BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): A Thai government committee plans to hold Songkran Festival celebrations during the entire month of April 2024, instead of the traditional three days, in a bid to ...

UNESCO-listed celebration to anchor Thailand's Grand Tourism and Sports Year; position the Kingdom among the top 10 global festival destinations BANGKOK, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tourism ...

Thailand is in the middle of its Songkran celebrations, marking the country’s traditional New Year, which have millions participating in the world’s biggest water fight. Thai officials and business ...

“Why is everyone carrying those guns?” This seemingly valid question was asked during an episode of season three of “The White Lotus” by Kate (Leslie Bibb), one of three women in Thailand on a girls’ ...

The Thailand Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said people do not travel home during the Songkran holiday for fun and drinking. Songkran is the New Year’s national holiday in Thailand that ...

The Songkran Festival is the most famous in Thailand, and inspired the names of both Songkran Thai Kitchen in Uptown Park and Songkran Thai Grill in Sugar Land Town Square. This important event on the ...

Songkran Thai in Uptown Park is named after the Thai festival that celebrates the new year in Thailand and other countries that go by the Buddhist calendar. I was so impressed at the bites of spicy ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's COVID-19 task force said on Friday it will ban for a second year the street water fights that usually take place during celebrations for the upcoming Thai New Year due ...

Thailand and Southeast Asia celebrate their New Year this week. In Thailand, the holiday is called Songkran, which features the biggest water fight in the world that lasts-officially for three days.

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