ECONOMIST: DID COPIES GET TO THAILAND

The Southeast Asian Press Alliance is reporting about the non appearance of this week's edition of The Economist magazine in Thailand.
Subscriber copies, and those destined for the news trade, have not appeared. This is the fourth time this year this has happened. Interestingly the article which appears to have led to the decision by Thai distributors not to handle this edition is still available online and had not been blocked.
Normally copies of each week's edition arrive in Thailand around lunchtime each Friday. Subscribers were only notified of the problem at 4pm on Friday afternoon, which leads me to suspect copies did actually make it into the Kingdom before someone took the decision not to distribute this edition. Previously subscribers were notified shortly after the magazine went to press at 10pm on a Thursday evening.