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Exhibition hopes to shift attitude towards cancer
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 06/11/2025
» Mahidol University's Faculty of Medicine and Siriraj Hospital have launched a digital art exhibition of cancer to inspire hope.
Celebrate Loy Krathong at 9 Chao Phraya landmarks
Life, Published on 03/11/2025
» "Colours Of The Full Moon" is the theme of Bangkok River Festival 2025 which kicks off today and runs until Wednesday.
Top places to celebrate Loy Krathong in Bangkok
Life, Post Reporters, Published on 13/11/2024
» Everyone is invited to celebrate Loy Krathong at 10 cultural heritage waterfronts along the curve of the Chao Phraya River during the Bangkok River Festival 2024, which will kick off on Thursday and run until Saturday, from 4pm to 10pm. On Loy Krathong day this Friday, however, the festival will run until midnight.
Welcome the Thai New Year with Water Festival 2023
Guru, Sutipa Aearoonsangsai, Published on 13/04/2023
» The "Water Festival 2023: Delightful Songkran" will be held in six provinces and four regions from April 13-16. The aim of the event is to preserve and promote the cultural heritage of Thailand, inviting Thai and foreigners to experience the charm of cultural heritage and local identity.
Make merit and float krathong at five historic temples
Life, Published on 03/11/2022
» "Rak Na Sainam" is the theme of "Bangkok River Festival 2022", which will kick off with activities at 10 cultural heritage waterfronts along the curve of the Chao Phraya River from Saturday to Tuesday, from 5-10pm. However, on Loy Krathong Day, the festival will run until midnight.
Rediscovering Bangkok
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 14/04/2022
» With no traffic congestion or long lines at popular restaurants, the prolonged Songkran holiday is always the best time for those who stay in Bangkok to enjoy pleasant leisure time without the usual masses. This year, with water fights prohibited, you can feel free to arrange a day trip by foot, bicycle or river cruise.
Mark Loy Krathong at 5 historic temples
Life, Published on 17/11/2021
» The "Bangkok River Festival 2021" will kick off today with many activities at eight cultural heritage waterfronts along the curve of Chao Phraya River, daily from 5-10pm until Friday.
Of Naga and political dissidents
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/09/2021
» The Naga is real but the murder is not. Or is it vice versa? What history chooses to remember and relegate to oblivion, what it enshrines as story and what it buries as hearsay, is how the narrative of a nation is forged in a mould of clay or a furnace of fire. Or in this particular case, in disembowelled bodies stuffed with concrete blocks. The murder is real but the Naga is not. This sounds more like it.
Cruising down to Old Siam
Holiday Time, Daniel T Cross, Published on 04/12/2019
» The day-long din of a thriving modern metropolis has died down, and the Chao Phraya River, now shrouded in relative darkness, has taken on an almost timeless quality. An ancient rice barge that passes down river only adds to that ambience. So does an old tugboat chugging its way in the opposite direction. The quaint rust-bucket emerges from under Phra Buddha Yodfa, which is appropriately known in English as Memorial Bridge and was inaugurated in 1932 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the reigning Chakri Dynasty.
Celebrate Loy Krathong along the Chao Phraya
Life, Published on 05/11/2019
» The annual "River Festival" will be back with numerous activities at 10 cultural heritage waterfronts along the curve of the majestic Chao Phraya River in Bangkok from Saturday to Monday Nov 9-11 from 5pm to 10.30pm.