Author: Rachel Roobe

A Thai travel agency, Redtour 999, is advertising a three-day tour package for any red shirts who want to celebrate Songkran with Thaksin […]

  This week, Thailand became the 35th country to get Google Street View with three of the kingdom’s main cities — Bangkok, Chiang […]

  Over the years, I’ve visited Rayong, Thailand several times and have never been impressed as, unlike most other beaches in Thailand which […]

  The latest uproar in Thailand (doesn’t there seem to be one every day lately?) is the comment “Thailand is the world’s brothel” […]

  There’s a new debit card available in Thailand just for tourists. Called the “Miracle Thailand Card” and issued as part of the […]

  Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is currently on a three-day official visit to South Korea where she is meeting with Korean companies […]

A new ABAC poll shows Thais are tired of the political fighting from both sides of the fence and are much more worried […]

  The Bangkok Post has a cute video of the finalists in the Miss Teen Thailand 2011 competition, a Thai beauty contest for […]

Democrat MP, Suebsaeng Promboon, died today after he suffered a heart attack in a taxi in Bangkok last night and lost consciousness. He […]

Thais, quite rightly so, don’t like having too much western culture, or at least the ‘wrong kind’, destroying Thai values. That is why […]

  The big news in Thailand today is the story of an Irish teacher in Thailand, John Behan, who was involved in an […]

  “60 Earth Hour” will take place this year on Saturday 31st March from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. when the Bangkok Metropolitan […]

  There’s a very cool organization in Bangkok called Bangkok Bicycle Campaign that every few months organizes a Bangkok Car Free Sunday, essentially […]

  There was speculation by several international banking analysts yesterday that the Bank of Thailand’s monetary policy committee may decide to increase the […]

  Suzuki Motor Thailand has launched a new model of its Swift compact car today. The new Swift will be an eco-car or […]

  In a move that proves Thailand sometimes manages to be ahead of some so-called developed countries, the Thai Cabinet today approved 15 […]