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) Bangkok's Chinatown: A major tourist attraction, and business and commercial center
Many major cities in the world have a Chinatown. However, Bangkok's Chinatown is the largest. It is not only a major tourist attraction, but also a business and commercial center.Visitors should not miss out on experiencing the delicious food, the gold shops, the Thai and Chinese temples, and the Thai and Chinese-style massages while touring Bangkok's Chinatown.
Chinese settlers first came to Thailand during the Sukhothai period. They lived along the canal near the Wat Sam Pluem, Talat Noi intersection on Samphanthawong Road.
During the reign of King Rama V, who had a royal policy to place more emphasis on the role of Chinese commercial trade, the existing Samphanthawong Road was divided and expanded into the following roads: Songwat Road, Phatsai Road, Anuwong Road and Yaowarat Road. More>>
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) Thai capital faces future submersion by rising seas
At Bangkok's watery gates, Buddhist monks cling to a shrinking spit of land around their temple as they wage war against the relentlessly rising sea.During the monsoons at high tide, waves hurdle the breakwater of concrete pillars and the inner rock wall around the temple on a promontory in the Gulf of Thailand. Jutting above the water line just ahead are remnants of a village that has already slipped beneath the sea.
Experts say these waters, aided by sinking land, threaten to submerge Thailand's sprawling capital of more than 10 million people within this century. Bangkok is one of 13 of the world's largest 20 cities at risk of being swamped as sea levels rise in coming decades, according to warnings at the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change held in Khun Samut Chin. More>>
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) Police hunt crocs in Thailand
Police in Thailand are hunting a bunch of crocodiles after they escaped from a farm.Fifty officers were involved in the search operation which was launched after flooding broke out in a small village near Bangkok.
Up to 34 crocodiles managed to escape but 20 have been caught so far.
Police sent in helicopters to try and retrieve the rest.
Sadly though some of them had to be shot.
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) Suspected Canadian Pedophile Arrested In Rural Thailand, Taken To Bangkok
A suspected pedophile arrested in Thailand today after an international manhunt will be extradited to his native Canada after being prosecuted for crimes in Thailand.Christopher Neil, handcuffed and with a blue shirt draped over his head, was silent as he was escorted into national police headquarters in Bangkok today amid a scrum of reporters and cameras.
Neil was also silent as he was presented to reporters during a news conference. The shirt was off his head, but his eyes remained hidden behind a pair of sunglasses.
Officials say police found Neil hiding in a house in rural Thailand, led there by a man described as a transvestite friend.
International authorities began looking for Neil three years ago, when German police found online photographs of a man sexually abusing children. More>>