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‘TELL THE TRUTH!’ PLEADS THAI BASED FOREIGN JOURNALIST TO ‘FOREIGN EXILES’

  ‘WE’RE CHOKING TO DEATH! WHERE ARE YOU WHEN WE NEED YOU!’ Thai based journalist James Austin Farrell has pleaded with exiled foreign correspondents to write the truth about Thailand as the northern capital Chiang Mai topped the world’s pollution records. In an emotional Facebook post which turned into a spat with at least one […]

THAILAND’S MILITARY COUP – THE PROPAGANDA WAR

– FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY – I have for the last couple of week’s tried to restrict my output on the Thai coup to the airwaves in Australia, the U.S., U.K. and Ireland,  This is mainly because I do not want to write a story for the foreign press and find that a sub-editor has […]

MEN BEHAVING BADLY – AND THAT’S JUST THE JOURNALISTS

Just came off the digital highways to Cambodia and the United States, where  I appear to be involved in an emotional Foxtrot with an old Asia hand, when I check the internet again to find journalists Michael Yon and Andrew McGregor Marshall in a full-on Tango on Facebook. Andrew McGregor Marshall is of course the […]

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THAILAND? CONFUSED? THIS MAN ISN’T

BUT MOST OF US SHOULD BE! (Michael Yon) Well Thailand’s turbulent Boxing Day is over and now we’re wondering where we all stand in Thailand. At least I am.  The government is insisting it will go ahead with elections on February 2nd. The BBC appears to be admonishing  the anti-government  protesters.  And foreign journalists are […]