Grand Palace

Life in an Asian urban megalopolis

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June 16th 2006
Bangkok has come one heck of a long way since its humble origins, and although I am only in a position to compare the place to the way it looked back in the year 2000, when I first paid a fleeting visit to the Thai capital, all signs of development were in place, and my overall impression was that the city is a perennial construction site, of sorts. Backpackers descended upon Bangkok at a time whe ... 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