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BANGKOK — Jed sold his cellphone when he was in 11th grade to afford a 2,500-baht ticket to see Linkin Park. Charlie often catches red eye flights around Asia to see his favorite bands: Metallica in Singapore, Iron Maiden in Shanghai and Slipknot in Japan.

PHUKET — The southern island of Phuket will celebrate the love for LGBT for a full week in April.

Scan Paponk’s tartan pattern packaging and find lipsticks named for Elizabethan literary heroines Dido, Perdita, Britomart – names which belie the brand’s Thai origins.

CHIANG MAI — See the blossom of a Cambodian rock scene before it was devoured like everything else by genocide. Musicians were murdered, record collections destroyed, clubs closed, and Western-style dancing outlawed, along with all other fashion and expression.

Dancing to music under the night sky reconnects with our primal roots. The big difference is drums and bonfires have given way to big sound systems, lasers, food trucks and beer stalls.

BANGKOK — Dodge Cupid’s arrow and celebrate the love Tuesday with some interesting Valentine’s Day alternatives.

BANGKOK — A leading dance provocateur crowdfunded a forthcoming production by raising 240,000 baht from audience-investors who in return will gain a stake in its success.

BANGKOK — Two Thai buildings — one in the capital and another in Isaan – have been voted the best of more than 3,000 architectural projects from around the world on Tuesday.

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — A two-time Grammy award winner will jazz-up a weekend next month in a new Hua Hin venue accompanied by some funk, pop and mor lam sounds.

BANGKOK — A Portuguese street artist will unveil Friday the riverside mural he’s spent much of the past week creating.