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2010 News Archive

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.