Final Fun for Festival Faithful: Silom Stages Songkran Send Off (Photos)
BANGKOK — As day three of Thailand's new year festival comes to a close, we look at the best shots of the day's final celebrations in Silom.
Photo Phriday: Songkran, Songkran and Songkran
Here’s how Thailand and Songkran looked this past week.
See Silom Celebrate Songkran in Style (Photos)
BANGKOK — A look at the best photos of Silom's Songkran festivities.
Wet and Wild Songkran Splashes Throughout Thailand (Photos)
BANGKOK — It’s Songkran and people across the country are celebrating the traditional New Year in different styles. We take a look at how each province enjoys the festivities.
Miss the Good Ole Days? Songkran Was Wild Then Too
A common complaint about Thai New Year festival is that “Songkran has lost its meaning." But it’s fair to say Songkran has always lost – and found – its meaning.
Go Hunting for Dreams on Cambodia’s ‘Diamond Island’
BANGKOK — Watch a Cambodian-French filmmaker’s feature debut look at impoverished teens seeking better lives in a newly developed corner of Phnom Penh this month.
Bangkok’s New Library Barely Open a Day, Closes Again
BANGKOK — Less than 24 hours after opening with much fanfare, Bangkok’s largest public library shut its door and will not open again for three weeks.
‘Amazing Songkran’ Parade to Hit Sukhumvit Road Saturday Evening
BANGKOK — Sukhumvit Road in downtown Bangkok will be the site of a colorful parade on Saturday evening to prep the capital city for the upcoming Thai New Year festival.
Largest Public Library in Bangkok Opens (Photos)
BANGKOK — A three-story library opened its doors in Bangkok’s old town Friday with tens of thousands of books and a lending service expected to launch in three weeks.
Review: In ‘Get Out,’ the Two-Faced Horrors of Racism
Fifty years after Sidney Poitier upended the latent racial prejudices of his white date’s liberal family in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” writer-director Jordan Peele has crafted a similar confrontation with altogether more combustible results in “Get Out.”
