Virtual Thailand: Get Wet in the Songkran Festival (VR)
BANGKOK — We’re on Bangkok’s Silom Road for a first-hand look at Thailand’s three-day Songkran Festival. For the Thai New Year, during the peak of summer heat, people of all ages and backgrounds take...
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Virtual Thailand: Tour TCDC’s New Riverside Home (VR)
BANGKOK — Take a virtual reality tour of the new Thailand Creative and Design Center, or TCDC, which reopened May 5 near the Chao Phraya River in the imposing Grand Postal Building, a modern,...
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Artists Invade Bangkok’s Swankiest Hotel (Video)
BANGKOK — With sketchpads in hand, a group of artists overran a landmark hotel Sunday to make a record of its distinctive style before it is destroyed.
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Virtual Thailand: Check in to the Dusit Thani Hotel (VR)
BANGKOK — When it comes to the changing skin of the city, the only cruel constant is change. But virtual reality can preserve what reality taketh away.
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Heavy Rains Leave Nakhon Sawan Underwater (Video)
NAKHON SAWAN — Various districts in one of the country’s central provinces were flooded Thursday morning following an entire night of rain.
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‘My Mate Nate’ Slammed for Flattening Coins on Train Tracks
BANGKOK — A recent video of a controversial American YouTuber known as My Mate Nate flattening coins on train tracks drew criticism Friday for the hazards it involved. Footage of Nate Bartling, 23 –...
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Russophiles Gather at Russian Fest in Downtown Mall (Photos)
BANGKOK — A Russian-themed festival in Siam Paragon that ran Friday through Sunday drew those who longed for a taste of the largest country in the world.
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Feast on Flavors, Sights and Sounds of Africa at CentralWorld (Photos)
BANGKOK — A festival with soul-moving music and hip-shaking dances by nine African countries is set to rumble through Wednesday at a downtown mall.
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River Dwellers Abandon Homes For Concrete Promenade (Photos, Video)
BANGKOK — Malai Rakphuengamarit spent a recent Friday directing her husband and two hired men on where to put pieces of the steel roof and wood structure torn down from her riverside home.
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Bare Aggression: Baldies Do Battle the Old Way (Video)
RATCHABURI — Hairless, powdered heads collided Monday as part of a festival celebrating traditional games.
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Tourist Runs Into Traffic Because ‘Mom Didn’t Buy Happy Meal’ (Video)
PATTAYA — An Indonesian tourist ran into a Pattaya street and put himself in harm’s way Tuesday, reportedly after being given pizza instead of a Happy Meal by his mother.
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Chula Professors Tackle Student Trying to Leave Initiation (Video)
BANGKOK — Students who attempted to leave a freshmen initiation ceremony Thursday afternoon at Chulalongkorn University were tackled by professors, some of whom then tried to take the phones away from...
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Rock Legend Tackles Gun-Wielding Soldier From Stage (Video)
BANGKOK — An Air Force officer in the northeast is under criminal and disciplinary investigation for pulling a gun on a rock star, a military spokesman said Friday.
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Elephant Devours Durian in Daring Dawn Raid (Video)
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — An elephant with an appetite for durian raided a storeroom Sunday in the west of Thailand, eating about 40 of the fruit and causing 70,000 baht in damage.
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Thailand is His Name, Cheering Thailand is His Game
BANGKOK — For years, he’s been an unmistakable burst of red, white and blue in the stands. Tune into the Olympics, SEA Games, Asian Games or any event with Thai competitors and you’ll likely find him...
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Hate ‘Girl From Ipanema?’ This Bangkok Jazz Club is For You
No city more than Bangkok has had a more acute thirst for jazz yet wasted its potential, a Harlem-seasoned jazz trumpeter sermonized at the recent reopening of his jazz club.
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Field of Gold: Husband-Wife Team Plant Thousands of Marigolds (Video/Photos)
TRANG — If you plant it, they will come.
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Surin Dog Becomes Mom to Kittens (Video, Photos)
SURIN — A dog has become the adoptive mother to a trio of kittens in Isaan, her owner said Wednesday.
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Python Swallows Pet Cat in Pathum Thani Home
PATHUM THANI — A hungry python slithered into a home in northern metropolitan Bangkok and swallowed a pet cat whole Wednesday.
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Marigolds Bloom for King Bhumibol Nationwide (Photos)
Fields of marigolds in homage to the late King Rama IX have blossomed just in time for his cremation this month.
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