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What 2019 brought to Thailand's strongest industry
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 26/12/2019
» Life reviews the highlights of the tourism sector during the past 12 months.
Market leader
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 29/08/2019
» Nang Loeng Market in Bangkok has been listed in the World's Best Restaurants 2019 by Travel + Leisure magazine.
Flowers for monks
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 09/07/2019
» To mark the annual three-month Buddhist Lent (Khao Phansa in Thai), Wat Phra Phutthabat Ratchaworamaha Wihan in Saraburi's Phra Phutthabat district will host the tak bat dok mai event next week for Buddhists to offer flowers to monks.
A royal discovery
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 03/06/2019
» A decade ago when a male elephant was brought from the southern province of Krabi to live in an elephant conservation centre in Maha Sarakham in the northeast, only Khruba Thammunee Thitadhammo, a monk who founded the centre, believed that it was a white elephant.
Float your boat for Loy Krathong
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 21/11/2018
» When the Full Moon rises in the sky tomorrow night, Thais will celebrate Loy Krathong by launching their floats of flowers on waterways nationwide.
Collaborating on happiness
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 11/12/2017
» Soil has been piled up and from afar it looks like a red hill. Frangipani trees without leaves or flowers stand around the foothill as if guarding it from intruders. From the base where locals laid flowers, one can only see some big umbrellas -- the kind used in monk-ordination ceremonies -- at the hilltop.
Smuggling Thai culture by film
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 23/06/2017
» A group of Chinese fans of Thai actress Davika Hoorne shouted her nickname -- "Mai! Mai!" -- as she slowly walked out from the gate at the arrivals hall of Shanghai International Airport. They had prepared bouquets of colourful flowers and a large bunch of 999 red roses for the admired star of Phi Mak Phrakanong and 20 Mai U-Turn Wai Huai Jai Return (Suddenly Twenty).
The Royal Family tree
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 28/11/2016
» The tree is about 15m-tall. It stands in the forest of Kui Buri National Park in Prachuap Khiri Khan, 280km south of Bangkok. Its branches spread out, but they do not have a single leaf.
Spinning a traditional yarn
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 06/04/2016
» A blue cotton yarn hangs outside a wooden house in the small village of Ban Na Di in Sakon Nakhon province. The blue is made with khram, or indigo, in a long-lost dyeing process that was brought back to life by Praphaiphan Daengchai, 63, about two decades ago.