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Naga limited edition highlights Thai culture
Life, Published on 24/10/2025
» Since 2009, a partnership between Chopard and Yamada Heiando has combined haute horlogerie and the art of Japanese lacquer, derived from the sap of the urushi tree.
The navel of the Mekong
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 29/10/2020
» The partly cloudy sky gradually turned orange and red after sunset. The twilight colours, which reflected on the Mekong River, provided a great contrast to the dark green mountain ranges in Laos and grass dotted with white flowers on the bank of the river in Thailand's Bueng Kan province.
Lent's fireballs return to Nong Khai, Bueng Kan
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 17/09/2020
» Oct 2 will mark the end of Buddhist Lent, or Wan Ok Phansa. The three-month annual retreat of monks will complete on the day of the Full Moon of the 11th lunar month. Temples nationwide will organise fairs and festivals. One of the highlights will take place on the Mekong River in the northeastern provinces of Nong Khai and Bueng Kan where a colourful phenomenon known as the "naga fireballs" will take place.
White light
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 28/11/2019
» After the entrance gates closed at 5pm, people waited outside the Chiang Rai landmark of Wat Rong Khun for a much anticipated light and sound show organised for the first time since the temple's 1977 opening.
See the fireballs
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 11/10/2018
» Every year when Buddhist Lent ends on the first Full Moon night of October, a colourful phenomenon known as the Naga Fireballs takes place on the Mekong River in the northeastern province of Nong Khai.