Of all the intelligent, probing questions a journalist could ask about Bangkok's canals – their history, underwater life, symbolism in the Buddhist tradition – there's one thing I just can't ...

Bangkok’s first boundary was described in water. When King Rama I established the capital in 1782, it was on an island his predecessor had made by cutting a canal across a peninsula in the Chao ...

Bangkok, with its roads laid out along canal routes, with its juxtaposition of popular and high culture, of luxury stores and open-air markets, is a city of unreconciled contradictions.

Exploring Southeast Asia from the Heart of Bangkok Hi, I’m Jeroen — originally from the Netherlands, now living in Bangkok ...

Taking river transport up and down this mighty river is an utter delight. The most fun you can have exploring old Bangkok is by canal boat.

BANGKOK — Workers hurriedly dredged canals and cut new waterways around Thailand’s capital on Thursday in a desperate battle to protect the city from the country’s worst floods in decades.

Throughout the 19th Century, the system of canals was expanded, horseshoe bends in the Chao Praya were cut off to shorten travel times and boat became Bangkok’s main form of transport.

Low-lying Bangkok, humid and thick in its swampy surrounds, has been carved, drained, protected and irrigated by canals since the 18 th Century. Though Bangkok’s usual icons are tuk-tuks and ...

Throughout the 19 th Century, the system of canals was expanded, horseshoe bends in the Chao Praya were cut off to shorten travel times and boat became Bangkok’s main form of transport.