Thailand Travel News

Chiang Rai, the northernmost province of Thailand is about 785 kilometers north of Bangkok.

A WESTCOUNTRY couple who found love amid the horrors of the Boxing Day tsunami have returned to the scene of the disaster five years on - to get married.

Krabi's strongest suit is its green and sprawling waterfront complete with titanic limestone cliffs.

Shop till you drop and then pamper yourself with a relaxing back massage or a rejuvenating foot massage.

Madhavan may be totally immersed in the promotion of his upcoming release 3 Idiots.

There is probably no street as well-known to tourists to Thailand as the KhaoSan Road .

The diplomatic flare-up with Cambodia worsened yesterday after Phnom Penh expelled a first secretary at the Thai embassy - and Thailand responding in kind.

A SEX offender has been barred by magistrates from travelling to a "hot spot of child prostitution". Thomas Stroud, of West Way, Lancing, appeared at Worthing Magistrates' Court on Monday , when police made an application to stop him travelling to Thailand with another registered sex offender.

Two Cambodians got into a fistfight at a market in the border town of Poi Pet yesterday morning over ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra's appointment as economic advisor to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.

THAILAND'S main airport is to relocate 12 giant "demon statues" to boost the morale of staff who thought the figures brought bad luck.

The body of an Irishman who had been missing in Thailand has been recovered. 24-year-old Michael O'Brien from Templeogue in Dublin went missing last Tuesday when he went surfing around Koh Phangan island.

THAKSIN Shinawatra's visit to Phnom Penh benefits both the ousted Thai leader and his Cambodian host, but could drag the two countries back into a simmering border conflict, analysts said.

Bangkok - Thailand's main airport is to relocate 12 giant "demon statues" to boost the morale of staff who thought the figures brought bad luck, local media and officials said on Tuesday.

When English teachers go to Phuket, Thailand many immediately want to teach there.

Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has spent much of the past three years roaming the globe, shopping for diamonds in Africa, golfing at Asian resorts _ and humiliating the government from a distance.

Just as many had feared, the stormy relationship between Thailand and Cambodia was pushed to the edge Thursday when Bangkok responded to fugitive ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra's appointment as the neighbouring country's economic adviser by recalling its ambassador from Phnom Penh.

Washington is ready to boost ties with Myanmar but will not lift sanctions until there is progress on democracy, a US diplomat said Thursday after the highest-level talks with the ruling junta in years.

Thailand is the world's second best-value destination according to Lonely Planet's 'Best in Travel 2010' guide.

Thailanda s industrial production unexpectedly rose for the first time in 11 months as electronics and automotive companies received more orders, adding to signs the nationa s economic recovery is strengthening.

Chiang Mai is my favorite city in Thailand, it's also my favorite place to drink coffee.