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2Bangkok.com in the media
Read all the daily Thai news on the 2Bangkok.com main page
2Bangkok.com's 8 year anniversary - May 1, 2007
Right: 2Bangkok.com in 1999
What 2Bangkok does is to continue to focus on news you can't find anywhere else--politics, Thai mass transit, development, and anything interesting in the Thai world.
You can support 2Bangkok by using our hotel or air reservations services. Also check out the only sensible forum on Thai subjects.
And, as some have suspected, there is a premium 2Bangkok.com--2B Research and Analysis (2Braa.com - a password-protected site for clients).
From a reader - November 23, 2007
A reader writes: Thanks for including this in this wonderful enlightening website.We Malaysians were given a complete media blackout by the local newspapers and their journalists about what actually happened that Saturday.Kudos to the Bangkok Post and the Nation plus Al-Jazeera for highlighting what occurred. Thank God for websites like 2Bangkok.com.
2B forum blocked over "Traditional Religions" - October 2, 2007
Jani notes: I figured you'd get a kick out of the attached screenshot. And no, I have absolutely no idea what the hell that means -- the forums were working fine last week, so I can only presume there's some strange keyword triggering the filter at the customer site where I'm working...
It could be the mentions over the last few days of Buddhist monks marching in Myanmar.
2B in Lonely Planet again - September 8, 2007
Thanks to Don for pointing out the mention of 2B in the 12th edition of Lonely Planet Thailand.
Under "Internet Resources" it reads: News sleuth and history buff follows the city headlines from today and yesterday.
Blogs give alternative view of political changes in Thailand - INQ7.net, September 21, 2006
Bloggers quick off the mark - The Age, September 20, 2006
No time for democracy - netnewsasia, September 24, 2006
"Blog of the Month" - September 13, 2006
We are not sure if 2Bangkok is a blog or not, but ThailandVoice.com chosen us as "Blog of the Month."
2Bangkok.com: Bangkok's Quirkiest Online City Guide - gridskipper.com, August 29, 2006
A mention of this site...
Still more 2Bangkok.com in Lonely Planet Thailand - January 7, 2006
Don Entz writes: I found you a third time in the new Lonely Planet Thailand. This time, you're on page 176, in the Bangkok section again, at the bottom of the page in the Special Box titled "The War on the Gem Scam." At the end, it says: "Want to know more or want to report a scam? Visit www.2bangkok.com and navigate to the "Gem Scam" page for five years' worth of tracking the phenomenon or go to the Thai Gem Scam Group (www.geocities.com/thaigemscamgroup) for photos of touts who troll the temples for victims."
Your multiple mentions make up for at least some of the mistakes (in the book). The book claims that the "Bangkok Post" is a morning paper, "The Nation" an evening edition. What the ...??? It's never said THAT before. And it says the classic novel "The Story of Jan Darra" was recently made into a film called... "Nang Nak."
Earlier: More 2Bangkok.com in Lonely Planet Thailand - January 5, 2006
Don Entz writes: I discovered a second reference to 2Bangkok.com in the new Lonely Planet Thailand. On page 172, second column, second paragraph. It's in the Bangkok section, in the listing for the National Theater under Entertainment -- Traditional Arts Performances. At the end of the listing, it says, "A highly contentious redevelopment plan has proposed demolition and relocation of this theater in order to create a riverside promenade. Stay tuned to the local papers or www.2bangkok.com for current updates."
Earlier: 2Bangkok.com in Lonely Planet Thailand - November 15, 2005
Don Entz writes: We picked up the new Thailand Lonely Planet yesterday, and... 2Bangkok.com is in it. Page 98, first column, top of the list under "Internet Resources": "2Bangkok (www.2bangkok.com) Obsessed with charting charting construction and infrastructure projects , including translations from Thai newspapers."
