"temples"

Chiang Mai is attempting to woo tourists from May 27 to 29 with an attractive lighting display at seven temples, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) said.

The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has seized 14 assets worth 92.09 million baht from Apirat Jayankura na Ayudhya and four others accused of embezzling money from Wat Bowonniwet in Bangkok.

Visitors flocked around the ancient Abu Simbel temple in southern Egypt's Aswan to witness the sun alignment phenomenon of the famous Nubian monument on Tuesday.

This Chinese New Year, devotees can avoid being exposed to the highly transmissible Omicron variant by registering for their “merit to be delivered” virtually from temples in Hong Kong via the Bok Boon Delivery Line account @bokboon or Facebook page www.facebook.com/bokboondelivery.

With this year being considered an unlucky one for people born in the year of the tiger, snake, monkey or pig, some Thais believe 2022 for them will be “pee chong”, or unlucky.

A world cultural heritage site in Chinas Henan, has officially started.

Prime Minister’s Office Minister Thewan Liptapanlop said on Thursday (May 28) that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has assigned him the job of helping Buddhist temples nationwide that have been affected by the Covid-19 crisis and lockdown measures.

India, a country with about 70 per cent of its people depending directly or indirectly on agriculture, is going through an agrarian crisis of unprecedented scale. Two back-to-back droughts, fast-depleting ground water, weather events such as heavy rainfall, floods, drought, low productivity of small-scale farming and declining rural wages clearly point to a deepening crisis.

THE SUPREME patriarch has recommended that Buddhist parks or monastery woodlands go fenceless and welcomes joint management through engaging with locals and government agencies.

After a report of historical temples being painted gold triggered an uproar on social media, the Culture Ministry’s Fine Art Department on Wednesday warned people to stop unauthorised painting of national heritage monuments as it violates the law.

Police's Crime Suppression Division (CSD) is ready to file charges against Department of Special Investigation (DSI) senior investigator Pisitchai Sawangwattanakorn, if one or more of the four Bangkok temples mentioned in his Facebook posts as being implicated in the ongoing temple-fund embezzlement scandal, wished to press legal action.