Thailand is hooked up, wired, online and surfing with the best of them. It seems that every third shop is either an Internet café or a mobile phone shop. Nearly everyone has a mobile telephone. All this has happened over the last ten years and has transformed the country. This chapter inspects the phone and internet system, shows you where to buy your computer hardware and sofware, and lists the leading mainstream media outlets.
The two main English language newspapers are the Bangkok Post and The Nation. Both cost B25. The Bangkok Post is considered better for classified advertisements, especially jobs and apartments. The Post has different feature sections on most days of the week - Learning (education-related articles, Tuesdays), Database (IT & telecommunications, Wednesdays), Horizons (travel & tourism, Thursdays), Real Time (entertainment & culture, Fridays) and the Sunday magazine. The Nation is pitched more towards English-speaking Thais, but has an 'Expat Page' on Friday, including a useful Visa Watch column. Both papers are available throughout Thailand in the major cities and towns. In the more remote areas, delivery may not occur until mid-afternoon. Many hotels, bars, coffee shops, and restaurants will keep a copy of at least one newspaper for general use by their customers. A daily newspaper aimed at expatriate and English-speaking Thai businessmen, Business Day, is available in the main urban centres but difficult to obtain in the provinces, as is the Hong Kong based Asian Wall Street Journal. There are three weekly regional newspapers in English, the Pattaya Mail....
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