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BANGKOK — Most retailers, except for a major convenience store chain, stopped giving out plastic bags for free at the beginning of 2020, giving Thailand a head start on green new year’s resolutions.

BANGKOK — Sathorn/Silom office workers will soon get the Thonglor-style afterwork treatment – The Commons announced that its second branch will open in January.

BANGKOK — To ring in 2020, the Thai government is waiving fees for some tollways, BTS rides, and national parks.

BANGKOK — Organizers of a sports event doubling as a rally against PM Prayuth Chan-ocha said Thursday they are moving to a park in northern Bangkok.

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — A nostalgic open-air shopping arcade in Hua Hin will soon be just a memory after its company announced Tuesday that it is going out of business.

BANGKOK — Milky cheeses, peppery smoked meats, and buttery pate made by Thai hands, cows, and ducks are just some of the bougie delicacies available at a new French grocer in Bangkok.

BANGKOK — At Roots Coffee, they don’t just serve Thai single-origin drip coffee. They have postcards for you to write to the farmers as well.

It’s an old-school quality that’s the real “special effect” worth talking about in ”Cats,” the new film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber juggernaut that launched the mega-musical in the ’80s

BANGKOK — Visiting the royal residence of King Taksin the Great would remind Thais of many unsettled questions from the bloody history.

BANGKOK — 2019 is a year of hearts, mended and broken for a lot of celebs. There’s even a kind-hearted one out there, too.