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His suspected killer is arrested in Cambodia the next day. [8] 13 January – South Thailand insurgency: 10 paramilitary rangers are injured in a bomb attack in Pattani. [9] 18 January – 2 February – 2025 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup in Malaysia and Thailand [10] [11] 23 January – Same-sex marriage officially becomes legal in Thailand. [12]
The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam as well as in Malaysia and Singapore and by Chinese populations for religious or official occasions.
The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar (Anno Domini), so the year 2025 AD corresponds to B.E. 2568. The lunar calendar contains 12 or 13 months in a year, with 15 waxing moon and 14 or 15 waning moon days in a month, amounting to years of 354, 355 or 384 days.
The events take place over three days sometime between March and July, the dates being selected annually by the town’s mediums. The whole event is called Bun Luang, part of a Buddhist merit-making holiday also known as Bun Phawet (assembly day). The town’s residents invite protection from Phra U-pakut, the spirit of the Mun river.
The event is a rite of passage to initiate the boys as Buddhist novices, the highlight of an annual celebration by the Shan ethnic group that lives mainly in neighboring Myanmar, but is also ...
Songkran is on 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April. In 2018 the Thai cabinet extended the festival nationwide to seven days, 9–16 April, to enable citizens to travel home for the holiday. [4] In 2019, the holiday was observed 9–16 April as 13 April fell on a Saturday. [5]
Asalha Puja Day: Also known as "Dharma Day" celebrates the Buddha's first teaching on the full moon day of the 8th lunar month, approximately July. [3] Uposatha: This day is known as observance day, there are four holy days on the new moon, full moon, and quarter moon days every month. [3]