Thai news service to include blogs

Posted by Simon Day on June 29, 2009 at 9:58 AM

Thailand news service, Thailand-Today.com, has extended its reporting coverage to include a number of popular Thailand related blogs, The Open Press reported Monday. This is in addition to its presentation of Thai breaking news and newspaper headlines.

"The importance of blogs - as a popular form of personal news publishing - is skyrocketing. Blog authors are quick to publish news and express their views on topical subjects. We observe that more and more people read Internet blogs to obtain news, analysis and commentary - also on Thailand related matters," said Amanta Sriwastigul, spokesperson for Thai Today.

"What is more, on Thailand-Today readers find all their Thailand news in one site which saves them a lot of their valuable time. Newspapers around the world - and from now on also bloggers - also benefit because we drive targeted traffic to their Internet sites," Sriwastigul added.

The Web site aggregates a large number of local and international sources, including the Bangkok Post and The Herald Tribune. All the news is reported in English, allowing the Web site to serve foreigners based in Thailand and Thais living overseas.