Court orders end of Emirates Milan to New York route; Oscar for best amateur dramatics; Margaret Thatcher began Britain's obsession with property. It's time to end it; The endless legal coup; Cameron and the Muslim Brothers; Falling out with Thailand; Emirates contact center network; Treat MH370 tragedy rationally; Malaysia can take lessons from MH370 but not all the blame; IPL Schedule for Dubai

April 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Air Berlin: Etihad to the rescue after another loss in 2013
Courting Disaster: Can Thailand’s Monarchy Survive Democracy?
Liverpool v Chelsea: Not anti-football from Mourinho, but simply football
Popes John Paul II and John XXIII to be made saints in double-canonisation
Xenophobia rears its ugly head in Singapore once more
Network monarchy’s twilight
Desperate Rohingya kids flee alone by boat
People’s Daily Editorial Fanned Flames of 1989 Protest
#BBCtrending: Emiratis say 'London is not safe'
For King and Country
Obituary: Maineung K. Kunthee, a prominent red-shirt poet
The Sun's Shakespearean spread proves a hard act to follow...
Emirates Tries to Grow Beyond Its Home Market, Others Freak Out
Peter Moores inspires cynicism rather than hope for England's future
Watch London's historic skylines change – in pictures
The Middle East we must confront in the future will be a Mafiastan ruled by money
Shannon Airport: A curious history of celebrity visitors
Rescuers Race to Find Survivors of South Korean Ferry Sinking
Pulitzer Prize, Reuters, Rohingya, The Navy, and Phuketwan
Phuketwan journalists face jail over reprint of Pulitzer-winning story
Mega theme park in Dubai: Six Flags signs off on plans
Gulf owners planned to flip Leeds Utd “like an off-plan apartment”
Dubai embarks on new adventure, to build 'Aladdin City' near Creek
Thailand’s Political Tensions Are Rekindling Ethnic and Regional Divisions
Masters 2013: Jeff Knox, the man who lives every helpless hacker's dream
Moment the first A380 super jumbo lands in Scotland
Bangkok’s Uneasy Calm Masks Succession Struggle
The best independent travel magazines
How Western Is Germany? Russia Crisis Spurs Identity Conflict
Has Suthep gone bonkers?
Hannah Arendt, Nidhi Eoseewong, and the Spectre of Totalitarianism in Thailand
Bangkok Rising
Sofitel Dubai Downtown reveals F&B concepts
Wisden 2014 review – Stunningly inclusive with a strong line on politics
'Cool' London is dead, and the rich kids are to blame

The mystery of CNN 2014

31 reasons we should all be living in Hong Kong
Thailand crisis: 'Red shirts' warn of civil war threat
Voters will go on raging at elites while their interests are ignored
Thailand in 2014: A Democracy Endangered by Juristocracy?
Profit Above Safety:GM
Why PSG and the World Cup will not be enough for football-hungry Qatar
Moonlighting – box set review
Sexism in Thailand and the ‘stupid bitch’ syndrome
Malaysia Frets Over China's Pressure to Find Missing Flight 370

Second world war bomb kills seven in Bangkok
The Russians Are Coming: 10 very good reasons not to believe Vladimir Putin when he says he's totally not going to invade eastern Ukraine.
Why Burma Is Heading Downhill Fast
In Thailand, Some Foresee a Coup by Legal Means

 

 

 

March 2014 News Archive  Nok Air's flawed message; Flight 370 Families to Malaysian Government: You're 'Executioners'; Nok Air CEO: Bring on the women; MH370 - theories; Constitutional Court throws out Thailand's February election; The Folly of Thinking We Know; MH370 - has debris now been found?; Crimea: Mr Putin's imperial act; Malaysia's series of errors; MH370 - accusations and at last some honesty; MH370 - summary of a very confused week; Wall Street Journal suggests extended MH370 flight; Chaos and confusion from Malaysian authorities; The action moves to the courts as anti-government protests fizzle; MH 370 - sadness and mystery; Now it is Etihad on the rack; Qatar versus the GCC; Etihad versus flydubai; Etihad Airways 2013 profit rises 48% ; flydubai profits increase; Shutting down the shutdown; Russia Today's full scale propaganda; First the Crimea and then?; A Crimea Primer; The Bangkok Post at its yellow worst

March 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

The Russians Are Coming: 10 very good reasons not to believe Vladimir Putin when he says he's totally not going to invade eastern Ukraine.
Why Burma Is Heading Downhill Fast
In Thailand, Some Foresee a Coup by Legal Means
Air Capacity From United Arab Emirates
The incredible shrinking country
'The Good Wife" Can Compete with Cable Drama, But it Shouldn't
Thai court dismisses Saudi killing case
A freak storm provides a possible preview of Hong Kong’s extreme weather future
Missing Plane: Man At Centre Of MH370 Storm
Flight recreated in 777 simulator

Britain and Bahrain: still allied against democracy and human rights
Amnesty International Calls on President Obama to Bring a Female Secret Service Driver to Saudi Arabia
My guilty pleasure – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden
American Dream breeds shame and blame for job seekers
Malaysia Airlines crash: Suicide mission theory of MH370 investigators
Why Dubai is attracting business away from London
Analysis: Déjà vu in Thailand as court annuls elections
How to Punish Putin
Seven reasons why Turkey’s Twitter ban matters to the world
This time, it’s serious: Thailand’s upcountry is preparing for civil war
Court expected to rule today whether to void the February 2 election
Thailand’s elephant in the room and how it may affect any deal
Series of Errors by Malaysia Mounts, Complicating the Task of Finding Flight 370
Here’s how we know MH370 kept flying for hours
How the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet Could Have Been Hijacked
What Satellite Data Reveal About Flight 370's Location
Tony Benn dead: Obituary – No one else so superbly led the left with such fire
Malaysian Airlines MH370: what we don’t know can make compelling journalism
Malaysia failing credibility test as flight confusion deepens

PDRC’s failure will put courts’ probity to the test
Malaysia Airlines and the case of the missing legs
What is Qatar’s Tamim thinking, after all?
Japan's radioactive nightmare
Malaysia Failing to Manage Crisis Exposes Leadership Limit
How the Middle East has gone cool towards Qatar
Saudi Arabia Threatens to Lay Siege to Qatar: Cooperation or Confrontation?
Winners, losers and others in Sodomy II
Malaysia, sodomy and déjà vu - Five more years.
Singapore on a shoestring
Where is Thailand heading after protests?
Toronto’s Ethnic Buffet
Ukraine has revealed the new world of western impotence
Will Scotland Go Independent?
The fall of Saigon
The neglected pleasure of airline meals
Understanding Thai-style Buddhism
Mayday: How Qantas went from national icon to corporate tragedy

February 2014 News Archive The Bangkok Post at its yellow worst; Business Bay stages a comeback as Dubai property market picks up; Get Ready for a Bloody End Game in Thailand; What the government isn't telling you about Bangkok; EK responds as delays continue; Another Thai airline start-up; The hour of Kiev and Europe; EK responds as delays continue; What happens when things go wrong at EK; The old is new again in EK economy; Etihad finds there is no smoke without fire; Was she robbed?; Ukraine torn apart; The end is coming for Yingluck; Qatar Airline's 2014 expansion; Switzerland’s crossbow: The referendum on Europe's freedom of movement will have big consequences; Is this our future view?; EK extends Qantas relationship to Jetstar; Malaysia Airlines to operate from DWC temporarily; Rise of the Swiss right; Etihad's stake strategy faces new test with Alitalia move; Abyss looms after Thai poll; Underground shambles; Thais must be allowed to vote; Democracy in Thailand, Interrupted; Thailand on the brink; Thai takedown; The show must go on

February 2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Understanding Thai-style Buddhism
Qatar's foreign domestic workers subjected to slave-like conditions
Tony Blair: from New Labour hero to political embarrassment
Report: 27% of flight attendants sexually harassed

Where your airplane goes to die
Hong Kong news editor stabbed with cleaver over press freedom protests
What’s a bitcoin? A look at the digital currency
Understand the Red Shirts
What the hell is Barack Obama's presidency for?
A star in a bottle
Russia feels double-crossed over Ukraine – but what will Putin do?
On Her Majesty's Secret Service recap: a 007 outlier with a truly human Bond
Why airlines make such meagre profits
Sochi 2014: For all the nagging concerns the legacy will be the thrills
Ghosting
Ryanair Flight 8347: Man videos 11-hour delay
This Old Man - Life in the nineties
41 Vintage Pictures Of Heathrow Airport That Show Air Travel Was Once A Stylish Affair

Egypt Extends Its Crackdown to Journalists
The Sochi Olympics, Frame by Frame
Ignoring facts to fit the narrative at The Nation – No. XXIV
Thai Court Limits Crackdown on Protesters
The Swiss air force: armed and dangerous, but only in office hours

The Thai Malaise
Thailand: A country without a government
The Inside Story of How Olympic Photographers Get Such Stunning Images
Unit cost analysis of Emirates, IAG & Virgin; about learning from a new model, not unpicking it
Construction, corruption and controversy in the Sochi that Putin built
Thailand's elite coup culture
The beautiful magazines setting out to prove print isn't dead
Monica Lewinsky, Reconsidered
If Somsak's crazy, why get so mad?
Bahrain's PR sheen can't hide abuse allegations
10 interpretations of who started WW1
Thailand Was Never the Land of Smiles, Whatever the Guidebooks May Have Told You

Ghosts of the Tsunami
Thai princess uses social media to ‘declare war’
Cricket reaches a new low
Sochi 2014: the 11 worst crashes of the Winter Olympics so far – in pictures
Newly social Ryanair reveals product plans
In Thailand Opposition Assaults Democracy As Voters Reelect Government: "Yellow Shirt" Protestors Act Like Mussolini's Black Shirts
The Thirty Years' War: How Peace Kept WWI Alive
Elegy For KP
Kevin Pietersen's anti-Andy Flower rant was the final nail in his England career
BuzzFeed Style Guide
Network Shinawatra
Why Indians love cricket
KP questions deserve answers
Germany, I apologise for this sickening avalanche of first world war worship
The truth about the luxury of Qatar Airways
How are Norwegian Air Shuttle's low-cost US flights financially possible?
'A chilling warning to others'
Down and Out in Thailand
So What is Really Happening Now in Bangkok?

