After currency swings pushed Zurich to the top of the ranking last year, Tokyo has resumed its place as the world’s most expensive city, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s new report of “cost of living 2013”. This is a familiar position for the Japanese capital, which has been the world’s most expensive city for […]
BANGKOK, March 23 – Excessive levels of cancer-causing agents are being found in Thailand’s urban areas such as Bangkok and the metropolitan region, as well as in urban centres such as Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen, Songkhla and Rayong, according to the Pollution Control Department (PCD). PCD Director-General Wijarn Simachaya said three types of volatile organic […]
Chiang Mai has been nominated as Thailand’s representatives of cities under a UNESCO scheme to promote local and creative cultures, a senior Culture Ministry official said Friday. Speaking at a ceremony yesterday in which the Chiang Mai provincial authorities signed a deal with the ministry to promote this northern province, Prissana Phongthadsirikul said Chiang Mai […]
Three Chinese women were sent for a year of forced labor for refusing to buy a bus ticket, it has emerged. Last July, Wu Chandi, Zhu Yumei, Liu Juhua were told by the “Reeducation Through Labor” committee in Changzhou, Jiangsu province that they had been sentenced to a year of education through labor, because they […]
BANGKOK, 13 July 2011 (NNT) – Incoming Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has announced that her Pheu Thai-led government will push forward three mega projects including land reclamation from sea. According to Ms Yingluck, the three mega projects include land reclamation of 200,000-300,000 rai with an operating cost of 12.5 billion baht per four square metres, […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected Pyeongchang, South Korea as host of the 2018 Winter Games today. The committee meeting in Durban, South Africa, made its selection in the first round of voting. The South Korean city won over Munich, Germany and Annecy, France after failing in two previous tries. It was an emphatic success […]
BANGKOK, 2 July 2011 (NNT) – Bangkok has been voted the World’s Best-Value City in the June 2011 issue of the Sunday Times Travel Magazine, one of the most popular monthly travel magazines of the UK, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). TAT Deputy Governor Chutaporn Rerngron-asa announced that the honor was awarded […]
BANGKOK, 30 June 2011 (NNT) – The MasterCard Worldwide Index of Global Destination Cities 2011 has ranked Bangkok world’s 3rd Global Destination City with an estimation of 11.5 million visitors to the capital city of Thailand this year. London tops the list at 20.1 million visitors followed by Paris with 18.1 million tourists. As for […]
