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US Defense Sectretary Leon Panetta headed to Thailand on Thursday on an Asian tour designed to cultivate strong security ties across the region as a counter-weight to China’s rise. US plans to tentatively reopen military contacts with neighbouring Myanmar for the first time since the 1980s are also expected to feature in Panetta’s talks in [...]
The leading luxury brand celebrates its Tambour timepieces with a fundraising effort for the Chaipattana Foundation Louis Vuitton is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its first timepiece collection – the “Tambour” – with an exhibition that aims to raise funds for His Majesty the King’s Chaipattana Foundation. The “Face of Tambour” show, which is on [...]
The Thailand International Balloon Festival in Chiang Mai adds sound on the ground with musical guests Cartoon-character balloons will bring colour to the skies over Chiang Mai later this month during the Thailand International Balloon Festival. While festival-goers gaze mesmerised at a panda, fox and ladybug vying for space above their hands, remote-controlled balloons will [...]
Twenty schoolchildren surround a city bus in central Bangkok. Some get on to confront a 16-year-old from a rival school and, within moments, he is shot dead. Similar altercations have become a focus of public attention, with shootings affecting seemingly ordinary folk. In one incident at a busy intersection, a computer repairman shot dead two people [...]
Sakon Nakhon celebrates the end of the three-month Buddhist retreat from tomorrow until October 30 with its much-loved Wax Castle Festival. The annual festival always draws more than 10,000 people eager to admire the spectacular procession of miniature Buddhist temples and shrines moulded out of beeswax that are paraded past Wat Phra That Choeng Chum. [...]
Kallaya Chermue calls herself a product of a broken family. Born to hilltribe parents who later separated leaving their child with a stranger in the neighbourhood, at only eight years old Kallaya was kicked out of the house and has since been forced to live by her own wits. “Some said my father had become [...]
Looking back to a time before the 2010 revisions to the visa regulations, clearing your overstay was more often than not a simple matter of paying the fine at the airport when departing Thailand. With a maximum fine of 20,000 baht it wasn’t unusual for foreigners to overstay their visas or visa exempt entry permits [...]
Thai Airways International puts the A380-800 into the sky Outside the Airbus Delivery Centre in Toulouse, Southwest France, THAI’s first A380-800 stands still, waiting for her call to raise her wings for the ferry flight to Bangkok. Inside the delivery hall, the small group of passengers, champagne glasses in their hands, gathers around high-topped [...]
Thailand’s tourism and sports minister Monday told AFP he was confident the country would host its first Formula One race in 2014, with talks already at an advanced stage. “It’s unlikely we’ll have any problem,” Chumpol Silpa-archa said, adding that negotiations with Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, were more than halfway through. But he [...]
About 120,000 Myanmar refugees in Thailand may return home within a year, the kingdom’s National Security Council said Thursday, following recent talks between the two nations. Tens of thousands of people, many from the Shan and Karen ethnic minorities who have fled war, are housed in camps along Thailand’s border, but the end of outright [...]