Adorable little boy with his hair cut in the old traditional style

The most cacophonous of all nights

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December 30th 2008
On Sunday night soon after I got back from Bangkok and was settling back into being “home,” a tremendous noise began outside in the street. I went out on the balcony to see what the deal was, and I could see that across the way there was a performance of some sort going on that sounded suspiciously like Chinese opera (high-pitched voices, clanging that sounds like trash cans are being banged ... read more

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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