THAILAND: Celebrate Songkran in Phuket at Courtyard Phuket Patong Beach Resort

Guests and performers join in a vibrant cultural procession, showcasing colorful Thai outfits and festive Songkran spirit

Songkran fun under the Phuket sun!

Celebrating Songkran in true Thai style with bright colors, water fun, and festive vibes

Fun vibes, tropical greens, and water guns ready for Songkran at Courtyard Patong

A lush tropical oasis featuring sparkling pools, towering palm trees, and serene resort vibes

Experience Songkran in Phuket with beachfront festivities, cultural traditions, and a vibrant New Year celebration at Courtyard Phuket Patong Beach Resort.

PHUKET, PATONG, PHUKET, THAILAND, March 10, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Courtyard Phuket Patong Beach Resort welcomes travelers to experience Songkran, Thailand’s most beloved and culturally significant festival, with a memorable stay by the beach. Celebrated once a year, this iconic water festival fills Phuket with lively traditions, vibrant music, and refreshing splashes that mark the arrival of the Thai New Year.

Every April, Songkran draws visitors from

RECORD NUMBER OF NPCs AND ATHLETES TO COMPETE AT MILANO CORTINA 2026 PARALYMPIC WINTER GAMES

• Five NPCs to make their Winter Games debut at Milano Cortina 2026

Milano Cortina 2026 will be the biggest Paralympic Winter Games in history with the most ever National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) and Para athletes set to compete.

As the Paralympic Winter Games celebrates a special milestone with its 50th anniversary,

ITALY: Francesca Lollobrigida signs the Olympic record and triumphs in the 3,000 meters. First gold Buonfiglio

Italy - The Italia Team drops the trio of medals at the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Games. After the double morning podium signed by Giovanni Franzoni and Dominik Paris in the men's downhill of alpine skiing in Bormio, in fact, the gold (complete with an Olympic record) of a phenomenal Francesca Lollobrigida on the distance of 3,000 meters of speed skating

ITALY: Azzurri screaming in the Olympic downhill in Bormio: Franzoni wins silver, bronze for Paris

Italy immediately takes the stage in the men's downhill in Bormio. In the race that inaugurated the alpine skiing program in Milan Cortina 2026, in fact, Giovanni Franzoni and Dominik Paris secured silver and bronze respectively, giving the Italia Team the first two medals in this winter edition of the Olympic Games. Also present at the

ITALY: Thomas Bach visits Casa Italia in Cortina: "What a thrill the Opening Ceremony"

The Honorary President of the IOC, Thomas Bach, visited Casa Italia in Cortina d'Ampezzo this afternoon. Accompanied by his wife Claudia and guided by the Deputy Head of Mission and Head of Communication and Ceremonial, Danilo di Tommaso, Bach (photo Giuseppe Giugliano/CONI) was able to get to know the spaces of the structure up close and then dined at the Casa Italia restaurant, housed in the Farsetti Gallery. The former number 1 of the International Olympic Committee, in office from September 2013 to June 2025, praised the Opening Ceremony that yesterday officially inaugurated the Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games, awarded to Italy under his mandate, in 2019: "It was a great emotion to see all the efforts put in place bear fruit and show that seven years ago we had made the right choice. The ceremony was simply splendid and represented Italy in its best guise, with its culture, its colors, its passion," said Bach who followed the curling competitions in Cortina during the day and will do the same tomorrow on the occasion of the women's downhill alpine skiing, scheduled for 11:30 am, and the men's single luge, at the start with the decisive heats at 17:00, and then return to Milan.

ITALY: Compagnoni, Tomba and Goggia light the Braziers: 146 Azzurri parade at the Milan Cortina Ceremony

Italy - A unique Olympics of its kind, as is the Opening Ceremony that inaugurated it. With the words at the San Siro Stadium by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella and with the lighting of the Braziers by Deborah Compagnoni and Alberto Tomba in Milan and Sofia Goggia in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the curtain rose on the XXV Winter Olympic Games, twenty years after the last home edition of Turin 2006. For the first time in history, the ceremony was hosted by two cities, Milan and Cortina, developing as a widespread event, capable of simultaneously connecting the mountain territories of Livigno and Predazzo.

Born from the work of a multidisciplinary creative group, brought together and led by

ITALY: Figure skating: Italy secures third place after three segments of the team event

After a debut in the name of history, in which the first ever victory at the Winter Games of the women's national ice hockey team and the qualification of Ian Matteoli for the men's snowboard big air final stood out, the Italia Team continued its journey at Milano Cortina 2026 , while waiting for the competitions that will decree the first medal winners. Here are the results of the Azzurri competing on Friday 6 February.

FIGURE SKATING - Italy occupies the provisional third place after the first three race