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  • The Vietnamese Legacy in Nakhon Phanom
    [Reference-and-Education] Nakhon Phanom, a province in north-eastern Thailand about 740 km from Bangkok, is on the banks of the Mekong River. It has played host to two of the major adversaries in the Vietnam War. The legacy of that period remains to this day.


  • A Man's Legacy to His Nation
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] Erawan Museum, Ancient City and Sanctuary of Truth are three monuments just outside Bangkok Thailand that symbolize Thai architecture, art and culture which are the vision and life's work of one man, Lek Viriyaphant. The architecture of the Erawan Museum and the interior were designed to represent Hindu mythology on the structure and characteristics of the universe; representing the Three Worlds, heaven, earth and hell.


  • The Bangkok Corrections Museum - Prison Life in a Thai Jail
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] The Bangkok Corrections Museum in Maha Chai Road preserves gruesome aspects of Thai prison history and the brutal prison life before reforms were made to the penal system. It's located on the site of a former Bangkok maximum security prison built in 1890, during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (King Rama V) after a study visit to the prisons in Singapore.


  • Thai Silk Weavers of Ban Krua
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] Thai silk weavers in Ban Krua are an old Cham Muslim community in Bangkok. They wove the silk for Jim Thompson when he started his Thai silk company in 1948 and revived the Thai silk industry. What's Ban Krua like today?


  • The Chakri Kings of Thailand - In the Golden Age of Rattanakosin
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The first of the Chakri kings, King Rama I or King Phra Phuttayotfa, who reigned from 1782 - 1809, founded the dynasty when he established Bangkok as the capital of Thailand. King Rama I is remembered as the great warrior who put an end to the constant Burmese threat and consolidated the kingdom. Literature flourished during the First Reign.


  • Corrado Feroci - The Italian Legacy in Bangkok
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] Corrado Feroci (1892 - 1962) was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, the art capital of Italy. He came to Bangkok in 1923 when King Rama VI requested the Italian government for a sculptor to train Thai artists and craftsmen and raise the standards of Thai art to international levels. The arrival of Corrado Feroci was to start a train of events that would have a profound impact on the development of Thai art.


  • Remembering 6 October 1976 - The Forgotten Massacre
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] 6 October was another black mark in Thai politics. After 14 October 1973, a new PM, new constitution and fresh elections gave hope for a change for the better. But from 1973 - 1976, a series of weak coalition governments floundered in a chain of musical chairs.


  • An Italian Artist in Bangkok
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] Since the turn of the 20th century, Italian craftsmen have contributed to the artistic and architectural splendor of Bangkok. One such artist was Galileo Chini, whose works are a national treasure and art legacy today.


  • The Danish Legacy in Bangkok
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The Danish legacy in Bangkok dates back to the reign of King Rama IV (1851 - 1868). Save for one prominent landmark, there's little to remind a visitor of the early Danish presence. However it took an event in April 2008 to trigger a search on the contribution of the early Danish pioneers in Bangkok.


  • Saphan Han - The Dragon's Tail In Chinatown Bangkok
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] Saphan Han is an old Chinese trading community, one of the many Chinese legacies, at the end of Yaowarat Road near the Rob Krung canal, where Chinatown Bangkok meets Pahurat Little India. The Rob Krung canal, the second canal ring around the old city, was dug in 1785 in the reign of King Rama I. Rob Krung, literally meaning "around the city", completely encloses the landward side of the old city on the east.


  • Old Stamps - Impressions At A Stamp Exhibition
    [Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] Old stamps feature pictures of stamps from the 20th Asian International Stamp Exhibition in Bangkok at the Royal Paragon Hall, Siam Paragon held from 3 - 12 August 2007. Walking through the rows of old postage stamps flooded my mind with a mix of memories of momentous events, of the rise and fall of great empires, some of which have occurred in my lifetime. These were some of the pictures of stamps that caught my eye.


  • Royal Barge Procession 2007 - in Honor of HM King Bhumipol Adulyadej
    [Travel-and-Leisure] The Royal Barge Procession 2007 sailed on 5 November 2007 to celebrate the 80th birthday of HM King Bhumipol Adulyadej and for the Royal Krathin Ceremony at the end of the Buddhist Lent in a majestic procession down the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok. King Bhumipol is in the 61st year of his reign and it is customary for HM the King to present new robes to the monks at the end of the Buddhist Lent.


  • Philatelic Museum Bangkok - The History Of Thai Postage Stamps
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] The Philatelic Museum Bangkok records the Thai postal history from the mid 1800s to the present, with stamps honoring the reigning monarch of the day and marking significant events in Thai history. The museum was first established in 1947 when the postal services were under the Post and Telegraph Department. After reorganization of the civil service and several relocations, the Philatelic Museum, currently under Thailand Post Company Ltd, finally found its permanent home in Sam Sen Nai Post Office next to the Saphan Kwai skytrain station on 15 December 2004.


  • Bamboo Flute Makers Of Ban Laos - The Heritage Of Generations
    [Travel-and-Leisure] The bamboo flute makers of Ban Laos are descendants of migrants from Laos who have settled in Bangkok more than 200 years ago and have preserved the art of flute making that's practiced till today.


