BANGKOK, Thailand – At his upmarket Bangkok restaurant, Michelin-starred chef Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn spoons black caviar onto a plate, adding the newly affordable Thailand-made delicacy to his reinterpreted traditional family recipes. This photo taken on April 1, 2022 shows chef Thitid...
PHUKET, Thailand -- Rogen Ladon and Ian Clark Bautista punched their way to the gold medal round of their weight classes in the Thailand Open International Boxing Tournament on Friday at the sprawling Angsana Laguna Phuket Resort Hotel here. Rogen Ladon (left) slugs it out against Thanarat...
Now down to its last few episodes, "F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers'" lead star Bright Vachirawit couldn't help but feel emotional. During a recent virtual interview, he shared the things he will miss about doing the show. These include doing scenes with other F4 members played by Win Metawin, Dew...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Travellers to Thailand will no longer have to take a Covid-19 test before boarding the plane, under plans announced Friday as part of efforts to reboot the kingdom's pandemic-battered tourism sector. From April 1, the requirement to take a negative test within 72 hours of...
Olympians Nesthy Petecio and Carlo Paalam will use the 2022 Thailand Open International Boxing Tournament as a springboard to a heavier task in the 31st Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam. Olympic boxing medalists Carlo Paalam, Eumir Marcial, and Nesthy Petecio (Photo from Eumir Marcial’s...
It was a memorable party, indeed! One week after their Manila wedding, Herson Sy and Muriel Orais, along with a little less than a hundred of the couple’s friends and family members, flew in from all over the world to celebrate their union at their destination wedding in Phuket, Thailand. For...
Yuka Saso matched the 18-hole scoring record with an explosive 10-under-par 62 to finish tied at 12th place in the Honda LPGA Thailand at the Siam Country Club in Chonburi Sunday. MB File Photo Starting at the back nine, the 20-year-old Fil-Japanese torched the Pattaya Old Course with a bogey-free...
UBON RATCHATHANI, Thailand – A vast array of solar panels floats on the shimmering waters of a reservoir in northeast Thailand, symbolising the kingdom's drive towards clean energy as it seeks carbon neutrality by 2050. In this file aerial photo taken on February 23, 2022, floating solar...
Mylene Paat is going home to the Philippines with a Best Scorer plum and a bronze medal after Nakhon Ratchasima finished third in Volleyball Thailand League Sunday. Photo from SMM Volleyball Paat became the first Filipino volleyball import in her generation to win an individual award as an import....
If brunch were a sport, diplomats’ wives would be part of its premier league. Yes, it seems like a sweeping generalization—a stereotype that isn’t terrible but a stereotype nonetheless—but do hear me out. The beauty of brunch comes from how casual and seemingly luxurious it is. It’s not...
K-pop, Korean dramas and Korean food are the first things that come to mind among youths in countries under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) including the Philippines. This is the result of a survey conducted by the Seoul-based ASEAN-Korea Centre (AKC) “aimed to identify the...
Update your look for 2022 from the bottom up; start with these shoes that celebrate cultures across Southeast Asia NEW SHOES UltraBOOST DNA City Pack What we wear and how we look has an impact on our mindsets. Moving forward to the new year, we aspire to renew ourselves. An easy first step to our...