WORLDHOTELS has extended its offering in South East Asia with two prestigious resorts from Thailand: Indigo Pearl in Phuket and Villa Lawana in Koh Samui. Both hotels have joined WORLDHOTELS as part of its Deluxe Collection.

With kilometres of pristine sandy beaches, warm water, cool breezes and an unlimited choice of entertainment for the young and the young at heart, Phuket makes an ideal vacation spot.

Sea level rise and coral bleaching are known impacts of climate change on the oceans, but scientists worldwide are increasingly concerned about acidification of seawater, a subtler effect, but one that is much more damaging to the marine ecosystem...

Chiang Mai property developer Koolpuntville Group this year plans to launch its second new residential project in Bangkok, worth up to Bt1 billion. The developer has already completed its first residential project, Belgravia Residences, worth Bt1....

BANGKOK, May 12 (Reuters) - A furious rescue worker accused Myanmar's military junta on Monday of crimes against humanity for refusing to give visas to aid officials desperate to enter the country to help the 1.5 million survivors of Cyclone Nargis.

Seattle's universities finally made their way onto an ever-expanding list last weekend: colleges Steve Lake has visited. For most, that list might be 10 -- maybe 20 -- colleges long. For Lake, it's nearing 500.

SEATTLE - The bone marrow, or stem cell, transplant, a procedure that every year saves tens of thousands of lives and won for the Seattle physician who pioneered it the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine, appears poised to come full circle and finally b...

Sir Alex Ferguson has been promised whatever funds he needs in the transfer market this summer to maintain Manchester United as the dominant force in the Barclays Premier League. United won a second successive league title on Sunday and hope to ad...

Stephenie Meyer, a teetotal Mormon mother of three, has sold seven million novels about high school vampires and knocked Harry Potter off the No1 bestseller spot in the US

Envy surrounds no country on Earth like the state of Israel, and with good reason: by objective measures, Israel is the happiest nation on Earth at the 60th anniversary of its founding. It is one of the wealthiest, freest and best-educated; and it...

HONG KONG (AFP) — A Hong Kong woman splashed out 130,000 US dollars for a car licence plate carrying "4444", despite the number's traditional links to death in Chinese culture, a report said Monday.

Microsoft is cutting the cost of putting Windows XP on low cost laptops.

Plane maker Airbus has warned that airlines face further delays in receiving the A380 superjumbo.

DUJIANGYAN, China: The children who were considered fortunate escaped with a broken bone or a severed limb. The others, hundreds of them, were carried out to be buried, and their remaining classmates lay crushed beneath the rubble of the schoolhouse.

Breathing in air pollution from traffic fumes can raise the risk of potentially deadly blood clots, a US study says.

Hundreds of screaming fans have greeted the stars of the Sex and the City movie at its world premiere in London.

LIPUNGA, Malawi (Reuters) - The father of a Malawian child that Madonna wants to adopt said on Monday he supported her case but wanted the U.S. popstar to bring his boy home for visits.

The gates of hell have been opened

LOS ANGELES, May 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a museum director from Thailand on charges related to an alleged tax scam involving donated Asian antiquities.

FOR women, pregnancy can be the most joyous time of their life. However, along with the excitement and joy associated with bringing a new life into this world come the challenges of going through several psychological, emotional, and physical chan...

Vice Adm. John Stufflebeem seemed to have it all. He rose from deck seaman to a Naval Academy football star whose punting prowess earned him the nickname "Boomer" and a part-time practice gig with the Detroit Lions.

A strong earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has rocked Wenchuan in Sichuan province, some 92km northwest of Chengdu. The earthquake took place at 14:48 Beijing Time and tremors were felt (by our MSN friends) as far as Wuhan, Shanghai an...

Young Fremantle defender David Mundy is sure to become a target for rival clubs after delaying contract negotiations with the Dockers until the end of the season.

I was sitting here puttering at my computer a little while ago, and trying to force myself to get up and grade some papers, so I turned the TV to C-Span, figuring there wouldn't be anything there with a plot that would suck my attention away from ...

Renault-Nissan has announced a joint venture with Indian firm Bajaj to produce a $2,500 (£1,276) car. The vehicle, so far known only as Codename ULC, will cost about the same as Tata Motors' Nano - which it has claimed is the world's cheapest car.

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A shocking 34 percent of mothers reported having had an extramarital affair after the birth of their children, according to a study released yesterday (May 1, 2008). More than half, 53 percent, of women polled in the "Sex and the American Mom" sur...

The painting was presented by Sir William Dixson in 1929, and hangs in the State Library Of New South Wales.We find it stressful moving house and for some of us, those moves might be a considerable distance. However, it’s not like we just up and m...

Cherie Blair was astonished by the ruthless manner in which her husband made public within hours the fact that she had lost the baby she was carrying

From the very beginning, the premise and the promise of Barack Obama’s campaign was that it would transcend race. And last autumn the Obama team also knew this was the only way it could win. The Clinton brand among black voters was so strong, so u...

While I had time to find the Jason Voorhees Nike shoes, I found something else that I just had to feature. This is undoubtedly in the same vein, and if you are a huge fan of Freddy Krueger and Friday The 13th, this is yet again totally up your alley.

Author Mark Bauerlein aims to provoke in his new book, "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future" (Tarcher/Penguin). Do you agree? Take a look at eight reasons the Emory University English pr...

Steven Mellini sells ''furniture for the bath.'' His contemporary vanities are designed in Italy under the brand name Priele, crafted in hardwoods in Thailand, and topped with tempered glass sinks from Germany.

Porsche's hot collection of luxury goods is out

The United States says the Lebanese Shia group, Hezbollah, poses a threat to international peace and must be held accountable for the violence that's swept the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Recently I was one of a group of journalists who attended a four-day hostile environment training course in Bangkok. I was unsure just what to expect as I’d been told all sorts of tales - mostly scary - about what sort of things would happen to us.

The release of the french label Citizen gives new relevance to a sound too often neglected on the dancefloor: a music that is brutal, bright , and existential. The source of this delicate equation goes by the name of tHe pEneLOpe[s], a Franco-Fin...

SINGAPORE'S inflation may slow in the second half from the preceding period, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in Jakarta on Friday.