January 2014 New Archive The new HKG Express; Thai elections to proceed - maybe; The Guardian imitates Thailand's the Nation; Davos - junket; Thailand's never ending messy story; For both sides, it's time for a strong reality check; Why Thai politics is broken; Staff travel misfiring; The Financial Times calls for Thai elections to proceed; The perils of national service; The din of misogyny at Bangkok protests; Like two countries; A constitutional history lesson; Thailand’s anti-democracy protests should provoke a harsh rebuke from the U.S.; Who Lost Thailand?; What's behind the Thai protests?; Bangkok Shutdown - 2; Bangkok Shutdown -1; No room for reason in a storm of whistles; Boeing's hollow victory: The company got the vote it wanted, but at what cost?; NACC's utterly predictable ruling; Asia's LCC boom; Canada’s bitter, small-minded foreign policy; RAK Airways suspends operations indefinitely

January
2014 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Thailand Braces for Violence as PM Yingluck’s Charm Runs Out
In Bangkok, voting demands nerves of steel
January 26, 2014: The Day Thailand Democracy Died
The biggest land rush in the history of the internet starts on February 4
Forced to fish: Slavery on Thailand's trawlers
A letter from Tora prison
Why Bitcoin Matters
The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics
You go your way, I’ll go mine  -  Thailand’s very unity is now under threat
The antidemocratic roots of the Thai protesters
Thailand state of emergency: What powers does the government have?
China's princelings storing riches in Caribbean offshore haven
There's more at stake for West Brom in Nicolas Anelka case than points
The Brazilian ranch where Nazis kept slaves
What It Was Really Like To Fly During The Golden Age Of Travel

With all sides wrong, there can be no right
Thailand’s Election Commission reluctant to hold February 2 poll
The dark side of Carey Mulligan

Antigovernment Protesters Shut Down Bangkok (pictures)
Can Thailand Avoid Another Coup?
The good, the bad and the ugly
Debunking “Tyranny of Global Commentary”

Stop the sledging and let the cricket do the talking (written by an Aussie)
The flight and fall of Kingfisher Airlines
Thailand’s protests and unwanted international scrutiny
Opinion: Prognosis for divided Thailand bleak, but why?
Thailand protests: an on-stage ‘duel’

We need 'reform' but the question is how to achieve it
BBC road trip with Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed al-Makhtoum
The Man Who Leads Bangkok’s Mobs

Thailand’s Farcical Corruption Charges
Constitution Court Judge: High speed rail not necessary for Thailand
T
he controversial death of a teenage stringer
Who was to blame for the First World War?
Blue Rodeo with Devin Cuddy – Orpheum Theatre (Vancouver, BC – January 2, 2014)
Thailand: Protect Rohingya ‘Boat Children’

Thailand on the brink
Jet in 'near miss' with UFO
Macau is betting on a new kind of Chinese tourism
Monty Panesar's disappearing act epitomises England's Ashes disarray
Why Australians don't understand the Barmy Army
Difficult Approach: Flying the LOC DME Rwy 15 into Aspen, Colorado
Rethinking retirement in Thailand’s capital of sleaze
The Guardian's photo team have chosen Goran Tomasevic, of Reuters, as their agency photographer of the year.
When it's time to go, let me go, with a nice glass of whisky and a pleasing pill
Emirates passenger tied up by air crew after trying to smoke on flight to Brisbane
Western nations sending Alzheimer’s patients to Thailand for care
Professional LinkedIn Profile Tips: A Checklist of 17 Must-Have Items

December 2013 News Archive RAK Airways suspends operations indefinitely; Blue Rodeo on CBC's George Stroumboulopoulos tonight show; You’re welcome - An open letter to the citizens of Bulgaria and Romania; Coming soon - the NokAir 2014 calendar; Anti-govt forces have a new 'bogeyman' - the Western media; Bangkok's anti-democracy protestors; Thailand's democrats do irony badly; Democracy in Thailand; 8 get sentenced to jail, fined for uploading ‘mockumentary’ to Internet; US Airways and American merger proceeds; Respect for democracy in Thailand needs support; Yingluk sleep-walks into the trap set by elite anti-democratic forces; Emirates faulty new economy service; Friends with questionable values; Has Yingluck played her ace?; Santa Clause is coming to town; Thailand’s Democrat Party is not so keen on the whole democracy thing; Emirates: In a sweet spot; Nelson Mandela 1918-2013; An open letter from Carl Bernstein to Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger; Thailand's crisis

December 2013 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Professional LinkedIn Profile Tips: A Checklist of 17 Must-Have Items
When the law is but a whore
In Textbook Fight, Japan Leaders Seek to Recast History
Rebuilding the World Trade Center: a progress report

Brit killed and barbecued after split from Thai bride
2014 Thailand Election – the Election No One Really Wants
The antidemocratic roots of the Thai protesters
Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished
Families that need £18,600 to spend Christmas together: The shameful earnings threshold imposed on British citizens wanting to bring their foreign spouses here
Reuters dodges questions about death of 17-year-old photographer in Syria
Navy can't bar slave trade fact
How tiny Singapore became big player in match-fixing
Thailand: Navy Lawsuit Threatens Media Freedom
The Last Gasp of Thai Paternalism
My Shot: Michelle Wie
Thailand's 'red villages' eye Bangkok protestsWhere did Homeland go wrong?
Thaksin: The Thai Monarchy’s Savior?
Giant leap for China as moon probe lands safely in Bay of Rainbows
How Qatar came to host the 2022 World Cup
Death of a schoolboy: why concussion is rugby union's dirty secret
Little India – speculation, evidence and lessons
Vote-buying claims nothing but dangerous nonsense
Ramkhamhaeng: A view from inside the stadium
Cricket, a Once-Genteel Sport, Reveals a Darker Side
A giant passes
Thailand's stark choice
Educated Speech
A Ramkhamhaeng Diary: an Eye Witness Account
Will Jetihad Work?
Thai protest leader Suthep a son of the elite with an axe to grind
The Richest World Leaders Are Even Richer Than You Thought
Suthep’s People Assembly: ‘New Politics’ in disguise
The exile and the kingdom

November 2013 News Archive 2020 Expo - the candidates; The Man Who Leads Bangkok’s Mobs; Bubbling over; Another doomed Thai start-up; Thailand's political farce; Thailand's war of attrition; Launching Etihad regional; Thailand's latest troubles; Gulf airlines buy big; flydubai's 2014 service cuts; The red arrows are here; Around the world in twelve days; Emirates half year - steady as she goes; Fleetwoods - don't stop here; 'Racist abuse of Yaya Touré is a smokescreen, real problem is at home'; Amnesty of betrayal can't rewrite history

November 2013 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

The Richest World Leaders Are Even Richer Than You Thought
Suthep’s People Assembly: ‘New Politics’ in disguise
The exile and the kingdom
Power grab
Thailand’s Democrat Party Is Hilariously Misnamed

Suthep, the false prophet
Izmir: A Universal Candidate
The US flies B-52s into China's new air defense zone -  Here's why that matters.
Fun turns to fear for Jonathan Trott
Signs of Change in News Mission at Bloomberg

German photojournalist Nick Nostitz attacked in anti-government rally
Tehelka's Tarun Tejpal: Sex scandal batters India's top investigative title
Murdoch's feud with Blair over wife Wendi: 'Terminal' end of friendship over claims of 'multiple encounters' between ex-PM and tycoon's wife
Thai Court Rejects Bid for Direct Elections of All Senators
A nation changed: Globe coverage of the Kennedy assassination - Boston Globe
The Death of President Kennedy - NYT 50 years ago
Boeing Goes Burgundy on the 777X – Why?
Rant: Bloomberg's acquiescence to censorship is a disgrace
Photos - Hong Kong - 150 years ago
Emirates Airline Is Eating All The Other Airlines' Lunch. But Is It Here To Stay?
Lèse-majesté and the Thai Judiciary’s Assault on History
A Series of Disappointing Events at Global Village
flydubai soars to new heights in 2013
What is to be done in Thailand?
Thailand’s amnesty fallout: Hubris, hatred and hidden agendas
ICJ issues Preah Vihear ruling gives mild victory to Cambodia, but neither side will be completely happy (or upset)
Domo Arigato, Mrs. Roboto: Inside Tokyo’s Sexy Android Palace
Happily Homeless in Honolulu
Blue Rodeo: the complete conversation
Blanket amnesty bill unconstitutional: Nitirat
Back to Thailand's future
Revised Amnesty Bill passes the House, what are its contents?


