Baba in love
Like Penang and Singapore, Phuket is home to many Straits Chinese people, also known as Peranakan.
Baba in love
Phuket’s Old Town once again plays host to the Baba Wedding Festival on June 18-19. This annual festival will showcase the beauty and uniqueness of Peranakan culture, livening up the heritage district with parades by brides and grooms along with their well wishers through the cluster of Sino-Portuguese buildings. Like Penang and Singapore, Phuket is home to many Straits Chinese people, also known as Peranakan.
Spiritual in Lanna
Visit Inthakin City Pillar Festival in Chiang Mai from today until Tuesday and rediscover the spiritual side of the northern city as the faithful follow tradition and offer flowers to the pillar. A Buddha image called Phra Fon Saen Haa (the Five Hundred Thousand Raindrop Buddha) is carried to, blessed with lustral water and placed in the courtyard of the temple. Devotees are then invited to venerate the Buddha and the City Pillar, and to place flowers at the shrine. The temple is illuminated at night, as traditional dances, folk music and performances take turns to entertain festival goers.
New Area Manager for Emirates
Emirates is pleased to announce the appointment of Mohammad Sarhan as Area Manager for Thailand and In
dochina. Sarhan brings to the job more than 10 years experience in the aviation industry. Prior to being appointed to this new post, he served as Emirates’ Country Manager for Vietnam. As Area Manager, he will oversee Emirates’ commercial services and operations in Thailand and Indochina.
Full of fruity flavour
The Eastern province of Rayong celebrates the arrival of June by hosting a Fruit Festival. Durian, mangosteen, rambutan, zalacca, rakam, long kong and mayong chit (sweet yellow marian plum) are among the luscious tropical fruit guaranteed to draw visitors to its orchards and marketplaces. The event also features a fruit procession, the Miss Fruit Orchard beauty pageant, a fruit eating competition, a fruit basket arrangement competition, a papaya salad preparation contest and cultural performances. The festival takes place at Ta Phong Fruit Central Market and continues through June 8.
