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STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 16, 2021 • 4 min read

Thailand Revolution at the home of Thai boxing after Covid KO

By Sophie Deviller and Pitcha Dangprasith/AFP • Nov 16, 2021
After a 20-month coronavirus break, Thai kickboxing's spiritual home is embarking on a revolution with fancy lasers and female fighters on the ring

STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 01, 2021 • 4 min read

Thailand Hopes high as tourists touch down for Thailand re-opening

By Lisa Martin and Dene-Hern Chen/AFP • Nov 01, 2021
After 18 months of Covid border controls, overseas tourists began pouring into Bangkok and the holiday island of Phuket on Monday as Thailand kickstarted its tourism industry

Oct 06, 2021 • 3 min read
Thailand

Thai activists commemorate brutal student massacre

Thai activists commemorate the 45th anniversary of a brutal student massacre, splashing fake blood and laying mock bodies at Thammasat University
By Agence France-Presse • Oct 06, 2021

May 26, 2021 • 11 min read
History

The profound legacy of Thailand’s first newspaper, The Bangkok Recorder

Thailand's first newspaper The Bangkok Recorder – a little-read and short-lived publication founded by an American Christian missionary in the mid-19th century – is barely remembered today, but it left a profound mark on Thai society
By Wanpen Pajai • May 26, 2021

Apr 26, 2021 • 3 min read
Covid-19

New Covid restrictions in Thailand as cases rise

New Covid restrictions came into force in Thailand on April 26 in an attempt to halt a spiralling outbreak that saw deaths hit a record single-day high over the weekend
By Agence France-Presse • Apr 26, 2021

Mar 19, 2021 • 4 min read
Animal welfare

[Photos] Inside Pata, the ‘World’s Saddest Zoo’ in Bangkok

Home to a tragic menagerie of primates, tropical birds and reptiles, the infamous Pata Zoo sits atop an ageing mall in Bangkok. Its enclosures are stark and dirty, its long-term residents depressed and listless – yet this condemned zoo continues on
By Mailee Osten-Tan • Mar 19, 2021

Jan 11, 2021 • 9 min read
History

In defence of MSG: The seasoning that revolutionised Thai cuisine

Monosodium glutamate, better known as MSG, has a rough reputation in the culinary world for its perceived bad health effects. But this naturally occurring ingredient has simplified and revolutionised the preparation of Thai cuisine, helping to bring good food to the masses
By Wanpen Pajai • Jan 11, 2021

Nov 10, 2020 • 10 min read
City planning

As wetlands are filled, Phnom Penh ignores Bangkok’s flooding lessons

As Bangkok attempts, at high cost, to reverse much of the damage done to the flood-prone city by restoring a more porous landscape, next door in Phnom Penh, wetlands are filled and skyscrapers erected as the Cambodian capital runs the risk of being submerged
By Wanpen Pajai • Nov 10, 2020

Oct 28, 2020 • 3 min read
Thai democracy

Rebel alliance: Bangkok’s motortaxi drivers aid Thai protesters

Orange-vested and cruising on Honda Scoopys, Thai motortaxi drivers have become allies to pro-democracy protesters gathering across traffic-snarled Bangkok, offering lifts and keeping an eye out for trouble
By Pitcha Dangprasith/AFP • Oct 28, 2020