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I know we all love to bitch and moan about the Thai press but are we really doing that much of a better job? [ATTACH=CONFIG]119977[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]119978[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]119979[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]119980[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]119981[/ATTACH]
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I was reading The Nation today and they had a story that had the following headline: "Iceland volcano unlikely to hurt inbound tourism to Thailand" I lived in Gibraltar during the last volcanic eruption that stopped air traffic across Europe and even in a country of only 25,000 people did they make the story about themselves. I mean, sure, I can understand it if the story contained one or two sentences stating that tourism in Thailand is not expected to be impacts under a headline of "Flights Returning to Normal After Iceland Volcano Eruption" but WTF is this?!? The article only has 2 paragraphs about the impact on Thailand out of a 14 paragraph article talking about the disrupted flights. I saw a similar headline floating around on Twitter saying that Phuket's tourism probably wouldn't be impacted either. This isn't the first time I've noticed it but for whatever reason it just got under my skin today. They did the same thing with several world events, Japan, Libya, Egypt, NZ, etc. It's like there's a need to latch onto it some worldwide news and somehow associate Thailand with it. You really don't see that happening too much elsewhere in the world. Sure, they might be a mention of X number of Brits or Americans were killed in this or that tragedy but they don't try to hijack the entire story. WTF is up with that?
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Post your weird news clippings here! "Sikh police officers in Britain are reportedly asking for bullet-proof turbans, which would allow them to serve as firearms officers without having to remove their headwear. Sikh officers are exempt from wearing crash helmets because of their religion's requirement to wear a turban, but this also means they can't wear the protective headgear of firearms officers. Inspector Gian Singh Chahal, vice-chairman of the newly formed British Police Sikh Association, told the Guardian that there has already been some research done into producing a ballistic material for turbans."