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Bangkok Gets a Green Bridge, Which Is About Time the Parks Were Introduced Properly

Bangkok has spent years behaving as though Lumpini and Benchakitti were two attractive neighbours who ought never to meet. That bit of civic awkwardness is finally ending. City Hall says the new 250-metre Lumpini Green

Balmy Evenings and Brass Bands: April’s Al Fresco Soundtrack

There is a brief, fleeting moment in the Bangkok calendar when the evening air doesn't immediately dissolve one’s shirt into a damp rag. We are in that window now, and the powers

High-Altitude Lubrication: Bangkok’s Rooftop Renaissance 2026

It appears the skyline is becoming rather crowded, doesn't it? Just when you thought we’d reached peak elevation, a fresh crop of rooftop sanctuaries has sprouted atop the latest glass-and-steel monoliths. From

Three Tourists Tried to Pay a Phuket Bar Tab with Toy Money, and It Went About as Well as You'd Expect

In what may be the most optimistic financial transaction ever attempted on Bangla Road, three foreign men walked into a Phuket entertainment venue on April 1st and attempted to settle their bill with three crisp

Thailand's PM Has Discovered That People Are Hoarding Oil, and He Is Not Pleased

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul emerged from a high-level meeting on Friday with the expression of a man who has just found out that someone has been stealing from the biscuit tin — except the biscuit tin

A Bangkok Electric Car Managed to Hit a Tuk-Tuk, a Noodle Shop and a 7-Eleven. Sequentially.

Bangkok traffic has always had a certain creative energy to it, a looseness of interpretation, a willingness to treat lane markings as suggestions rather than instructions. But even by the city's generous standards,

The Train Night Market Is Back, and Bangkok Finally Has Its Night Out Again

There are certain losses Bangkok never quite got over. The closure of Train Night Market Ratchada in July 2021 — a victim of the pandemic, of cancelled plans, of an entire city grinding to a halt

Bangkok Empties for Songkran, and This Year the Government Is Actually Helping

Songkran is the annual event during which Bangkok undergoes a remarkable transformation: the traffic, which is merely appalling three hundred and fifty-one days of the year, becomes something else entirely. Something metaphysical. A traffic jam

Thailand's Clean Air Bill Is Being Slow-Walked While the North Chokes on PM2.5

There is a particular kind of political theatre that Thailand does extremely well, and this week's performance came courtesy of the Clean Air Bill. The legislation — which would, in revolutionary fashion, establish that

Dib Bangkok Lands on TIME's World's Greatest Places List, and Bangkok's Art Scene Quietly Exhales

Bangkok has spent the better part of the last decade accumulating international accolades with the slightly dazed expression of a city that wasn't entirely sure it was trying. Best street food in the