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Bangkok Post wants to defend “demcoracy” (sic)

By Andrew Spooner Sun, Nov 20, 2011 6:58PM UTC View Comments

It’s long been suspected that the Bangkok Post‘s management and owners don’t really understand democracy. Now, as I referred to in an earlier blog post, it appears that they can’t even spell it. Normally, I’m not one to really pick up on the typos and spelling errors of others as like all writers I can...

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Influential people, criminal defamation, and a foreign reporter

By Bangkok Pundit Sun, Sep 04, 2011 12:01AM UTC View Comments

Erika Fry used to work as an investigative reporter for the Bangkok Post. BP remembers as she sent some e-mails to BP about an interview back in 2009 and the then Spectrum section was one of better written sections of the paper with investigative reports, so am familiar with some of the stories she wrote....

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A closer look at Burma’s shifting media landscape

By Francis Wade Wed, Jun 01, 2011 10:54AM UTC View Comments

Several events have occurred in recent weeks that appear to suggest the Burmese regime is loosening its draconian grip on the media: first came the announcement in late April that a sizeable number of domestic publications could bypass the censor board and head straight for the newsstands, something unheard of in the half-century since military...

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Mobile internet users up 40pc in Thailand, iPhone ‘dominant’

By Jon Russell Fri, Feb 25, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments

Mobile internet usage in Thailand skyrocketed by an estimated 40 percent over the last year according to online stat company Truehits.net as quoted in the Bangkok Post. Company owner Piya Tanthawichian claims that iPhone is the dominant device for mobile internet users while the company estimates there are four million active mobile internet users in Thailand every...

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