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BANGKOK — Sutthipong “Noom” Eiamsa-ard was driving back to his apartment in Lat Phrao at 3am after a night partying on RCA. Along the way, two good-looking women dressed in black flagged him down for a ride.

Late on a Monday afternoon decades back, 8-year-old Somboon Boonyakan went to buy some vegetables for his family to cook dinner from a local Chinese gardener. He never returned.

BANGKOK — Thai ghosts uniquely blend traditional beliefs, superstition and Buddhism. For as long as there has been film, this national obsession has made its way onto celluloid in countless horror movies popular at home and abroad.

BANGKOK — Halloween is just around the corner, so get a headless start this weekend by enjoying some chilling madness in a classic French-Italian horror film at Bangkok’s new alternative cinema.

PATTAYA — This year’s Wonderfruit Festival has been rescheduled to next year in light of the death of His Majesty the Late King.

BANGKOK — Watch a friendship between a Burmese refugee boy and popular Thai folk performer in a documentary by a German filmmaker.

BANGKOK — All national museums and historical parks nationwide will be open for free for everyone – Thais and foreigners alike – now through the end of January.

BANGKOK — Due to national mourning for the late King Bhumibol, the Loy Krathong festival this year will be limited solely to its namesake...

BANGKOK — While most bars and restaurants around backpacker destination Khaosan Road have reopened one week after His Majesty the Late King died, its usual loud scene has gone quiet as the supply of tourists has dried up.

BANGKOK — It’s not often that Chalasin Duangsupa drops in to strum his guitar at his little coffee shop in the capital’s Prachaniwet area.