Latest News in Thailand

Thai Students Protest at Thai Police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand
This afternoon hundreds of Thai students held a protest at the Royal Thai Police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand to question the role of Thai Police in the ongoing political turmoil in Thailand.
The Thai Students also asked Bangkok police when arrests would be made for the unknown [...]

Thai Student Protesters shot in Bangkok, Thailand near PM Samak’s home
Two male Thai University students, 22 years old, were shot by 2 gunmen on motorbike with 22 pistol Thursday night while on a protest march with other students on their way to Prime Minister’s home to demand his resignation.
The students, Anusak Khian-oon and Apichart [...]

English warned not to travel to Thailand
The Brits have been warned to avoid all but essential travel in Thailand as more violence has left one person dead and 40+ injured.
Tourists and Expats in Phuket, Bangkok, Chiang Mai and other popular tourist destinations in Thailand should be fine as long as they stay away from designated [...]

An open letter to the Ladies Professional Golf Association ‘LPGA’
I’m sitting in Bangkok reading an Associated Press news article in my local paper entitled “English Only.” It appears that the Ladies Professional Golf Association has proposed that an English language test be imposed on foreign golfers. If someone on the street told me of this [...]

Trekking in Chiang Mai, Trekking in Northern Thailand
In the cooler climate of Northern Thailand there are many hills and mountains spread throughout the region of the North, all these hills and mountains make trekking a tropical experience of a lifetime in Northern Thailand.
Many tourists from all over the globe come to Chiang Mai and Chiang [...]

China’s world champion Wu Jingyu took the Olympic Gold in Taekwondo in the final of the Women’s 49kg defeating Thailand’s Buttree Puedpong.
Thailand’s Buttree Puedpong gets the WDH Gold for Best Spirit, after the Taekwondo Olympic bout Buttree Puedpong humbly said “I had dreamed just to wear the Thailand jacket in the Olympic Games and this [...]

Thailand woman wins gold for Thailand in Olympics
Thailand Weightlifter Premwadee, or Nong Kay, has won the first gold medal for Thailand in Weightlifting in at Olympic Games in Bejing, China.
Premwadee or Nong Kay, a 24-year-old Thai athlete from Nakhon Sawan, Thailand won the gold medal in the 53kg class. Nong Kay broke an Olympic record [...]

Thaksin not to return to Thailand from China Olympics Visit, voluntary exile for Thaksin
An inside government source has said that Thaksin has made a deal with Thai government officials not to return back to Thailand after a recently approved short visit to China for the Olympics this week. Thaksin was to return to Thailand after [...]

Letter from PAD-People’s Alliance for Democracy Thailand to USA and Canada
Dear friends and people of conscience in Canada and USA,
You might be wondering why are these Thai people gathering at this place and at this time under the summer heat. The answer is simply because the previous and current government of our country and the [...]