The following article was submitted by Patrick Mattimore, an experienced writer living in Pattaya. During his time in Beijing from 2009 to 2012, Patrick wrote a...
by Andrew J. Wood The World Health Organisation not only advises that vaccines save millions of lives each year, but they also reduce transmissions. They and...
https://youtu.be/YPAd_06fsVk Tower of Babble is where we read some of your comments made on The Thaiger YouTube videos, as well as our website thethaiger.com and Facebook...
OPINION by Andrew J Wood Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine this week for emergency use in the country....
by Bill Barnett from c9hotelworks.com Driving down a seemingly endless winding road on the warm tropical island of Phuket, I glance up and see a sign...
OPINION by Bill Barnett As the final days of disruptive 2020 come screeching to an erratic end, hotel, and restaurant owners are peering into an unpredictable...
OPINION by Andrew J Wood Last week the Thai government Minister’s speech shows me that tourism will never be allowed to recover to previous levels. The...
by Anthony Lark "Let's say goodbye to all that stale pretence and manufactured pomp" Until the collective nightmare that was 2020, many of the so-called high-end...
A concerned reader sent us this information, based on his experiences in the ASQ when he arrived in Thailand. We publish them with good faith but...
Thailand's Suan Dusit Poll has revealed that most Thais hope that the President-elect Joe Biden will be a good leader of his country. The opinion survey,...
OPINION by Julian Spindler Thailand’s world-class tourism industry, one of the twin drivers of our economy, is in a deep, coronavirus-induced coma, close to death. No...
OPINION In response to Tuesday's protests outside the Thai Parliament, and the police response, Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, responds. Published in full......
OPINION High season. What’s happening to Thailand’s traditional tourist high season this year? (Sounds of crickets and tumbleweed rolling down the streets) Just as last year’s...
Be careful if you want to trash a Thai hotel in the land of fragile egos who use the handy tools of eager lawyers and draconian...
OPINION John Magee was the owner of The Thaiger's predecessor, the long-running Phuket Gazette. As a US citizen and longtime Republican, he's penned a letter to...
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...
https://youtu.be/NbUBBzcYLRM Bill Heinecke speaks to Bill Barnett. The two heavy-hitters of Thailand's hotel and hospitality sector, mull over the current Covid situation and the reopening of...
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 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...
