Severe weather outbreak strikes South on Easter with damaging winds and tornadoes
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2020
A severe weather outbreak is underway Sunday across much of the South, bringing the threat for damaging winds, large hail and potentially strong tornadoes to upward of 50 million people. This multiday severe event will then affect tens of millions more when it reaches the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states on Monday.
Virus spurs churches to find new ways to celebrate Easter
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2020
As the highly contagious COVID-19 continues its firm grip on the country, Christian churches found creative ways to celebrate Easter, considered a time of renewal and rebirth by the faithful.
Filipinos celebrate Easter with crucifixion, flogging
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2018
Filipino zealots marked Good Friday with a bloody display of religious frenzy by having themselves nailed to crosses and whipping their backs raw in Asia's bastion of Catholicism.
This year, the Christian festival of Easter falls on April 1 and hotels around the country are celebrating the joyous event with bountiful buffet spreads.
Easter Sunday coincides with the end of the Songkran break this year and those staying in town for the holidays should keep April 16 free for the Sunday Jazzy Brunch at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit’s award-winning venues: Rossini’s, Basil, and The Living Room.
The Easter holiday is filled with family treats at the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel, starting with a three-course fish set dinner at the restaurant Madison on April 14, including seabass and Tasmanian salmon. It costs Bt1,100 and is served from 6pm on.