As the colour-coded divisions within Thai society grow ever deeper, we get the rare chance to enjoy an unintentionally revealing propaganda film exhorting people to pull together.
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I had the misfortune this week to hail a Bangkok taxi with a serious cockroach infestation and I spent the whole journey praying that they wouldn’t run up my trouser leg or hide an egg-case in my shoe. When I recounted the story to a friend, however, he bettered it.
On holiday in a seaside bungalow, he spent his first night chilling out with a beer while listening to the breeze in the palm trees overhead. At least, he thought it was the breeze until a tiny wriggling creature fell from the ceiling and lodged itself in his inner ear.
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Sculpted entirely from bread, these severed human heads are the work of Kittiwat Unarrom, proprietor of Thailand’s gruesome “body bakery”.
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Superstitious Thai folk are terrified of things that go bump in the night so this hauntingly funny TV ad is a great way to sell light bulbs. Viewers don’t know whether to laugh or scream.
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Two Thai youngsters improvise a human chain to rescue an exhausted puppy from a Bangkok canal.
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Make a memorable entrance by swapping the ubiquitous stretch caddy for this one-of-a-kind tuk tuk. Between engagements, you can celebrate its rich Thai heritage by haranguing passers by with cries of “you want lady?”
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