The top 140 players and ties after 36 holes will progress to round three and four. The top 70 players and ties after 72 holes will play in Sunday’s final round, with half getting places on the tour. Cheung, who finished 87th in last year’s order of merit, began his attempt to get back on …
While beach holidays have always been popular among Indian travellers, Lakshadweep has never really been in their itinerary thus far. That distinction would go to Goa, which has been the most sought-after domestic beach destination. For many though, Thailand and Vietnam are becoming a preferred alternative. The main reason is that these places offer better …
credit – released to the press by Salak Phra Wildlife Sanctuary This decade has been one of the most positive for news about tiger conservation of any since conservation science began in earnest, and a highlight must be this mother tiger and her two cubs sighted in Western Thailand, the first such sighting in more …
There are more offerings, of flowers, incense, candles, sweet treats fit for the gods, aubergine blooms, knives and ornately carved foods. All have their own precise symbolism. Everything has a role. And although David has explained it all in great detail, I give up trying to empirically understand and abandon myself to the primal thump …
A Thai court on Tuesday jailed one of the leading figures in the kingdom’s youth-led pro-democracy protest movement for four years on royal insult charges. Issued on: 26/09/2023 – 09:12 2 min Thailand has some of the world’s strictest royal defamation laws, which shield King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his close family from criticism and which …
For after-dinner drinks with other artists and creatives, Maan heads to his favourite laidback cocktail and live jazz bar, Smalls, a rickety three-storey affair. “It’s a tiny little bar with a rooftop, which we always joke could be in Paris.” He also loves Lucky Duck, a decadent Shanghai-style speakeasy on Maitri Chit Road in Soi …
Thailand’s jailed former premier Thaksin Shinawatra had his prison sentence cut from eight years to one by the king on Friday, just days after he returned from 15 years in exile. Issued on: 01/09/2023 – 12:09 2 min The move came a day after the billionaire ex-prime minister, 74, applied for a royal pardon over …
When is the best time to visit Thailand? The best time to visit Thailand is from December to March – though, as with any tropical destination, a short and ridiculously torrential burst of rain is unpredictably possible, even on the sunniest of days. When’s Thailand’s rainy season? The time to not go to Thailand is …
Demoso, Eastern Myanmar – The rebel commander studies a chicken bone in a search for clues as to the fate of his coming attack against the Myanmar military. Scraggly bearded Reh Du, 27, frowns. The signs from the bone are mixed. Nevertheless, his underlying confidence in the plan of attack against Myanmar’s military in the …