Tim the Thaiger

Meet Tim Newton, who left behind the cold winter of Melbourne for a new adventure in sunny Phuket, along the way discovering the best (and worst) of Amazing Thailand

Tim Newton is a multi-faceted media personality who I first met in Phuket, where I was Managing Editor of weekly English newspaper The Phuket News. Tim was brought in to run the nascent Phuket TV wing of the company, and I would duly trot upstairs to the studio every Friday afternoon for a recap on the important news stories of the new issue. Invariably…