Lifestyle

BANGKOK — Red and blue they stand in plexiglass and aluminum and plastic, abandoned and overlooked by eyes accustomed to ignoring them.

BANGKOK — Though passengers and people pile up like luggage inside Bangkok’s Railway Station Hua Lamphong, a group of architects noticed its waiting hall was not designed for them.

Chayanit Itthipongmaetee
Staff Reporter

CHANTHABURI — Next road trip skip the floating markets, elephant rides and faded beach towns for a more genuine experience in a centuries-old riverside community free of 7-Elevens and crass commercialism.

BANGKOK — At Arno’s, don’t be confused by the menu listing only value-oriented wines instead of food. Nor the waiter who doesn’t take your order. Instead turn your attention to the jovial Frenchman behind the glass counter waving a cleaver and hacking away at cuts of beef he’s aged for 45, 75 and 100 days. Master butcher Arnaud Carre will take care of you.

BANGKOK — In the current economic climate, Bangkok will be relieved one small bit – or baht – when metro fares at three of 18 subway stations go down in July.

BANGKOK — For generations they stood ready to help passers-by reach out to the world. But now Bangkok's telephone booths, from a time when filaments of copper were needed to connect people, are unsightly reminders of the pre-cellular age.

PATHUM THANI — A chasm opened wide for the third time in eight months on a road in northern metro Bangkok yesterday.

BANGKOK — The sidewalks of Pratunam, the nation’s biggest clothing bazaar, are the next target for the cleanup broom powered by a government tidiness campaign.

BANGKOK — It’s been 20 years since Thailand last saw the sun fully swallowed by shadow.

SAMUT SAKHON — After a strike involving more than 1,000 workers, a cannery firm in Samut Sakhon province agreed yesterday to pay more than 100 million baht in withheld pay, a concession that one activist described as “unprecedented.”