With some of the former members of the ruling Palang Pracharat coalition turning against him (and forming their own new...

Test & Go V2.0 has received a universal thumbs down by Thaiger readers and viewers. Or just about anywhere else...

NOTICE: The Thaiger are experienced travellers but we're not doctors. This information is provided as a general guide if you...

You take your PCR test after your stay in Thailand, before you return home to the UK. You test positive...

Heading into 2022, the ‘I’ word is spooking economists around the world as they look at tools to try and...

Get vaccinated or lose your job. That’s the thrust of new workplace laws being introduced in Singapore. From today an...

There’s a change of mood in some government circles as plans are afoot to ease some current restrictions imposed since...

OPINION "Why not just catch Omicron and get it over with? It's a mild cold and will boost immunity, right?”...

Details emerging from last Friday's deliberations by the CCSA have now been published in the Royal Gazette, enacting them into...

Registration for Thailand's Test & Go quarantine exemption scheme will be closed indefinitely. Travellers, who are already approved to enter...

Sleepless in Sukhumvit. A massive clump of LED billboards in Bangkok’s Thong Lor district has been such a nuisance to...

China’s Evergrande property mess just became a whole lot worse. Now shares in the indebted property group have been suspended...

Ubon Ratchathani's Governor Pongrat Phiromrat has ordered all schools, cinemas, fitness clubs, gyms, sports stadiums and sports grounds to be...

To kick off, the reported changes are only 'proposals' at this stage. A final decision on these matters concerning the...

A popular trail in the Doi Mon Jong ranges has been closed indefinitely after a female student was attacked by...

Thai health authorities are choosing to take a cautious approach, even though they say "the situation is under control". They've...

Thailand’s Maya Bay is now open to tourists and visitors after being officially relaunched on new year’s day. Visitors to...

Over the past 2 years (and it is nearly 2 years since the first case of Covid-19 was identified outside...

The new Asian regional trade pact, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, becomes effective as of today. The RCEP...

UPDATE Well, Andrea Bocelli appeared at Saphan Hin park in Phuket, probably one of his least memorable singing venues, last...

New Year's Eve mirrors Christmas Eve this year, and the days between, with world travel being disrupted - from cruises...

The top stories reported on The Thaiger in 2021, as measured by your clicks on those stories, were dominated, not...

543,856 infections of Covid-19 have been reported in the US in the past 24 hours, fueled mostly by the fast-spreading...

The photo is of the new Singapore Airlines Boeing 737-8. Except it's not really. It's a Boeing 737 MAX, the...

Yesterday it was reported that Europe’s largest travel firm TUI Nordic announced it had cancelled scheduled chartered flights to Phuket...

Rising Omicron infections, together with poor winter weather, are wreaking havoc on US airlines with nearly 1,000 flights affected yesterday...

A powerful underwater earthquake rumbled off the coast of northern coast of Sumatra island, Indonesia, at 7:59am local time, setting off...

A few days in December as travellers keep rolling into Thailand. On the day before Christmas, 11,533 passengers arrived in...

"The permit to arrive in Thailand is the least of the problems for many potential international tourists as airlines around...

OPINION A crazy day in The Thaiger office as we pushed out all the latest Test & Go Thailand Pass...

Three recent arrivals on the Gulf island of Koh Samui have been detected with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 -...

At least 208 people have been killed as authorities and emergency workers start mopping up the mess left from the...

We'd flown in propeller-powered planes, then jets. Supersonic was the next evolutionary step in flying people around the world as...

An emerging human tragedy as at least 208 people have now been killed in the Philippines by Typhoon Rai (locally...

Super Typhoon Rai has now been responsible for the deaths of at least 89 people in the Philippines as is...

A month after the first cases of the Covid-19 variant, Omicron, were officially detected in South Africa, we know a...

The UK and EU are going into a mild travel panic as borders start to close again and restrictions re-imposed....