A boat made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles has reached dry land after sailing across the Pacific Ocean.
The Plastiki – a 60ft catamaran – arrived in Sydney Harbour with its six-member crew four months after setting out from San Francisco.
The crew, who had to cope with fierce storms during their 8,000 nautical miles at sea, [...]
Rock band the Kings of Leon have been forced to end a concert early after pigeons defecated on them from the rafters of a US venue.
The rockers abandoned the gig in St Louis after three songs when bass player Jared Followill was hit in the mouth and face by pigeon droppings.
Drummer Nathan Followill later apologised [...]
Researchers in Britain have been credited with cracking the age-old conundrum about the chicken and the egg. But are they right?
After the publication of the rather dry-sounding scientific paper, “Structural Control of Crystal Nuclei by an Eggshell Protein,” press headlines proclaimed the answer was… the chicken.
However, one of the paper’s lead authors, Colin Freeman, from [...]
Thai Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot and his team earlier on Monday crossed the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Tak province to meet Myanmar officials and to discuss the ongoing Mae Sot-Myawaddy border closure.
Mr Alongkorn and relevant Thai officials met with high-ranking officials from the Myanmar capital of Naypyidaw, Aung Thein, the Myanmar ambassador to Thailand [...]
If Thais refrained from drinking alcohol for one day, the country could save Bt540 million, Deputy Public Health Minister Pansiri Kulnartsiri said yesterday.
If people kicked their boozing habit during the three months of Buddhist Lent, they would be healthier physically and mentally, would be left with enough money to splurge and save, and would enjoy [...]
Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has marked his 61st birthday with tweets calling for peace, one day after a bomb went off in central Bangkok leaving one person dead and 10 injured.”I am 61 today,” Thaksin tweeted from an undisclosed location yesterday, thanking his supporters for wishing him a happy birthday.
“I want to see good [...]
Thailand’s tourism industry should pick up in the second half of 2010 if ‘no negative factors occur’ to erode tourist confidence, according to a senior official of the Bank of Thailand (BoT).
BoT Assistant Governor Paiboon Kittisrikangwan said the country’s tourism industry would return to normal late this year but the number of visitors in 2010 [...]
Buddhists across the country – and even tourists in hot holiday destinations – turned out yesterday to make merit to mark the Asalaha Bucha Day.
His Majesty the King had Phitsanulok deputy governor Yongyot Mekarun present a Lent candle to revered Buddha image Luang Pho Buddha Chinnaraj – at Wat Prasrirattanamahadhat Vorramahavihan – on his behalf [...]
The terrifying bomb blast on Ratchadamri Road on Sunday, which killed one person and injured 10, has shattered hopes for lifting the emergency decree in the capital.
The government is facing growing calls from human rights activists, the opposition Puea Thai Party and the tourism sector to lift the decree, which has severely damaged the country’s [...]
Manchester United shirts have been banned in Malaysia after the red devil crest was labelled “dangerous and un-Islamic”.
Thousands of fans have reacted angrily to the decision by Muslim clerics – with some accusing them of supporting Premier League arch-rivals Liverpool.
Despite the Old Trafford side having an estimated 81 million followers in Asia, one senior cleric [...]
