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A Thai restaurant in England has been praised for a no-refund policy for customers who try to send back spicy...
Read moreDetailsJon Whitman is a seasoned journalist and author who has been living and working in Asia for more than two decades. Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Jon has been at the forefront of some of the most important stories coming out of China in the past decade. After a long and successful career in East sia, Jon is now semi-retired and living in the Outer Hebrides. He continues to write and is an avid traveller and photographer, documenting his experiences across the world.
A Thai restaurant in England has been praised for a no-refund policy for customers who try to send back spicy...
Read moreDetailsAs China’s immensely tedious political meeting drags on, nothing much is happening except droning announcements by unremarkable men in cheap...
Read moreDetailsThe front page of Tuesday’s UK Guardian features the sad story of Japan’s oldest toilet. A member of the Kyoto...
Read moreDetailsIf you are British, and an expat, one of the few things you used to feel smug about was the...
Read moreDetailsWith the possible exception of a Qatar World Cup, few sporting sagas could be more absurd and inappropriate than the...
Read moreDetailsThai and Cambodian border police at Aranyaprathet and Pong Nam Ron detailed rules for those who wish to extend their...
Read moreDetailsA man has been arrested after shooting his father-in-law and a brother-in-law dead at their house in Bangkok’s Bang Kae...
Read moreDetailsCustoms officials at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport snatched over 7 kilograms of heroin they say was bound for Taiwan. Thai customs...
Read moreDetailsRobbie Coltrane, probably best known for his role as Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, has died aged 72. Born...
Read moreDetailsBangkok is getting tough on people who dump bulky waste like old mattresses and other furniture into waterways. Large objects...
Read moreDetailsThe Meteorological Department (TMD) issued a warning to people in the northeast, east and central regions of the country to...
Read moreDetailsThe United States had been secretly bombing Cambodia for years, though it wasn’t much of a secret to the Cambodians...
Read moreDetailsI guess it is an age thing. As someone who left the parental home as soon as he could and...
Read moreDetailsWith only a few weeks left before the first Ghibli theme park opens on November 1, the world’s press has...
Read moreDetailsIn Chiang Mai, a tiny eatery specialising in 10 baht dishes is attracting shuffling lines of rumbling stomachs in the...
Read moreDetailsEvery year married Hindu women observe Karwa Chauth. It is one of the most important festivals for these women, a...
Read moreDetailsThailand is preparing to welcome the 21 APEC members to Bangkok next month with a new business code of conduct...
Read moreDetailsA court in Myanmar has convicted ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on two more corruption charges. Her two three-year...
Read moreDetailsIs Bangkok ready for the descent of an aircraft filled with penny-pinching Japanese tourists intent on eating out of the...
Read moreDetailsTheir Majesties the King and Queen are to oversee the unveiling of a statue of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej...
Read moreDetailsKatmai National Park and Preserve have announced that Bear 747 is the winner of its annual Fat Bear Week contest....
Read moreDetailsA new self-drive tourism manual for ASEAN contains need-to-know information on driving in each country, as well as suggested tour...
Read moreDetailsThe latest of so many prime suspects in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been charged in Germany with unrelated...
Read moreDetailsThe Bank of Thailand (BOT) is attempting to steer the baht and the economy through some tricky times. As the government...
Read moreDetailsThe Thai government is to spend at least 23 billion baht (US$600 million) on helping people who have suffered in...
Read moreDetailsAlmost 28,000 Haagen-Dazs ice creams worth 12 million baht were destroyed in Samut Prakan Monday, even though the samples had not...
Read moreDetailsThe hard drive that Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop is the gift to tabloid media that...
Read moreDetailsThe story has emerged in today’s Bangkok Post of a Phatthalung woman who was making her way to the hospital...
Read moreDetailsThree conservation areas on the Andaman Sea are to be nominated for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)...
Read moreDetailsA Malaysian man arrested for alleged wildlife trafficking has been extradited to the United States. Teo Boon Ching, 57, was...
Read moreDetailsThree-year-old Ammy slept through the whole thing. During the assault by the crazy killer who burst into her daycare centre,...
Read moreDetailsForeign financial “advisors” have been defrauding the country’s ex-pats for decades. Does seeing the arrest of Briton Mark Kirkham mean...
Read moreDetailsMuay Thai has some amazing referees, lots of them being former fighters themselves. One referee has recently been showered with...
Read moreDetailsSince at least 37 people were killed in Thursday’s daycare centre massacre, Thailand has been forced to ask itself some...
Read moreDetailsA rare diamond, described in the auction catalogue as “fancy vivid pink” has been sold for 453 million Hong Kong...
Read moreDetailsA monastery in the Karen State village of Mekatha was turned to rubble in an attack by fighter jets on...
Read moreDetailsAs a country where there are about 7,000 bites by snakes each year, leading to about 30 deaths, something that...
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