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Trump hates bad press covfefe. What?
Reuters, Published on 01/06/2017
» WASHINGTON - A midnight tweet by Donald Trump unleashed a wave of sometimes mocking speculation by internet users wondering what the U.S. president meant by writing "covfefe" in an apparently unfinished Twitter post that lingered online for hours.
Digital control freaks
News, Postbag, Published on 16/12/2016
» Using the single gateway to deal with lese majeste is akin to using a shotgun to kill a fly, and will put Thailand behind the rest of the world.
US election Facebook’s most talked about story
Online Reporters, Published on 13/12/2016
» The US presidential election, Brazilian politics and Pokemon Go were the top three global topics most talked about by Facebook users in 2016, according to the world’s largest online community.
Question of balance
News, Postbag, Published on 08/08/2016
» It appears the Bangkok Post belongs to the mainstream media of this world and only prints articles from Associated Press, The New York Times, etc (especially from Paul Krugman), but never prints articles from opposing sides.
Courting controversy
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/01/2016
» When creativity crosses the line into insensitivity, there's usually a pattern of uproar, apology and cancellation. In the past many years, there's been a number of notorious cases of insensitive creativity in Thai commercials, series, films and visual representations that have made international headlines. The offensive issues often involve race, skin colour, ethnicity and historical interpretation. There are many more that never made the front page, for example the casual mockery of minorities and genders that is normalised by the audience, such as jokes on the accents of hilltribe people that often appear in movies and TV series.
Mobile news on the rise, study finds
Business, Published on 30/04/2015
» For news publishers, it's a mobile world.
Obama wins second term
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 07/11/2012
» My goal today is to help you follow the election coverage in English as much as possible. I'll be updating this throughout election day, focusing mainly on the results of the election, but also on the language used to report the results.