From Manila to Bangkok, Volkan Ibil, director of bar and resident smuggler of The Black Room at Shangri-La The Fort, Manila, ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the ...

However, officials from the Korea Heritage Service confirmed that some of the temple’s cultural treasures, including a stone Buddha statue, were rescued before the flames consumed the wooden ...

But just as Hua Hin and Pattaya are separated ... a giant standing golden statue of Buddha overlooks Hua Hin beach. There used to be a path from the temple to the cliff—I had hiked there in ...