Something about this site... - Wandering in Thailand, July, 2005
2bangkok.com is an awesome web site. New construction in Thailand, the Mega Bridge, history, politics, opinion, odd stuff, even the Alaska railroad are on this site. Seriously, the author of this site is interested in railroads and even had a link to the Alaska Railroad, I did a double take. I found the first picture of Jit's neighborhood here. I found the first information about Google having satellite pictures of Thailand here. Historical photography of Thailand is here. Breaking Thailand news is here, there was in depth coverage of the Tsunami in Thailand before anybody else. 2bangkok.com is what the Internet should be! To me 2bangkok.com is the first web site to learn about Thailand. My other essential site is Thai-Blogs.com. The Bangkok Post site and The Nation are useful, but for fun and understanding 2bangkok.com is the best.
Almost Like Being in Thailand - Fodors, 2005
I've been enjoying 2bangkok.com, a sort of "all points bulletin" for Thai news and popular culture. The emphasis is on day-to-day life rather than tourist sights -- things like modern and vintage photos of neighborhoods, English translations of the police blotter and government gossip, and (as shown at right) screenshots revealing how Patty and Selma are blurred out on local broadcasts of the Simpsons. (They like to smoke, you see.)
Bangkok.com won Best Thai Blog in the Asia Blog Awards 2004
December 29, 2004
Lazy guide to net culture: Tsunami - Scotsman
April 9, 2004
Farang affairs in The Nation mentions 2Bangkok.com's "tale of two newspapers" from last week.
March 12, 2004
2Bangkok.com's blocked sites page is mentioned in 'FARANG AFFAIRS: Police on the Aleart' (The Nation, March 12, 2004).
November 21, 2003
2Bangkok.com mentioned in 'ARTS COMMUNITY: The rat race as art' (The Nation, November 21, 2003) as a source for subway news.
Website of the month
Tales of Asia names 2Bangkok the 'Website of the month': A well-constructed combination of 'news and views' useful and interesting to both tourists and expats alike. The site combines links to relevant news stories residing on other websites as well as having its own original material. The site's in-depth focus on the infamous Thai Gem Scam is especially noteworthy and laudable. One unique feature of the website is its thorough coverage of local transport infrastructure. I like this site. It's almost like being there.
July 19, 2003
The "sweet teen" condom billboard got blogged on Boing Boing, one of the classic blogs.
June, 2003
One of my photos of Hong Kong was featured in 2G.comm, the German Chamber of Commerce magazine in Hong Kong (June 2003)
June, 2003
One of my photos from the Louve was featured in the German magazine P.M. History (June-July, 2003 issue)
January 18, 2003
Beyond wars and words - In Cambodia, the grandest temple of all returns from the ruins - Chicago Tribune
The Trib has a good overview of Angkor and an excellent FAQ. And they mention Angkor.com.
December 11, 2002
2Bangkok.com mentioned in 'Welcome to my kingdom, foreign fools' (The Nation, December 11, 2002) as a source for gem scam news.
October, 2002
2Bangkok.com wins runner-up in the Best Portal category in The Nation's Thailand Web Awards 2002.
July, 2002 - We are Thai media!
In 1999, on my 2Bangkok.com site, I called Nattawud Daoruang of the Thailand Life site "legendary." Since then, both The Straits Times and Ananova.com have done stories on Daoruang, both referring to the 2Bangkok.com quote:Nattawud Daoruang has been praised as 'Thailand's youngest ambassador', described as 'legendary' and profiled as 'a global citizen.' - The Straits Times, November 16, 2001
A Thai teenager is being hailed as "legendary" after chronicling his battle with drug addiction in an internet diary.
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Nattawud is now being hailed by the Thai media as a 'legendary', a 'global citizen' and 'Thailand's youngest ambassador'.
- Ananova.com, 'Addict's net diary makes teen famous,' November 16, 2001The Ananova story is a condensed and rewritten version of the Straits Times piece, but Ananova has somehow gotten two points wrong--while I am flattered to have 2Bangkok.com considered as "Thai media," it probably is not and the quote was not given due to his drug battles--it was in a small description of the ThailandLife site in which I expressed skepticism Daoruang could be doing the entire site himself.
