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Celebrate Chinese Ghost Festival with Gourmet Market
Life, Published on 15/08/2024
» The Chinese Ghost Festival is around the corner and Thais of Chinese descent have until Saturday to shop for ritual offerings and oblation sets for their ancestors during "Chinese Autumn 2024" at each Gourmet Market branch.
Pray for good fortune at these Hong Kong temples
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 05/04/2024
» Pilgrims have long been attracted to Hong Kong to pray for favours. In response, the Hong Kong Tourism Board has created the "Ultimate Guide To A Prosperous Year Of The Dragon" campaign in collaboration with feng shui master Mak Ling Ling to serve as a handbook, which provides the list of sacred temples and the traditional ways to give prayers to deities.
Dept ties incense to PM2.5 spike
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 09/02/2024
» The Pollution Control Department (PCD) is urging the public to refrain from burning paper offerings and incense during the Chinese New Year in an effort to keep the level of ultra-fine PM2.5 pollutants down over the period.
Worshippers urged to shift to electric incense to reduce pollution
Online Reporters, Published on 08/02/2024
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is seeking help from shrines and worshippers to promote the use of electric incense during Lunar New Year, as the capital grapples with air pollution caused by micro dust.
Tracing ancestry
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 06/07/2023
» With Thailand serving as a significant commercial hub for centuries, Chinese merchants played a key role in bridging cultural linkages through marine trade prior to the establishment of diplomatic ties between Thailand and China in 1975. To celebrate the 48th anniversary of this milestone, Life explores Bangkok's early communities to learn more about our ancestry.
Holding on to traditions amid societal change
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 07/02/2022
» Fears about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 forced the cancellation of Chinese New Year celebrations, however, Yaowarat Road was flooded with a wave of red-shirt tourists last Tuesday.
Checklist: How Thai-Chinese are you?
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 28/01/2022
» Thais of Chinese descent, my people, the Chinese New Year will soon be upon us and it's time to look at and appreciate our quirks, nuances and legacy. Let's celebrate by finding out how Thai-Chinese are we with this just-for-fun checklist. The more you tick, the more Thai-Chinese you are, obvi. Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!
Hopes of luck, wealth and prosperity
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 27/01/2022
» Next week, the ox will pass the baton to the tiger, and a swarm of red-shirted pilgrims will rush to revered temples to pray to the gods for good fortune and wealth in the year to come.
Chinatown preserves its past
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 28/10/2021
» It became more convenient for local folks and tourists to travel to Bangkok's Chinatown after the Wat Mangkorn MRT station opened in late 2019, giving Charoen Krung Road a sense of urban life.
Shop for ritual items at Gourmet Market
Life, Published on 18/08/2021
» The Chinese Ghost Festival is approaching and The Mall Group is inviting people from the Chinese-Thai community to honour their ancestors with the best selection of ritual offerings and oblation items during "Chinese Autumn 2021", which is running at all branches of Gourmet Market and Home Fresh Mart, until Saturday.