The new daily train service between Bangkok and Ban Klong Luk border station in Sa Kaeo province will start running on July 1, the State Railway of Thailand announced. There will be four trips a day, two in each...
A durian fair is significantly spurring economy in Si Sa Ket, a remote and rather poor province in northeast Thailand. “To date, durian sales from the fair have already been Bt13million past,” said Si Sa Ket Governor Weerasak Wijitsaengsri...
The Thai Ministry of Culture has declared one durian tree and one takien thong tree, both about 200 years old in Patoh district of the southern province of Chumpon, to be part of the country’s national heritage, to remind...
A female pick pocket has been caught on camera stealing from two Thai tourists in London. Nina Spencer, 51, and Toi McGurran, 51, were walking towards the Palace Theatre in London’s West End while making a video to share...
A stateless high-school girl, from Thailand’s southern province of Ranong, has won a consolation award from the Genius Olympiad program held recently in the United States. Ms. Yonladee “Ploy” Phiyatat, a Mathayom 5 student at Satri Ranong School, told...
BANGKOK — Bangkokians rejoice! Cabbies who refuse passengers will be subject to heavier fines under a new legal amendment, officials said Monday. In an attempt to scour a nuisance nearly every commuter has encountered, Land Transport Department deputy director...
Siam Square’s former Lido cinema is offically set to reopen as Lido Connect this July. Though the grand opening will take place on Jul 30, the new creative space will be in soft opening as early as Jul 13. Since ceasing operations after 50...
An exhibition space, Blackbox theatre and concert hall are coming to the shuttered cinema in Siam Square Lido cinema in Siam Square, which closed its doors last June after 50 years in operation, is getting a new lease of...
A Russian man ‘looking like a mummy’ is rescued after spending a MONTH inside a bear den after the predator broke his spine and saved him for a future meal A Russian man looking like a living corpse has...
An order for mobile phone users in Thailand’s restive south to submit a photo of themselves for facial recognition purposes is causing uproar from opponents who see it as further curtailing the rights of the Muslim-majority population. But an...
