OPINION Koh Pha Ngan was voted third best island in Asia in the 2020 Condé Nast's Readers Choice Awards. The island is widely known for its...
OPINION The Thai Government has no easy way out of the current protest situation. Over the past months an organic, mostly young Thais, political movement has...
OPINION by "Issan John" According to some, Thailand’s a leading success story, with minimal deaths and an equally minimal effect on daily life. According to others,...
OPINION The Thai government’s declaration of a state of emergency in Bangkok is a pretext for a crackdown on peaceful demonstrations, Human Rights Watch said today....
https://youtu.be/F4_7jvF2WvQ It's been 10 months since the first murmurings of a novel coronavirus emerged in China. Since then there's been an unprecedented effort to control or...
OPINION from guest writer Dr. Mariano Carrera There is a myth in Thailand that one must learn English from a native speaker. Propagating this myth are...
OPINION Just a year ago, you could book a flight, booked a hotel, and in many cases, just arrived to receive a visa-on-arrival stamp in your...
OPINION So here's an idea. If Thailand truly wants to attract tourists why not offer FREE QUARANTINE for the first 10,000 people who contact their Royal...
by David Jackson Monday morning and I'm on the home straight assuming I pass my final Covid test that I took yesterday morning. The situation hasn’t...
OPINION Thanks to WB for sending us this response to earlier article. The views expressed by WB do not represent The Thaiger, its management or staff. ...
OPINION The possibility of Thailand being sliced into 2, with a canal running east to west through the middle of the Isthmus of Kra (the Thai...
by guest writer David Jackson Part II in the series of articles from David who has been writing from his quarantine room. David waxes lyrical as...
OPINION by guest writer Tony P Restall Why the land bridge idea will never work Much has been written about the long-proposed Thai or Kra Canal and...
A series of articles by David Jackson Sunday morning and I am sitting inside my viewless window in a Bangkok Hotel waiting in anticipation for a...
OPINION by Bill Barnett of c9hotelworks.com Despite the global pandemic, Bangkok’s rapid-fire megacity growth trajectory has remained largely in place. While life in Covid-19 times is...
OPINION "The flames are rising. Let us be the ones who step in, before it is too late." Lyrics from the Prayut-penned ditty which was written to...
OPINION 9 months since the first outbreak in China, international borders remain mostly sealed. Most travellers, excepting certain categories, are prevented from leaving or entering in...
OPINION Damned if they do and damed if they don't. Thailand is now taking a decisive step towards reopenits its borders to tourists with a pilot...
OPNION Who will be better at engaging a broad audience on social media? An incumbent conservative government run by former Army general and career politicians? Or...
OPINION An estimated 10,000 anti-government protesters packed Bangkok's Democracy Monument and the roads either side on a warm Sunday afternoon, calling for democratic reform, changes to the...
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