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Toy Story comes to LIFE
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 28/02/2012
» As the rain stopped falling on Hong Kong Disneyland a group of tourists from Thailand stepped into Toy Story Land, the park's fifth themed area. After walking through a tunnel, they saw two colourful benches in front of a big sign saying, "This Way" and a long stretch of more than two-metre-high grass. Looking up at their gigantic surroundings, the group felt like they had been shrunk to the size of a toy and become part of the Toy Story movies.
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Disney's Hollywood Hotel
Life, Published on 09/03/2012
» Address: Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, Lantau Island, Hong Kong FTel: (852)1830-830 FFax: (852)3510-5333 FWebsite: http://park.hongkongdisneyland.com FEmail: reservations@hongkongdisneyland.com
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Monk ordination on elephant-back in Surin
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 27/04/2012
» Ban Ta Klang in Surin province is Thailand's largest elephant village and where elephant raising has been passed down through generations for centuries. People here speak the Kui language and have well-preserved their ancient culture and traditions, such as the worshipping of ancestors before capturing wild elephants and the wedding and monk ordination procession on elephant-back.
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Be yond fun is faith
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 08/05/2012
» Under beautifully decorated gold lacquered parasols called tee kham were more than 30 boys donned in ancient-style Myanmar apparel and a crown being carried on the shoulders of their male relatives. They were part of a procession of hundreds of people wearing traditional Shan clothes, playing music, dancing or carrying thaiyathan (necessary things for monks). The atmosphere was lively and cheerful as the boys were about to enter monkhood in a Poi Sang Long ceremony at a temple in Mae Hong Son's Pai district.
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'Asia's Vegas' more than bright lights
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 13/05/2012
» Mediterranean-style cobblestone squares. Chinese shophouses. Western brand outlets. Cantonese dim sum for brunch and galinha a Portuguesa (Portuguese-style chicken) for dinner. Sixteenth-century cathedrals and forts stand beside Chinese mansions and gardens, or temples thick with incense. Garish high-rise casinos and decrepit apartment blocks form a backdrop over narrow winding lanes along the old city walls _ a clash of tastes that mesmerises and disorients.
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Visakha Bucha celebrations in Sakon Nakhon
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 25/05/2012
» The northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon has hosted the annual big celebrations of Visakha Bucha Day since 2003. Visakha Bucha Day is an important day for Buddhists as it marks the day the Lord Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, and entered into nirvana on the full moon day of the sixth lunar month, about 2,600 years ago.
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Royal Flora festival is over, but park still blooming good fun
Life, Published on 31/05/2012
» Everybody is aware the Royal Flora botanical extravaganza has long been over, but maybe not everyone knows what is going on now at the Royal Park Rajapruek, the venue of the highly famous horticulture event.
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Bus service between Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi launched
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 30/07/2012
» The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) will rearrange a bus route to service passengers between Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi airports.
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Hues of Hokkaido
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 02/08/2012
» Two years ago I visited Hokkaido for the first time. The northern island of Japan was virtually all white, covered with snow which attracted hordes of winter sports lovers from over the world. I was there again last week. This time it's summer, the season when Hokkaido's amazing array of colours is most vividly exposed.
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All that wasn't washed away
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 19/08/2012
» At Koh Kret a Mon man points to a mark on the wall at the height of his head. "The water was here," he says of last October and November. "It was a bad time."
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