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3 Feb 2013

Koh Kret offers a bucolic step back from the urban trappings of northern Bangkok. Words and pictures by David Sutton.

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'Red shirt' supporters acquitted of arson in 2010 Bangkok mall fire

26 Mar 2013

Two supporters of Thailand's "red shirt" protest movement were acquitted yesterday of setting fire to a shopping mall during mass anti-government rallies that rocked Bangkok in 2010. A court in...

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Election of Bangkok governor turns into mini-referendum

3 Mar 2013

Almost three years after the Thai capital was engulfed by weeks of deadly violence between the "red-shirt" supporters of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and the opposition "yellow...

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Paras Shah, ex-crown prince of Nepal, arrested again in Thailand

7 Dec 2012

Former Nepalese crown prince Paras Shah has been arrested for smashing property at a luxury apartment in Bangkok, the city's police said yesterday, just a week after news emerged he had been...

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Thailand steps up security for Bangkok protest

22 Nov 2012

Thailand on Thursday invoked a special security law to cope with a political rally this weekend in Bangkok, the scene of several outbreaks of violent unrest in recent years.

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Bangkok divided over plans for lottery machines

14 Nov 2012

Siripong Khwanthong sidles up to a lottery seller along a crowded street near Bangkok's Patpong pleasure district, studies the selection and settles on a ticket ending in 37.

"The number...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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Breaking through borders

Peter Henley, president and CEO of the Onyx Hospitality Group, came to Hong Kong in the 1990s as a lawyer, but left as something rather different. Born in Venezuela and educated in England from...

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Paws for thought

Hello there, pup fans! Are you having a quantum summer? I definitely am. This pup just rocked Bangkok with Team YP's editors (Big E, deputy, web and copy) last week. We went to listen to what...

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Bangkok shows resilience

Bangkok's property market has been hit by political mayhem, floods and the global economic downturn, but it keeps bouncing back stronger than ever.

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Travellers' checks

Alternative Thailand

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A very dark side of black magic

The arrest of Chow Hok Kuen, 28, a Hong Kong-born British citizen of Taiwanese extraction - who was nabbed in his Bangkok hotel room last month with urned, tattooed and embroidered foetuses...

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Time to get on your bike

The Thai capital is one of Hong Kong's favourite short-break destinations, and for good reason.

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