April 21, 2002
2Bangkok.com featured in Thai Post
April, 2002
2Bangkok.com is mentioned in the Tourism Authority of Thailand's Travel Scene magazine (April, 2002)
April 2, 2002
Angkor.com was featured on the Daily News website.
November 22, 2001
Winchester Star columnist Martin Zombeck mentioned my Nigerian Scam letter t-shirts.
October 7, 2001
Roger Crutchley's weekly Postscript column in the Bangkok Post, Stand tall, then you can fall - Pillars of hope on their last legs, (October 7, 2001) makes it pretty clear he has recently visited the 2Bangkok.com site.He treats us to ruminations on the Hopewell project, including the rusting demonstration train on the way to Chonburi. He goes on to mention the Lavilin Skytrain and the Kra Canal and its new feasibility study. Chavalit Yongchaiyudh (the canal's latest booster) is mentioned as a "gentleman in authority." He finally cites the Skytrain as a project that made it to fruition. We are glad to help him fill up his weekly column inches, but wish he had given the site a plug.
On October 8, 2001, he replied to the little writeup about this on the 2Bangkok site: Yes I did visit your site and I should have given you a plug. I'll rectify that next Sunday in a brief follow up. Anyway congrats on your site. It's a refreshing approach to some well worn topics. I don't know how you find time to maintain it.
Best wishes
Roger CrutchleyAnd on October 14, 2001, he wrote the following in his Postscript column:
Big is beautiful
In last week's ramblings about the Hopewell and Skytrain projects Crutch was remiss in not mentioning an informative website that specialises in Thailand's mass transit & infrastructure projects. It's 2Bangkok.com and run by Bangkok resident Ron Morris who says ``I like to see big things being built!''
In addition to the above mentioned projects the site also covers the underground system, Nong Ngu Hao airport and even the Nigerian letter scam. Worth a visit.
June 18, 2001
The Nation profiled me and my 2Bangkok.com site in an article entitled The romance of concrete (The Nation does not have a very link-friendly website! The link to this article has changed four times since publication and now all articles from the month of June have vanished. The text of the article is below.)
- Personality -
The romance of concrete
by Sirivish Toomgum, The Nation, June 18, 2001While the skytrain or a giant bridge may be the stuff of everyday life for most commuters, 34-year-old Ron Morris and the fans of his 2Bangkok.com webpage think great transportation projects have a romantic side to be told.
"It's very exciting to see the huge size of these things," says the US-born Morris, whose "day job" is executive editor of a tutorial school.
Morris, the son of an architect, left the States 10 years ago, travelled the world and settled in Bangkok. For him, one of the great attractions of the City of Angels is the seemingly never-ending expansion of the mass transit network.
The scale--and to his mind, grandeur--of the projects inspired him to construct his 2Bangkok.com site two years ago to provide pictures and information about them to the world.
The images on the site are unlike those on most websites--or postcards--designed to attract tourists. Nevertheless--or perhaps for that reason--the site was named "Site of the week" by the Bangkok Post in late March.
"Some people don't see why anyone would be interested in stuff like this," Morris says. "But they are a big deal for some Westerners, who have romantic notions about exotic trains and subways."
Morris was delighted when tourists e-mailed him to say they were flying to Thailand to ride on the skytrain on its opening day.
"I want to present something different, something that gets very little attention from the daily media," says Morris. "And the Internet is a perfect tool."
Morris travels to various parts of the city's transportation network--including the subway, which is under construction--to interview engineers and workers and take photos of them and their work. He updates the page once a week, relying on the assistance of a Thai friend to translate materials he has collected in Thai.
The content of the pages is constantly expanding. A recent addition is the "Glimpse of Thailand" section, featuring old photographs.
"I'm also working on a tram section,' Morris says. "I hope anyone with information about the old tram lines will get in touch with me."
