If you’re like us and prefer diving into the everyday pulse of a city rather than ticking off the usual tourist checklist, ...
The shrine in which the spirit takes up residence is called "san" in Thai, so a spirit house is referred to as a san phra phum. Establishing a spirit house is a complex process. First, a Brahmin ...
The blast in August 2015 targeted a shrine popular with ethnic Chinese visitors, and came weeks after Thailand’s then-junta forcibly repatriated 109 Uyghurs to China, where rights activists say ...
Thailand's annual nine-day vegetarian festival kicked off on 8 October with devotees from Loem Hu Thai Su shrine, on the island of Phuket, showing off their eye-catching, some would say alarming ...
A Thai court on Thursday cleared a woman of involvement in a 2015 bomb attack on a popular shrine in Bangkok that killed 20 people, most of them tourists. Wanna Suansan was accused of complicity ...
BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Thursday acquitted a Thai woman who had been charged with involvement in a 2015 bombing at a shrine in Bangkok that killed 20 people and injured 120. Wanna ...