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Orient-Express has announced the start of its summer season aboard the Eastern & Oriental Express (E&OE). With 28 journeys planned over the remainder of the year, the E&OE will travel on routes between Singapore and Bangkok, and up to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. T
The green and cream E&OE can accommodate 132 passengers in 66 air-conditioned cabins, all furnished with luxurious fabrics and fine linens and soft towels, and serviced with by friendly staff 24 hours a day.

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Passengers who find themselves cooling their heels at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport while waiting for a connection can now escape the airport for a few hours. Starting in June, passengers on stopovers of less than 12 hours can sign up for a four-hour city tour.
Options include seeing the Grand Palace and Emerald Buddha, boating along the klongs, watching a cultural production at the Siam Niramit theatre or being pampered with a massage and spa.
Other tours include shopping, golf and seeing (more…)

THE Australian mother Annice Smoel has been released from detention in Thailand for stealing a bar towel, according to reports in Phuket.
The Phuket Wan website said last night Ms Smoel, who faced five years in jail, was given a six-month suspended jail term and a 1000 baht ($38) fine for theft. The ruling was made yesterday at a provincial court in Phuket City.
The website said her passport had been returned and she would be allowed to return to Australia.
The Melbourne mother of four pleaded (more…)

Orient-Express has announced the start of its summer season aboard the Eastern & Oriental Express (E&OE). With 28 journeys planned over the remainder of the year, the E&OE will travel on routes between Singapore and Bangkok, and up to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. T
The green and cream E&OE can accommodate 132 passengers in 66 air-conditioned cabins, all furnished with luxurious fabrics and fine linens and soft towels, and serviced with by friendly staff 24 hours a day.

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A drunken tourist staggers about as he repeatedly drops his bags of elephant feed on Bangkok’s Soi Cowboy boulevard.
Beneath the neon lights advertising Thailand’s bars and bargirls, the man teases the two-year-old elephant as the beast tries to coax a few sugarcane snacks from his shaking hands.
Finally the distressed elephant lets out a cry and her handlers pull her down the street to the next group of paying tourists.
“They get beaten because they’re tired, they don’t want to walk, it’s (more…)

A British man was charged in Thailand on Thursday for organising so-called “swinging” parties during which couples swap sexual partners, tourist police said.
Christian Arthur Richards, 54, was arrested early on Thursday along with six Thais and 16 foreigners including Australian, US, French, Indian and Chinese citizens at one of the parties in a Bangkok hotel.
Tourist police commander Colonel Archayon Kraithong said Richards advertised the orgies on his website, and then charged 3,000 baht (more…)

Thailand’s cabinet Wednesday approved a bill aimed at preventing another blockade of its main airport, as they tried to restore confidence after the week-long siege of Bangkok’s hubs last year.
Protesters trying to topple the previous government seized Suvarnabhumi International Airport and the smaller domestic hub just over two months ago, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers and stunning the world.
Under the special bill dealing with Suvarnabhumi, airport staff would be able to make (more…)

The Cambodian government is hoping that two major sports events at Angkor Wat will boost tourism numbers, the Phnom Penh Post has reported. The country’s tourism Minister, Thong Khon, announced that next month’s half-marathon around the ancient temple grounds has attracted over 2,000 entrants from 31 countries. Four days later, on 11 December, professional golfers will arrive in Siem Reap for the second annual Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open.
“The two events will help attract tourists to Cambodia. (more…)