- Hot News
Headteacher accused of sexually abusing 11 pupils in Kanchanaburi
Thai ministry orders investigation into school director accused of abusing 11 pupils, despite his resignation Thailand’s Ministry of Education has ordered a serious disciplinary investigation into a school director in Kanchanaburi province accused of sexually abusing 11 schoolgirls, saying he will be dismissed and stripped of his pension if the allegations are proven, despite having already submitted his resignation. A…
- Hot News
Cafe built for 30 million baht up for lease at just 1.49 million, and the list of extras is huge
Here is one for anyone who has ever dreamt of running their own cafe in Thailand. A well-known cafe and resort in Chai Nat province, built at a cost of more than 30 million baht, is being offered for lease for just 1.49 million baht, with the whole operation ready to run from day one. The listing, posted on 7…
- Travel
Thailand lost a third of its Chinese tourists. It has not got them back.
Thailand’s biggest customer is also the country beating it Malaysia has 35 million people. China has 1.4 billion. In one week this summer, Thailand welcomed 83,492 Chinese tourists and 78,306 Malaysians. That gap of just over 5,000 visitors, produced by countries 40 times apart in population, says more about the state of Thai tourism than any headline figure. Thailand welcomed…
- Finance
Mystery woman claims 100 billion baht in shares of Thai blue chips that don’t exist
A mystery woman who filed reports claiming to own nearly 100 billion baht worth of shares in six of Thailand’s biggest listed companies has shaken confidence in the Thai capital market, prompting an urgent investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The name Supaporn Pimpong was unknown in Thai investment circles until July 2, when the SEC published an…
- Thailand News
Task force closes in on network after flight attendant’s heroin arrest
Thai and Australian authorities say they have identified key figures in a suspected drug-smuggling network, following the arrest of a 26 year old Thai Airways flight attendant caught with heroin at Melbourne Airport. Officials expect to make arrests in Thailand within days. The flight attendant was working on Thai Airways flight TG465 from Bangkok to Melbourne when she arrived in…
- Thailand News
Thai King, Queen concludes France visit with Airbus stop
Thai King and Queen conclude a historic state visit to France with a tour of Airbus in Toulouse Their Majesties King Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida concluded their state visit to France on 1 July with a visit to the Airbus facilities in Toulouse, a global centre of aviation technology, on the final day of a landmark five-day trip. The visit…
- Hot News
Thai Airways brings back nonstop Bangkok to Amsterdam flights after 28 years
The Dutch capital returns to the national carrier’s map from 1 July. This gives expats in Thailand a fresh nonstop option to northwest Europe. Furthermore, it puts to rest a rumour that the airline was once banned from the route. Thai Airways resumes daily nonstop flights between Bangkok and Amsterdam on 1 July 2026. This reconnects the two cities directly…
- Property
Thailand flagged nearly 47,000 companies, it only charged 852
Strip away the headlines and the panic, and the property crackdown comes down to a single sum almost nobody is doing. The government has flagged tens of thousands of suspect companies. And after the biggest enforcement push in its modern history, it has actually brought charges against a few hundred, most of those still unresolved. At that pace, clearing the…
- Bangkok News
Why Bangkok is the only province in Thailand that elects its own governor
If you live in Thailand as a foreigner, you have probably noticed something curious during election season. Every few years, Bangkok erupts into a noisy, colourful campaign for a new governor, with posters on every corner and televised debates. Yet in the other 76 provinces, from Chiang Mai to Phuket, no such race ever happens. The governors there simply appear,…
- Property
A field guide to the Thai property comment section, and the lonely one percent with a heart
We wrote about Thailand seizing homes from foreigners who bought through nominee structures, and argued the buyer was the least guilty link in a long Thai chain. Then we read every comment underneath and sorted the commenters into species, like a slightly unhinged birdwatcher. We expected the expats to defend one of their own. Instead, eighteen percent turned up to…
- Hot News
Lao Group clears the air on mango sticky rice, Thai dessert controversy
AOSD released a statement addressing the mango sticky rice controversy. A recent television interview misunderstanding. The San Diego group respects regional friendships while acknowledging a world-famous dessert. The Lao American Organization of San Diego (LAOSD) issued an official statement on June 25, 2026. The organization aims to respond to recent criticism over a food festival promotion. The document is titled A…
- Guides
The Bangkok Hilton: the real story behind Thailand’s most feared prison
Disclosure : The term “Bangkok Hilton” is a sarcastic nickname used by foreign media and Westerners to refer to Bang Kwang Central Prison You have probably heard the phrase tossed around at a bar in Bangkok, usually as a punchline. Someone gets a parking fine, someone overstays a visa, and a friend grins and says, “careful, or it’s the Bangkok…
- Business News
Thailand is rolling out the red carpet for foreign business. It is still making the little guys crawl under it.
