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...four-inch teeth, measured 21 feet from snout to tail and ate other dinosaurs. When they discovered its bones in 1996 in a jungle riverbed, scientists called it Siamotyrannus isanensis, after the country's old name, Siam, and the impoverished northeastern Thai region where the bones lay, Isaan...
...With campaigning underway for a Dec. 23 general election, and Isaan a key battleground, dinosaurs again roam the region - political ones this time. Lumbering onto a campaign stage in this sleepy town is veteran politician Samak Sundaravej, 72, the right-wing firebrand who leads the People Power Party (PPP). The PPP is an ill-disguised facsimile of Thai Rak Thai (TRT), the party outlawed after the Thai military overthrew its leader, the multi-billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, in September 2006. The TRT's Bangkok headquarters is now occupied by the PPP, and the two parties' logos are almost identical...
...Nong Khai's Naga has become the Mekong's Loch Ness monster. In this sleepy province in the heart of the Isaan region 620 kilometers northeast of Bangkok, where men are men and bugs are food, just about everyone is happy to regale you with tales of monster sightings or giant, snaking tracks left in the riverbank's mud. Some locals brandish grainy pictures of what could be anything from a log to a boat, and swear it is evidence of the outsize serpent. And then there's that postcard: ubiquitous and eye-catching, of a band of U.S. service...
...ONLY THE LONELY Phu Tork means "lonely mountain" in the northeast's Isaan dialect, but since a stairway was finished in 1974, the steady flow of tourists means you'll never be alone at its monastery. Its seven stories provide spectacular views of Nong Khai province's Bung Kan district. At the top of the mountain is a slightly spooky forest, where, if local lore is to be believed, you might be joined by otherworldly company...
...dancing, feasting and singing. In Rangoon, stages erected along the streets are used to spray passersby. In Thailand, residents of Chiang Mai in the north are known as particularly enthusiastic celebrants, while Khon Kean in the northeast parades flower-bedecked floats through town to the beat of indigenous Isaan music. An official ban on throwing water in Cambodia has failed to dampen festivities; traditional games are even played in the grounds of Wat Phnom temple in the capital. In Luang Prabang in northern Laos, elephants join the street processions. The Dai people in tropical Xishuangbanna in the southern Chinese province...