New TCDC to Open With Swinging, Three-Day Gala
BANGKOK — The city’s most renowned design hub will celebrate its new headquarters with three days of almost everything – music, swing dance, movies, art workshops and a flea market.
Shoppers, It’s Time to Save the Nation – Again
BANGKOK — Get new wheels. Enjoy a tax break. Help rubber farmers. Save Thailand.
Tesco Lotus Express Drops Plastic Bags for Small Purchases
BANGKOK — Starting Thursday, Tesco Lotus Express and Tesco Lotus Talad will stop automatically giving plastic bags to customers who purchase two items or...
Terminal 21 Coming to Rama III, Pattaya
PATTAYA — A themed shopping mall that takes tourists around the world is bringing new flights of consumer fancy to a coastal enclave and...
Kate Spade Redirects Thailand’s Customers to Chinese Page
BANGKOK — You may have filled your online shopping cart with an Everything Tote Bag, but if you can’t read Mandarin, then you’re out of luck for that year-end treat-yo self purchase.
Makeup Store Apologizes for Sale Fiasco
BANGKOK — A downtown makeup store apologized Sunday after it came under fire for false advertising and poor service from some of the hundreds of people who queued for hours over the weekend.
Try Soap Made From Bangkok Street Food Oil
Maria Kalita runs Bangkok Soap Opera, where she turns used, donated oil into bars of artisanal, handmade soap colored into a rainbow with local herbs, in an effort to divert vats of oil dumped into the city’s sewers each day into something greener and cleaner.
Bangkok Clothing Swap Makes Fashion Sustainable
BANGKOK — An American-Ecuadorian woman darts between racks of clothes, suggesting a white blouse to one woman and a loud patterned dress to another.
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No Christmas Tree at CTW? Now There’s Two.
BANGKOK — Less than a week after saying they would forgo the usual elaborate display and grand Christmas tree, the CentralWorld shopping mall appeared Thursday to have changed its mind.
HomePro to Charge One Baht per Plastic Bag
BANGKOK — Starting this July, plastic bags at HomePro will cost one baht each.
Home-improvement megastore HomePro is Thailand’s latest retailer to attempt to decrease...