On Tuesday, February 13, two journalists were arrested and briefly detained for reporting on graffiti on the outside wall of Wat Phra Kaew last March. A few demonstrators had written the anarchist symbol (an A within an O) with a crossed-out number 112, the lese majeste article, behind it. "We were just doing our job," photographer Nattaphon Phanphongsanon told reporters.
Thai King Vajiralongkorn Talks To Western Journalist (Video)
A striking moment in Bangkok, after King Maha Vajiralongkorn took to the streets, he answered a question from a Western journalist about the months of protests in his country.
Bernard Trink RIP
I have a soft spot for a number of Farang writers who made or are making Bangkok unsafe and on Thailandblog I have several times reflected on their literary legacy or meaning. On Thursday, October 8, 2020, the world in general and Bangkok in particular became a bit poorer again due to the death at the King Chulalonkorn Memorial Hospital at the age of 89 of Bernard Trink, who has been the journalistic bête noire of the Bangkok Post for many years .
According to Nieuwsblad.be, a journalist with Belgian nationality has been arrested in Thailand after he had made an appointment with a political activist.
Freedom of speech or not?
In the posting of April 22, this headline read: “Expats and travelers annoyed about 'new' immigration form. It is not yet known how the further course will be. It almost seems paranoid to want to know as much as possible about expats and travelers. But another target group is now also being scrutinized by “Big Brother”. Namely the foreign journalists who work in Thailand.
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) plans to convene more than 200 domestic and foreign journalists and ask them not to ask Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha or other ministers difficult questions.
Journalist Fred de Brouwer (58) died on Friday evening after a traffic accident near his hometown of Chonburi in Thailand, north of Pattaya. This accident raises questions for the family because the journalist was involved in the revelations about the Dutch former top civil servant Demmink.
Defense minister is concerned about press freedom
The way the media reports on security issues can cause unrest and that worries me, says Defense Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat. He will talk to the army top about press freedom and the way of reporting on sensitive matters.
Location Bangkok: about farang…
When in the heady fall of 2001, shortly after the Twin Towers had been blown to the Philistines, -it couldn't get much more heady again- I settled in the City of Angels to build a life as an English teacher/tour leader/boy scout/husband , I came across a monthly magazine of which I would have liked to have been the initiator seequu founder; Farang Magazine. I was late again… The magazine, was the wonderful prodigy of Canadian self-proclaimed journalistic offenders, Jim…
Journalist in Thailand
Thailandblog.nl has undergone a metamorphosis in a few weeks. From a leisurely (not negatively intended) weblog, on which editors and readers informed each other about daily events and exchanged useful information regarding Thailand, it has now become a "real" news medium.
And yet I love you, Bangkok Post
I regularly come across sloppy, missing and sometimes contradictory information, anonymous sources and rumors in the Bangkok Post. This does not argue in favor of a newspaper that is modeled on the English Times, has excellent printing quality (better than the Thai-language newspapers) with beautiful full-colour photos and that has rightly won prizes for its solid and, in the supplements, creative layout. But journalism is something to criticize about the newspaper. As a former journalism teacher believes…