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BANGKOK — Thailand's annual vegetarian festival kicked off this week, a time of year when the Southeast Asian country's meat-heavy dishes get a vegetarian makeover.

BANGKOK — More than 100 vendors from Bangkok’s Saphan Lek market yesterday filed a complaint at the Ministry of the Interior to block the city’s bid to remove them.

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CHIANG MAI — A Chinese tourist died at a zipline attraction in Chiang Mai on Sunday, the second this year to die in the northern province under similar circumstances.

BANGKOK — They fiddled with plastic cups, arranging them carefully to set an eco-art look. Musicians arrived early for sound check, and as their music filled the air, the crew of Sofar Sounds seemed to embrace the energy as they transformed a Bangkok living room into a stage.

BANGKOK — Sahamongkol Film International announced today it will re-edit a horror film banned by state censors yesterday for a number of scenes portraying a novice monk behaving inappropriately.

SONGKHLA — The strapping 23-year-old Rohingya Muslim was matter of fact as he described being forced onto a boat in Myanmar for a tortuous two-month-long journey, beaten and kicked by traffickers as he watched scores die of starvation and thirst along the way.

BANGKOK — A maze-like warren of cheap electronics, toys and other goods is the latest target of a government campaign to reclaim public space, and once again the vendors who’ve long called it home are not leaving without a fight.

BANGKOK — When Thailand’s contender for the Miss Universe crown takes the stage later this year at the international beauty pageant, she will arrive in a tuk-tuk.

BANGKOK — Unlike other crime reporters who haunt police stations for stories, Mutita Chuachang spends most mornings at prisons, pleading for just 15 minutes with her sources: those accused of defaming the monarchy.