Morris also collects souvenirs of the transportation projects, such as a skytrain necktie and a Dunkin' Donuts package modelled on the system's trains. "One day these things will be lost forever," Morris says.
"I want to keep them for the young generation."
Morris also handles three other pages--cityrain.com, his personal interest page, angkor.com, an Angkor Wat portal page, and japanomatic.com, where one can see glimpses of Japanese society.
As long as the development of Bangkok's mass transit continues, Morris will have little time to rest. But the skytrain-lover prefers it that way.
"I see my page as an alternate site of information," he says. "I will continue developing it as my contribution to interest around the world in the country that has been so good to me."
[And there was a photo with the caption, "MORRIS, a thing for mass transit."]
June 1, 2001
Bangkok Post's Trink Page gave my Nigerian Scam Letter shirts a mention:As you constantly detail the Nigerian letter scam, I am bringing to your attention that there's a Nigerian letter scam T-shirt. It contains the entire text of one of the letters. About $16 for one. Check out the shirt at http://www.cafepress-com [sic] or 2Bangkok.com.
April 18, 2001
2Bangkok.com and cityrain.com are mentioned in the Bangkok Post's "Dot.co.th Highlights" column
April, 2001
thaistudents.com (run by the legendary Nattawud Daoruang, webmaster of ThailandLife.com) featured my 2Bangkok.com site in their best Thai websites from April 2001.They said: It may not have the best of styles, nor does it have pages on the usual Bangkok attractions. However, it is rich in its quirky content. Topics covered include mass transport projects such as the sky train and the future subway as well as The Simpsons in Thailand and detailed tips on how to beat the gem scams.
March 28, 2001
2Bangkok.com was "Site of the Week" in the Bangkok Post.The story read: When travelling almost anywhere in Bangkok nowadays with a visitor to the city, sooner or later the conversation will turn to the topic of our emerging mass transportation systems.
This may be triggered by the need for your taxi to negotiate the debris and construction associated with Bangkok's underground system. Or it may be stimulated by those strange relics that symbolise Hong Kong businessman Gordon Wu's tribulations over the stalled Hopewell Project. Or else it can centre around the conveniences of the Skytrain project-or possibly its limitations in terms of how far it goes.
This week we introduce a web site that brings these infrastructure projects together with information, news and pictures: the good, the bad and the ugly. At 2Bangkok.com you can find the Unofficial Hopewell Project site, the Unofficial Bangkok Skytrain site and the Unofficial Bangkok Subway site-and if you think that you have the big picture after visiting them, hold on.
These megaprojects are just a beginning and you will learn this with a visit to the Bangkok Transport Master Plan page. Our City of the Angels will continue to be an evolving maze of motorways and expressways, with plans for the elevated expressway to have a third, fourth and fifth stage. And if you think you can move to Chiang Mai to escape, check out the Unofficial Chiang Mai Subway site, also at 2Bangkok.com.-Tony Waltham
October 11, 2000
cityrain.com was mentioned in the Bangkok Post Database by columnist Geoff Long. The full article is here.Here's what was said: Ping na Thalang writes this week on the benefits of creating your own web site to store favourite links and so forth. Shortly afterwards, Digital Boy was showing off his fan mail courtesy of his new (infrequent) gadget column and it happened to mention just such as site, belonging to Ron Morris. Anyway, I figure this one is worth a plug http://www.cityrain.com as it's got some fairly eclectic links but also shows you how to disable the ad that comes with the new TA Click Internet service--a big topic in the letters page of Database this week.
May 21, 1999
My sites were reviewed in the Netscope column in Real Time, a weekend magazine of the Bangkok Post.Jingjo Dam na Buri Ram wrote: Most local visitors to the site will probably settle on Morris's "unofficial" pages on the Bangkok skytrain and subway, however. There they will find photos, descriptions, and links relating to both mass transit systems. Native Bangkok residents who have been living overseas for a long time and don't get home too often any more will probably feel their jaws drop as they encounter some of these pictures.
