Media
Newspapers & Magazines
You can find a selection of many of the world's
English-language newspapers and magazine in good hotels and larger bookshops.
The two most well known and respected Thai papers in English are:
Bangkok Post: daily newspaper available
everywhere, carrying local and international news. You can also connect to the
Bangkok Post
website.
The Nation: another excellent daily newspaper
with local and international news, available pretty well everywhere. Also
online at The Nation
website.
Television
Most hotels and apartments and many guest houses
provide cable and satellite TV services on which you can tune to
English-language channels with a wide choice of news, movies, sports, cartoons
and documentaries. Widely available channels are:
- BBC, Cartoon Network, Cinemax, CNN, CNBC, ESPN,
Discovery Channel, HBO, National Geographic, TV5 (French), UBC (Thai/English).
Radio
Books
There are various English-language bookshops around
Bangkok. The best known is Asia Books, a chain of shops that you can
find on many major streets and in large shopping centres. Kinokuniya (in
the World Trade Center and Emporium) also has a good selection of
English-language books. |