October 2013 News Archive Notes from a brave country; RERA is not working; Qatar Air announces DWC; Gulf Air plans DWC flights; 70 million; 67 died but Santika owner not responsible; How the UN lost Saudi Arabia; London's great exodus; Not just an opera house - a very Dubai solution; Cityscape fantasy time; Upstart Abu Dhabi Airline Becomes Ally to European Carriers; Coming soon: the Dubai Water Canal Project; Cityscape, lagoons and records; An American farce; Dubai Airports - full steam ahead without a plan

October 2013
- Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Rise of Middle East Airlines Doesn't Fly With U.S. Rivals
Gulf carriers' image undergoes a makeover
Thailand's era of insanity (part 1)
Blue Rodeo: That old familiar sound
Aung San Suu Kyi: falling from grace
The inglorious exit of Bo Xilai, Canada’s closest ally in China’s power structure
The End of Hypocrisy - American Foreign Policy in the Age of Leaks
What Is It Exactly That You Do All Day?
Face (highly recommended reading)
The Incredible Shrinking Plane Seat
Russell Brand on revolution: “We no longer have the luxury of tradition”
Royal cover up: Police censor Jimmy Savile interview transcript

Constitutional amendment and the guardians of Thai democracy – Part 2
Brandel Chamblee's PGA Tour season grades are in -- and Tiger Woods gets an 'F'
Lessons From Living in London
The Last of the Sheiks?
London will soon become home to only the very rich and the poor
England camp has been let down by anonymous player who leaked Roy Hodgson's space monkey joke
World's most dramatic runways
Lese what? Pandering to palace propaganda
Infrastructure spending in Thailand - Fast train coming
Ignoring Bahrain’s iron fist
Constitutional amendment and the guardians of Thai democracy – Part 1
Singapore and Aung San Suu Kyi

US Airlines Are Whining About Foreign Carriers Stealing Their Customers, But It's Their Own Fault
The view from Dubai
Rethinking Hong Kong's trams
The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about GCHQ
Excuses, Excuses, Excuses
Tom Clancy sounds off on Colin Powell, politicians
Jon Stewart Goes On An Epic Rant At House Republicans Over The Government Shutdown
In slurring Ed Miliband's father, the Mail offends a British sense of fair play
Miliband's defence of his father against the Daily Mail is a defining moment
The Daily Mail vs Ed Miliband - now the flames have really been stoked
Dubai property prices up again in third quarter but still 42% lower than 2008

Sheikh Mohammed's equine operations must not be above the law after recent drug scandals

September 2013 News Archive Dubai to repay Abu Dhabi debt in 2014; Tax grab or market regulation?; Why the Y in Canada's airports?; Tales from Kai Tak; American gun use is out of control. Shouldn't the world intervene?; Dordogne travel tips; EK to Boston; EK to Kabul; Recent transport disasters blamed on spirits; How to hire; Faye Wong announces second divorce; Lies, damned lies and house price statistics; Get stuck in again; Divine intervention saves passengers!; TV's golden age; Lessons in crisis management; Kanpai Tokyo; The 2020 Olympic vote; The Syrian question; Re-read this in one year

September 2013
- Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Dubai property prices up again in third quarter but still 42% lower than 2008
Sheikh Mohammed's equine operations must not be above the law after recent drug scandals
Dubai case raises new questions for Sheikh Mohammed
Freedom of Information
Canadians Detained in Cairo Describe Beatings in Captivity
Qatar - No more own goals

Bernie Taupin on Elton John's New LP: 'It's Kudos All Around'
Qatar 2022 puts Fifa's reputation on the line
Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'
Abu Dhabi’s Foreign Assistance Steals Spotlight
Kings for All Seasons: How the Middle East’s Monarchies Survived the Arab Spring
Decisive win gives Merkel strong hand

Reuters Next: Anatomy Of A Multi-Million-Dollar Misfire
Elton John's 100 Greatest Songs of All Time
Tiger Woods and the curious case of his serial questionable drops
Thailand’s stupidity politics
Julia Gillard: losing power 'hits you like a fist' Retrospective: The Films Of Wong Kar-Wai

More Boom-and-Bust Seen in Dubai’s Cash-Driven Recovery
The high-earning butlers of Dubai

'Boldly going where no probe has gone before': Nasa confirms Voyager 1 has left the solar system

The Red Bull heir and inequality in Thailand
Speaking up for our national game
The falling man (for 9/11)
Old enough to know better: Thailand's infamous Full Moon Party turns 25

Revealed: Sir Alex Ferguson's secrets to success at Man Utd
Khaosod English Clarifies Usage Of "Stupid Bitch"
Play it Black at University Golf Club
It's Time to Bring Back 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
Tongue-Thai’ed!: Democrat’s poster boy Abhisit Vejjajiva looses all manners
After 1,000 games as a pro the statistics of my career don't lie - David James
Here's What Happened The Last Few Times The US Bombed Countries To Teach Them A Lesson
The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking?

Is The Economist left- or right-wing?
Thailand’s Government Talks Reform, but Opposition Less Keen
Singapore Strike: The Full Story
Hit-and-Run Case Seen as Reflection of Inequality in Thailand

August 2013 News Archive The Syrian question; Emirates to Taipei; Emirates speculates on US routes; Test Match Farce; The Failed Grand Strategy in the Middle East; Surveillance and the state; More than half of humanity lives inside this circle; Skyview to give public access to the Dubai Airshow; British shame; LKY on Thaksin and Thailand; Give democracy a chance in Egypt; Condemn or applaud; Scotty's worst nightmare; The tragedy of Egypt; Emirates to fly to Sialkot; Thailand waits; Gibralter rocks; Crying wolf or a real threat; Manning trial: Shameful moment in US history; Changing Hong Kong; Snowden's unlikely refuge

August 2013 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

40 maps that explain the world
Can Egypt Learn From Thailand?
Kevin Spacey: television has entered a new golden age
Concert Review: James Gray Tribute

Egypt's cruellest week
Ta-Ta, London. Hello, Awesome

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face
Foreigners Being Financially Ruined by Thai Wives
Everything was possible

The GT200 on trial
Better run through the jungle
These indicators are more important than a company’s financial statements
Emirates considers expanding fifth freedom flights (CAPA analysis)
Reasons Why U.S. Government Wants to Block American-US Airways Merger
Nightmare island where traffickers imprison Burma's Rohingya
Not in our name: Dawkins dresses up bigotry as non-belief - he cannot be left to represent atheists

Breaking Through Limits on Spying
Why Kenya airport blaze will raise questions over Nairobi's future as an African hub
UAE telecom users outraged by 'du'opoly'
Flying on an Air Koryo Ilyushin IL-76MD in North Korea
Sympathy for the devil is misplaced when subjugating Australia
So what is up with Kevin Pietersen, England's sullen Ashes saviour?
Thailand: No Amnesty for Rights Abusers
Wait in lounge: how Heathrow cashes in on wealthy time-poor travellers
Ikechi Anya: Watford's wonder winger is not your everyday player
Thailand: Government fails to provide justice for the victims of Tak Bai killings
NSA internet-snooping program using Thailand
Google offers virtual tour of A380 superjumbo

July 2013 News Archive Airport needs to add 100-million-passenger capacity; Flights of fancy; EK/Qantas alliance now includes New Zealand; Thailand's latest geographically confused airline; Dubai's unfortunate ability to self harm; Bert Trautmann - RIP; Boris is right - it is time to scrap Heathrow; Emirates to Kiev in 2014; America against democracy;  Emirates announces sixth daily flight to Bangkok; 77 years; Asiana 777 accident at SFO; No such thing as a good coup; Why the doors have slammed in Edward Snowden’s face; Long sentences in the UAE dissent trial; Amsterdam - London's best airport; Emirates launches Conakry

July 2013
- Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Do try not to get your penis stuck in a toaster. A message from the fire brigade
The perils of autopilot
The Gimli Glider: 30 Years Later
Looking Back at Earth: A Tiny, Pale Blue Dot
Birth of future monarch has animated the unique lunacy of royal watching
The interview: Laurie Berryman, Emirates
John Oliver Rips CNN’s ‘Royal’ Commentator
Convicted Norwegian Rape Victim Pardoned in the UAE
Thai-style history education makes Thais ignorant and narcissistic

The story of a lese majeste prisoner
Jaidee and Lawrie make cut while boarding plane and walking dog
Are Tour Players Cheating? Some Say Yes
'Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago', Obama says
Scandal of the jet-setting monk rivets Thailand
The Exotic World of Singaporean Journalism
The empty cable car joins a string of Boris Johnson follies
flydubai adds business class (CAPA analysis)
Open season on black boys after a verdict like this

