About/Contact

Saksith Saiyasombut (ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติิ) is a Thai political blogger and freelance foreign correspondent. Starting out on his personal website Saiyasombut.com in early 2010, Saksith extensively writes about politics, current affairs and freedom of speech issues in Thailand. He is a founding member and head writer of Siam Voices, a collective group blog on social, political and economic issues in Thailand. Siam Voices is hosted on the regional online news and blog network Asian Correspondent.

Currently, Saksith is a reporter for Channel NewsAsia and has covered the visits of US President Barack Obama to Bangkok and Yangon, Myanmar and the anti-government Pitak Siam rally in 2012. He covered the Thai general elections and the flood crisis in 2011 as a producer for IHA, a stringer for Channel NewsAsia and a fixer for ITN.

He has also appeared on Al Jazeera English, BBC World Service and Radio Australia. Prior to blogging, Saksith worked as a local reporter in his hometown Bremen, Germany, and also worked as an editorial assistant for Asia News Network in Bangkok, Thailand.

Saksith splits his time between Bangkok, Thailand and Hamburg, Germany, where he is studying Southeast Asian Studies for a Magister Atrium degree at Universität Hamburg.

(Full resume and references available upon request)

Contact & Social Media

• Email: saksith [dot] saiyasombut [at] gmail [dot] com
• FOLLOW me on Twitter @Saksith.
• You can SUBSCRIBE to my Facebook updates.
• I also have profiles on LinkedIn and on Google+, although I do not update these as often as the services above.

Last update: January 5, 2012