BANGKOK (NNT) – Phuket and the Northeastern provinces of Thailand have been included on the TIME magazine’s list of “The World’s Greatest Places of 2023”. According to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), the list, which showcases 50 extraordinary destinations to explore, describes Phuket as one of Thailand’s most visited places and is known for […]
BANGKOK (NNT) – The Travel+Leisure magazine’s 2021 survey has named Thailand’s Koh Samui as the seventh best island in the world and second in the Asia region. The votes for the “World’s Best Awards 2021” were collected from readers between January 11th and May 10th, as destinations across the world are slowly reopening to tourists. […]
BANGKOK, 9th September 2018 (NNT) – The Thai government is making changes to ministerial rules and regulations to streamline tourism after Thailand was voted the world’s best country for people. In his national televised this weekend, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha announced that Thailand was voted the ‘best country for people’ by readers of the […]
CHIANG MAI Governor Pawin Chamniprasart has taken legal action against the magazine Citylife Chiang Mai for posting on social media a painting featuring three late kings wearing masks. The painting was used to promote an event that intended to highlight Chiang Mai’s air-pollution problem. The event scheduled for yesterday was later cancelled. Full story: The […]
BANGKOK — A prominent state university in Thailand is frantically buying back 3,000 kilograms of rare books and magazines that it mistakenly sold as recycling materials to a vendor for 6,000 baht last week. According to Matichon, library staff at Silpakorn University’s Thapra campus arranged for a recycling truck to pick up piles of books […]
At least twelve people have been killed today in a shooting at the Paris offices of the satirical weekly French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Three men in hoods armed with Kalashnikov rifles entered the magazine’s office in the 11th arrondissement and shot dead ten journalists and two police officers before making a getaway in a car […]
BANGKOK, Sept 27 – After learning that the interim Thai government was determined to march towards a sustainable democratic system, Forbes Media LLC has decided to organise the 2014 ‘Forbes Asia’s Best Under a Billion Awards Ceremony and Dinner’ (BuB) in the kingdom. Forbes Media — publisher of Forbes business magazine — has decided to […]
BANGKOK, Jan 23 – Thailand’s Criminal Court on Wednesday handed down a 10-year imprisonment sentence to a Thai political activist-magazine editor accused of insulting the monarchy. The Bangkok court convicted former magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk in connection with two articles published in the Voice of Thaksin magazine deemed offensive to the royal family. Read more: […]