KTVU Asiana Flight Pilot Mistake Might Be One of the Worst TV Screwups of 2013
Test Match special on Flickr
Even Le Carré's latest fiction can't do justice to Snowden
What happened to Asiana flight 214

Stories of bravery emerge from Asiana Airlines crash
NTSB preliminary review: Asiana 777 approached SFO too slowly
Terror on Jet: Seeing Water, Not Runway
Embryo Screening IVF Breakthrough Produces Baby Connor
After 77 Years, Murray and Britain Rule
A bucket full of fail: How the world's journos fudged Thailand fried chicken story
The muslim brotherhood's post-coup world

June 2013 News Archive The service of Snowden; Abbott v Rudd: the choice Australia deserves?; Can LCCs thrive in Japan; More test cricket in the UAE; Dubai's other great airline; Snowden escapes Hong Kong; EK's plans for DXB single runway ops - summer 2014; Emirates in near miss - February 2013; Emirates is world's best airline - really?; The separation of the Murdochs; EK A380 to LAX; Dubai is second most romantic city in the world...for sugar daddies; Emirates launches its newest London attraction; NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China; Casino Dubai’s Rebound Pitch Ignored by Global Investors; Brokeback Summit; Focus on PRISM; Is Dubai out of control - again?; The myth of don't do evil; Ho invests in Jetstar; Burma or Myanmar; How problems at DXB determine EK's future planning; American freedom on the line; Emirates route rumours; House of Saud: built on sand; Emirates route rumours

June 2013 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

The Criminal N.S.A.
Out Of The Haze, A Singapore Spring?
Barack Obama to face protests in South Africa after years of laissez-faire
Empty Seat Deepens a Mystery in Moscow
I Knew Snowden. And He’s Not The Story
The suprisingly hopeful “Mad Men” finale

Mandela can leave us in peace, his work is done
Qatar prepares for leadership handover
A Qur'an theme park in Dubai is likely to please no one
Stuart Hall's sentence is unduly lenient – the judge got it wrong
GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits
I have watched Barack Obama transform into the security president
Thailand's boom: To the northeast, the spoils
View from the top of the world: Passenger jet pilot's jaw-dropping photographs stunning vistas... taken from his cockpit at 35,000 ft
Exodus of Colombian soldiers to UAE continues
Tony Blair strikes gold in Mongolia
The Vogue Interview: Wendi Deng
The ‘secrecy industrial complex’
Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from wife Wendi Deng Murdoch
NYU booting blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng amid Shanghai expansion: sources

IMF warns against borrowing binge as Dubai government companies' debt rises
NSA scandal: God save us from the lawyers
Obama is checking your email
John Oliver hosts The Daily Show without Jon Stewart – triumphantly
“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” and What They May Be Planning Now
Inside the United States
White masks, red masks and royalist communists

After Newtown shooting, mourning parents enter into the lonely quiet

Tourist Family Safely Returned To Thailand After Harrowing Night On Soi 3
Ashes series likely to bring out the feral in England and their fans
Thailand's saddest secret
Emirates Balk at Activism in Region Hit by Uprisings
China Inside Out
Madness in Myanmar and minorities in Muslim lands
Rohingya Population Control: The Onslaught In Burma Continues
Can Aung San Suu Kyi turn Myanmar around?
Thuggish Phuket taxis targeted after 12 hotels complain (sadly - don't expect anything to change)
After Decades of Neglect, Pakistan Rusts in Its Tracks
David James on playing in Iceland, the freezing cold island with eight million puffins... and one new football hero
The Wonderful Liveries of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Chinese Netizens Defiantly Remember Tiananmen Sq.
Thailand's Toothless Human Rights Commission
Dubai booms again on back of the Arab Spring
Behind Singapore's Internet Crackdown
The fight against Thailand’s archaic and militaristic education system
In Thailand’s Schools, Vestiges of Military Rule
John Barnes: Star of Maracana is still fighting for a higher goal

May 2013 News Archive Emirates route rumours; Watford and Crystal Palace tantalised by Premier League fortunes; Tim Clark's speech to the Royal Aeronautical Society; Thai Lion Air starting up in BKK; This is a new, farcical low and David Cameron is losing control; Three years on - a temporary peace; EK A380 repairs update; Bangkok confirmed as AirAsia X Thai base; Wonderful, joyous, heart-stopping; Arabian Business has mega fail on Emirates profit story; Come on you Horns; David James found at last - in Iceland; The impact of not looking after your staff; Emirates results hype; Emirates fluctuating fortunes; Nord Anglia Education to acquire WCL Group for USD222 million; The business of IVF in Dubai; R Airlines are bust; Yingluck's strong speech on Democracy; Dubai gets Trumped again; Boeing launches its 777X; Is Dubai the centre of the world again?; Watford in play-offs after a day of drama; What on earth was going on at the BBC

May 2013 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

John Barnes: Star of Maracana is still fighting for a higher goal
Watford's Head Coach reflects on a tough day for Hornets' fans, players and staff - but is resolutely positive about the future at Vicarage Road...
Heady with beauty and charm, in cherry tree season Japan celebrates environmental values that Western greens have lost
$25m fine 'means life' in foreign jail
Why Emirates and friends will soon re-shape US aviation
In Myanmar, apartheid tactics against minority Muslims
Expo 2020: Why Britain is backing Dubai

Sandstorm at the Burj Khalifa: Watch the breathtaking video from the spire of the world's tallest building as a storm engulfs Dubai
Vertical horizons: Hong Kong's skyscrapers – in pictures
Dubai at night as seen from the International Space Station
U.S. Grapples With Rift Among Mideast Allies

April 2013 News Archive BHA publishes its Godolphin report; Emirates Boosts Capacity to Bangkok and Hong Kong from October 2013; UAE and Britain: credibility gulf; Four decades of friendship built on affection and respect; NAC crash at Bagram; DXB's 2014 crisis; Etihad bets on India in pricey Jet Airways deal; Etihad's unlikely new #BFF is Air Canada; Godolphin doping; punishments and questions; Abu Dhabi - Jetihad's gateway to India; Godolphin's reputation shattered; Maybe - one day!; RIP Mike Denness; Thatcher service - overdosed, over-hyped, over-spent; What Churchill’s funeral says about Margaret Thatcher’s; 7 years of Downtown Dubai; Europe’s Top Airlines Squeezed by Emirates-Ryanair Growth; Guantanamo Bay - President Obama's shame: The forgotten prisoners of America's own Gulag; Not a day to stay dry; One rule for some; Emirates meets its Waterloo; IVF pioneer Robert Edwards will never be forgotten by those he helped; Bangkok -- the Lady Gaga of Asia; Ed Miliband's statement on Margaret Thatcher; Lyon's friendly folks and food failures; Thatcher's sorry legacy; Emirates goes transatlantic - again; DWC to start passenger operations in October; Canada and UAE start to make their peace; London losing hub business; The fall and rise of Don Muang; Doha's jinxed new airport; Qantas and Emirates launch their alliance

April 2013 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

U.S. Grapples With Rift Among Mideast Allies
Barack Obama plays Daniel Day-Lewis playing Barack Obama
Simon Crisford is interviewed over Godolphin doping scandal
Why Dubai Is Rapidly Becoming the City of the Future
Dubai flights rely on fuel refined from Iranian oil
Wing tip vortices (wake turbulence/jet wash) visible due to fog
Web censorship: the net is closing in
Preah Vihear Temple: Redrawing Jungle Lines
British millionaire James McCormick guilty of selling fake bomb detectors
Countdown to Launch: The Airbus A350 XWB
Teaching the Limits of Media Freedom Is Tricky in the Gulf
Sun was right to publish Rolf Harris story in the face of legal threats
Singapore’s state prosecution demands apology for Facebook comments
Margaret Thatcher's funeral was deeply political
A funeral designed to elevate Margaret Thatcher above politics
Who needs the Bahrain Grand Prix?
U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes
Gitmo Is Killing Me
Indentured Servitude in the Persian Gulf - Qatar

Faldo on Rory - "A monkey can sell you for tens of millions"
Sun, sand and shattered dreams: Dubai mirage turns to nightmare
Thatcher: the unintended and paradoxical legacy of the lady in blue
Lion Air 737-800 undershoots and ends up in the water

Heat seeking: Dubai
The warrior woman: David Marquand on the Iron Lady's legacy
Dubai Police patrol cars shift gear to include a Lamborghini Aventador
Margaret Thatcher's Britain: we still live in the land Maggie built
World From Berlin: 'Thatcher's Dogma Paved Way for Financial Crisis'
Margaret Thatcher left a dark legacy that has still not disappeared
Margaret Thatcher: looking back on the life of the Iron Lady
The lady who changed the world
Emirates' Flanagan - Greatest Airline Builder
The Sane Women Behind the Unraveling Men
Thai Lawmakers Move to Change Constitution Amid Court Challenge
Emirates-Qantas alliance neat fit (CNN)

March 2013 News Archive Qantas and Emirates launch their alliance; Dubai Gears Up For Next, More Modest Boom; Thailand's spoiled rice; The rebirth of Don Mueang;  Qantas Emirates alliance gets approval but hardly a ringing endorsement; Don't kiss, don't swear: rules of a Dubai stopover; Why the Cyprus bail-out will fail; Hong Kong's top court legalises selective discrimination; Cyprus deal done, now for the fall-out; Qantas flight times from Dubai Emirates founder retires; President Obama Addresses Israeli People – “I Believe Your Future Is Bound to Ours”; EU bullies set Cyprus deadline; 31 PAD leaders indicted over 2008 Bangkok airports occupation; flydubai expands Russian links; Cyprus update; Leaving the west behind - Chengdu gets new airport; More chaos in Cyprus as MPs court popularity; Cyprus closes banks and delays vote on deposit theft; Cyprus bail out creates more Euro chaos; Makkasan - Bangkok's worst white elephant; EK's cargo division off to JXB; The demise of Tweetdeck; Middle East is new global travel crossroads; Iraq ten years on - the slow road back; Bastakiya gets renamed; Now it is The Emirates Old Trafford - Emot !?

