Longreads: The very best Coconuts Bangkok features of 2013

Welcome to the Coconuts Bangkok 2013 Year in Features.  

Today we’ll take a look back at the biggest features that provoked the most chatter amongst the readers of this humble website.

2013 was full of its fair share of floods, fires, explosions, and many tragic road accidents, but there’s also been no shortage of feel good stories like this and this. Puppies, kittens, pythons, and elephants played a prominent role on Coconuts this year, as did tigers, sharks, whales, serows, lorises, crocodiles, and pigeons.

We’ve enjoyed writing, shooting photos, and producing videos for you, dear Coconuts readers, and we look forward to doing a whole lot more throughout 2014. 

Happy New Year!

The deal with durian: Coconuts Bangkok’s definitive guide to the King of Fruits

Year of the Dragon Tourist: How Chinese vacationers became the biggest thing in Thailand’s travel industry

 I survived the Biebspocalypse

Just Bieber Bangkok

 

Stunning images of Samet’s clean-up operation step by step

Bangkok’s bad habit: plastic bags

Gridlocked: The sad history and frightening future of Bangkok traffic: Part 1 and Part 2

 

Inside the Dog Condo: Bangkok’s abandoned animals face nightmare conditions at Wat Suan Kaew

 

Prison Fight! Inmates battle foreigners for freedom

Prison Fight Bangkok Klong Prem Prison

Coconuts test drives the new Bangkok-to-Cambodia bus service

In My Homeland: Philippines photojournalists share snapshots of a tumultuous period 

Sometimes, you go to a women-only hostess lounge and it’s just kind of depressing

Is there hope for Thailand’s fishery? Greenpeace vessel Esperanza docks in Bangkok

DJ Suharit Siamwalla: The softer side of the unorthodox Bangkok governor election underdog 

The Happyland Files: Murder and mayhem at Bangkok’s haunted amusement park

The Happy Land Files: Murder and mayhem at Bangkok's haunted amusement park

Thailand’s Cola Conflict: Est vs. Pepsi

What can we say online? A report on Thailand’s internet freedom

Thailand’s shrimps are dying en masse, and no one can figure out why

‘Only God Forgives’ presents a beautiful Bangkok devoid of redeeming characters

Only God ForgivesBangkok Fishbowl: Exotic species swim free in abandoned mall

Why I’m worth it: in defense of the dowry

Thailand dowry

Thailand’s #1 MMA fighter: Shannon Wiratchai

Photo Essay: Homeless foreigners living down and out in Pattaya

Coconuts Bangkok interviews homeless farang in Pattaya

From Corruption to Expression: Bangkok’s vanishing ‘Stonehenge’

 

Why is being single in Bangkok so offensive?

Why is being single in Bangkok so offensive?

Pichet Klunchun: A ‘Demon’ returns

Thai dance master Pichet Klunchun performs Demon in Bangkok




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