Thailand’s beleagured national airline, Thai Airways, and the country’s tourist industry continues to get hit financially due to flooding in Bangkok. Thai Airways have just announced they have…
Ayutthaya, Thailand’s UNESCO World Heritage Site, has just spent four months under more than six feet of flood water. Now it’s draining, and tourists can go back. With…
When I look outside the window of my Bangkok, Thailand apartment, all I see is water. Bangkok’s massive floods hit my area of the city 10 days…
Looks like we might once more be seeing free tourist visas to Thailand. The Tourism and Sports Minister, Chumpol Silapa-archa, is considering asking the Thai government to implement…
The director of the UTCC’s Economic and Business Forecasting Centre, Thanawat Ponwichai, has said according to their calculations, the Thai economy will lose 300-400 billion baht ($9.73 billion…
In the last couple of weeks, Dr. Seree Supratid (also known as Dr. Seri Supharatid) has become a TV and internet sensation in Thailand. The doctor, the current…
As the Thai government continues to struggle to prevent more of inner Bangkok from flooding, the Bangkok Post is reporting Rama 2 Road is beginning to flood. Water…
Bangkok, Thailand has been inundated with flood water for three weeks. Hundreds of millions of cubic feet are already in the city, with two times more water than…
With much of Bangkok under massive floods, the area around by our apartment building in northern Bangkok is under around 2 feet of water. When it floods that…
Yes, buses do break down in Bangkok’s massive floods In most western countries, if people had to deal with a massive flood like Bangkok, Thailand is currently coping…
If you are in Bangkok, or planning on coming here, and you are concerned about which areas of Bangkok are currently flooded, this handy Bangkok Post map can…
My soi under 60 centimeters of water this evening – we flooded three days ago Looks like we may have another round of public holidays due to…
Even though the Thai government and many other officials have said over and over that inner Bangkok won’t be flooded, it now looks like it’s official. It will….
On our walk down a couple of sois on our way to Central Ladprao yesterday, we took some photographs just to document the flooding around the Pahonyothin-Central Ladprao-Ratchadapisek…
When we woke up this morning our entire soi was flooded. Not remotely unexpected, as we had seen the flood waters coming our way yesterday, by the time…
If you are a tourist in Bangkok, or soon going to be, and you are worried about all the tourist attractions being closed, don’t be. Long-time Bangkok resident,…
We took a stroll down our soi this morning to take photographs at the intersection of Pahonyothin and Ratchadapisek intersection in Bangkok, (our soi is two blocks away…
Thailand is going through its worst flooding in almost a century, if not ever. More than one third of the country is currently under water (yes, one third)…
Up until recently, Thailand’s military has had a bad reputation. Decades of more coups than about 10 countries put together, shooting of unarmed citizens in Bangkok’s anti-government red…
Good news for tourists planning on taking the train north to Chiang Mai or Chiang Rai, or down south to get to southern Thai cities, Thai islands or…
In the days of some pretty abysmal reporting about Bangkok’s floods from so many sources, including organizations like the BBC and CNN who sometimes don’t seem to know…
The Thai government of Yingluck Shinawatra is apparently considering extending the “special flood holidays” in Bangkok, which were initally meant to run from Thursday until this Monday (October…
If you watch the news, you can be forgiven if you think most of Bangkok is now under water. While the Thai news media is showing nothing but…