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Happy Songkran!

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April 14th 2009
Songkran is the Thai new year and is celebrated from the 13th to the 15th April every year across Thailand, right when the country is at its hottest. Locals get the days off work and everybody comes out into the streets to have a massive party and join in with the water fights. The throwing of water comes from the origins of the festival when people would bathe and wash buddha images and then use ... 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