There’s a hot new trend in Thailand where people buy lifelike dolls they believe will bring good fortune. And it’s not as simple as just having one around—owners have been treating the dolls, called Luk Thep, or “child angels” as if they were real children. This sometimes means the dolls even gets their own plane…
Amy, this past summer’s documentary about the life and career of beloved singer Amy Winehouse, is now being shown to juvenile drug offenders in Thailand. The purpose of the screening is to deter the young boys from continuing down a path of drug addiction. A sort of Afterschool Special, if you will.
A jewel thief was caught when the diamond she stole from a jewelry fair in Bangkok refused to vacate her body. Jiang Xulian and a male accomplice allegedly switched the 6-carat diamond for a fake gem when they asked to take a closer look. The two were attempting to fly out of Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport with the…
Things to pack for your next Thailand vacation: passport and visa; a few swimsuits, if you're a beach person; comfy shoes for sightseeing; some sort of translation guide; underboobs for selfie-taking. Just kidding! Leave those underboobs at home.
Foreigners seeking a discount option for surrogacy will no longer be able to go to Thailand to find an open, cheap womb: Thailand has now banned foreigners from paying Thai women to carry their children.
Despite the fact that Beyoncé has seemingly had her Christmas tree up since Thanksgiving, Page Six reports that the Carters celebrated the holidays in Thailand basking away in a modest, $25,000-a-night, $35 million villa. Some might say that such accommodations are palatial—fit for a queen, if you will. (Stay with me.)
Pink, the Thai girl who Kim Kardashian wanted to adopt on a recent episode of her show, has spoken out about the internet breaker adopting her and whisking her off to a life of glamour and luxury. Her response to the kind offer? She'd like to visit someday, but, uh, she's not really into commitment right now.
Earlier this year, protesters in Thailand attracted attention when they adopted the "three-finger salute" seen in The Hunger Games films. This led to the country's military instituting a ban on said motion, but now it's rising back up.
There's a new, unsettling development in the putrid saga of the Australian couple who abandoned one of their newborn twins with his Thai surrogate because the baby was born with Down Syndrome (they took his "normal" sister home with them).
A Thai beauty queen has given up her crown in response to criticism over Facebook posts she made about her country's politics.
The video chronicles the reunion of a woman with her best friend, with whom she was in love when they were teenagers. However, there's a twist, as her best friend knew her as a "boy." She is, in fact, a "ladyboy," which is the preferred term for many individuals in Thailand we might label as trans women in a Western…
Rihanna's video for the latest single off her album Unapologetic, "What Now" is pretty sans plot but very heavy on dramatic head tosses. It's certainly attempting to elicit some sort of emotion in the viewer, considering Rihanna's body jolts are interspersed with choppy black and white footage of lions fighting,…
Hormones is a drama of daily life set in a Bangkok high school. It has the same basic structure as the UK (and now, sigh, the U.S.)'s sexy teen melodrama Skins — it follows 9 teenagers as they go about their everyday lives. As such, it covers a variety of scandalous teen-related topics, including premarital sex,…
Thailand's leading university has come under fire for displaying a heinously distasteful banner as a tribute to its graduating class. How heinous are we talking here? Um, well: the giant billboard depicts a host of popular American superheroes flanking Adolf Hitler. Photos taken at the graduation show that Hitler…
The main dancer of a traditional Thailand dance group prepares for a performance during the annual Carnival of Cultures parade in Berlin, Sunday, May 27, 2012. Thousands of people attended the festival wearing costumes from all over the world. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
It's the time of year when the internet is deluged with condescending lists of "advice for graduates"—stuff like "experience Paris" and "learn to wear purple until you laugh until you cry until you laugh"—and since all of that shit is just literal barf smeared on a laptop screen, I decided I might as well take a stab…
High school seniors in Thailand who recently took a nationwide multiple-choice test to determine whether they'd get into university were faced with an odd question: "If you are a teen with a sexual urge, what should you do?"
Current Thai prime minister conceded the election to Yingluck Shinawatra, which makes her the first female prime minister in the history of the country.
Despite its reputation as a sex-tourism destination, Thailand has been rocked with outrage over a video of three topless dancers at a festival Friday. A police official says, "This has damaged a traditional Thai ceremony. The charge is doing a shameful act in public by indecently exposing oneself." The three dancers…
A woman has been charged with human trafficking for holding pregnant women captive so their babies could be exported to paying clients.
