BBC SE Asia Correspondent
Joined December 2008
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🇹🇭 Why is Thailand changing visa rules for visitors?
✔️ tourism accounts for 15% of GDP
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🇹🇭タイ政府が🇯🇵などを対象に導入していたビザ免除措置の滞在期間を短縮。
観光産業がGDPの15％を占めるのになぜ🤔💭
🙏🏻@pakhead
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A strong riposte from @ThitinanP to Pete Hegseth’s sabre-rattling speech at the Shangri-la dialogue in Singapore. Urging an arms race in Asia might not produce results the US will like project-syndicate.org/commen…
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Grab what you can while you can: The new reality in the South China Sea bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy82…
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May 13
Shots reportedly fired inside the Philippines senate as law enforcement officers attempt to arrest former police chief Bato Dela Rosa on an international criminal court warrant related to the violent anti drug campaign under President Duterte.
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May 13
Senate now locked down, surrounded by armed police, Bato Dela Rosa has been seen and seem safe. Multiple shots from one part of the building. Unclear who is shooting.
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The government now says there was no attempt to arrest Dela Rosa. But arms soldiers were seen entering the Senate just before the chaos broke out.
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May 11
Thailand's divisive ex-PM is out of jail, but is the Thaksin era over? bbc.in/4wlH02d
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Jonathan Head retweeted
28 Apr 2025
An amazing lineup of journalists & academics will help @FCCThai & @unescobangkok celebrate World Press Freedom Day on May 2 at 7 pm, holding a penetrating discussion about the role of AI & newsrooms across Southeast Asia & the world, & how media is changing as a result. Free & open to the public! Don't miss it! fccthai.com/events/500
#Bangkok #Thailand #WhatsHappeninginThailand
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Apr 7
Fake Australian, Chinese and Brazilian police stations: BBC goes inside a seized scam compound bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjen…
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One of the most memorable evenings @FCCThai - Denis Gray, one of the last journalists who covered the Indochina war, taking about his extraordinary life and career ... youtu.be/7g112LX6fAg?si=BVUm… via @YouTube
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Myanmar's coup leader who set off a brutal civil war is set to become president bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c178…
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Mar 21
Excellent, clear-eyed analysis - and in view of Trump’s clumsy reference to Pearl Harbour in front of PM Takaichi, some trenchant comparisons with Japan-US misunderstandings in WW2
Mar 20
This is a rather brilliant analysis of the theory of victory in the US and Iran by @brynntannehill - and why it bodes ill for a short conflict
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Feb 26
If you thought last year was wild, what about 2026? 5 top speakers will take you through the geopolitical landscape @FCCThai tonight, I will be moderating and there is a special Fire Horse cocktail too. share.google/WbiQiji020UbVbh…
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Jonathan Head retweeted
Feb 25
🇵🇭 Marcos vs Duterte with @pakhead @RegineCabato
We look at political dynasties & endemic corruption👇🏻
フィリピン🇵🇭2大政治一族の連携→対立💥
ICC拘束、弾劾訴追、反汚職デモ🪧
フィリピンの政治中枢に何が起きているのか？
マルコス🆚ドゥテルテを解析👇🏻
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Feb 25
Old-style politics beats youthful ideals in Thai election bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4g…
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Feb 13
The ever-evolving scam business. And the Cambodian authorities are arresting journalists trying to report on scam compounds, not a great look if you want to convince the world you are fighting the business.
The scale of a new scam compound we uncovered on the Cambodia-Vietnam border staggering.
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Thailand election: The result the polls never saw coming bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6…
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