March 2013 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

Emirates-Qantas alliance neat fit (CNN)
Online protest over Maldives' rape sentence
The Reality Behind Dubai's Property Recovery
Three year sentence for selling CDs defaming monarchy
Bitcoin is shooting up. So are some of its users
Legacy vs low-cost carriers: Spot the difference
Matt Prior saves England to secure series draw in New Zealand

An apology about New Zealand-England coverage
Multinational Watford look to top flight and a solid financial future
Why I am on Hunger Strike in Bahrain
Euro Bailouts: Savers Be Warned - Your Money's Not Safe
Thailand refugee camp fire kills 36
Qataris stake their claim to a place at the top table of global dealmaking
Thai Constitution Court chief admits decision to dissolve pro-Thaksin PPP was political
Is Qatar having the 2022 World Cup prised out of its hands?
After the Thai TV monarchy debate, controversy is growing
Where Aung San Suu Kyi is a tarnished idol
The ammart's counter offensive
Do sexy flight attendants really sell more seats?
Clegg and Miliband have Cameron by the short and curlies
Leveson vote: no cause for hyperventilating
Smoke in the cabin, crew in tears: how my flight turned into terror at 30,000ft
Pope Francis: questions remain over his role during Argentina's dictatorship
Vienna Philharmonic and the Jewish musicians who perished under Hitler
Being Muslim in Las Vegas
Last Meals Of Executed Innocent Men
In Public Eye, Shining Star of Myanmar Loses Luster
There are echoes of Chris Tavaré in Nick Compton's batting for England

BitCoin: The Currency Of The Future?
Prince Alwaleed And The Curious Case Of Kingdom Holding Stock
The Oracle of Thailand
Unfit for purpose and in denial: a church that has lost all authority
Hong Kong Kai Tak, HKG, 1996 Terminal Photos
PGA chief’s nonsense on belly putters

February 2013 News Archive Why the anchored putting ban is necessary; Notes from a small, over-crowded island; Dubai’s new boom assumes short memories; The Emirates Air Line – London's £60m white elephant; EK to Clark from October; Singapore’s Population Bubble; Requiem for a Dreamliner?; And now the biggest ferris wheel; American and US Airways announce planned merger; Flydubai posts Dh152m profit; Dubai Mall's unlikely claims; Jet/Etihad deal may boost Emirates; Papal quitter; Live ICE on Emirates; Emirates sports sponsorships; Soccer scandal shows darker side of regimented Singapore; Little England folly at the heart of history; Ageing taxpayers owe the iPod generation; The language of love; 1485 and all that; Etihad Airways 2012 profit up 200%; Dubai Group lenders reject latest debt offer;  Erme estuary under a winter sun

February 2013 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

A chat with Whitehorse’s Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland: Love unreined
Amenity kits become more than a “nice to have” for airlines, passengers
Juries? It's time they went the way of the ducking stool
Cities Without Ground: a guidebook to Hong Kong's elevated walkways
Why Have the Arab Monarchies Survived?
Protest in Singapore -To the sodden field!
The Arab Spring and Lèse-Majesté
What we know about Oscar Pistorius. And what we don't
Holding in wind during flights is bad for your body claim scientists who suggest flatulence-absorbing blankets and seats as solutions (more Daily Mail nonsense!)
Terror at 27,000ft: Crew plug gap in super jumbo jet door with blankets and pillows stuck together with gaffer tape after it 'blows open' during the flight (Daily Mail nonsense)
Oscar Pistorius: South Africa on trial as culture of violence thrust into limelight
A Meteor in the Russian Sky
Meteor explodes over Russian Urals, injuring 950
Reeva Steenkamp: our media invites you to ogle a dead woman
Thailand's stalemate and uneasy accommodation
Thailand’s capital city - Power failure
The Pozzo Way or Holloway?
Qatar’s public diplomacy woes
Kevin Spacey on reinventing Francis Urquhart
No discontent for Blue Rodeo on this winter tour
The Trouble with Wall Street The shocking news that Goldman Sachs is greedy
Farewell to an Uninspiring Pope
Statement from the Board of Directors of Bahrain Air
Concert Review: Blue Rodeo at Salle Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts; February 8, 2013
Lightning strikes St Peter's Basilica as Pope resigns

Netizens roused by sexy calendar, music video
Barack Obama is pushing gun control at home, but he's a killer abroad
Seven Days on the Queen Mary 2
Barbarians at the Digital Gate
Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor: The complete Q&A

The Crisis in Thai Buddhism
The foreign media are failing Thailand

January 2013 News Archive Erme estuary under a winter sun; Mars lands in Dubai; Why Balotelli will be missed; Air hub wars - Dubai v Istanbul; Emirates announces Haneda; UK v Europe - a five year battle is just beginning; Another shocking lese majeste sentence in Thailand; Bye bye QE2; Suit against Dubai Group dropped; Emirates airline’s plans for taking over the globe; Edifice complex; In the USA much ado about cable news; The first world war: the real lessons of this savage imperial bloodbath; Dubai risks slowing property recovery with mortgage cap; Christopher Martin-Jenkins: Cricket loses the best friend it ever had

January 2013 - Worthwhile reading from other sites:

The Crisis in Thai Buddhism
The foreign media are failing Thailand
Thailand: Rights Challenges Go Unaddressed
Japan’s Demographic Disaster
Rohingya 'Helped On' Off Phuket: Photo Special
David Beckham needs to beware the motives of Qatar moneymen behind his move to Paris St-Germain

A single girl's lament (Singapore)
Algeria, Mali, and why this week has looked like an obscene remake of earlier Western interventions Qatar 2022 World Cup will exploit migrant workers, says report
Britain's loneliness epidemic
A mirage of rights
Aung San Suu Kyi picks Beatles and Tom Jones on Desert Island Discs
Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood's gift to American power
The most beautiful cricket grounds in the world – in pictures
Mary's lemon meringue pie
A Brief Visual History of HK’s Old Airport, Kai Tak
Inauguration Day in pictures as Barack Obama is sworn in
Hiding, Praying, Tied to Bombs: Captives Detail Algerian Ordeal
In Thailand, a Broader Definition of Insulting Royalty
Gulf activists step up campaigns despite quiet crackdown
A Maid’s Execution
Review: Blue Rodeo show age, depth in Vancouver
Blue Rodeo has enjoyed long road across Canadian music landscape
Blue Rodeo celebrates 25 years on the Outskirts
Qatar: regional backwater to global player
Rogue asteroids on course to 'buzz' the Earth
After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies by Christopher M Davidson (Guardian review)
2012: The year in viral videos
Tony Greig – showman, salesman, charismatic leader and cricketing great

December 2012 News Archive Dubai announces its resurgence;Retirement age increased in Dubai; Emirates 2013 - time to speculate; Thunderbirds are gone; The NRA shames America; Bangkok grand prix's dubious backers; EK-Qantas deal gets cautious go-ahead; 75 years of open skies; Defining moments; America’s drone war is out of control; Newtown shootings: if not now, when is the time to talk about gun control?; Missing in BKK - Thai Air Asia; Shouting out; Speculators backing Dubai - no one should think this is good news; Provocative wealth; If you build it will they come?; Schwartzel takes Thai Golf Championship; Whatever happened to Thaksin?; In praise of Alastair Cook; Business aviation moving to Al Maktoum in 2013; Dubai to launch 2024 Olympics Bid; Lufthansa, Turkish air links more talk than reality; Emirates airline’s model is a game changer: CAPA chief

December 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

2012: The year in viral videos
Tony Greig – showman, salesman, charismatic leader and cricketing great
Hidden slums of Singapore revealed
Hitting China With Humor
Tony Greig's Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture (June 2012) – in full
Rape in the World’s Largest Democracy
A sense of perspective on the BBC
Bahrain, a Brutal Ally

When Bahrain Said: Get Lost
Scenes from a marriage - ThomsonReuters
Richard Nieuwenhuizen: Dutch football and the death of a linesman
Pete Souza’s Portrait of a Presidency
Witnesses: Soldiers Opened Fire at Wat Pathum on 19 May 2010
Crashed Superjet was coded as fighter: investigators
The Reaper Presidency: Obama’s 300th drone strike in Pakistan

BBC Sports Personality of the Year: Our writers cast their votes
Middle East carriers racing for world market share
Census shows a changing of the guard in Britain
Murder Charges Against Thai PM Are Justified
Monarchy Fund Evicts Elderly to Boost Profit in Bangkok Renewal
Abhisit on the BBC: Unfortunately, some people died
What is Qatar hiding?

