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Japan's first Setouchi Art and Industry festival (3-31 Oct 2026) turns seven working factories - a 197-year-old salt works, a uniform maker, a battery plant, a denim street - into a dispersed art museum across Okayama and Ehime. Here's what's inside, and how to visit.
For four days in June, Rawai Beach and Saphan Hin Park filled with the smell of charcoal and fresh catches as Phuket's Seafood Festival opened its doors — with the Urak Lawoi sea community at its heart.
For three months, the larger fishing vessels of Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi and Trang have sat quiet in harbour as the Andaman Sea completes its annual spawning season. On June 30, the ban lifts — and coastal communities are preparing to head back out.
On 10 June 2026, Thailand confirmed pilot seaplane services between Krabi and Phuket will begin before year’s end — and at Tubkaek Beach, a village head and a coastal committee are already weighing what that promise means on the ground.
On the morning of 8 June 2026, volunteers gathered at the Mangrove Forest Resource Conservation Center No. 10 in Takua Pa, Phang Nga, to press 3,000 mangrove seedlings into the tidal mud — a quiet, deliberate act of renewal for the coast that feeds them.
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