Zara heads for Phuket in her quest to be the youngest woman to fly around the world, solo
Zara Rutherford arrives in Phuket next week. In a plane. In her own plane. Alone. The 19 year old is...
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.
Zara Rutherford arrives in Phuket next week. In a plane. In her own plane. Alone. The 19 year old is...
Read moreDetailsNew Year is looming and Thailand still plods along under a long list of restrictions, both for daily life in...
Read moreDetailsOPINION "We decided to adopt this system, so we must have confidence in the democratic system." Words from the Thai...
Read moreDetailsMyanmar’s military junta chief has woken up to find his partly-owned telecom company Mytel being barred from Facebook as Meta,...
Read moreDetailsFOR SALE: One Soapy Massage Complex in Bangkok Just what you need to diversify your property portfolio. Your very own...
Read moreDetailsThe Thai Ministry of Public Health announced earlier today that the first covid variant 'Omicron' has been detected in the...
Read moreDetailsGenerally good news on the Covid front in Thailand with the daily new case reports mostly under 5,000 for the...
Read moreDetailsThe beleaguered Boeing 737 Max will resume services in China next year after being certified as “airworthy” by the Civil...
Read moreDetailsAs the final trains pull into the historic Hua Lamphong railway station in Bangkok over the next few months, public...
Read moreDetailsThis week The Thaiger revealed that Maya Bay, on Koh Phi Phi Leh, may remain closed beyond its proposed January...
Read moreDetailsThe reality is that many 'bars' will rush to achieve certification as an SHA+ approved 'restaurant'. The signwriters in Pattaya...
Read moreDetailsMaya Bay, on Koh Phi Phi Leh, in between Krabi and Phuket, was slated for a reopening on January 1....
Read moreDetailsEaten bugs and insects in Thailand? You've probably seen the fried up bugs being sold in the local market. But...
Read moreDetailsThailand was the first country in Asia to more fully reopen to foreign travellers, and it is seeing a slow...
Read moreDetailsThailand’s nightlife cat and mouse game between authorities and desperate bar and nightlife businesses will continue until the middle of...
Read moreDetailsA reminder today that there is still more steam left in the Covid-19 coronavirus. Just as the world started to...
Read moreDetailsSouth Korean band BTS had a huge night at the American Music Awards. They not only won the highly coveted...
Read moreDetailsWhilst the Ministry of Tourism and Sports approve marketing spending for 2022, their tourism promotion arm, the Tourism Authority of...
Read moreDetailsMaya Bay. Remember that breathtakingly pretty beach on Koh Phi Phi Leh off Krabi? Now, the beach that featured in...
Read moreDetailsSorry, must be another misunderstanding. Poor Public Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul. The mercurial Thai deputy PM and leader of the...
Read moreDetails4 months after the launch of the Phuket Sandbox, a pilot reopening scheme that has now morphed into a country-wide...
Read moreDetailsOPINION On Friday morning we were talking up the speculation that Thailand’s bars would be permitted to reopen on December...
Read moreDetailsThitisan Utthanaphon, aka. Joe Ferrari, along with 6 other police, will be indicted this week over 4 charges relating to...
Read moreDetailsNo surprise, despite some conservative media painting it as a shock political move. The official announcement of Paethongtan Shinawatra’s role...
Read moreDetailsThe usual time between albums for a music outfit… maybe 1-2 years. Up there in amongst the top 30 artists...
Read moreDetailsThe Thailand Pass is now in force if you want to come back to Thailand, whether local or foreign traveller....
Read moreDetailshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGB3wFrxZFA Tim does his weekly jaunt to Phuket from BKK. Thailand is 'open' again with almost-quarantine-free travel to fully vaccinated...
Read moreDetailsLiving Waters Phuket was launched this week, the first fully established legal structure to provide grants to projects investing in...
Read moreDetailsOPINION The opening you have when you’re not quite open. Quarantine-free arrival, except that you’ll still need to book at...
Read moreDetailsThailand, one of the world's major producers of chicken products, is struggling to keep up with exports. Japanese food companies,...
Read moreDetails... and everything you want to know, as of today, about re-entry into Thailand. Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has...
Read moreDetailsIt's designed to ferry lots of people long distances, in an ultra-quiet flying experience. So flyers would be used to...
Read moreDetailsBut what will replace it? Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced an update to procedures for arrival in the...
Read moreDetailsThe fighting between the military and insurgents in the Southern border provinces of Thailand continues. Yesterday the Thai military killed...
Read moreDetailsThe tar balls are back. During a scheduled beach clean yesterday along Phuket's north-coast Nai Yang Beach, volunteers noticed the...
Read moreDetailsWe all followed the events of the cave rescue. We think we know what happened. But we don’t. "The Rescue",...
Read moreDetailsYesterday marked the 45th anniversary of the infamous October 6 massacre at Thammasat University in Bangkok in 1976, when 4,000...
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