Artikel erschien Mai 2019

  • Chiang Mai songthaews and tuk-tuk drivers complain about Grab

    Chiang Mai songthaews and tuk-tuk drivers complain about Grab

    Drivers of red public songthaews and tuk-tuks have submitted a petition to Chiang Mai’s provincial governor complaining about the Grab ride-hailing App.

  • Black water flows into the sea at Koh Phi Phi

    Black water flows into the sea at Koh Phi Phi

    Wastewater was flowing into the sea at Koh Phi Phi in Krabi as business operators have been caught releasing untreated water and waste into the sea. The issue has gone viral in social media with local officials scrambling to respond. Black water was photographed lapping the shores of Loh Dalam beach on Koh Phi Phi five days ago

  • As readers abandon print, The Nation announces closure of daily printed paper

    As readers abandon print, The Nation announces closure of daily printed paper

    Another big national newspaper bites the dust, following an inevitable worldwide trend. A sad day for The Nation as they announce the closure of the Bangkok-based English daily after 48 years. It leaves the Bangkok Post as the only English language national daily

  • 15 year old  girl arrested for trying to bury her baby alive

    15 year old girl arrested for trying to bury her baby alive

    A 15 year old girl is now in protective custody in Nakhon Ratchasima, north-east of Bangkok, just one day after her newly-born baby boy survived being buried alive in a local field. A villager found the baby in a cassava plantation about one kilometre from Ban Nong Kham village in Tambon Thalad on Wednesday. The infant was taken to the village before being sent to the district hospital

  • Register your hotel within 30 days – Hua Hin unlicensed premises warned

    Register your hotel within 30 days – Hua Hin unlicensed premises warned

    FILE PHOTO 170 illegal hotel and resort operators in Hua Hin have been warned to register and obtain Hotel licences within a month or they will face jail or a fine. The Hua Hin district chief, Thanon Phanpipas, says the operators of unlicensed hotels and resorts must register within a month from May 16 or they would face a maximum jail term of one year and a maximum fine of 20,000 baht plus a daily maximum fine of 10,000 baht

  • Expat life in Thailand – a balancing act

    Expat life in Thailand – a balancing act

    We all come to live in Thailand for vastly different reasons. Sometimes love, sometimes an adventure, sometimes escaping something at home and sometimes for business. Our journey to the Land of Smiles, and then our settling in, can be fraught with shocks, cultural and financial

  • Police and passenger die in Phitsanulok collision

    Police and passenger die in Phitsanulok collision

    PHOTOS: Khaosod A policeman travelling in a highway police sedan, and a passenger in a pickup truck, have died at the scene after a crash in Phitsanulok this morning. The incident happened on Kokmaidang – Noean Maprang Road in Wangthong. Phitsanulok  Provincial Police Deputy Commander, driving the highway police car, died at the scene after he sustained critical injuries

  • Compromise could save expressway authority from paying exorbitant compensation

    Compromise could save expressway authority from paying exorbitant compensation

    PHOTO: YouTube Thailand’s Expressway Authority (EXAT) board has agreed to extend the concession period of NECL, a subsidiary of Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company (BEM), to operate two expressways for an additional thirty years. The hope is they can avert a legal battle which could eventually result in the government authority being ordered to pay as much as 130 billion baht compensation to NECL

  • Two people seriously injured after guns fired in Krabi

    Two people seriously injured after guns fired in Krabi

    Police are now hunting for suspects who fired more than 10 shots at two men in Krabi. Klongtom Police were notified of the incident at a house yesterday afternoon.

  • Weather warnings out for parts of the country

    Weather warnings out for parts of the country

    The annual monsoon is here. Bangkok, along with 55 other provinces in Thailand, have thunderstorms forecast over the next 24 hours. The Thai Meteorological Department have issued the warnings this morning.