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Foreign tourist crowds spark tension in Pai
News, Rosie Leishman, Published on 16/02/2025
» Mae Hong Son: Amid the mountains of northern Thailand is a hub for backpackers to lie in hammocks, swim in waterfalls, walk along the Bamboo Bridge and bask in the sun, as travellers slowly sink into what's known as the "Pai hole" in Pai district.
Thai ministry saddened as tainted Laos moonshine claims another life
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 25/11/2024
» The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed its condolences after a second Australian teen transferred from Laos to be treated for methanol poisoning after drinking tainted liquor, died on Sunday.
Bangkok revealed as the third-best destination for backpackers in 2023
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 11/04/2023
» Approximately 44 million backpacking trips are taken each year, with research estimating the average spend per trip as $4,111 (2017).
Khao San shows flickers of life
News, Aye Kein Kham, Published on 20/12/2021
» Street food vendors on Khao San Road in Bangkok, widely known as a haven for foreign backpackers, say their lives are returning to normal as they see an increasing number of fully-vaccinated foreign tourists starting to return to this hotspot.
Nation readies for new chapter
News, Editorial, Published on 07/11/2021
» The moment the nation has been praying for finally came last Monday after an 18-month spell where "Thainess" lost a little of its je ne sais quoi without the cacophonous backdrop of a steady stream of foreign tourists.
Money isn't everything
News, Postbag, Published on 31/10/2021
» Re: "Tourism readies for takeoff," (Business, Oct 27).
Tourist fee could be nail in coffin
News, Editorial, Published on 10/10/2021
» Early last week, news surfaced that the Centre for Economic Situation Administration rubber-stamped a proposal brought by the National Tourism Policy Committee to collect a "small tax" from tourists entering the country, starting in 2022.
Twitter exposes army's feeble IO strategies
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 13/10/2020
» Has word reached the Digital Economy and Society Ministry that the earth is not flat? That the "world" is a big round planet of which our country is a tiny little part, physically and figuratively?
Death sentences of Myanmar pair commuted
News, Published on 15/08/2020
» Two migrant workers from Myanmar on death row for the 2014 murder of two British backpackers on Koh Tao have had their sentences commuted to life in prison under a royal decree.
Shady Thamanat
News, Postbag, Published on 16/06/2020
» Re: "Alro readying to repossess forest land, rent it back to businesses", (BP, June 14).