· April, 2011

Stories about Thailand from April, 2011

Thailand: Outrage Over Topless Teen Dancing

  24 April 2011

The buzz in Thailand in the past week was the scandal caused by the topless teen dancers during the Songkran Water Festival (Thai New Year). The photos and videos of the three girls dancing bare breasted immediately went viral and generated intense online debates on the real meaning of Thai culture and morality.

Thailand: Censorship video

  13 April 2011

Jon Russell interviews ‘Madastro’, a young Thai student who made a video about censorship in Thailand. The video has already generated more than 100,000 hits on YouTube.

Map of People on Twitter in Thailand

  5 April 2011

Richard Barrow has created a map of twitter users living in Thailand which can be used to get live updates and pictures that might also be useful during natural disasters in Thailand.

Southeast Asia: Media Says Sorry Over ‘Insensitive’ Japan Posts

  2 April 2011

Singapore’s MediaCorp, Thailand’s The Nation, and Malaysia’s Berita Harian – all belonging to mainstream media in their respective countries – were forced to apologize to the public for publishing ‘insensitive’ articles about the Japan earthquake/tsunami disaster. Bloggers react