Thailand

'The Amazing Race' recap: Episode 4, 'This Is Gonna Be a Fine Mess'

2011-10-16 22:49:00

In this week’s "Amazing Race", the teams travel to Thailand and I appoint heroes and a villain. I’ll also sort various forms of preparation into Useful, Not Useful and Other. So last week, the Snowboarders and Navigational Experts Laurence...

Tennis: Damrongsri tunes up for college career

2011-07-14 07:09:00

For recent Mt. Hebron High School grad Van Damrongsri, Senior Week in Ocean City was a very welcome and very different experience. For several days in a row, Damrongsri — who is accustomed to spending more than 20 hours per week on a tennis court...

Top Chef DC: International house of chefs

2010-08-05 04:22:14

Kelly admits she messed up on the last challenge, calling it a "fatal error" even though clearly it wasn't because she's still here. On pea-gate, Alex says he had no idea that Ed had a pea puree. Meanwhile, Ed says......

Foreign tourism offices

2007-03-04 00:00:00

For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at 212-963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or delegation....

A versatile virus

2005-07-01 00:00:00

The flu season that arrives each fall kills an average of 36,000 people in the United States alone. Far deadlier are worldwide outbreaks, called pandemics, that periodically sweep through human populations. Over the past 300 years, there have been 10...

'Made in USA'

2006-05-01 00:00:00

The routine isn't rehearsed, but after hundreds of appearances on the QVC shopping channel over the past decade, Ron and Margie Kauffman know what they'll say when it comes to the millions of Maryland-style crab cakes they sell under the brand...

A world away from calamity, a frantic search

2004-12-30 00:00:00

When Sandy Rubini last heard from her brother, Randy, by e-mail on Dec. 16, he was planning to spend Christmas on the southern beaches of Thailand. When she heard the news - also by way of her computer - that a series of tsunamis had hit South Asia,...

New aid bottleneck is emerging at hospitals

2005-01-05 00:00:00

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Haggard and dehydrated survivors of Asia's tsunami catastrophe flooded hospitals in the disaster zone yesterday, posing a new challenge for the global relief operation. A 5.8-magnitude quake, the latest of numerous aftershocks...

Avian flu shows a more sinister side, scientists say

2005-01-24 00:00:00

Scientists have reported the first case of avian flu passing from person to person and causing severe disease, fulfilling what some say could be an intermediate step toward the deadly flu becoming a wider human epidemic. The case occurred last fall in...

At Phillips seafood, tsunamis hit close to home

2005-01-07 00:00:00

In devastated villages of southeast India yesterday, the head of Phillips Foods Inc.'s India division spent the day on a truck, delivering rice and water. The head of Phillips in Thailand did the same, in Thai fishing villages where the homes of...

Study of Vietnam outbreak calms fears

2005-07-01 00:00:00

Following an investigation of avian flu cases in Vietnam, the World Health Organization yesterday said it found no evidence that the virus had mutated in ways that would make it more easily transmitted among humans. So far, scientists have documented...

With avian flu, an Asian tragedy

2004-02-05 00:00:00

PANG THRUK, Thailand - In a village where generations of farmers have raised chickens, people ordinarily might scoff at the idea of remembering one particular rooster. But they are unlikely to forget the rooster that a 6-year-old boy, Captan Boonmanut,...

man lays inside a coffin at Wat Prommanee during a rebirth ceremony in Nakhon Nayok,Thailand. The resurrection service follows an hour of prayer lead by Thai monks and then a person stepping into a coffin for a few minutes to arise reborn.

2012-05-18 00:00:00

An increasingly popular area to explore by bicycle is Southeast Asia. Virtual Tourist members have recommended Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand as all great destinations to discover by bike.

2012-05-12 18:55:00

Members of the Rotary International Convention 2012 gather to form the world's biggest smiley in Bangkok, Thailand.

2012-05-07 00:00:00