Hat Yai tops 5 Thai cities with terrible traffic congestion in 2024
By Naewna and Thai Newsroom Reporters TOMTOM (TOM2), the location technology specialist based in The Netherlands, released an annual report on global traffic trends and of five Thai cities ranked in The TomTom Traffic Index 2024 Hat Yai is highest up on the list and while Bangkok placed fourth it is the second most […]
Read MoreWarning signs emerge as Thai visitor arrivals fail to hit 2019 ‘normalcy’ level
PRELIMINARY visitor arrivals stats for 2024 show that Thailand ended the year below expectations. In fact, they are fraught with early-warning danger signs about the future growth prospects of Thai tourism in a rapidly changing and highly unstable operating environment, locally, regionally and globally. The preliminary stats show that Thailand ended 2024 with 35,545,714 […]
Read MoreUS election: Trump set for return to White House, hails ‘magnificent victory’
By Agencies and published by CNA DONALD Trump declared victory in the US presidential election today (Nov. 6), telling supporters that America had given them an “unprecedented mandate”. Speaking in Florida not long after projections gave him a win in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Trump told a jubilant crowd that he would fight […]
Read MoreThai visitor arrivals stats prove link between tourism and peace
THAILAND has reported 26.08 million arrivals in the nine-month Jan.-Sept. 2024 period, up 30.09% over the same period of 2023. A deeper analysis shows how the country is benefitting from both internal peace and external conflicts as it seeks to safeguard the role of tourism as an economic mainstay in the second year of […]
Read MoreThai tourism on track to hit 50 million by 2028 – IF peace prevails
THAILAND’S tourism comeback forged ahead in the first half of 2024 with 17.5 million arrivals, up 35% over 12.9 million in the first half 2023. Thai tourism is on track to regain the 2019 level of 40 million this year and hit 50 million by 2028, only IF global, regional and local risks and […]
Read MoreThai team in France as Olympics 2024 kicks off today
WITH the extravagant Olympics opening ceremony taking place in Paris, France, today (July 26) a Thai contingent of 25 athletes accompanied by six supporting staff are gearing up to join a procession of barges taking nearly 7,000 athletes along the Seine river passing Paris’s most famous landmarks, Naewna newspaper and Reuters, published by CNA, […]
Read MoreVillagers in central provinces alerted of likely flash floods
By Thai Newsroom Reporters VILLAGERS IN LOW-LYING areas of the central region were today (July 25) alerted to brace for the likelihood of flash floods due to torrential rain over the next few days. Department of Disaster Prevention & Mitigation director-general Chaiwat Junthirapong said heavy downpours were forecast to prevail over the lower northern […]
Read MoreFrench vote gives leftists most seats over far right, but leaves hung parliament and deadlock
By AP and published by Yahoo!News Paris – A coalition of the French left won the most seats in high-stakes legislative elections, according to final results early Monday (July 8), beating back a far-right surge but failing to win a majority. The outcome left France facing the stunning prospect of a hung parliament and […]
Read MoreRed Bull co-owners top Forbes list of Thailand’s 50 Richest
THE combined wealth of tycoons on the 2024 Forbes list of Thailand’s 50 Richest declined by nearly 12% or US$20 billion to $153 billion. The benchmark stock index fell by 15% since last year, in addition to a weaker baht which also affected net worths. As a result, 39 listees are less well-off this […]
Read MoreGet ready for increased rainfall as La Niña roars back
WITH La Niña, the cooler counterpart to the famed El Niño, now making a grand return Thailand faces above-average rainfall from July to September with this continuing till January-March, 2025, TV Channel 7 said this afternoon (July 29). The Thai Meteorological Department’s Climate Centre said as the southwesterly monsoon covers Thailand from mid-May to […]
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