THE CHINESE INVASION

I was somewhat surprised to see a copy of the South China Morning Post being offered to guests on an internal Bangkok-to-Phuket Thai Airways flight this week.
In hindsight I guess I should not be that surprised given The Phuket News already has a Chinese edition, while the Phuket Gazette carries the weekly China News as well as a Russian news supplement (in English) within its pages.
Phuket's media scene is arguably just as cosmopolitan and multi-lingual as that in Bangkok.
A sign of changing times - but how long will it last?