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Travel
The Ultimate Product Placement: Thailand on ‘The White Lotus’
Season 3 of the hit HBO series is being shot in the lush Southeast Asian country, which is betting financial incentives given to the production will pay off in increased tourism numbers.
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Arts
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Can Pad Thai Diplomacy Change the World?
The artist’s midcareer survey at MoMA PS1 demonstrates the impotence of contemporary art to heal social ills.
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Magazine
My Kids Look White. Does My Thai Father Make Them Asian?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on representing multiracial heritage, especially when the details are complex.
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Magazine
The Longer This Cake Soaks, the Better It Is
The faint bitterness of Thai tea gets absorbed into tres leches, checking the sweetness, so it’s just enough.
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World
A Thai mother rejoices at learning her son is alive.
Watsana Yojampa had been waiting by the telephone for nearly two months, wondering whether she would get good news — or the worst possible message that a mother could hear. Soon after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack in the Gaza Strip, Ms. Watsana’s son ...
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World
A Thai mother rejoices at learning her son is alive.
Watsana Yojampa had been waiting by the telephone for nearly two months, wondering whether she would get good news — or the worst possible message that a mother could hear. Soon after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack in the Gaza Strip, Ms. Watsana’s son ...
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Food
Restaurant Review: A Fresh Look at Thai Food at Bangkok Supper Club
The chef Max Wittawat offers dishes both rustic and refined in an up-to-the-moment setting.
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World
A Dying Anticorruption Crusader Considers His Life’s Own Misdeeds
Chuwit Kamolvisit has enthralled Thailand for decades with revelations of police and political corruption. But his own compromised past, including time as a “super pimp,” clouds his legacy.
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World
Hard Hit by Loss of Thai and Palestinian Workers, Israeli Farmers Call for Volunteers
After the Oct. 7 terror attack, Israel banned Gazan farm workers, and many other foreign laborers returned to their home countries.
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World
Family of Thai Farmworker in Israel Worries About His Fate
Kiattisak Patee, a chicken-farm worker, is feared to be one of 14 Thai citizens abducted during an attack in Israel by Palestinian gunmen. He remains missing, and his family in northeastern Thailand has spent the past few days racked with worry as it ...
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