The Phuket Gazette. It's been a very long time since the phrase ‘the sun never sets on the British Empire' was in vogue, but news that Britain has issued an advisory for travelers to Thailand brings the phrase...

The Phuket Gazette.The launch of Cambodia's first private island resort, the luxurious Song Saa, turned heads in the local property industry when more than half of its villas were sold in the first two weeks of the...

The Phuket Gazette.It all started when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989. After that, Russia Incorporated dissolved into Western capitalistic fervor, the likes which have not been seen since the untimely (though...

The Nation.For those of you who are looking to move investments into property, there is one rule of thumb: timing is not everything, it's the only thing. Buying low and selling high is often best done by recognising...

The Phuket Gazette.This year's peak season has indeed been a blast from the not so distant past of, say 2006, when tourism numbers were on the rise and the world for the most part was indeed a sunny place. The looming...

The Phuket Gazette.Religion and real estate make strange bed-fellows at the best of times. The Tibetans have their prayer wheels, turning the wheels of Dharma, and Catholics say their ‘Hail Marys', but how much faith to...

The Phuket Gazette.Watching Martin Scorsese's epic film Taxi Driver with star Robert De Niro playing demon-ridden Travis Bickle, who deadpans back when asked why he wanted to be a hack, croaks out, "Because I can't sleep...