Thailand is a country renowned for it’s transgender population. Home to many of the worlds best sexual reassignment surgeons, Thailand has an open and accepting culture towards those confused about their sexuality, and while many Thais may look upon ladyboys (Kathoey’s in Thai) as social misfits,...

In the last week of November thousands of visitors flock to the town of Lop-Buri, Thailand, to watch and take part in the annual Monkey Festival. During the festival, locals lay out a lavish spread that the town’s 2,000 macaque residents are freely allowed to feast for the weekend. The monkeys have...

A British man has netted what’s considered the largest freshwater fish ever caught anywhere. Ian Welch, a freshwater biologist who was tagging stingrays in the Mekong region of Northern Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) and Laos, fought for 90 minutes to land the 770 pound (349 kg) stingray. Measuring 7 x 7...

Private hospitals in Thailand are now offering the chance to store stem cells found in the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies. The cord and blood inside is typically thrown aside as biological waste, but in Thailand, a country far from the political views and opinions of the western world, many parents...

This year, an estimated 1.5 million Americans will declare bankruptcy, and a new study suggests that more than 60% of these people will do so because of their medical bills. The findings revealed that bankruptcies due to medical bills increased by nearly 50% in a six-year period, from 46% in 2001 to 62% in...

Photography is hobby that engrosses many Thai’s. From the point-and-click user to the learned professional, the Thai’s love photographs, and so does His Majesty The King. King Bhumiphol, affectionately called Nai Luang or Chao Yu Hua by the Thais, or reffered to as RAMA 9 by foreigners, is an...

In Nakon Nayok a Buddhist temple offers, for a small fee, an opportunity to be laid to rest, cleansed and reborn to start a new life. And the nine pink coffins dominating the grand hall of Wat Prommanee, help cleanse hundred of people everyday. Once inside the coffin the lid is shut, the Monks chant death...

Thailand is home to some of the worlds best Spa’s. Throughout the country you’ll find Spa’s hidden away in the cities,nestled in amongst the countries rolling mountains and lining the silver shores of Thailand’s tropical beaches. Not only can you find a spa to suit any occasion, the...

The rocket festival, known in Thai as ‘Bun Bang Fai,’ is an ancient local festival that has been carried out continuously till modern times. It is popularly celebrated in Yasothon, a province in Thailand’s northeast, and is usually held in the second week of May. In Thailand, the month of...

Vesak is an annual holiday observed traditionally by practicing Buddhists in South Asian & South East Asian countries like Nepal, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, Pakistan and India. Sometimes informally called “Buddha’s Birthday,” it...