Author: Rachel Roobe

If you are a foreigner (aka non-Thai citizen) currently stuck in Thailand and legally in the country under Thailand’s visa amnesty program, you […]

17-year-old Thai video gamer, Chanon Chuchart, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Nakhon Nayok province on Monday, August 31st, Thai news media […]

As criticism of the Thai government’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak continues to mount, the Bank of Thailand is warning the country’s tourism […]

As the number of domestic tourists taking advantage of the Thai government’s plan to boost tourism has fallen short of what the government […]

While scrolling through Richard Barrow’s Twitter feed this morning, I came across a tweet he had recently posted that answered a question I […]

August 31st, 2020 It seems the Emirates flight from Dubai to Bangkok the airline announced will be kicking off on September 1st is […]

Sad news today that Japanese department store Isetan has closed permanently in Thailand’s Central World. Earlier in the year, the company announced its […]

EDITORIAL: The vast majority of people visiting Thailand on vacation do so because the country is relaxed, people are friendly and it is […]

Thai Hotels Association president Marisa Sukosol Nunbhakdi says Thailand expats should get the travel stimulus deals just like all Thais already get. After […]

As human rights in Thailand continue to disintegrate under the military junta government of Prayut Chan-o-Cha, human rights lawyer Anon Nampa has been […]

As Thailand’s government continues to insist the Thai economy will ‘turn around’ in the last six months of 2020, everything being reported seems […]

Every new day is a new problem for Thailand’s economy. Today’s news comes from the Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT), who estimates at […]

Things continue to worsen for the Thai economy daily as news from the Thai Rice Exporters Association says Thailand’s rice exports are plummeting […]

With hundreds of thousands of foreign business people, foreign family members of Thais and tourists trapped in Thailand after the Thai government shut […]

EDITORIAL  As Thais all over Thailand are suffering economically due to a large drop in GDP as a result of Thailand’s lockdown over […]

With Thailand’s borders still completely closed to international tourists, and likely to remain so for the next few months, the Thai government is […]

Things are looking extremely bad for budget airline AirAsia this month as a new report shows the Malaysian company is struggling to stay […]

In the last couple of weeks, the Thai government and the Thai Tourism Minister have spent their time talking about ‘travel bubbles’ when […]

Thailand already has the worst performing economy in Asia. Its gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to contract by at least 8.1% this […]