Fugitive English national Lee Aldhouse made Thailand and English legal history last night when Thai Airways International (THAI) Flight TG221 touched down on the island province of Phuket. After being transferred from an earlier Thai […]
Just a little more than two-and-a-half years after anti-government street protests brought the centre of Bangkok to a stop for 64 days ahead of a bloody military crackdown, Bangkokians are again living under the Thailand […]
In an apparent backflip on a proposed Thailand TPP membership application, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Saturday that she will not be discussing an application to join the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade […]
When it comes to bizarre media releases it’s hard to go past one issued today (Nov 5) by international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) breathlessly titled MSF prevented from reaching most communities affected by […]
The image of Thailand’s high-value tourism industry has taken a battering courtesy of the country’s foreign minister, Surapong Tovichakchaikul, who said a campaign is needed to educate Thai people that foreigners visiting the kingdom are […]
Two recent studies of malaria along the Thailand-Burma border show that drug-resistant malaria in the region is increasing at an alarming rate, with one study showing a 3,335 per cent increase in the last 10 […]
The death of Leicestershire English teacher Gareth Davies is one of the most needless deaths to have occurred in Thailand in several years and in the final analysis amounts to nothing more than a betrayal […]
The brother of a Leicestershire English teacher who died in Bangkok yesterday (March 26) is calling for an inquiry into the British Embassy Bangkok’s handling of the matter, in addition to an inquiry by the […]
Forty-seven-year-old Leicestershire English teacher Gareth Davies has died in Bangkok just days after his impassioned pleas to be transferred from a provincial Thailand hospital were answered, while British Ambassador to Thailand, Asif Ahmad, continues to […]
A gravely ill English language teacher in Thailand, Gareth Davies, has phoned friends and relatives begging to be transferred from the provincial hospital he is warded in complaining of neglect and abuse by hospital staff. […]
A Leicestershire English teacher’s commitment to his Thai students may cost him his life after falling ill in Bangkok, Thailand and then finding his employer, a private Bangkok university, hadn’t made the obligatory contributions it […]
A Bangkok terrorism alert issued by the American embassy in Bangkok and at least 14 other nations which has been continually downplayed and criticised by Thailand officials is gaining credibility day-by-day, while proving to be […]