Paris Hilton and beau Doug Reinhardt bring their romance to Hawaii, enjoying a dip while vacationing in Maui on Tuesday. The happy couple recently celebrated Hilton’s 28th birthday with a belated bash in Vegas – where the Hills star gave the heiress a baby teacup Pomeranian. Read the full story

A legendarily exclusive Caribbean hideaway for royals, pop stars and the international jet set, Mustique these days is rather more accessible—welcoming, even.

It was a warm June night at Basil’s bar, on the island of Mustique. The blues were playing, the crowd began to swell, and the concrete dance floor was pulsing. It was the 30th anniversary of what is arguably the most famous beach bar in the Caribbean, Read the full story

A leading drug dealer was killed yesterday in a gun battle with police after a 20-hour stand-off in Pathum Thani. Read the full story

A new film about the mysteries of memory provides warm escapism

The Cuturrufo Jazz Band from Chile will swing into town as part of their Asian tour, performing five up-tempo evenings of red-hot musicianship with Cristia’n Cuturrufo in Thailand at Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Bangkok’s The Living Room from March 16-20.

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There’s one place in Bangkok where you’ll hear the ballads beloved of jazz musicians, and one singer who loves them, too

Rubeth Bumatay’s dad was a musician, and at home in the Philippines he’d start the day playing records so that the family would get up to the sound of music.

“He’d play all kinds, Latin, Top 40 but also jazz, and that was the sound I liked best. Those were the songs I wanted to sing. And maybe I wanted to be different to everyone else.” Read the full story

Ten years back Eric Lon threw up a thriving physiotherapy practice in the Mediterranean region of Provence to fulfil a long-cherished dream of climbing in the Himalayas. He hasn’t stopped scaling slopes since and the gaunt features of this slightly built, 58-year-old Frenchman certainly bear ample testament to the length of time he’s spent on the road. Read the full story

119 Moo 4 Vichitsongkram road, Kathu district, Phuket 83120 Tel: 076-322-000-1; fax: 076-322-009

Suvarnabhumi airport was rated the world’s 5th best airport of 2008 by the Geneva-based Airports Council International (ACI), acting Airports of Thailand president and Suvarnabhumi director Serirat Prasutanond said on Wednesday.

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Don’t put on that red dress tonight
Actress Julajak ”Ying” Kritiyarat is apologising for the revealing dress she wore to the Thai film awards _ and taken a poke at a DJ who likened her in that dress to a prostitute.

On the red carpet at the Suphannahongse awards on Sunday, Ying, recently back from overseas, wore a red dress she bought in Milan. A see-through cutaway across the front revealed the top of her thigh, a red G-string, and if that was not enough, a small tattoo dedicated to her French boyfriend.

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