  • The 24 June 1932 Coup - The End to Absolute Monarchy in Thailand
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The 1932 coup ended 150 years of absolute monarchy under the Chakri dynasty and changed the course of Thai political history. What were the conditions that caused this and what was the aftermath?


  • Hotels in Sathon - Bangkok Hotels in Embassy Row
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Hotels-Accommodations] Hotels in Sathon are Bangkok hotels in a location of prime residential and commercial properties. Of the few canals left in Bangkok, two of them are in Sathon, an area with a long and rich history. Our story begins with one of these canals.


  • Hotels In Pratunam - Bangkok's Watergate Hotels By The Saen Saab
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Hotels-Accommodations] Hotels in Pratunam are the Bangkok hotels located near the bustling Pratunam market, an old sluice gate and an old canal dug in the reign of King Rama III (1824 – 1851) for a war that didn't take place. Since then, the area has changed drastically. But the canal is still there, serving a completely different purpose.


  • Hotels in Silom - Bangkok Hotels With a Legacy of Windmills
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Hotels-Accommodations] Hotels in Silom are the Bangkok hotels in the heart of old Bangrak, a commercial and entertainment area with a long tradition of royal connections and a quaint history.


  • Monument to the Expeditionary Force – Someone Still Remembers
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The Monument to the Expeditionary Force in Bangkok is a memorial to the Thai soldiers killed on the Western Front in World War I. Why did Thailand join in a European war among mostly colonial powers?


  • The Price of Preserving our Cultural Heritage
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] Bangkok communities reflect a diverse and rich cultural mix, a legacy from the centuries of the early immigrants. Some of these communities have strived and survived. Others are fast disappearing. Some are on the verge of extinction. How do we preserve our cultural heritage and at what price?


  • The Dusit Thani Hotel – the City in the Fourth Heaven
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Hotels-Accommodations] The Dusit Thani Hotel Bangkok heads the list of hotels in Silom, an area rich in history and regal traditions. The name Dusit Thani has a celestial allure that adds to the magic and charm.


  • The Lakshmi Shrine – the guardian angel of Ratchaprasong
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] The Lakshmi Shrine in Bangkok dedicated to the goddess of wealth and good fortune is located in a luxury shopping mall near the Ratchaprasong junction, famous for shrines of Hindu gods and goddesses.


  • 2006 coup in Bangkok - the Coup of Roses
    [News-and-Society:Politics] The 2006 coup in Bangkok culminated from months of political turmoil. Quiet preparations weeks before resulted in the coup d'etat on the night of 19 September, which received an unexpected response.


  • Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok - Resurrecting the Golden Land
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Aviation-Airplanes] Suvarnabhumi Airport raised from the boggy Nong Ngu Hao or Cobra Swamp in a 43 year effort, is now the new Bangkok International Airport and aviation gateway to Thailand. The name Suvarnabhumi has a long and interesting history, reminiscent of a golden era of peace and prosperity that's part of the cultural and historical legacy of Thailand.


  • Pridi Banomyong - the father of Thai democracy
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] Pridi Banomyong was one of the prominent leaders in the 1932 coup that changed Thailand to a constitutional monarchy. He laid the legal framework and political structure for a modern democracy.


  • Neilson Hays Library Bangkok - the Legacy of Jennie Neilson Hays
    [Travel-and-Leisure] The Neilson Hays Library in Surawongse Road was designed by Italian architect Mario Tamagno and dedicated to the memory of Jennie Neilson Hays and the volunteers of the Bangkok Library Association.


  • The Museum of Buddhist Art – A Rare Collection of Buddha Statues
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The Museum of Buddhist Art in Bangkok is reputed to have the biggest collection of Buddha statues, sculptures and figurines based on Buddhist art work from kingdoms dating back to the 6th century AD.


  • Italian Architects In Bangkok – Monuments To Their Artistry
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] Italian architects, Annibale Rigotti and Mario Tamagno came to Bangkok at the turn of the 20th century to embark on a venture over the next two decades that was to leave magnificent landmarks in the city. Their masterpieces include a throne hall, two palaces, a library, a church and Government House.


  • The Trimurti Shrine - In the Quest for True Love at the Lovers' Shrine
    [Travel-and-Leisure] The Trimurti Shrine, named after the Trinity of Hindu Gods, is a popular shrine in Bangkok where legend has it that those who pray there for true love will have their prayers answered and their dreams fulfilled.


  • Antique Siamese Maps New Discoveries of Old Treasures
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] In 1995, 17 antique Siamese maps were uncovered in the Grand Palace. After years of research on their origins, these rare old maps on Thailand and China were on public display for the first time from January - March 2006 at the Jim Thompson House.


  • Chinatown Bangkok - Yaowarat, the Chinese Legacy
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] Yaowarat or Chinatown Bangkok is as old as Bangkok. The Chinese immigrants settled here during the reign of King Rama I and turn it into a bustling district with some unusual historical landmarks.


