Pop-punk band Fall Out Boy—which rose to prominence in the early noughties and has been rocking ever since—will play a Bangkok show Dec 6 as the Thunder Dome, Muang Thong Thani. Fall Out Boy announced on social media earlier today that they would be playing Bangkok for one night only, and also stated that this…https://ouo.io/3hD07T

Hankering for a friendly afternoon tea session with groovy live jazz? Every Saturday, The Living Room at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit is offering a Jazz Afternoon Tea experience sipping and nibbling a selection of teas and treats to live tunes.  Launched this past weekend, the Jazz Afternoon Tea experience includes sweet and savory treats that…https://ouo.io/v9RX9E

By Ming Li Yong / the Third Pole. Over the past year, the pace of hydropower development along the mainstream of the Mekong River in Laos has picked up, fuelled by long-term funding agreements. Chinese and Thai hydropower project investors have been signing Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), which usually cover a 30-year period, with the…https://ouo.io/aL1E5K

File this under Things That We Didn’t Really Know We Needed. Former heavyweight boxing champ and cannabis advocate Mike Tyson is launching Thailand’s first “Weed Boxing Championship” on the island of Koh Samui this Sunday. Participants competing at the event, which will take place at the Samui International Muay Thai Stadium, are required to get…https://ouo.io/VghDCW

Bangkok’s Neapolitan pizza from Peppina became the city’s very best slice at last year’s 50 Top Pizza, and now they’re showing up at the city’s most famous golf outing to dish out their ‘za.  Chefs Paolo Vitalettti and Chef “M” Thanwa Seesaed will be taking over Busted, the full-on food bus—not truck, bus—parked over at…https://ouo.io/wB9Q1b

It should have been an ordinary Thursday night last week at Bangkok smokehouse The Smokin’ Pug when a man called to book for 20 people the following evening. The man, Anon, said it was for a company gathering. What the restaurant found unusual was that Anon wanted to pay in advance. “He asks to preorder…https://ouo.io/56CwAE

The Cloud 11 huge shopping complex between Punnawitti and Udom Suk will be the site of a new The Commons project next year. You know The Commons Saladaeng and The Commons Thonglor—two spaces for reliably good food and community spaces—and now the brand has announced on social media and later at a live event that…https://ouo.io/02oGrd

Parliament has chosen Thailand’s prime minister. Business tycoon Srettha Thavisin of the Pheu Thai Party secured more than enough of the 374 votes needed to become the Kingdom’s leader during Thailand’s parliamentary vote today. By the end of the vote, the 61-year-old who was the sole candidate in the bid for the PM position, gained…https://ouo.io/RliE19T

The Bangkok Metropolitan Authority said earlier this week that the statue of Kru Kai Kaeo that has been causing a hullabaloo all month long will need to be obscured from public view. The statue began making waves on August 9 when images of the large statue—with yellow fangs, wings, and red nails—couldn’t make it under…https://ouo.io/vKf7yJ

It’s final: Pheu Thai announced at a press conference this afternoon that it would ally with 13 other political parties joining its coalition, including pro-regime parties Palang Pracharath and United Thai Nation (aka Ruam Thai Saeng Chart) parties. Weeks after Pheu Thai broke off its coalition with the election-winning and progressive Move Forward Party, the…https://ouo.io/jXXYgZ