Bangkok Post Sunday

The Bangkok Post today relaunched its Sunday edition, substantially expanding its pagination. Traditionally, Sunday newspapers are thicker than their weekday equivalents, and in the UK I enjoyed nothing more than settling down to read The Observer and The Sunday Times on a Sunday afternoon (as I discussed a couple of years ago). So it's great that the Bangkok Post has expanded its Sunday edition.

In contrast, today's edition of The Sunday Nation is extremely thin: only eighteen pages in total, with virtually no advertising at all. Today's launch of the bulkier Bangkok Post Sunday should have been the perfect opportunity for The Nation to either launch a new supplement or revamp its existing content. However, The Nation instead appears to have practically given up. It does at least include national news now, which it had dropped following the launch of the Daily Xpress; the Xpress itself is now twenty pages shorter than it used to be (and is seemingly no longer published on Sundays, replaced by The Sunday Nation).