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Thailand Celebrates King's 80th Birthday

Thais celebrated their revered king's 80th birthday Wednesday, honoring the world's longest-reigning monarch with festivities and prayers amid concerns about his declining health and potentially divisive elections.

Thailand's Monarch Is Ruler, Jazz Musician

For so many Thais, King Bhumibol Adulyadej is a father figure for the nation. But for a small group of jazz musicians, he is also the King of Swing.

Thai Holiday Sparks Yellow-Shirt Craze

Fashion-wise, yellow is the new black this season in Thailand. Yellow shirts, honoring the country's beloved King Bhumibol Adulyadej on the 60th anniversary of his ascension to the throne, are so popular that there aren't enough to go around.

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Why Thailand's king is so revered

Source: BBC News

Not much can bring the life of the noisy, traffic-clogged heart of Bangkok to a halt. But on Wednesday the streets were hushed, the cars and buses banished.

A King Turns 80, Let the Party Begin

Source: The New York Times

WHO doesn't love a birthday party, especially when there are colorful fireworks, countrywide singalongs, and everyone is invited? Thais, and any visitors to Bangkok in November through early December, are all welcome to Thailand's biggest birthday celebration of the year (and a n …

Thai YouTube ban sparks backlash

Source: AL JAZEERA

Internet users will not be censored:

Swiss man sentenced to 10 years for defacing pictures of Thai king

Source: Independent.co.uk

A Swiss man was sentenced to 10 years in a Thai prison yesterday for the "crime" of insulting Thailand's King.

Swiss man jailed for ten years for insulting the King of Thailand

Source: BBC News

A Swiss man has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for insulting the Thai king. While drunk, Oliver Jufer, 57, spray-painted portraits of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the northern city of Chiang Mai.