FILTER RESULTS
FILTER RESULTS
close.svg
Search Result for “backpacker”

Showing 51 - 60 of 85

OPINION

Goodwill to China

Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/03/2022

» Re: "China Eastern Airlines Boeing with 132 on board crashes in China," (Online, March 21).

WORLD

Life and crimes of freed 'bikini killer' Sobhraj

AFP, Published on 23/12/2022

» For decades Asia's most wanted man, French serial killer Charles Sobhraj terrorised the continent with a string of murders in the 1970s that targeted tourists.

LIFE

Philippines closes Boracay to tourists under high security

AFP, Published on 26/04/2018

» BORACAY, Philippines: The Philippines shuttered its most famous holiday island Boracay to tourists on Thursday for a six-month clean-up, which the government has imposed with a muscular show of its security forces.

THAILAND

British woman's Koh Tao rape story to be investigated

Supapong Chaolan, Published on 27/08/2018

» SURAT THANI: The chief of provincial police on Monday advised a young British woman whose story of being raped on Koh Tao appeared in a London tabloid newspaper to return and file a rape complaint herself, while police investigate.

OPINION

Cops in dock over rape row

News, Editorial, Published on 31/08/2018

» Once again, Koh Tao -- Thailand's top tourist destination in Surat Thani -- has attracted global attention, albeit not in the way Thai authorities would have hoped for.

OPINION

Facts, fake news and media control

News, Alan Dawson, Published on 02/09/2018

» While the regular comedy clubs that ban political humour are running as usual, the best line of the week was actually the statement:

THAILAND

BMA to decide on Songkran

News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/03/2022

» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will on Monday consider whether to allow water-splashing activities on Khao San Road during Songkran, as requested by business operators.

THAILAND

Thai cannabis industry eyes revival under PM who backed its rise

Published on 07/09/2025

» Thailand’s cannabis industry is eyeing a new lease of life under new Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul — a politician who pioneered its decriminalisation and early success.

LIFE

Targeted billionaires

Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/06/2018

» When a rich man meets his maker, I pause for few moments, not to mourn his life but to wonder what becomes of his wealth. Of no use to him now, is it buried with him? Like the pharaohs, he intends for it to accompany him in his next life? Is it inherited by his son? To do what with?

OPINION

Cops know it all

News, Postbag, Published on 28/06/2018

» Re: "Body chopper not mentally ill, say cops", (BP, June 26).