Thai islands in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Thailand are home to some of the region's most spectacular beauty spots.

CNN: Country profile: Thailand

For killing my child I had earned the right to swim once a day in the beautiful and sometimes smelly Gulf of Thailand.

NEWYORKER: Swimming

But Thailand is wavering over plans to import gas from Oman, and invest in offshore gas fields in Indonesia and the Gulf of Thailand.

ECONOMIST: When growth switches off

As the humanitarian disaster in Myanmar unfolded this week, the Navy and Marine Corps happened to have ships and thousands of service members in the Gulf of Thailand for a multinational exercise on humanitarian missions an exercise that started Thursday.

NPR: U.S. Aid Supplies Blocked from Reaching Myanmar