Did you know that the first and only Thai Town that exists outside of Thailand is right in Los Angeles?! I didn’t! In fact, the Thai Town portion of Los Angeles was only recently designated that in 1999! I didn’t even know what the Songkran Festival was until this past Saturday while I was scouring [...]
Tags: festivals, food, los angeles, Pad Thai, Songkran, Thai, Thailand
Wow. Talk about being empowered to make change. “Thailand’s red-shirt demonstrators are donating blood to throw at government offices in a symbolic protest against a leadership they say is illegitimate.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8569483.stm
Tags: donate blood, government, protest, Thailand
Spoiler Alert.
A Thai gardener manages to steal 200 pounds of jewels from a Saudi prince. He airmails his loot to his home in northern Thailand and makes the getaway. He gets arrested, but not before he manages to sell some of the jewels. That same evening two different Saudi diplomats were murdered. Execution style. Days [...]
Tags: jewels, Saudia Arabia, Thailand, theft