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Over the last few days the north of Thailand has had to cope with a haze hanging over the city. This has caused all kinds of problems at Chiang Mai Airport and meant that it has had to turn on its runway lights and prompted the authorities to put out more cloud-seeding flights at various [...]

Thai Airways are doing their little bit when it comes to being environmentally friendly. The airline is the first to provide its carbon footprint information on its signature dishes served during flights. The president of the Thai national airline, Piyasvasti Amranand, explained that the menu will include all the info required regarding the amount of [...]

Thailand has long been known as a gap year destination and one TV presenter has explained why this may be. Jayne Middlemiss, who has worked on coverage of Glastonbury and Live 8 in the past, wrote in the Daily Mail that Thailand provides all of the activities she craves while on holiday.
The TV personality, who [...]

Make sure you don’t miss any court cases if you have a holiday already booked. Stewart Appleby missed a court appearance to travel to Thailand for his friend’s wedding, then was handcuffed and hauled off his plane by police when he flew back to the UK.
Caged in a jail van and driven from Heathrow Airport [...]

Richard Branson has set a challenge with Air Asia Boss, Tony Fernandes that the loser in the Formula 1 stakes has to dress up as an airline stewardess on the winner’s airline.
Branson’s Virgin Group owns Virgin Racing while Fernandez is the Lotus F1 Racing team principal. Both are among the four new teams competing [...]

Hundreds of tourists and motorists travelling along the east and west coasts of Sabah were stranded in a massive traffic jam caused by a landslide yesterday.
It is thought that heavy rain in the early hours of the morning caused the landslide at Km60, near Kampung Kiau, of the Kota Kinabalu-Ranau road.
Authorities cleared a path allowing [...]