Grilled bananas at the Grand Palace Pier

Khao San Road

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January 28th 2014
Good evening blogger officianados from the state of emergency. Actuallly it is a fairly tranquil state so far with no apparent change in the rhetoric and the stalemate.The advance polls were all most completely disrupted in Bangkok but across the country they seem to have proceeded as scheduled. The demonstrators are still camped out at strategic intersections but Bangkok is definately not shut do ... 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