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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2551

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January 1st 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR from BANGKOK Jan 1 New Years Eve is a big event in Thailand with most of the smaller shops closed and the Thais having a well deserved two public holidays. I am still recovering from Kanchanaburi so I have just been resting and looking around the Siam shopping malls and also the Pantip Plaza. On New Years Eve I caught the Skytrain to Siam BTS Station and had a look ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more