The News Review:

- Wholesaler reviews Thailandï¼s boutique hotels
- bama lawmakers to meet…Northwest snow…Black Friday safety …
- A life changing holiday in Thailand
- Sheffield man ‘critical’ after Bangkok nightclub fire
- Thai leader vows to heal rift despite protesters blockading parliament
- Ready to retire but not slow down

Wholesaler reviews Thailandï¼s boutique hotels
eTravelBlackboard – Asia Edition Australia 
A local wholesaler Thailand in Style looks at some of the 2008 award winners and picks some of its favourite boutique properties which have newly opened as well as some old favourites. ¡°Thailand’s hotel industry continues to push the boundaries innovating adapting and changing to satisfy latest market trends and consumer needs¡± says Miguel Cunat Thailand In Style CE. ¡°Four out of the top five hotels featured in the Cond¨ Nast (UK) Readers Traveler Awards 2008 (verseas Leisure Hotels Asian and Indian Subcontinent) are in Thailand for example and the very admirable list goes on. ¡± Newcomers include the brand new six-room Seven Hotel tucked away in Bangkok City and the opening of Six Sense Hideaway Yao Noi which made some noise when it launched on its own island. ? Both properties made the Cond¨ Nast 2008 Hotlist. ld favourites include the Mandarin riental Bangkok which appeared to take away a new award each month Four Seasons still reigns supreme in Chiang Mai and Chian rai while Phuket¡¯s Indigo Pearl and Sarojin continue to excel.

bama lawmakers to meet…Northwest snow…Black Friday safety …
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck ND 
Two other mountain passes are also closed due to thethreat of snow and avalanches. Forecasters say a storm is expectedto dump more snow overnight. BANGKK Thailand (AP) fficials in Thailand say 35 foreignersare among the 61 people killed in a nightclub fire on New Year’sEve. Some of the victims may have been from the U. butidentification hasn’t been made because the remains were charred. ne survivor says many revelers were waving sparklers before thefire erupted.

A life changing holiday in Thailand
Times nline UK 
As therapy goes the last week had consisted of the best sort of counselling a jaded property-burnt travel writer could have had. Having dabbled in enough treatments to know my cognitive behavioural therapy from my Jungian I was keen to put my mind in the hands of some new people. The Life Change People combine holidays in carefully chosen hotels in Thailand with one-to-one coaching by a small team of qualified therapists. As we drove to the Rachamankha a stylish Relais & Chateaux Hotel I was told that my schedule was flexible. Tired or jet lagged? A lounge by the pool. Ready for a life change? Sessions would be arranged around me.

Sheffield man ‘critical’ after Bangkok nightclub fire
Yorkshire Post UK 
ur thoughts are with liver and his family at this terrible time and we wish him a speedy recovery and safe return to the UK. ” Mr Smart’s mother Pauline Gent was landlady of Sheffield’s Millhouses Hotel until she emigrated to Goa five years ago. She and other members of his family who live in London were on their way to Thailand last night to be with him. Investigations into the fire which is thought to have been started by sparks from fireworks set up on the nightclub stage are continuing.
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Thai leader vows to heal rift despite protesters blockading parliament
Telegraph.co.uk United Kingdom 
The political mayhem especially the airport closures is making the situation worse. Tourism which is worth about 6 per cent of GDP practically disappeared during the peak Christmas season. ne famous hotel reportedly had only a single guest at one point. According to a businessman who deals with international removals the number of expatriates leaving Thailand in December was 30 per cent higher in than the previous year and he predicted an even geater exodus in the months ahead.

Ready to retire but not slow down
Laconia Citizen NH 
He enjoys traveling overseas and wants to start traveling more domestically seeing the Grand Canyon and other historical sites. ne of his memorable trips was a three-week trip to Thailand when he went to visit one of his sons who was attending the Assumption University of Thailand. During his trip he stayed in every form of accommodation from small remote huts to five-star hotels such as a hotel on the island of Ko-Chang of the coast of Cambodia. With the exchange rate everything in Thailand was very cheap giving him and his family a trip of a lifetime. While over there he visited the Temple of Tigers various nature sites and many villages giving him an authentic experience of Thailand. While at the Temple of Tigers he was able to go up close and pet a tiger which would be unheard of in many countries. ne of the tiger guides on site told Kemmerer a few days before he came that a woman from Switzerland received 18 stitches because one of the tigers had snagged her.

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