Some 125 years ago, when Anna Leonowens, the prim English governess who has been immortalized as the ”I” in the long-running musical ”The King and I,” arrived in Thailand, Bangkok was known as the ...

Architects TYIN Tegnestue of Norway have taken an empty slot in a dense residential area of Bangkok and worked with the local community to build a climbing frame and basketball court. A year of ...

This is the final chapter in our day trips using the Skytrain and MRT network and I picked the Gold Line to the Klong San neighbourhood as the ultimate destination. Instead of cruising, travellers now ...

"Someone along there has probably been eating them all along without knowing." Experts stunned after rediscovering creature not seen in 100 years: 'Historic' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Klong Toey (or Khlong Toei) is the largest and oldest area of slum dwellings in Bangkok with more than 140,000 people living in sub-standard housing with little to no rights. With a lack of public ...

Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt on Saturday defended the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA)'s management of Klong Ong Ang in Samphanthawong district after the BMA was accused of neglect.

Street food vendors at Klong Toey Market 1 have been told to clear out by March 16 as part of an effort to improve scenery and pedestrian walkways along Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok's inner ...

Moo doesn’t seem like someone with 23 years of a 24-year sentence left to serve. His career as a driver for a drugs gang ended when he was nabbed piloting a carload of yaba, a methamphetamine ...

Po Klong Garai Tower is a sacred temple of worship, considered a symbol and the pride of the ethnic Cham community living in Ninh Thuan Province. The tower is also known as Po Klaung Garai, PoKlaun ...

Completed in 2011 in Thailand. Images by TYIN Tegnestue Architects. Klong Toey is currently the largest and oldest areas of informal dwellings in Bangkok. More than 140.000 people is estimated to live ...