Thailand is finally tearing down the wall that kept foreign companies out, the most significant business reform in twenty-seven years. But read the fine print and a familiar pattern appears. The reform is built for the multinational with a legal department. The interior designer, the chef, the clinic owner, the small foreign operator who helped raise Thailand to the world-class…
- Property
Thailand holds the best hand in Southeast Asia. It is the only one not playing it.
Thailand has the strongest position in the region by a distance: the deepest expat communities, the best healthcare, the most loved beaches, proven demand that its neighbours can only envy. It also has the one thing that quietly undoes all of that advantage. Not an absence of rules, but a contradiction between the rules on paper and the rules in…
- Property
Thais built it, sold it, and registered it. So why is the foreigner the only one in the dock?
A nominee structure took a whole chain of people to create, and almost every link in that chain was Thai, or licensed and working in Thailand. The lawyer who designed it. The shareholders who fronted it. The official who stamped it. The governments that watched for twenty years and did nothing. If Thailand is now enforcing the law, basic fairness…
- Guides
Why do Thai monks collect food every morning instead of just cooking it?
Why do Thai monks collect food every morning instead of just cooking it themselves? A short guide for newcomers. If you are up early in Thailand, you will see them. Monks in orange robes walk barefoot through the streets at dawn and carry a bowl. They pause as people kneel to place food inside. This is one of the most…
- Education
Thailand’s birth rate is falling. Its International schools are booming anyway.
Walk through the gated lanes of Nichada Thani, the leafy streets behind Sukhumvit, or the new estates rising around Bang Na, and every weekday morning looks the same. Buses, school-run traffic, and parents speaking a dozen different languages drop their children at campuses that look more like small universities than schools. This is the visible side of a quiet economic…
- Hot News
Two airlines suspend direct flights to Siem Reap, dealing a blow to Cambodia’s tourism push
Cambodia’s air connectivity has taken another hit after India’s IndiGo announced it will temporarily suspend its route between Siem Reap and Kolkata from July. This follows an earlier suspension by Malaysia’s Firefly. Therefore, the cuts come as airlines worldwide drop unprofitable routes amid rising fuel costs. Higher operating costs and rising oil prices, driven in part by conflict in the…
- Property
A Thai office worker earns a good salary, saves hard, and still can’t buy a home
For two weeks Thailand’s property debate has been about foreigners: their villas, their companies, their grievances. It is a sideshow. The story that actually decides Thailand’s future is the young Thai family that wants to own a home and keeps hitting a wall, a wall that has nothing to do with any foreigner. Here are the numbers nobody is putting…
- Thailand News
Thailand eyes under-16 social media ban over screen time
Thailand is studying whether to introduce a law barring children under the age of 16 from using social media. This comes amid growing concern over how much time the country’s youngest children spend in front of screens. The proposal was raised by Deputy Prime Minister Songsak Thongsri, speaking on 21 June in his role as chairman of the board of…
- Property
Thailand’s problem isn’t its property law. It’s that nobody trusts it to last.
