Mark Hughes
Foreign news editor
Mark Hughes is a foreign news editor, Bangkok Post. The views expressed here are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Bangkok Post.
On the extinction list
The street food stalls are a defining part of Bangkok, a magnet for those who watch their baht as they pay huge mortgages and car loans, and now disappearing.
Press control tightened
China's leader has demanded pledges of loyalty from all "propaganda workers" - meaning the media - as censorship tightens even further.
The human battle
Imagine being nine months pregnant and you start having contractions but gunfire in your village has cut you off from neighbours, friends.
Nation mourns as innocents slain
You won't recognise him. His face is swathed in bandages. That's when top Bangkok surgeons are not trying to rebuild his profile, a process that will take far longer than you'd care to imagine, distraught as you must be. Rest assured, he'll be kept away from mirrors for weeks.