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  Thailand’s Koh Samet oil spill could impact fishing industry As if it’s not bad enough that Thailand’s Koh Samet oil spill, which occurred on Saturday, is causing…

  Bangkok building boom proves the office space market is showing robust health You can always tell Thailand’s economy is doing well when the Bangkok building boom begins….

  British Behaviour Abroad Report shows 389 Brits died in Thailand Each year, the British government releases the British Behaviour Abroad report, documenting British consular assistance cases around the world…

  Even though I’m British, I have to say I don’t understand many Brits who travel abroad, not when drinking so much alcohol they barely know what they’re…

  The Thai baht is stable against the US dollar, euro and British pound in July, 2013 and has been for the last month, with exchange rates for…

Teeratep Winothai wins for Singha All-Star XI against Manchester United A football ‘friendly’ game in Bangkok, Thailand this weekend supposed to show off Manchester United’s amazing skills went…

Thailand’s Princess Marsi dies in France at age of 82 Thailand’s Princess Marsi has died in the French village of Annot, where she had lived for more than…

51-year-old American, Troy Lee Pilkington, killed for refusing to pay taxi fare In the 10 years this writer has lived in Thailand, I have lost count of the…

  This is interesting. As Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s popularity continues to fall, news out of the Thai government is she is being tipped to double as…

  Can Ayutthaya, Thailand win the World Expo 2020 bid? It just may do that if current Thai World Expo campaigners have their way. Organizers in the city…

On Wednesday, a criminal court in Thailand ruled that an Italian journalist was killed by the Thai military — something that many in Thailand already knew. After all,…

  The popular Ramkhamhaeng night market was the site of a bomb blast on Sunday night, a bomb blast that injured seven people, several of them quite seriously….

Don’t forget, there is an alcohol sales ban in Thailand today as it is Visakha Bucha Day. That means, whether you want to buy alcohol in a 7-Eleven,…

Thai former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva must be fit to be tied. Why? Because Thailand’s prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is Forbes‘ 31st most powerful woman in the world….

  Well, there’s finally some good news for those of us who bring a lot of money into Thailand (ie: those of us not working here or who…

  Korean pop sensation, Girls’ Generation, are the newest spokespeople for ‘True Beyond’, brand name smartphones and tablets from True Move. The nine girls (Taeyeon, Jessica, Sunny, Yuri,…

  There was a huge electricity outage on the Thai island of Phuket this evening which, according to Thai TV news, also affected around 14 southern provinces, all…

If you are going to be in downtown Bangkok today, you might want to avoid the Ratchprasong area of town. That is because there is going to be…

    Lin Ping, the Giant Panda that was born in Thailand and currently resides at Chiang Mai Zoo is in the news this week. Why? Because the…

At least there’s a little bit of good news when it comes to the value of the Thai baht against the US dollar today. In the last couple…

  There’s good news for people who need to do border runs from Thailand to another country and would prefer not to go to Cambodia. Three new Thailand-Malaysia…

As I had already mentioned a few weeks, ago Bangkok’s BTS skytrain ticket prices will increase on June 1st, 2013 the Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTSC) recently announced….

  Liverpool Football Club is starting a pre-season tour soon sponsored by Standard Chartered and one of their most anticipated games will be in Bangkok, Thailand. That’s why…