Thailand
- ★★★★½
- Hotel reviews
This upscale brand’s first Thai hotel is a haven of good taste
Madi Paidi offers an enjoyable respite from the intensity of Bangkok, tailor-made for city trippers, design fans and adventurous diners.
- John Borthwick
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The Buddhist monk sex scandal that’s gripping Thailand
Prominent monks are leaving the order almost daily in an unfolding controversy centred on a woman nicknamed “Golf”. Other misbehaving monks are in hiding.
- Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae
- Analysis
- Border disputes
From weed parlours to citizenship, the unexpected fallout from a jungle border bust-up
Border tensions have spilled into the back streets and upper echelons of Thai and Cambodian society. And this chain reaction of patriotism, intrigue and self-interest is not spent yet.
- Zach Hope
Inside the final hours before Australian lawyer died in Thai massage parlour
Christopher Saines walked through the glass doors of a massage parlour, and paid about $20 for a traditional Thai massage. Within hours, he was found dead.
- Zach Hope and Cloe Read
- Updated
- Australians abroad
Brisbane lawyer found dead with powder at Thailand massage parlour
A masseuse reported she could still hear him snoring at 4am, however when staff went to wake him hours later, they discovered he had died.
- William Davis and Zach Hope
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Trump declared an auction but no bidders turned up
The US president is like an auctioneer with an ill-fitting suit and loud tie trying to sell a property that no one wants to buy.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Exclusive
- Border disputes
How a gunshot at dawn broke a mother’s heart, and left a prime minister fighting for her job
By first light on May 28, the soldiers had already stirred from their remote jungle beds. Some were making coffee. Others were pulling on uniforms. What happened next depends on who you talk to.
- Zach Hope
Only 14 years ago, this magnificent temple was a place of death. Tensions are high again
It is so tranquil in the grounds of this sacred place that it is hard to imagine it any other way. But then a policeman points to the spot where his brother-in-law was blown up by a rocket.
- Zach Hope
Thai PM suspended over leaked phone call about border dispute
Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suspended while a court considers whether she criticised a Thai general and showed undue deference to Cambodia’s de facto leader.
- Zach Hope
New evidence unearthed of shocking Japanese assault of Australian nurses
Statements from a war crimes investigator confirm there was a cover-up.
- Lynette Ramsay Silver
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