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Betong airport set to open next month
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 19/08/2021
» Betong International Airport in Yala is likely to open next month, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT).
State offers airlines discounts
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 18/03/2021
» The Department of Airports (DoA) has launched incentives encouraging airlines to offer direct flights to and from the new Betong International Airport.
Winged migration
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 04/11/2019
» On a raised wooden platform on Khao Dinso, a 350m-high hill along a coastline of the Gulf of Thailand in Chumphon province, a group of international birdwatchers are waiting to see raptor migration since dawn's break. Every year about a million birds migrate during autumn from cold lands in Russia or China, passing Khao Dinso in Thailand to the tropical islands of Indonesia to find food.
A plea for peace
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 04/03/2019
» The travel advisory has been issued for years to warn visitors to avoid travelling to the Deep South where periodic violence occurs in Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and sometimes Hat Yai in Songkhla province.
What was hot on the net in 2017
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 05/01/2018
» As the curtain is being raised for the tech world of 2018, let's have a quick look at what internet users searched for on the world wide web last year.
Natural sanctuary
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 07/07/2016
» Boontoemphu Rongluean has never thought that one day he would offer a cruise boat service in Yala. The province does not have access to the sea, but it has a reservoir where tourists can board a boat to the Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary. The lake was created after Bang Lang Dam was completed in 1981, blocking and diverting Pattani River.
A down-south diamond
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 05/05/2016
» Warm sunset colours with endless green mountains and yellow lights from the street highlight Betong during twilight. This southernmost city is the most famous tourist destination in Yala, one of three provinces in the Deep South where the unrest started more than a decade ago.
Welcome to the southside
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 08/10/2015
» One may visit Satun for the famous Koh Tarutao and its vicinities. Crystal clear water, white sandy beaches and unbeatable marine biology are the major magnets that lure travellers to the southern province, 982km from Bangkok.
Airport taxis charge same for now
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 02/07/2015
» Taxi surcharge at Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports remains the same at 50 baht, according to the Transport Minister Prajin Juntong.
Tourism on their Terms
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 02/01/2014
» If you can get a bird's eye view of the terrain, from a plane window, perhaps, or just by poring over a topographical map of southern Thailand, Koh Yao Yai is an elongated strip of green in the middle of Phangnga Bay with the nearest land mass of any size the much bigger island of Phuket and the mainland provinces of Phangnga and Krabi.