Latest News in Thailand

Former Thai Governor of Tourism Indicted in U.S.
US prosecutors have issued an indictment for a former governor of Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and her daughter on charges that they received kickbacks from a Los Angeles filmmaking couple to run Bangkok International Film Festival and other schemes between 2002 and 2007.
US prosecutors say that prior [...]

Song and Dance Performance Leads to Nullified Election
The Supreme of Court of Thailand’s Election Division Thursday called for a new election in Constituency 1 of Maha Sarakham region as recommended by the Election Commission.
The EC suggested the new election after finding that Khachit Chainikhom, a Puea Thai Party candidate in the Jan 11 by-election in [...]

Tourists Turn Away From Thailand
International tourist arrivals to Thailand will diminish by 38% to 1.5 million this year due to the doggedness of global economic troubles and local political volatility. This is according to The Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA).
Surapol Sritrakul, the association’s president, said advance reservations for the high season had been greatly [...]

Thai Political Veteran Sick and Tired of the Whole Mess
Thailand’s Pracharaj Party leader Sanoh Thienthong said on Sunday that he is weary of political affairs and is in preparation to leave the political stage, claiming to be sickened by the entire mess.
While speaking about former Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh’s return to politics by joining [...]

Club Owner Burns Victims Again
The owner of the former Santika pubinclub in Bangkok, which burst into an inferno on New Year’s Eve, has told a court he could pay only 30,000 baht in recompense to families of the dead and to surviving victims.
The conflagration killed 66 people and harmed hundreds. The bid was part of [...]

Thai Community Radio to Come Under Government Supervision
About 1,200 owners and operators of small community radio stations have hurried to submit an application for advance registration so they will be at the top of the line up when the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issues licenses and frequencies designations
The NTC has informed more than 5,000 neighborhood [...]

England’s Peter Reid new Coach-Manager of Thailand’s National Football Team
Peter Reid, Former manager of England’s International team, also former Manchester City manager is set to take over as coach of the Thailand national team, a four year contract will be signed next month.
Peter Reid, the former Sunderland, Leeds United and Manchester City manager, will start [...]

Moving to Thailand
by David Barkdull
Bangkok, Thailand
Are you thinking about moving to Thailand? Are you contemplating moving to Thailand, to what is essentially the other side of the world? I say, go for it! However there are considerations that you need to address before you make the jump to Thailand. Just a few years ago [...]

Heath Ledger, Academy-Oscar award for ‘The Joker in The Dark Knight’ ???
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is contemplating giving an award to Heath Ledger, posthumously, for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight. The buzz is that the sympathetic members of his extended family and fans think he “was” an [...]