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Songkran Sanuk – 2000

April 15, 2024 – 3:31 am

The Songkran celebration ushers in the Thai New Year as well as the coming of the rains to endy the hot season. The 2000 festival has been focused on Wan Parg-bpee April 14, when homage was to be paid to ancestors, elders and other persons deserving respect, because of age or position. Traditionally younger people […]

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Songkran Driving

April 13, 2023 – 1:38 am

Nothing says Songkran better in Thailand than getting into an accident with a drunk, as revealed in this series of email dated from 2006. EMAIL from the Old Roue April 4 after I invited him to join me on a trip to Phnom Penh to escape the Songkran madness. His reply. No thanx, I’m driving […]

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Thai New Year’s Traffic Festival

January 1, 2018 – 1:04 pm

When I was young, the radio listed the national traffic deaths over the most traditional holidays. Being patriotic the America scored the highest fatalities on the 4th of July. New Year’s Eve and St. Patrick’s Day came never close. These announcements were designed to warn the public about the dangers of driving drunk and thanks […]

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