For an exotic holiday with plenty of good cheer this Christmas consider taking your celebrations to the Eastern hemisphere. Not only can you leave your jackets and scarves at home with gloriously warm weather across much of the region, but many Asian nations do get right into the Christmas spirit with celebrations, trees, decorations and […]
There isn’t really much for the Chinese to abolish Great exaggeration has been made of the headline news from the just-ended Communist Party Central Committee Plenum about China ending its One Child policy. In the first place the policy is merely being “adjusted,” not abolished. While many in China are aware that for the future […]
On Tuesday, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced that a living saola, or “Asian unicorn”, has been photographed in Central Vietnam. The picture was recorded last September by a camera trap placed by the Vietnamese government and the WWF. The saola, an antelope-like animal with long horns, had not been seen in Vietnam […]
BANGKOK, Nov 13 – Thailand will dispatch personnel and medical supplies to the Philippines in the wake of that country’s severe mauling by deadly Super Typhoon Haiyan last week. Philippine President Benigno Aquino said local officials had overstated the loss of life, saying the toll was now closer to 2,000 or 2,500 than the 10,000 […]
Earlier today, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina chaired a cabinet meeting which decided to grant official government recognition of people who gender identify as Hijras, people who identify as neither male nor female. Recognition brings several government related benefits to Hijras including priority in education, housing and health. Their gender designation will also […]
BANGKOK, 20 October 2013 (NNT) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has played down the rumor that claims Japanese government is set to discontinue granting visa exemption to Thai passport holders. Following the rumor about the discontinuation of visa exemption after a number of Thais have traveled to Japan and failed to come back, Foreign […]
BANGKOK, 18 October 2013 (NNT) – Japan is set to toughen its immigration rules after a number of Thai visitors abused the recently granted visa exemption by entering the country to seek illegal work. The Immigration Bureau has revealed that its Japanese counterpart is planning to implement more strict measures to screen Thai nationals visiting […]
Five Thais were among 44 passengers and crew killed when a twin engine Lao Airlines plane plunged into the Mekong River Wednesday as it attempted to land at an international airport in Laos’ Champasak province, Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman Sek Wannamethee said. Some of the five Thais killed on the flight from Vientiane were reportedly […]
