The Phuket Vegetarian Festival scheduled for 18-26 October this year. Activities include fire walking, the offering of food to the gods and street processions of self-mutilating entranced devotees will also be taking place at different shrines around Phuket. Despite how grizzly it sounds, the festival is expected to attract over half a million spectators this […]
BANGKOK – THOUSANDS arrived in busloads to pray outside a Bangkok hospital on Friday for the swift recovery of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a day after concerns about his health sparked the biggest slide in a year in Thai stock prices. As Thais queued up to sign get-well books at Siriraj Hospital where the world’s […]
Thai women were forced to sell sex, cops say The Cook County sheriff’s police detained three women from Thailand on suspicion they had been coerced to engage in prostitution across the U.S. in the last three weeks as part of an international prostitution ring. The women said operators of the ring confiscated their passports, demanded […]
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s “general condition is good,” the royal household said, dousing speculation that the 81-year-old monarch’s health had worsened during a 26-day stay in a hospital. “A further period of recovery of lung pneumonia is necessary, as in case of the elderly,” a faxed statement from the Royal Household […]
BANGKOK (Dow Jones)–General Motors Thailand said Wednesday that union workers have ended a strike at its manufacturing plant in the country’s east that has left production idling since early last week. The auto maker said in a statement that normal operations at the Rayong plant will resume Thursday after the company and the Workers Union […]
12 October 09, Pattaya, [PDN]: By the evening of 11 October, after two-three hours of non-stop rain in Pattaya, the city was almost inundated, some locations being under as much as 50 cm. of water, with grid-lock prevailing on all the main roads. Starting from 4.00pm, both sides of Sukhumvit Road, the city’s main arterial […]
Leaders of the pack Bike events are not new to Thailand – indeed the Phuket and Chiang Mai Bike Shows have been drawing vast numbers of motorbike enthusiasts for years, as have smaller events in other cities all over the country. Now downtown Bangkok gets to host an event, with Siam International Bike Week 2009 […]
International education in Thailand is set to grow 10 per cent yearly and the government expects to have up to 100,000 foreign students enrolled here within five years, up from about 30,000 at present, a senior Commerce Ministry official said. “The quality of international academic institutions in Thailand is acknowledged worldwide. Much lower costs than […]
