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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.
From the Go Teng pole on October 9 to the Saphan Hin farewell on October 18, Phuket celebrates nine days of jay food, white-clad devotion and community warmth — your calm, complete first-timer's guide.
For the first time, astronomers are watching a giant polygon form on a planet in real time — a ten-sided wave of wind rippling around Saturn's south pole, spotted first by backyard astronomers and confirmed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
During Maya Bay's annual two-month closure, Thai researchers counted a record 278 blacktip reef sharks in one dawn drone survey on 2 September 2026 — up from 158 last year. Here's how they did it, and why the quiet season matters.
Searches for sandstone jumped 257%, chocolate brown is the designers' colour of the year, and white oak now rules the kitchen — the data says 2026 is the year our homes turned warm, tactile and organic. Here is how to bring the softness home.
On September 25, 2026, Japan celebrates Jugoya — the harvest moon night — with round dango dumplings, pampas grass, a rabbit said to pound mochi on the moon, a seven-metre glowing Moon in Tokyo, and even a burger with an egg. Here is how to join in, wherever you are.
For 55 years the town of Thai Mueang in Phang Nga has thrown a ten-day beach festival for sea turtles — donations of 10,000 baht per release, rangers guarding nests with infrared cameras, and a comeback two decades in the making. The next party starts 1 March 2027.
Giant clams glow electric blue because they farm their own sunlight — millions of algae living inside their mantles. Two new studies, one from August 2026, reveal how much each species runs on solar power, and why that helps us protect the reef's gentle giants.
Thailand’s first commercial seaplane service is preparing to launch over the Andaman Sea — a 20-minute Phuket–Krabi hop that replaces a three-hour road journey, with fares promised under 150 USD.
On 7 September 2026, more than 1,000 hoteliers, scientists, farmers and neighbours gathered at Angsana Laguna Phuket for the ninth PHIST — and agreed that caring for the Andaman coast is a job for the whole village, measured in turtles, pineapples and honest numbers.
In 1900, sponge divers found bronze statues and a 2,000-year-old geared 'computer' beneath the cliffs of Antikythera. Now, after a five-year excavation that raised the ship's first complete hull section and reunited a marble Herakles with its head, the ancient world's greatest shipwreck is telling its story at last.
A new bubblegum coral named from a Nazca Ridge seamount solves a century-old puzzle: how do corals with no skeleton grow so large? The secret is chitin — the same molecule in crab shells — woven through the colony like stitching in a pole-less tent.
Thailand's new 30-day visa-free stay for 60 countries begins September 15, 2026 — a calm, complete guide to the TDAC arrival card, proof of funds, land-border limits, and how to extend your Andaman holiday.
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