While our group of five was contemplating on whether to hit the Maldives, Seychelles or Bora Bora for our hard-earned annual leaves, a cursory look at our budget and the tempting rupee-baht conversion ...

Thailand is cracking down on “beg-packers” — shameless Western backpackers begging for travel money on the streets of Southeast Asia. According to reports, visitors entering Thailand may be required ...

In 1999, I first headed to Thailand with nothing more than a rucksack, a well-thumbed copy of The Beach and naïve thoughts about how roughing it for two weeks in South East Asia would turn me into an ...