''ThaiDay'' was an

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printed in

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in 2005 and 2006. Started by politician

Sondhi Limthongkul Sondhi Limthongkul (born 7 November 1947) is a Thai media proprietor, conspiracy theorist, pro-Beijing anti-democracy reactionary activist, demagogue, and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). In 2009 he was elected leader of the N ...

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, it consisted of eight

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pages that were inserted in the

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edition of the ''

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''. It was printed six days a week, Monday to Saturday. Circulation was in the 5,000-10,000 range. The paper had its own staff of reporters, photojournalists and editors and also carried translated news from the Thai-language business paper, ''Phujatkarn Daily''. Competing with the ''

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'' and ''

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'', ''ThaiDay'' characterized itself as a moderate choice "in a market traditionally dominated by newspapers that either toe the establishment line or opt for the other extreme of

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." However, the paper suffered financially after its publisher, Sondhi Limthongkul, took up a campaign to oust

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, and after 15 months of publishing, the paper put out its last issue on August 31, 2006, though a message from Editor-in-Chief Paisal Sricharatchanya said he hoped the paper might be restarted at a later date. It was the second attempt at an English-language daily for Sondhi and Manager Media Group, which in 1995 launched the ''

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'', a regional daily meant to rival the ''International Herald Tribune'', however that paper folded in the

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.Deutsche Presse-Agentur. August 28, 2006
ThaiDay newspaper folds
via ''Bangkok Post'' (retrieved September 1, 2006).

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ThaiDay online edition
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