Damon Wake @damonwake
@AFP Southeast Asia news editor: Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos. Previously: NATO, EU foreign affairs, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Paris. afp.com Bangkok, Thailand Joined February 2009-
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Indonesia's Mount Ruang erupting tonight. Insane pic. (Credit: Indonesian volcanology agency / handout to @AFP).
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Deborah has been such a legend at AFP for so long, it's hard to get my head around the idea she's working for someone else. Good luck with the new adventure @doberah !
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Good old GNLM. Nobody does it better
A lovely thread by one top man in @draper_rob about another in the late Joe Kinnear. By the way, I was also told to go forth and multiply by Mr Jones at Wimbledon training while reporting for Hayters 😂
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I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable, innocent explanation for this
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What a year for music that was. Oh to be 14 again!
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Thai PM welcomes unusual visitor to his office -- an enormous white buffalo that recently sold for $500,000. The bovine, named Ko Muang Phet, is renowned as a stud animal and a TV star, featuring in the popular "Sound From The Field Of Love" soap opera u.afp.com/5gJX
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