The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) introduces “Amazing Thailand” a mobile application for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and popular devices such as iPad and iPod Touch. This emphasizes the success of promoting tourism through online marketing to raise the organisation’s profile in the digital world at the same time revealing its digital marketing strategy in the […]
Savings quickly used up on entertainment and women, lacking health insurance, hospitals end up paying for their chronic illnesses. PHUKET : State hospitals in the southern province are shouldering a heavy burden for treating elderly foreigners who cannot afford to pay their medical bills. Many retired foreigners who came to Thailand with the hope of […]
A 42-year-old Hungarian doctor was found dead in a resort pool on Phuket’s west coast in Thailand, the local media reported on Sunday. The man was in the party of 30 doctors who arrived at the Kamala Beach Resort hotel on Saturday night, the local daily Phuketwan reported in its online edition. A group of […]
BANGKOK, January 23 (RIA Novosti) – A Ukrainian engineer who says he was held captive and forced to work at a Bangkok factory for 14 years will meet with officers of the Thai Department of Special Investigation on Monday to detail his allegations, The Bangkok Post reported on Sunday. Anatoliy Vdovychenko, 57, was rescued from […]
World-famous Pattaya Beach is in danger of disappearing due to the erosion there, an academic warned yesterday. “If we don’t do something, Pattaya Beach will likely vanish within five years,” said Prof Thanawat Jarupongsakul, a lecturer at Chulalongkorn University. The latest survey found Pattaya’s shore was only four or five metres deep, compared to 35.6m […]
The body of a woman, apparently murdered, was found in a small road close to Horseshoe Point on the Eastern outskirts of Pattaya, in the early hours of Saturday Morning. Police soon arrived and inspected the body of the woman who was carrying no forms of identification. Upon closer inspection it was determined she had […]
BANGKOK, 22 January 2011 (NNT) – The First Army Area Commander has warned security officers to be vigilant for possible clashes between protesters of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship and their opposing group on Sunday. First Army Area Commander Lt.Gen.Udomdet Sitabutr said the police were fully ready to provide security for the protest […]
Thai Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat yesterday ordered two schools in Bangkok to shut for a week following a fatal brawl on Friday in which two students died. Bangkok School of Industrial Technology and the Technology Bang Kapi School were told to close from tomorrow, following the brawl between pupils from their schools on Ratpattana Road […]
