FIREMEN took over 30 minutes to extinguish a blaze at 400-year-old Wat Rat Banthom this afternoon (July 20) with some Buddha images, the roof and wooden beams as well as the interior walls being damaged, Matichon newspaper said. At 12.45 p.m. Pol.Lt.Col. Rakchat Prasobhon, an investigator at Nakhon Luang police station, was alerted of
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Ultra-royalists urged to rally after message sprayed at temple
FOLLOWING the arrest of an artist for spraying the message 112, referring Criminal Code Section 112, also known as the lese majeste law, on the wall of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha last evening (Mar. 28), an anti-bullying centre called on members of an ultra-royalist group to rally at various Metropolitan police stations
Read moreTemple altering two guardian giants amid a wave of criticism
UPON being hit by heavy criticism, a temple in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) province that only a few days ago unveiled statues of two sleeping guardian giants with one holding a submarine and the other wearing two watches with the tag “borrowed from a friend” is now altering them so that they are less controversial, Sanook.com
Read moreTemple selling a pair of albino buffaloes to pay off debts
WITH the coronavirus pandemic having led to fewer people making merit and on top of this those who have borrowed money are not repaying their loans, the Abbot of Wat E-ngao temple in Chanthaburi province has now decided to sell a pair of albino buffaloes to make ends meet, TV Channel 7 said today
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