A Spanish man has been fined for having sex in public on Koh Samui. The tourist had met a Russian woman in a bar on Chaweng Beach and felt it necessary to copulate on the beach.
Thailand will become the first country in the history of the Asia-Pacific region to host an Air Race World Cup at U-Tapao Airport. These competitions will take place on November 17-19, 2017 under the auspices of the Sports Authority of Thailand as part of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports.
The magazine The Big Chilli, which calls itself the best-read monthly magazine for expats in Thailand, regularly features interviews with foreign diplomats stationed in Bangkok.
A guide who was showing a group of Chinese tourists around the Ayutthaya Historical Park decided to climb over a wall of the Wat Phra Si Sanphet with them. This saved them the entrance fee of 50 baht. The man was caught red-handed by a tourist police officer.
My boyfriend and I are going to Thailand for 6 weeks. We might want to combine this with a trip to Vietnam or Cambodia. How long must you have crossed the border to be able to get another 15-day exemption for Thailand? Do you need visas for Vietnam and Cambodia?
A lot has been written about the Attest de Vita for my pension fund (ING, so NOT the SVB or SSO). I live in the Pattaya region and now have to have a certificate completed by a competent authority for the first time.
A few months ago I went to the Sunisan, say the Evertje Versteeg of Koh Phangan. Just before I go in I hear a faint plaintive squeak. There is a plaintive squeaking bucket next to the entrance. In that bucket are two super tiny almost dead kittens. One is squeaking on its hind legs, the other is more dead than alive on the bottom.
Hotels in Thailand are very popular with guests, according to booking site Hotels.com. Thailand ranks 2017th among the Gold Award winners in the 'Loved by Guests Awards XNUMX' category.
The autistic Martijn was found in Bangkok and taken to a hospital. He was at a bus station when an acquaintance of the family found him. This is reported by his mother Angeline ten Have. The boy from Uden had been missing for a week and a half after he got on the plane.
This article focuses on a Thai poem translated from English. Two of them are by poet Chiranan Pitpreecha, a student activist in the turbulent XNUMXs, when the democracy movement was growing and then bloodily suppressed. The poem 'The first rains', written a quarter of a century ago, is about that time of hope and bitter disappointment.
If you have a few pennies and don't want to hassle with a visa extension, then the Elite Card is for you. The card proves to be a success with wealthy expats, as 443 new members were registered from October to March.
Who has experience with having the date of birth corrected in Thailand? My girlfriend is Thai from the Hua Hin area, her father only filed a tax return in 1971 when she was already 5 years old. This has practical consequences for the future, such as that 5 years later than others, she will be eligible for accrued state pension in the Netherlands or old-age allowance in Thailand.
I read on Thailand blog about a DNA test. Only that still differs from opinions and prices. Does anyone on (Thailandblog) know if there is a reliable research laboratory in the Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) area, whether or not a hospital, where I can have the test described above performed?
Chris regularly describes his experiences in his Soi in Bangkok, sometimes well, sometimes less well. All this under the title Wan Di Wan Mai Di (WDWMD), or Good Times, Bad Times (his mother's favorite series in Eindhoven). Today part 5: discarding both sides?
One of my regular walking routes in Pattaya takes me via a back road with not too much traffic from Third Road – near X-zyte terrain – to Sukhumvit Road. When I first walked there I was close to Sukhumvit, after a few bends in the route, suddenly face to face with an immensely tall building, in the middle of the residential area. It looked like a castle, although it lacked a moat and a drawbridge.
Schiphol is doing well. Our national airport is even growing faster than the five largest European airports, according to airport organization ACI Europe.
Thailand is a country that appeals to the imagination of many. Usually one sees "Bounty" islands in front of it, an azure blue sea, powder-soft snow-white beaches with swaying palm trees on the edge. That is roughly correct for southern Thailand. In Northern Thailand, however, you can visit a beautiful mountain landscape up to an altitude of 2500 meters with its own culture.
