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[Thaiger]

As a holiday gift to the public, Thailand’s Fine Arts Department is opening all national museums and historical sites in the kingdom for free between December 30, 2022 to January 2, 2023. In a new exhibition opening on December 30, centuries-old gold jewelry from the ancient Ayutthaya period will be on display at the Chao Sam Phraya National Museum in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya. The unveiling of the exhibition will take place on December 29 at 11 am. In Bangkok, the highly revered Phra Phutta Sihing buddha image – second in importance only to the Emerald Buddha – and nine other auspicious buddha statues will go on display at Bangkok’s […]

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[Soidog]

2 hours ago, Thaiger said:

As a holiday gift to the public, Thailand’s Fine Arts Department is opening all national museums and historical sites in the kingdom for free 

Hang on a moment. How can a department, paid for by tax payers, give a gift to the people who already pay for it? It would be like my local pub handing me a beer and saying this is a gift from the landlord. That’s £4:50 please. 
 

I know the media is heavily controlled in Thailand and most times they are literally sh*t scared to say anything negative about the authorities. Equally, they don’t have to promote the idiots by using phrase as “holiday gift”. FFS!