The Well-Hung Boy Next Door
Twenty-five years late; Blue Rodeo is still at work
Verdict in Abhisit murder case will raise a storm in Thailand
Referees must get greater respect from the Football Association and game in general before it is too late

DNA testing frees man who lived on death row for 15 years
South China Sea: Going to Get Worse Before It (Might) Gets Better
Reuters:
Best photos of the year 2012
New Love: A Short Shelf Life
The Grand Aviation Tour of North Korea
The Joy of Golf: New look to the Old Course is sacrilegious

In Rangoon, Love Blossoms under Umbrellas
How Crash Cover-Up Altered China’s Succession
Hypersonic Flight ‘Breakthrough’ Could Have Us in Tokyo by Lunch
Letters from Asia: Going Back to Washington Square
Cathay axes attendant after coffee threat

November 2012 News Archive Leveson's solutions may not be worth the cost; Myanmar's capital ghost town; English cricket's Everest beckons for Kevin Pietersen and Alastair Cook; Another Dubai announcement; Al Ain airshow cancelled with just one week's notice; What is the point of one millions fans?; New city to rise within Dubai; Dubai 2020 plans outlined; Passenger death forces Emirates 777 to divert to Warsaw; Leeds United's unfortunate choice of new owners; Catalonia’s future is for all Spain to decide; We are here - take a look; Just like a Vacation - Blue Rodeo in Barcelona and Majorca; UAE's new internet law leaves too much to interpretation; Emirates half year profit growth; Spanish (no) fly; And now: Thai Regional Airlines and City Airways; U cannot be serious; Obama's acceptance speech in full; Election thoughts; Alliance wars down under; HSBC, golf and hypocrisy; Business Bay canal extension to begin in 2013; US presidential election: Obama – four more years; Blue Rodeo and Friends in Toronto; The EK freighter network; It all comes down to this; Europe's leaders need to act fast to avert economic and social disaster; All Arab states are not the same - the UAE does not deserve to be traduced; Emirates and "engagement"; Downtown Dubai from space

November 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

Technology giants at war- Another game of thrones

Phoning An Aircraft Engine In Mid-Flight? No Problem

PR Kingdom: Press Debriefings and a Bit of Art in Doha. “Tea with Nefertiti” at Mathaf

Singapore's first strike in 25 years

China's People's Daily falls for Kim Jong-un 'sexiest man alive' spoof

The smell of teargas in the morning

Biggest expansion in five years for Dubai

36 hours in Macau
The Idiot’s Guide to Thai Elite Coups

Chongqing man brings inflatable sex doll onto subway

Back to work in Myanmar

Reflections from the Secret Service agent who leaped onto JFK's car

Seductive dangers of a coup mentality

The charmer-in-chief: Obama gets flirty as he schmoozes with Thai prime minister on first stop of historic Asia visit

America, Meet Your New First Lady: Obama’s Foreign Side Piece, the Prime Minister of Thailand

Photography - a Guardian masterclass
Yes, the Gulf monarchs are in trouble

Your Daughter Died

Myanmar and America - Goodbye clenched fist, hello sweaty palm

BBC scandal: The seeds of disaster lay in a bloated management structure

Organized attacks hit Myanmar’s Muslims

Blue Rodeo brillan en Madrid, todos “Lost together"

The Try-ing times of Blue Rodeo

Why social media - not violence - could bring change to Oman

How a Race in the Balance Went to Obama

Revealed: Earth-like planet that could have a life-supporting climate

Music Review: Blue Rodeo - 1987 - 1993

Sir Winston Churchill: Zionist hero
Sylvia Kristel - Economist obituary

Why Heathrow will never expand

Down deeper and down - what's up, Tom?

Test Match Sofa: Why The Establishment Fear Change

I know I’m right about Obama, but I can’t quite tell you why

The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

October 2012 News Archive Downtown Dubai from space; Virgin takes on Qantas; Aung San Suu Kyi's silence is wrong; Europe's history lesson; Succession Planning recommended for Thailand; The American elections: He said, she said; PC Air grounded, passengers stranded; The Scottish Divorce; Is Lance Armstrong the ultimate dope?; Why all the fuss over Fujairah?; Qatar Air joins One World; India is still unravelling; All Three Airline Alliances Undergoing Big Changes; Gulf airline Etihad partners with Air France-KLM; Singapore Undergoes a Glitzy Makeover; John Terry and Ashley Cole have shamed Chelsea and England; Dubai dusts off canal plan; More DPG fiction; Gianfranco Zola: 'I was exhausted but I never lost my passion for football'; The return of Don Mueang

October
2012 - Good reading from other sites:

I know I’m right about Obama, but I can’t quite tell you why

The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

Alistair Cooke – Letter from America: Bringing two nations together

Bloomberg's #Sandy sign language interpreter becomes a star

Q and A: Thaksin Sits Down With Forbes (very boring!)

Blue Rodeo welcomes musical friends on special night

Thailand's secessionist Muslim insurgency escalates

Ignoring racism is a crime in itself – and not limited to Serbia

Full circle

Booze, bonks and bodies

Why Liverpool are currently a laughing stock
How do you cope with not being Felix Baumgartner?

Gatwick considers second runway in latest airport debate twist

Jeremy Bowen: 'I've never been into that toys-for-boys stuff'

Eric Lomax - obituary

The culture that permitted Savile's abuses goes far beyond the BBC
What exactly does the FA intend to coach at its £105m Snazzadrome?

Emirates stretches out 380 network

OneWorld seeks to regain momentum

Are airline 'alliances' actually useful for passengers?

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi on Social Media, Arab Monarchies, and Muhammad Morsi

How Chinese Photogs Are Camouflaging Their Japanese DSLRs During Protests

Mutual contempt means Kevin Pietersen's comeback will be tense

The day I confronted my troll

The alternative ratings for the greatest Ryder Cup of all time

September 2012 News Archive Fantasy F1 Thailand; Democracy in America; Divided world; Clegg's less than humble apology; Budget rent a car - redefining useless; Letter while leaving America; Letter from America; Middle East turmoil baffles America; Dignified memorial for a legend; Flying into regulation problems; Emirates announces Algiers; Shameful - a 23 year fight for the truth; Emirates low key launch to Washington; Domestic flights in the UAE; Hub power has spoken - or not !; Paralympic Games: Inside the theatre of miracles; The new green; The Asian threat to Qantas; Etihad on the RAK; Emirates alliance a flying leap of faith; Qantas International the winner in Emirates deal; Aggressive Emirates eyes bigger pie of Indian skies; RoutehappyRaises $1.5M To Build A ‘Flight Experience Search Engine; Emirates the ‘missing piece in earnings bridge’ for Qantas; Four more years; Middle Eastern carriers move in; Qantas bets on EK; Pan Am's view of Thailand from 1960; Why the paralympics matter so much.

September 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

The changing nation of Burma

Glasgow Commonwealth Games venue named Emirates Arena

Dubai International to be Featured on National Geographic Channels International

Slouching Toward Democracy

“A License to Kill"

Mascara, meltdowns and math -- what really happens at flight attendant recruitment days

In full: Police log detailing Andrew Mitchell's 'pleb' rant

Exploiting the Prophet

What price a university education?

The Germans have a word for it – and it's a very long one

City state aims high

It Takes One to Know One

‘The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’

Barack Obama: can he win again?

Innocence of Muslims: a dark demonstration of the power of film

GCSE exams to be replaced by EBacc

English baccalaureate: another dog's dinner of a plan for exam reform

Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years

Michael Lewis's Vanity Fair portrait of Barack Obama, digested

Obama’s Way (from Vanity Fair)

Hillsborough families will get justice for this repugnant and heartless horror story, but they will never get closure

Marathon Ends Drought for Murray and Britain

Olympics and Paralympics athletes' parade - in pictures

Men, Who Needs Them?

Can Thailand Avoid Becoming a Modern-Day Atlantis?
The 50 best moments from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Dubai deal shakes up Qantas network

Yes, We do know who your daddy is

Roars for Oscar Pistorius's perfect sporting finale

CNN and the business of state-sponsored TV news

Airbus - the future (circa 2050)

Ryanair CEO Calls Customers 'Stupid': Shame On You

Qantas alliance strategy staunches its bleeding

How Bush Snared Blair

London Olympics triumph gives way to more sober focus on the legacy

A Great Leap Into the Abyss

Why didn't CNN's international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain's Arab Spring repression?

Why The Current Facebook Engagement Rate Calculation Is Inaccurate

Red Bull heir's deadly hit-and-run stirs debate on justice in Thailand

Explore the heaving metropolis of Bangkok

Anderson masterclass

Why are Fifty Shades of Grey sequels being pulled from UAE shelves?

The legal mythology of the extradition of Julian Assange

Oscar Pistorius is wrong on stride length – Alan Oliveira took more

Oscar Pistorius angry at shock 200m loss

Barack Obama - end of term report

The Old Man and the Seat (watch the video!)

