About this site

TopicThailand.com was created by me, Newley Purnell. I’m an American freelance journalist who lives in Bangkok.

Given the complexity of Thailand’s political situation, I wanted to create a site that provides context and background information to help explain what’s happening here.

My inspiration for this journalistic experiment in context was TheMoneyMeltdown, Matt Thompson’s site about the global financial crisis.

You can reach me at newely AT gmail DOT COM. You can also follow me on Twitter.

This site is very much a work in progress. I will continue adding material to each section, particularly news accounts, blogs, and (perhaps in the future) Twitterers to follow.

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