Southwest Thailand, home to the resort islands of Phuket and Phi Phi, has battled back from the devastation of 2004’s powerfully destructive tsunami. Travel writer Beverly Beyette, who visited a year after the tsunami, returned again recently. Rebuilt and new hotels abound, and boats travel the Andaman coast, ferrying day-trippers to such destinations as Koh […]
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince were all loved up as they frolicked on the beach and in the waves of Thailand yesterday. Kate recently revealed her down-to-earth beauty tips along with some of the secrets to her career success — this annual trip is another way she stays refreshed and ready to conquer the year. […]
Chiang Mai Is a Top Destination for Vacationing and Volunteering Chiang Mai’s reputation marks this small city as the jewel of Northern Thailand, a quaint city cozily nestled into the foothills of a lush green mountain. Chiang Mai is often just another stop on the average backpacker’s whirlwind temple tour of Southeast Asia. But change […]
In the early hours of Wednesday Morning, Police were made aware of a foreign man who was seen driving a White Pick-up fitted with emergency lights and a Police siren. Police pulled the vehicle over under the overpass leading to the Bali Hai Port at the south-end of Pattaya Third Road and spoke with the […]
Bangkok – Thousands of Thais made Buddhist merit Saturday at Takuapah in Phang-Nga province for the estimated 8,000 people killed by the December 26, 2004 tsunami. Some 1,000 Buddhist monks accepted food and gifts in their begging bowls from thousands of Thais and scores of foreign tourists who had lined up along the main road […]
The Indian Ocean tsunami killed about 5,400 people in Thailand, half of whom were foreign tourists. Five years on, the BBC’s South East Asia correspondent Rachel Harvey went back to the worst-hit areas to see how people were coping. Martin Carpenter looks out from a second floor balcony towards the sea. Below him a group […]
Pattaya, Chon Buri – A German tourist was killed by a speeding pickup while he was crossing a road in this seaside town early Tuesday, police said. W. L., 55, ws hit and killed at the mouth of Soi Naklua 1 Road off the Pattaya-Naklua Road in Bang Lamung district at 2:30 am. Read more: […]
The Thai government is being urged to investigate a businessman who allegedly moved more than 20 Padaung so-called “long necks” from their homes in northern Thailand to become a tourist attraction near Chiang Mai. The Karen Network for Culture and Environment (KNCE), based in Chiang Mai, announced on Thursday that it would write to Thai […]