The Middle East Big 3 in Europe: Soon to cover all markets; Emirates dominates…but not everywhere

Neil Armstrong memorial: pomp and plaudits for reluctant American hero

August 2012 News Archive Qantas bets on EK; Pan Am's view of Thailand from 1960; Why the paralympics matter so much; Baby Ek; Happy and glorious; The London airports debate; RIP Neil Armstrong - a hero for the ages; The rise and fall of the Lance Armstrong myth; Apple's sour taste; Air Asia seeks Singapore license; Ten commandments for flying; Hangover 3 - the Royals; Turning a blind eye; Is Ordos the next Dubai?; Bad news for Reuters; KP is worse than Nuts; New air route to Myanmar; Air Canada goes Jetstar route; The Emirates Crackdown (this is not an airline article - ed); Raising more than a flag for Singapore; Giving Thaksin a run for his money; The failure of Kofi Annan; The sheer hypocrisy of Aung San Suu Kyi; Nakheel's shame

August 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

Neil Armstrong memorial: pomp and plaudits for reluctant American hero

After the Naked Romp, job offers for Prince Harry come flooding in

Andrew Strauss is right to give up best job in the world but Kevin Pietersen's return is now more likely

Airlines in transition - a rustbelt industr in search of revenues

I’ve been kicked out of the United Arab Emirates (Matt Duffy)

Venus and Serena Against the World

Copy that

Prince Harry photos: Fleet Street told not to publish, yet all is revealed on web

Niall Ferguson and the Rage Against the Thought-Leader Machine

Why we need him - Far from ignoring Asia, Jake Needham writes about it with aplomb
Don Mueang readiness decried

Give the BBC a Gold Medal: A Love Letter to Britain’s Olympic Broadcaster
Obama AWOL in Syria

Standard Chartered affair has a whiff of US hypocrisy

Qantas should refocus on Asia from Emirates codeshare distraction
Why Hong Kong Women May Never Find a Husband

July 2012 News Archive Danny Boyle Wins the Gold; Boyle's inventive ceremony grabs the licence … and thrills; A Qantas and Emirates alliance; Thai police chief joins birthday celebrations; Time for some big changes; Leaving out Becks - petty and foolish; Change two rules or golf is ruined, says Player;  Gun control: an American farce;
Midsummer cricket madness; Britain's first gold - the whinging Olympics; Qatar's UK plans take on Emirates; The branded Olympics; Thaksin unclear on return to Thailand; The craving for massive live events is ruining our cities; EK flight makes emergency landing after teenager suffers fatal heart attack; 50 shades on Virgin;
Rejoice - Wie returning to Dubai; Air Arabia and flydubai jets in near miss off Dubai (months ago!); Sorry Emirates but Qatar is world's best; Preparing for Dubai's 2013 airshow; End of era as BBC bids good-bye to majestic home; The reality of London 2012; ;More unlikely Thai airlines; I came, I saw, I shopped; Do you believe in progress?; Why other airlines fear EK; Electronic cigarette brings UK to a halt; Thai AirAsia to transfer operations to Don Mueang by 1 Oct; The disgrace that is the A82; Thai Court to Decide on Survival of Party; EK announces new routes; EK 777 in fire diversion over China; Hong Kong - 15 years on

July 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

Tony Blair may itch to return, but he faces a cruel reality check
Nok prepares to launch international operation in 2013 as Thai Airways drops plans for ultra LCC Royal Lytham high and lows
The Apollo 11 Journey in Photographs
Bo Xilai: power, death and politics
Why I can't root for Adam Scott
Send him away!

I love Ramadan – it makes me feel connected
The Open 2012: David Duval in love with life and Lytham
Bangkok's Best Chicken Rice Restaurants
I guess it’s time to address the elephant in the room
Inside the Emirates Flight Catering facility in Dubai
Story of Dubai starts in Deira
Forget Murdoch: British Journalism Is Still Great
BBC lawyers consider formal appeal over court ban on riots drama
Farnborough in pictures
Former SCMP Hacks Appeal to Change Paper's Direction
Most Profitable Route for Emirates Airline? Greece

Interview: Ernie Els, golfer and former Open champion
How Airlines Spend Your Airfare
The west isn’t ready for the rise of China
Virgin America's New Uniforms Include Pieces We Would Actually Wear
John Terry is cleared, but football's reputation takes a battering
History and glitz on luxury train through Thailand, Eastern & Oriental
Thai king pardons American convicted of insulting monarchy

House of Lords: a historic opportunity for reform
Suu Kyi and the Rohingya: a Heroine No More
Asian Values Offer No Special Sauce for Europe
Who's your daddy?
How Qatar is taking on the world
AF447 final report
The Guardian's Hong Kong City Guide
Murdoch’s Change of Heart
Hong Kong in Dour Mood as Chinese Leader Makes Return Visit

June 2012 News Archive  Emirates update; Notes from the UK; China's leadership riches; Consultants for hire; Emirates announces Erbil; Aung San Suu Kyi: in the steps of Garibaldi; Watford FC sold; Don Mueang's new dawn; Emirates London cable car; Aung San Suu Kyi's Oxford return; Postponing the inevitable; Let's end the hypocrisy of 'Sport for all'; Thai culture ministry goes Gaga; The Thai problem that wont go away; The continuing cannibalisation of Air Canada; More BKK airport nonsense; EK update from the IATA conference; A380 wings will require an eight week fix; The world economy is in grave danger. A lot depends on one woman; Spain next in line for mega bail-out; How English football came unstuck; My big fat Greek divorce; Thai Democracy Tested as Judges Battle Thaksin; Tweeting the RJ concert; Celebrating ten years; Ottawa's big A380 day; 60 years; The threat to Thailand's internet economy.

June 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

Hong Kong in Dour Mood as Chinese Leader Makes Return Visit
Is time running out for Time Out?
Scenes From 21st-Century China
"Mystery mushroom" which leaves Xi'an villagers befuddled turns out to be artificial vajayjay
Nakheel drains Palm pools over service fees row Bare-breasted artist 'hired' to boost shows ratings: report
Fujairah: The Crucial Emirate
Bare breast painting act shocks minister
Let them eat tablets - Education in Thailand
Thailand’s topless talent show shock: Are some breasts more equal than others?

Post-Apocalypse Dubai: Artist's eerie photos imagine wild animals roaming free among crumbling remains of abandoned desert city
Nobel Lecture by Aung San Suu Kyi, Oslo, 16 June, 2012
By targeting us doctors, Bahrain's state shows no one is beyond its grasp
Air France 447 Final Report Means an Ugly Summer Ahead
A dress code is a matter of respect - not of a new law
"The most persecuted group in Asia" (Myanmar)

A coup missed?
England humbled by Auschwitz pain and misery as Wayne Rooney vows it will never be forgotten
Airbus A380 Wing Fix May Ground Aircraft for Eight Weeks
'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
Back to the brink in Thailand
The President, drones and just war theory
Thailand: How the meaning of ‘and’ starts a constitutional crisis
Why working-class people vote conservative
Diamond jubilee: an institution that hasn't let us down

Diamond jubilee celebrations: Day 4 - in pictures
The Queen entertained by pop royalty at diamond jubilee concert – in pictures
Thaksin, reform and political crisis

The Diamond Jubilee - slideshow
Best of Boeing: 10 revolutionary aircraft
Jeremy Paxman: We’re all monarchists now – even me
Yellow Shirts Rally in Bangkok
First Emirati woman cabin crew recounts how she grew wings

May 2012 News Archive 6 reasons Spain will leave the euro first; BKK airport to be expanded (at last); Webmaster Sentenced in Free-Speech Case; Husband accused of killing; Japanese stewardess in Dubai; EK scales back flights due to A380 delays; Airbus A380 wing flaws may cost USD$629m; Reconciliation, whitewash and the PAD - another day in amazing Thailand; What does the King's trip mean?; Will Emirates invest down under?; Goo Goo Ga Ga; Time to plan a velvet divorce for the euro; Chen arrives in America; A380 speculation in Dubai; What does it mean to be Canadian; Apocolypse fairly soon; A Greek tragedy; My peace prize is bigger than theirs; The UK's hopeless border process; South China conflict looms; Three new projects in Dubai approved; Blue Moon tweeting; Amazing Thailand - Warrant sought to open Karun's car; One story, two versions; Wall Street is just kids playing with dynamite; JP Morgan's $2bn hole; Thailand’s lèse-majesté laws - An inconvenient death; Emirates profits hit by fuel costs; Bonuses and Motivation; No survivors from crashed Sukhoi Superjet; Another BKK mall - though this one may be fun; Singapore Air financials; Long haul flight simulation; From Truce to Reconciliation in Thailand; An honourable death; EK's message to Etihad; Airbus finds solution to A380 cracks; Lufthansa v Emirates; Uncle SMS dies in Thai jail; Chen to study in USA; Reap what you sow; Dreaming of a sultanate; China: one man, two empires, an unholy mess; Betrayed or just an unhappy ending?; Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia share swap officially terminated; Dubai World Central seeks anchor airline; Nothing new here; Dubai Properties makes money by not delivering; Emirates goes on the offensive; Verdict delayed for Thai media site's webmaster

