Southeast Asian leaders are set to lean on China during talks as controversy builds over the cause of the shrinking lower Mekong River.

BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Vanilla, the first ever dining entertainment experience in Thailand opens next month in At Black, a modern style venue, next to the entrance of the Sheraton Hua Hin Resort & Spa.

Q My husband and I are travelling to Thailand for two weeks in February with our two daughters (aged two and four) and my parents to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. We would like a couple of nights in Bangkok; two or three in Chiang Mai and the rest at the beach.

By KATE MAXWELL AS MY massage therapist, the improbably named Porn, kneads away the knots of my sedentary lifestyle and the chorus of cicadas rises to fever-pitch in the background, I can't help thinking how different this is from my last experience of Thailand.

By HELEN BEATTY SLOWLY, the Thai massage began beside the sunlit temple courtyard. And just as slowly it dawned on me that, far from being good to myself, what I should have been doing - what I'd promised myself I'd be doing - was soaking up the worst Bangkok could offer.