Thailand Travel News

A massive power failure has affected more than 8 million people in Thailand's 14 southern provinces, including popular tourist areas such as Koh Samui and Phuket, in one of the country's biggest blackouts in recent memory.

THE Philippines' largest national flag carrier, Cebu Pacific announced it will begin direct flights from Manila to Phuket, Thailand, starting August 16, 2013.

Once upon a time, long before ASEAN , there was Indochina, comprised of Thailand, West Malaysia, Burma , Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

The Best Summer Destination selections were drawn from the more than 60,000 places visited by more than 2.5 million registered Gogobot users, their friends and like-minded travellers in their network.

Crickets are some of the most commonly eaten insects in the world and are regarded as a solution for the malnutrition problem plaguing Laos.

DOHA/BANGKOK: Qatar Airways yesterday announced a new codeshare agreement with Bangkok Airways to destinations across Thailand and the capital cities of neighbouring Cambodia and Myanmar, said a press statement.

Thailand is to invite Laos to sign up to a single-visa scheme for foreign tourists when the country's leaders meet at a summit in Chiang Mai on Sunday, a government source said.

Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi insists he will not apologise to opponents of the Asia-Pacific Summit who have accused him of insulting them.

Thailand was voted the most attractive nation in Southeast Asia for investment in the hospitality industry at the Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference, thanks to the country's strong infrastructure and ongoing tourism boom.

ITALY Successful and well known language school is situated between Milan and Turin, opened in 1972 is now for sale due to retirement.

Executives of major discount carriers Thai AirAsia and Nok Air say their operating costs are definitely lower than those of high-speed trains, which, according to the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning, are estimated to be 2.50 baht per kilometre.

My flight lands at Don Mueang Airport. Are there any direct buses from there to Pattaya? I don't want to hire a taxi to take me all the way.

PHUKET: The Navy League Phuket is pulling out all the stops in preparation for this year's American Independence Day weekend celebrations, with a family picnic, live music and the grandest of air-shows on the cards.

Ayutthaya, Siam's former capital, opts for all things Persian this week, showcasing cultural shows and display of Iranian art and handicrafts, as part of the "From Persia to Thailand" festival.

The brazen hedonism of Bangkok agrees with Jerry Hopkins. The co-author of No One Here Gets Out Alive , the best-selling portrait of iconic Doors frontman Jim Morrison, Hopkins has been described as "the dean of pop biographers." He laughingly refers to himself as a free-spirited "bottom feeder" with good timing.

A Las Vegas doctor faces more than two years in prison after prosecutors say he evaded his taxes but still found money to travel to Thailand and Costa Rica.

Chinese tourists remain the world's top tax-free spenders in the first quarter of 2013, up 20 percent from the first quarter of last year, according to a report released by Global Blue, a leading duty-free operator.

Recently, CNNGO named Bangkok 's Or Tor Kor the world's fourth best fresh market .A fact I already knew as it's five minutes from my house.

Bonjour! There will be six weeks of Gallic dance and music, fun and festivity from Friday to June 22.

Enrolling students every other year at primary school level could be one solution to the government's controversial policy of closing small schools, a leading educator told a Bangkok seminar yesterday.