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Where (Else) Your Gadgets Come From
Tech Buzz You've heard about Shenzhen. Now let's take a tour of the the world's other electronics manufacturing megacities.
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Thai Man Marries Dead Girlfriend
Culture Buzz This is truly heartbreaking. On January 4th, Deff Yingyuen married his deceased girlfriend Sarinya Kamsook (R.I.P.) in the city of Surin, Thailand. The couple had been together for 10 years, but Sarinya tragically died in an car accident the day before the wedding. Deff wanted to go forward with the ceremony anyway.
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Link: Man Marries Dead Girlfriend In Joint Funeral/Wedding
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/man-marries-dead...
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Reading that headline may or may not have broken your brain. After waiting more than a decade to tie the knot, this Thailand couple was struck by tragedy.
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Man Held At Knife Point By Desperate Kidney Disease Patient
Culture Buzz Terrifying and tragic. The man with the hatchet is dying of kidney disease but can't afford the treatment to save his life. He held this man hostage in a desperate bid to get money for the procedure. Fortunately the standoff was resolved peacefully.
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Bangkok Flight Attendants Are Quite Attractive
Culture Buzz And also dudes. P.C. Air out of Thailand has a stewardess roster staffed completely by transsexuals. When you fly lady boy, you fly in style.
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Elephant Who Lost Leg To Landmine Gets Prosthetic Limb
Culture Buzz See? Our species isn't always awful. Following in the prosthetic footsteps of Motala, this is Mosha. An organization called Friends of the Asian Elephant provided Mosha with an artificial limb after she lost her leg to a landmine in Thailand.
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The Absolute Sketchiest Bars In Thailand
Culture Buzz These bars offer “warm beer,” “crap food,” “vomiting basins,” and toilets where you can either pee or poop… but NOT both. You know, just the amenities.
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Link: Thailand Floods Pass Their Peak
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/thailand-flood...
The worst flooding Thailand has seen in 50 years appears to be coming down from its high-water mark. Heavy monsoon rains have submerged nearly a third of the country’s provinces since July, killing more than 370 people.
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thailand
Thailand is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Thailand.
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Life-Size Optimus Prime
Culture Buzz Made by a sculptor from Thailand using scrapped auto parts. This is badass! (via redd.it)
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Thailand Breast-Slapping Beauty Treatment
Culture Buzz Because it makes 'em bigger! (via bangkokpost.com)
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Video: The Most Dramatic Life Insurance Commercial From Thailand You Will Ever See
Sorry guys, I'm gonna need a moment. EDITOR'S NOTE: Make sure you switch on the closed captioning! (via viralviralvideos.com)
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Video: This Commercial Will Make You Cry
So a Thailand-based life insurance agency made a commercial that is just about as tearjerking as a commercial can get. I haven't cried this hard since those Coca-Cola polar bear commercials. Granted, I'm terrified of polar bears so that was probably for different reasons. (Make sure you hit the “cc” button if the subtitles don't show up.) (via reddit.com)
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Tiger Poachers Caught After They Photographed Themselves With Slain Tiger
Culture Buzz Two men in Thailand have been arrested for poaching after images they took of themselves with their “prizes” fell into the hands of authorities. Calling these men dumb both for poaching and how they got caught would be an understatement.
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45 McDonald’s Items Not Available In The U.S. That Should Be
Food Buzz A whole smorgasbord of menu items available at McDonald's restaurants abroad that we in the United States can only salivate over from afar. Those creeps at McDonald's International are holding out on us.
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Image: Can You Be Fooled?
In each of the following photos, try to guess which member of the couples is a girl… and which is a guy. The correct answers are at the bottom. (via reddit)
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Video: Deftones’ Thai Fans Riot After Gig is Cancelled
Fans were enraged after Grammy-winning American rock band called off their Tuesday's show at a Bangkok stadium claiming the arena's electrical power was unsafe. Nobody was injured or detained.
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Image: Elephant Pandas
In an attempt to draw governmental attention, staff at the Ayutthaya Elephant Kraal in Thailand painted a herd of elephants black and white to make them look like pandas. Don't worry - it's just watercolor, so their cuteness factor will eventually level itself out again when the stuff peels off.
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Link: Thailand's Transgender Beauty Pagents
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/thailand/090531/the-pa...
In Thailand the “Miss Tiffiny Unlimited Sexy Star Contest” is full of tiny bikinis and sexy bodies, drawing in millions of viewers and adoring fans. The one catch is that the hot women are really “katoey”, transgender. Female or not they are gorgeous!
