Bangkok

Martin Pelzl visits the Goethe-Institut in Bangkok with his video camera. He reports from an opening of an exhibition of photography and presents the project "I got it", a TV Knowledge Magazine for children and young people in Southeast Asia. more ...

Six years after the devastating tsunami, there is still no early warning system in place. more ...

Final chapter of the Thailand journal: conclusion to the journalist exchange project. more ...

HHL student Manuel Bender spending a semester at the Asian Institute of Technology more ...

A visit to the Goethe-Institut Bangkok picturesquely situated between skyscrapers offers a surprise. more ...

Mathias and Thomas Sühring are working in a 220-metre hotel in the capital of Thailand. more ...

This year, with approximately 40,000 visas granted to Thais, the German embassy in Bangkok will surely have a “record year.” The other way round, too, the flow of tourists from Germany remains unbroken: Thailand is the favourite travel destination for Germans in Asia. more ...

Over half a million German tourists come each year / 20,000 German citizens live in Thailand more ...

With innumerable high-rises, countless elegant boutiques and restaurants and big cars, at first glance the Thai capital is like the translation of its native name, Krung Thep: a city of the angels. more ...

Five exhibitors from the Free State at the Metalex in Bangkok more ...

Unusual dishes served up in Thailand / Culinary self-experiment on LVZ Online more ...

Thailand’s National Anthem Composed by a German After the many surprises and discoveries I made over the past few days and weeks, I was finally able to turn the tables and shock my hosts with some trivia. more ...

The sun, the palm trees and white beaches: both natives and tourists are experiencing first-hand that the romanticized image of Thailand promised by travel catalogues is not always true. more ...

Thailand? Isn’t that where you can see those … yes, that’s right, “ladyboys.” Entire companies of them can be experienced in places like the world-famous cabaret shows in Pattaya and Bangkok. more ...

Fighting wanes between rebels and government troops near the Thai border. more ...

German-Thai economic relations are among the most significant and the oldest in all of Southeast Asia. more ...

Leipzig? Never heard of it. – I had already realized that my hometown is practically unknown in Thailand during the stay by my colleague Punnee Amornviputpanich in Leipzig in September. more ...

An inquiry about which direction to take on the Sky Train quickly proves a surprising encounter: Miriam Kuck, student of journalism and political science from Leipzig, is on her way to see Bangkok’s sights. more ...

On-site interview with Stefan Buerkle from the German-Thai Chamber of Commerce. more ...

Martin Pelzl’s first impressions from the Thai newsroom. more ...

LVZ reporter on the Bangkok food supply. more ...