Our piece on the nominee crackdown drew hundreds of replies. We read every one, including the ones that tore into us. Beneath the fight, the readers kept circling the same thing, and it wasn’t ownership law. It was trust. Here is what you told us, who you really are, and what we think happens next. A reader told us he…
- Hot News
Thailand’s births just hit a 75-year low. The population has now shrunk five years running.
Thailand recorded just 416,574 births in 2025, the lowest figure in 75 years, while deaths reached 559,684. As a result, the country’s population shrank for the fifth consecutive year. The gap between births and deaths is now more than 140,000 a year. The numbers tell a stark story. Births have fallen below 500,000 for a second straight year, the lowest…
- Property
Thailand is throwing out the foreigners it spent a fortune inviting in
The same government that is rewriting its business laws to attract the world’s capital is, on property, prosecuting the people who already brought it. Two policies, one country, pointed in opposite directions. This is the contradiction at the heart of Thailand’s investment story, and why it can’t last. Watch what Thailand’s Commerce Ministry is doing, and you would think the…
- South Thailand News
Malaysian woman with large tumour turned away from Thai hospital due to lack of ID
A pharmacist at a Hat Yai pharmacy has shared an account that has moved tens of thousands of people online, describing the moment a woman in her fifties walked in asking to buy painkillers and then lifted her shirt to show what appeared to be a large malignant tumour on her left breast, larger than the pharmacist’s palm. The woman,…
- Property
Phuket property market 2026: what 54,628 real enquiries reveal
Real enquiries. Real budgets. Real demand. The Phuket property market just got a rare data-driven reality check. Most property market reports start with a forecast. Someone models supply, surveys sentiment, and extrapolates from there. The conclusions sound authoritative. They are often built on educated guesswork. What FazWaz presented at the Phuket Property Exchange this week is something different. Not a…
- Hot News
FIFA World Cup 2026 schedule: Where to watch in Thailand
If you are in Thailand and wondering where to watch the World Cup 2026, the short answer is MONOMAX, and the full FIFA World Cup 2026 schedule is below. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is almost underway (at the time of writing, of course), and it is the biggest football tournament ever played. Forty-eight teams, 104 matches, 16 stadiums, and…
- Hot News
Court to rule on Ratchaprasong bombing case, closing an 11-year wait for justice
The Bangkok South Criminal Court will deliver its verdict tomorrow (11 June) in the Erawan Shrine bombing at Ratchaprasong intersection. Adem Karadag and Mieraili Yusufu, two ethnic Uyghur defendants, are facing judgment. The ruling will therefore close one of the longest and most closely watched criminal cases in recent Thai history. This was an attack that killed 20 people and…
- Hot News
Briton, doctor killer used Thai boat driver as fake company owner
Koh Phangan briton who killed doctor ran illegal nominee business. He confessed to that too. A British man who killed a Thai doctor while driving drunk and on cocaine on Koh Phangan, Mr. Wilcock has been remanded in prison and now faces a total of 11 charges, including newly upgraded counts of causing death, as police also confirm he was…
- Hot News
Thai lottery 1 June 2026 check the result
The Government Lottery Office declared the winning numbers for the June 1, 2026 draw today. Millions of citizens eagerly awaited the afternoon announcement. Officials broadcast the event live from their main headquarters in Nonthaburi. 1st prize 6,000,000 baht per prize 173770 3 page numbers2 prizes 4,000 baht each 848 415 Last 3 digits2 prizes 4,000 baht each 410 938 Last…
- Phuket News
Thailand’s ‘Dine and Dash’ Problem: When tourists walk out without paying
Small restaurants across Thailand’s tourist hotspots are facing a rising pattern of foreign visitors who eat full meals and then refuse to pay and the legal system offers them almost no protection. It was 120 baht. About three dollars. That was how much a Russian couple short-changed a small restaurant in Mai Khao, Phuket, on 26 April 2024. When the…
