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Any hot tourist spot around the world is going to attract the 'wrong sort of' people, sometimes greedy locals, who...
Read moreDetailsTim joined The Thaiger as one of its first employees in 2018 as an English news writer/editor and then began to present The Thaiger's Daily news show in 2020, Thailand News Today (or TNT for short). He has lived in Thailand since 2011, having relocated from Australia.
Any hot tourist spot around the world is going to attract the 'wrong sort of' people, sometimes greedy locals, who...
Read moreDetailsPLEASE NOTE: We're not recommending that you should ride a motorbike or motorcycle in Thailand but, if you do, these tips will...
Read moreDetailsHere’s the latest from this morning’s series of earthquakes in the northern Philippines. The most prominent shake today was a...
Read moreDetails“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain And so it is with a 63 year old Thai...
Read moreDetailsThailand’s Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is being backed into a corner by physicians, hundreds of doctors, foundations, universities, and...
Read moreDetailsThe island of Luzon in the Philippines has been hit by a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake sending strong tremors felt...
Read moreDetailsThe world’s travel woes have made their way to Australia. Long queues and equally long delays at Australian airports are set...
Read moreDetailsAll those amazing pictures we’ve seen from the new James Webb Space Telescope do have a small Thai connection. One...
Read moreDetailsBangkok, and 10 other central Thai provinces, are being warned by the Department of Irrigation, of overflows from the Chao...
Read moreDetailsA former city mayor from the restive southern Filipino province of Basilan, along with her executive assistant and a university...
Read moreDetailsThe US State Department has reacted to the murder of four democracy activists in a state-sanctioned execution, promising that there...
Read moreDetailsBuying property in Thailand requires some good advice and a bit of reading-up before plunging yourself into the hundreds of...
Read moreDetailsAfter surviving another censure motion against him and the members of his government, the Thai prime minister now faces a...
Read moreDetailsCovid-19 infections have surged back to over 10,000 infections per day, in Bangkok alone. This time driven by the BA.5...
Read moreDetailsSingapore has hanged its fifth person in the past four months. Malaysian 64 year old Nazeri bin Lajim was hanged...
Read moreDetailsWhat’s made of plastic, has a few pieces of wire and two plastic antenna probes? A bomb detector, of course....
Read moreDetailsWednesday night’s downpour wasn’t just torrential, it was record-breaking! It was the highest rainfall recorded in 67 years in some...
Read moreDetailsDay three of the no-confidence motion and parliamentary debates revealed that then-General Prayut, the Commander in Chief of the Thai...
Read moreDetailsBritish Airways isn’t heading back to Bangkok until at least next year. Tour operators were hoping the British flagship carrier...
Read moreDetailsYes, it is the wet season. And, just in case you doubted it, Mother Nature has thrown down the rain...
Read moreDetailsAnother cryptocurrency exchange is in trouble, blocking withdrawals of both cash and crypto from its platform as go 6pm last...
Read moreDetailsA community meeting in Rawai on Tuesday agreed to get behind the latest tourist attraction, the Khao Daeng Glass Bridge,...
Read moreDetailsThailand has logged another maritime mishap with the fire on a passenger ferry, about 5 kilometres off the coast of...
Read moreDetailsThe latest sub-variant of the Covid-19 virus, BA 2.75, has been detected in the southern Thai province of Trang. Like...
Read moreDetailsOpposition MPs have, so far, failed to lay a knockout punch on the Thai PM or any of his ministers,...
Read moreDetailsWith the rush to a digital, and more convenient form, of legal gambling in Thailand, the Government Lottery Office appears...
Read moreDetailsRecords were broken, people were staying inside and shops were doing brisk sales of fans. Temperatures in the UK hit...
Read moreDetails"I know you may admire some people who previously held this position and praise them for doing a better job...
Read moreDetailsA consortium of 12 tourism associations from around Thailand are calling on the government to simplify the current tourism stimulus...
Read moreDetailsAs expected, today’s censure debate in the Thai parliament has kicked off with the opposition targeting Public Health Minister Anutin...
Read moreDetailsAn airport in the UK has been forced to suspend flights. Not because of the supply chain issues, Covid-19 positive...
Read moreDetailsFrom Human Rights Watch... (Published as provided) Thai authorities should immediately drop the charges and release pro-democracy activists detained for...
Read moreDetailsDespite last week’s announcement that the high-speed railway from Bangkok to the Laos border would be completed by 2028, there...
Read moreDetailsLast week the Thai government announced that the new “tourism tax,” an arrival levy of 300 baht per person to...
Read moreDetailsPart of the debacle Thai Airways finds itself in now harks back to poor decisions made 30 years ago with...
Read moreDetailsSome Filipinos are in a rush to buy books documenting the divisive and savage 21 year reign of the former...
Read moreDetailsThailand’s anti-government protesters are gathering support again as the country’s restrictions allow them to gather in groups and protest against...
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