Nadal reaches Thailand Open quarter-finals while Verdasco crashes out
NONTHABURI, Thailand — Rafael Nadal finally got on with his main business in Thailand — playing tennis — and dispatched Belgian qualifier Ruben Bemelmans 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday in his first match since winning the U.S. Open. Making his Thailand Open debut after a first-round bye, top-ranked Nadal wasn’t troubled…
Train travel turns more exciting
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), marking its golden jubilee this year, and the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) have joined hands to promote tourism through rail travel. For starters, the SRT has added new trains from Bangkok on weekends on short-haul Prachuap Khiri Khan-Chumphon, Nakhon Sawan-Phitsanulok-Sukhothai and Nakhon Pathom-Kanchanaburi…
Pakistan halts NATO supplies to Afghanistan after attack
Pakistan shut down the main land route for NATO supplies into Afghanistan Thursday, accusing the alliance’s helicopters of killing Pakistani soldiers in a fourth cross-border attack this week. NATO said aircraft entered Pakistani airspace early Thursday in self-defence and killed “several armed individuals” after the crews believed they had been…
Nadal, Verdasco Open Play in Bangkok; Davydenko Stunned in KL
by Sean Randall After a week of Thailand promotions, Rafael Nadal finally gets back to the business of playing tennis on Thursday. The World No. 1 is in action against qualifier Ruben Bemelmens in the second round at the Bangkok Open. Nadal, who hadn’t won a hardcourt title in 18…
Baht appreciates 9% since January, says BoT
The baht has already strengthened by 9 per cent since early this year as a result of the continued inflow of foreign capital, according to the Bank of Thailand (BoT). BoT Assistant Governor Suchada Kirakul conceded the baht surged to second and third strongest among the countries in Asia. However,…
Ratchaprasong has sprung back to life with the reopening of CentralWorld,the debut of a hot doughnut brand and the launch of a food & drink festival
The shopping atmosphere at Ratchaprasong returned to normal yesterday with the reopening of CentralWorld after four months of renovation to repair fire damage from the May 19 riots. Several thousand shoppers rushed into CentralWorld to queue on the ground floor to buy cash vouchers for 1,000 baht but worth double…