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The rascott.com archive This is an archive of updates to this site. The archive has now been sorted by subject as well as by date. Web pages archived here
The 2006 World Cup The News Archive: 2008 News Archive 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. 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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