May 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

Emirates step Up Efforts to Counter Dissent
On the night shift: Bangkok's body collectors
Suu Kyi Angers Thais With “Fake Democracy” Tweet (Not the Nation)
Thames holds a mirror to 60 years of change
10 of the best (worst) Jubilee products
Michael Ware on the Things War Makes You See
Cutting up rough: How much do Greece and the rest of Europe stand to lose?
'I was on a 10hr Dubai booze-up. Taxi was a blur, but in just a few hours I went from party dancing to dungeon jail hell' Warning for Brits from Arab sex case girl (only in the Sun newspaper!)
Despite anxiety, UAE can take pride in migration policy

Thai journalist under investigation for charges of lèse majesté
What It's Like In Thailand's Deadliest Prison
King of Thailand Makes Rare Visit Outside the Bangkok Area
Once Upon a Time in Bangkok
Does Facebook Wreck Marriages?
'Goodbye to China, country of contradictions'
Beauty who beat hundreds of women to final of modelling competition revealed to be a man
Queen's lunch for monarchs attracts controversy
Italian university switches to English
Thai AirAsia’s controlling shareholder launches $145 million IPO
Crisis has altered Bahrain’s media

If you take my advice - I'd repress them
Funeral pyres lit in our dark night of shame
Ural A320 at Dubai on Mar 20th 2012, runway incursion
Cheap flights: how the add-ons add up

Abhisit’s Final Insult to Ah Kong
World's 12 best airline magazines
Behind Twists of Diplomacy in the Case of a Chinese Dissident
Bomber in Plot on U.S. Airliner Is Said to Be a Double Agent  (this is an extraordinary story!)
What Is the World's Most Economically Powerful City?
Excuse me: Gassy dinosaurs helped warm Earth Concerns over delayed verdict in criminal case against free media advocate
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng backtracks on asylum request
Foreigners might help us see the truth
England unveil Roy Hodgson with gleam of orderly optimism
Airlines and subsidies - our position (Emirates)

April 2012 News Archive Dubai Properties makes money by not delivering; Emirates goes on the offensive; Verdict delayed for Thai media site's webmaster; Golden Dubai (from 1970); Replacing the Met; Why Flydubai is anything but Emirates lite; Away from unrest, Bahrain Grand Prix plays to empty stands; Tonight is the peak of the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower; Bahrain Grand Prix: Formula One demeans itself with this event; Razorfish to drive Emirates social media; Emirates - JetBlue codeshare; Mall of the masses; No fairytale ending in land of smiles; Emirates latest A380 change; Thaksin getting ever closer to home; Emirates seeks way around Heathrow night ban; Cashing in - big time; CX versus EK; Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials; EK A380 tyre burst in HKG; Something you wont see on Mad Men; Players Sidestep Question of Augusta Membership Practices; Bahrain Grand Prix will end in tears; Thailand bans film based on MacBeth; Over paid and over there; Hello Tomorrow Campaign; Hello Tomorrow again; Dubai at night

April 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

Songkran in Cambodia: Red Shirts meet Thaksin
Two years after violent protests, Thailand remains a deeply divided country
Much Fodder for Obama at White House Journalists’ Event
Challenge for U.S. After Escape by China Activist
Journalist accused of insulting Thai royal family sets precedent
Should job-hogging over-50s all resign?

Air Canada’s slow descent
Another Night to Remember
Bahrain's Formula One for failure
Singapore Charges 48 in Underage Prostitution Scandal

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Qatar named as the fattest nation on earth where half of all adults are obese
Is Burma having its Mandela moment?
UAE Signs Deal to Integrate National IDs Into Mobile Phones
Fearful Final Hours for Briton in China
China Drama Now a Murder Mystery
Challenging Thailand's royal taboo
A familiar shout in Titanic film spurs search for Arab passengers
Why I love The Butler Cabin
The God of Gamblers

The Falklands: 30 years on
Abhisit and Korn Were Registered to Vote in UK as Citizens
Blue Rodeo, Sarah McLachlan performs "Lost Together" The 2012 Juno Awards
Falklands 30: Brian Hanrahan's memories
Miss Universe Canada disqualifies transsexual beauty queen Jenna Talackova

March 2012 News Archive How to have a conversation; Myanmar’s Newest Challenge: Hungry Journos; Thailand: Don’t Block Accountability for Political Violence; From prisoner to law-maker; Blue Rodeo Day in Ottawa; The row over leaving DXB; Hong Kong court overturns landmark ruling on maids; "Hello Tomorrow"; Another RAK based budget carrier?; The A380 and the Aviation Engineering Dilemma; Jetstars appearing everywhere; Why do we continue to ignore China's rise? Arrogance; HKG gets China's approved CEO; Europe’s airline brew must find a way to lose some froth; Etihad bans discussion on PPRUNE; The real air rage is airfares; The airline industry in trouble?; A cultural centre for Downtown Dubai; Why bilinguals are smarter; Thailand struggles to teach the basics of sex education to students; 'Mad Men' Returns: Who Knew Don Draper Was a True Believer?; EK A380 equipment changes for April; Bangkok's airport woes; Princess Bejaratana; EK to DC; EK to add 3rd daily to Rome; Qatar Airways pushes back plans for IPO; High-pressure game without a net when you hang up gloves; Emirates seeks A380 compensation; SQ's woes; 2027 is new date for Dubai's new airport; Thaksin talks of return this year; Emirates planning update; Emirates plotting US expansion.

March 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

Uneasy truce and elusive reconciliation
Asia's Endangered Species: The Expat
Candid Cuddy: Blue Rodeo co-frontman revisits highs, lows of Toronto band's past
Tortured Justice
Billy Sharp's moving tribute to football after death of his baby son
The West is helping to crush the Bahrain Spring
What Hillary did next
Victims of political violence wait for justice
Sonthi will take coup secrets to the grave
The Captains: The Shat talks Trek
Budget 2012: Cynical, deluded and regressive

Sonthi faces tough question over forces behind coup
Blue Rodeo – An Interview With Greg Keelor
Dazzling City Lights of Dubai Seen From Space
How tweeting Thai taxi driver scooped world media
Everyone felt helpless, yet impelled to do something to help Fabrice Muamba
Transsexual Thai air hostesses: gimmick or equality?
The Kingdom Divided
Graeme Lamb: British general's company paid to support Bahrain dictatorship
Divided Britain: What Morrissey's stance on the Falklands tells us about national unity
Who Divides Thailand?
Japan Earthquake: One Year Later
Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things)
Burma and the road to normality
Five Days in Burma
In Athens, Austerity’s Ugliness
Behind the glitz of Dubai's spectacular facades

Rory McIlroy roars
A Look at the Hello Kitty Plane
Saudi flexes Gulf grip with Bahrain 'union' plans
Student faces prison for speaking out in royalist Thailand
Julian Barnes and the Diminishing of the English Novel
Worachet’s assailants immediately released
The City of Samba

February 2012 News Archive Burma awakes to glasnost; UAE aviation updates; England's own goal; Clinton - compulsive tv viewing; Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions; Pan Am - episode 14 - watch and blog; In Race to Run Hong Kong, Scandal Taints Beijing’s Choice; Imperial Outpost in the Gulf; Passengers and staff should have been protected from Air Australia failure; Conversations with Thaksin: a sycophantic approach to biography; Why this year's Bahrain Grand Prix should not be taking place; EK's A380 goes Dutch in August;  Bombs in Bangkok and the Iranian connection;  Khasab is home for tourists and smugglers;  Emirates adds Lisbon;  Greece and the euro: the crisis continues; SQ ends 747 passenger service next month;  Has Etihad Airways turned profitable after eight years?;  The Glocer Legacy;  Air Asia's new BKK routes; The land of the aging sun; Milan gets third daily EK flight; China's defence of its UN veto; Beyond the Blue Horizon; Planning for the LCCs at DWC; EK in trouble down under; Dogs and locusts Where paradoxes reign supreme; Shame at the UN; Survival of the fittest; Lewis looks like he's in for the long haul; BBC decides that rimming is humour; Reuters journalists to strike; Thai Smile is all about lower costs; A day on the Yas Links; Caddies like Colin Byrne double up as on-course psychologists

February 2012 - Good reading from other sites:

Thai education failures – Part 3: PISA scores & a challenge for the 21st century
Oil-Rich Abu Dhabi: We Are 'The Real Winner' of the Oscars
Magic Mountain
Turbulent times for India's "King of Good Times"
The NS Interview: Patrick Stewart

Carnival 2012
The high price of booming Brazil
Bahrain has failed to grasp reform – so why is the grand prix going ahead?

The winds of change
E-books Can’t Burn
Story on Tiny Country A Giant Failure
Bahrain feels as divided as ever
BBC to issue global apology for documentaries that broke rules
Boeing Designs “787″ and Boeing Logo With Dreamliner’s Flight Path
England's most prolific post-war manager & still a legend - Fabio Capello made some mistakes but remains one of the greats of the game
Dinner at Ruperts
No love lost as Capello takes his leave

The crisis of the Thai monarchy
Thailand: What’s so controversial about Nitirat’s constitution draft?
Calls for change over Thai 'royal insult' law
Emirates hauls penguins, horses on transatlantic flight

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.

 

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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.

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China - the rise and rise...

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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.