  • The Legendary Oriental Bangkok - the Grand Dame on the Chao Phraya Turns 130
    [Travel-and-Leisure] The Oriental Bangkok, the world-renowned luxury hotel, is the oldest hotel in Bangkok, has a legacy of famous writers and a long and famous history. She's a 130 years old this year.


  • Siriraj Medical Museums - Medical Exhibits that Could Make You Queasy
    [Travel-and-Leisure] The Siriraj Medical Museums in Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok display exhibits relating to pathology, forensic medicine, parasitology, anatomy and history of medicine. Some of these are grisly!


  • Legend of the Erawan Shrine - a Legacy of Faith
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] The Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, a symbol of faith for thousands, lends its name to the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel. What's the origin of the legend of the deity popularly known as the four-faced Buddha?


  • St Francis Xavier Church Bangkok - Honoring the Apostle of the Indies
    [Travel-and-Leisure] St Francis Xavier Church is old Catholic church in Bangkok, dedicated to the Jesuit who spent his life spreading the gospel in Asia, although he never set foot in Thailand.


  • The King Rama VII Museum - Dedicated to the Last Absolute Monarch of Thailand
    [Travel-and-Leisure] The King Rama VII Museum preserves the personal history and life of the last absolute monarch whose reign saw the watershed in Thai political history.


  • Kamthieng House - The Lanna Legacy In Bangkok
    [Travel-and-Leisure] Kamthieng House, a traditional Lanna home in the grounds of the Siam Society in Soi Asoke Bangkok, preserves the seven century old Lanna architecture and culture from Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.


  • Trooping the Colour, Bangkok - the King's Birthday Parade
    [Travel-and-Leisure] Trooping the Colour in Bangkok is an annual ceremony at the Royal Plaza for officers and men of the King's Guard to pledge their allegiance and offer birthday blessings to their King.


  • The Thai Labour Museum - A History of Strife, Sweat and Toil
    [Travel-and-Leisure] The Thai Labour Museum is housed in a modest single story red building by the railway line near the Makkasan railway station. The building used to be the railway police station, then the railway labour union office, before being converted to a museum on 17 October 1993. The monument outside the Thai Labour Museum signifying the "Dignity of Labour" shows a man and a woman pushing a huge wheel, the wheel of history.


  • The Loy Krathong Festival - Lighting Up the Chao Phraya
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] The Loy Krathong Festival is one of the most colorful Thai festivals, based on a 13th century Brahmin tradition to give thanks to the Goddess of water and to seek forgiveness for past misdeeds.


  • The National Museum Bangkok - a Millennium of Thai History
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The National Museum, Bangkok captures the history of the early Thai civilizations, the rise and fall of kingdoms and dynasties encapsulating the culture and soul of the Thai nation.


  • King Rama V - the Great Beloved King
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] King Rama V or King Chulalongkorn (1853 – 1910) was the monarch who steered Thailand clear of colonization and initiated the Chakri Reformation to put Thailand on the road to modernization.


  • Rattanakosin - the Growth of Old Bangkok and the Dawn of a Era
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] Rattanakosin or Bangkok, the new capital established by King Rama I in 1782, was the birth of a new era under the reign of the Chakri kings who have ruled Thailand till today.


  • The Bangkok Forts - Citadels of Rattanakosin
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The Bangkok forts along the Chao Phraya River and canal rings guarded Rattanakosin when it was first established as the capital. What remains of these Bangkok legacies today?


  • The 14 October 1973 Uprising - Dying for a Cause
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] Remembering 14 October 1973, the uprising at the Democracy Monument, Bangkok that brought down the military dictator, Thanom Kittikachon and held out hopes for a change.


  • The Democracy Monument, Bangkok - the Silent Sentinel of Freedom
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The Democracy Monument, Bangkok is the monument to the watershed in Thai political history on 24 June 1932 and witness to the tragedies on 14 October 1973 and 06 October 1976.


  • The Kuan Yin Shrine, Bangkok - the Goddess of Mercy on the Chao Phraya
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] The Kuan Yin Shrine in Bangkok is in an old Chinese building within a community on the Chao Phraya River where time seems to have stood still for the last 200 years.


  • Santa Cruz Church - the Portuguese Legacy in Bangkok
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] Santa Cruz Church, the church of the holy cross, was built in the reign of King Taksin, a legacy of Thai-Portuguese relations that date back to the 16th century.


  • The History of Thai Currency - from Ancient Beads to Modern Baht
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The history of Thai currency dates back more than 1,000 years when ancient beads and stones were used as money to the days of minted coins and bank notes.


  • River Cruise in Bangkok - Sightseeing on the Chao Phraya
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] A river cruise in Bangkok gives an insight to community life on the Chao Phraya River and the legacies on this river of kings, a picture of stark contrasts.


  • History of the Royal Barges - a Timeless Tradition
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The history of the Royal Barges dates back to the 13th century Sukhothai era. It's a traditional ceremony that has endured to the present day in Thailand.


  • The Royal Barge Procession - Splendor on the Chao Phraya River
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] The Royal Barge Procession in Bangkok, conducted on very rare occasions, is a spectacular royal armada on the Chao Phraya River, the river of kings.

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