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Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute, the Thai Red Cross Society Afternoon educational snake show, a popular tourist draw. The Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute (QSMI) (Thai: สถานเสาวภา; RTGS: Sathan Saowapha) in Bangkok, Thailand, is an institute that specialises in the husbandry of venomous snakes, the extraction and research of snake venom, and vaccines, especially rabies ...
City God Temple of Suphan Buri, Thailand. Kheng Hock Keong, of the Chinese community in Yangon, Burma, is a temple enshrining Mazu.. Chinese folk religion plays a dynamic role in the lives of the overseas Chinese who have settled in the countries of this geographic region, particularly Burmese Chinese, Singaporean Chinese, Malaysian Chinese, Thai Chinese, Indonesian Chinese and Hoa.
Devotees from as far away as Singapore, Taiwan and China come to pray in the temple on the monk's birthday (the sixth day of the first lunar month). [3] It was also featured during the 8th leg of The Amazing Race 16 and become a backdrop of Tan Twan Eng's novel The Gift of Rain (book 1, chapter 4). [4]
Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) have encouraged Wat Rakhangkhositaram as one of the nine temple-based campaign "Respect to the Nine Temples" (ไหว้พระ 9 วัด) along with other temples in Bangkok including (Phra Nakhon side): Wat Phra Kaew, Wat Pho, Wat Chana Songkhram, Wat Suthat, City Pillar Shrine, San Chao Pho Suea ...
Qi Tian Gong (simplified Chinese: 齐天宫; traditional Chinese: 齊天宮), commonly referred to as the Tiong Bahru Monkey God Temple, is a Taoist temple in Tiong Bahru, Singapore. [ 1 ] Reportedly the first temple in the country dedicated to the Journey to the West character Sun Wukong (also known as the Monkey King ), Qi Tian Gong was ...
Sree Maha Mariamman Temple, 251 Yishun Avenue 3, Singapore 769061 [5] Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore South Bridge Road (biggest and the oldest temple in Singapore) Sri Ruthra Kaliamman Temple, 100 Depot Road, Singapore 109670; Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman Temple, 555 Serangoon Road, Singapore 218174
One passenger died of a suspected heart attack and 30 were injured after a Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence on Tuesday, flinging passengers and crew around the cabin and forcing the ...
Its story was well known and greatly feared by the Bangkokian at that time. A chase was launched but they were unable to capture it. Until a monk from Wat Chakkrawat caught and raised it in a pond at the temple until it died naturally. I-bord was rumored to be a haunted crocodile. The crocodile pond still exists in the temple today. [4] [5]