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I arrived in Thailand at the beginning of October 2019 and experienced thankfully a bit more than five months of normal diplomatic activity before my Embassy like many others had to enter into crisis modus operation to tackle the situation created by the spread of COVID-19.  Previously, I was posted for four years to beautiful […]

The family of detained Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert have denied reports she has attempted suicide in an Iranian prison, or that she has been tortured by the country’s Revolutionary Guards. Moore-Gilbert’s family have not spoken publicly since the Cambridge-educated Melbourne University lecturer was summarily arrested at Tehran airport in September 2018. But in a statement […]

For months, families across the world have been coping with a new normal when it comes to education. Thailand, and particularly Bangkok, as a major Asian hub for international education, will have some unique challenges pressing forward during these Covid-19 times. Dr. Teerakiat Jareonsettasin, former Minister of Education and current Headmaster of Newton Sixth Form […]

It is during this time of the pandemic that I thought of writing about China as I remembered. So many negative stories have been in the news about China that I feel it is going out of hand. I worked for the Chinese for 21 years in my youth and I have the most memorable […]

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in SE Asia. It is 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 square miles) in area, bordered by Thailand to the Northwest, Laos to the Northeast, Vietnam to the East and the Gulf of Thailand to the Southwest. The sovereign state of Cambodia has a population of over 15 million citizens. The official religion is Theravada Buddhism, practised […]

By JOE MOZINGO STAFF WRITER Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, began analyzing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide in January and correctly calculated that China would get through the worst of its coronavirus outbreak long before many health experts had predicted. Now he foresees a similar outcome in the United States and […]

by Ms. Suvimol Sathanart Healthcare is an essential part of financial planning especially if you are working and living overseas as an expat. With the current pandemic situation and rapid developments happening around us it’s important to know what insurance products are available.  Here are some of the factors you should consider when purchasing insurance policies […]

Expat Life recently attended a Climate Change debate that was organised by the Ambassador of Morocco and the Dean of Chulalongkorn University Dr. Ake Tangsupvattana. It was of so much interest to so many of our readers that we decided to feature the subject and devote this issue to it and similar subjects. We managed […]

The Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in the northeast corner of Africa, whose territory in the Sinai Peninsula extends beyond the continental boundary with Asia. Egypt is bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the Northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea to the East, Sudan to the South, Libya […]