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Depending on your time of arrival and how much you want to spend, there are a number of options for getting from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport to Pattaya. A comfortable air-conditioned bus will get you straight from the airport to Pattaya for as little as 106 Baht whilst a public taxi will cost around 1,400 Baht [...]

I’ve written before about the Thai royal family and in particular the affection and devotion most Thais have for their king and queen. As Swiss man, Oliver Jufer found out, insulting the king is a criminal offence and as resident in Thailand for over a decade, Jufer knew the consequences of his actions. The offence [...]

A Thai man faces possible criminal conviction for failing to stand up when the royal anthem was played at a cinema in Bangkok. In theory he could be found guilty of lese majeste under the Criminal Code, but it’s more likely that a lesser charge may be brought. Although the event happened last September, charges [...]

The Olympic torch made its way through Bangkok’s streets this afternoon with little signs of any disturbances. There were a number of pro-Tibet and anti-Beijing groups in the watching crowds, but the majority in attendance were there to support the event. With Thailand’s (and Bangkok’s) sizeable ethnic Chinese population this was no real surprise. The [...]

Although festivities and water throwing began yesterday in many places, today is the day when just about everybody joins in with the Songkran celebrations.
April 13th is the traditional day when Buddha images are paraded through streets and Thai people sprinkle them with lustral water (pictured). People visit temples and make-merit and everybody throws water [...]

Songkran celebrations kicked off in earnest today for the Thai water festival with large-scale water throwing in towns and cities up and down Thailand. In some rural areas children have been playing Songkran all week, but elsewhere there were only isolated pockets of water throwing up until today.
In Chiang Mai there’s been evidence of the [...]

Yesterday, 54 Burmese people lost their lives when they suffocated to death in the back of a truck in Ranong province, southern Thailand. Altogether, there were 121 people crammed in a container (which normally carries seafood) just over 6 metres long and 2 metres wide. When the ventilation system failed, the workers in the back [...]