Tim Newton

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Tim Newton

Tim joined The Thaiger as one of its first employees in 2018 as an English news writer/editor and then began to present The Thaiger's Daily news show in 2020, Thailand News Today (or TNT for short). He has lived in Thailand since 2011, having relocated from Australia.
  • Thailand NewsPara-sailing ‘beat up’ in UK press
    Tim NewtonPublished: 11:07, 17 August 2017
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    Para-sailing ‘beat up’ in UK press

    OPINION A story from metro.co.uk shows a ‘terrified toddler’ being ‘forced’ to take a parasailing flight on Patong Beach. The headlines blasts ‘Father forces terrified toddler to go paragliding with him in Thailand’. In the ‘Beat Up of The Day’, the Metro article has somehow turned a bad parenting story into a Patong Beach and Parasail Operator-bashing session. It might certainly…

  • OpinionBangkok Deputy Governor’s bad case of foot-in-mouth
    Tim NewtonPublished: 19:03, 11 August 2017
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    Bangkok Deputy Governor’s bad case of foot-in-mouth

    EDITORIAL Yesterday we reported on the current figures relating to HIV infection in Bangkok. Although the statistics look bad, in isolation, the general trend is of reduced new infections. The 2,000 new infections of HIV in Bangkok over the past year are not significant when compared to the city’s population of (probably) over 10 million. But getting the story completely…

  • NewsDissent in Paradise
    Tim NewtonPublished: 14:03, 05 August 2017
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    Dissent in Paradise

    EDITORIAL The recent silent protest at the country’s most prestigious university in Bangkok, THAT photo of a student in a chokehold from a lecturer and the subsequent publicity, has wider implications than just a sore neck and a university in PR panic. There’s been a lot of media blow-back on the venerated Chulalongkorn University after it was revealed a…

  • NewsFormer Abbot Phra Dhammajayo fled to Europe?
    Tim NewtonPublished: 14:21, 03 August 2017
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    Former Abbot Phra Dhammajayo fled to Europe?

    Former Abbot Phra Dhammajayo may have fled the country. The DSI (Department of Special Investigations) says they have evidence that he may have bolted to Europe with the help of some of his followers. The Government raided the sprawling ‘space-age’ Dhammakaya Temple headquarters, just north of Bangkok, back in February but came out empty-handed. Authorities have vowed to bring the…

  • OpinionLetter to Thai Immigration
    Tim NewtonPublished: 08:14, 30 July 2017
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    Letter to Thai Immigration

    Congratulations to the Thai Immigration Department for its forward thinking on helping to attract additional tourists by waving visa fees for some countries and halving the visa-on-arrival cost for others. A stroke of genius. I’m not sure how you will inform the citizens of these countries of your cunning plan to lure back the tourists in the wake of the…

  • Thai LifeMixing drinking with Facebook
    Tim NewtonPublished: 08:02, 30 July 2017
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    Mixing drinking with Facebook

    A recent statement by Pol Gen Verachai Songmetta and its subsequent reporting by Thai Rath and the Bangkok Post has created an uproar. The police officer stated that anyone posting photos of alcohol on social media could face legal action resulting in a maximum fine of 50,000 baht. Some people joked that they deleted half of their facebook photos after…

  • Thailand NewsBoom Boom on the Border
    Tim NewtonPublished: 07:53, 30 July 2017
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    Boom Boom on the Border

    On one side of the Thai/Malaysian border is Sungai Golok, on the Malaysian side it’s the town of Rantau Panjang. The two towns are separated by the Golok River and decades of furious fighting between Muslim separatists who want to reclaim some of the southern areas in Thailand under the Malaysian flag. The Thai Buddhists on the other side are…