THE WORLD is indeed full of fascinating festivals that celebrate culture and tradition in the most unexpected ways.

On Sunday the central Thai town of Lopburi put on a five-star banquet for its hundreds of monkeys. Macaques eat fruit at an ancient temple during the annual "monkey buffet" in Thailand's Lopburi ...

LOPBURI, Thailand - These were no party animals: Almost all the guests were too frightened to make an appearance, and the others ate and ran. That didn't matter to the tourists who converged in ...

A Thai town famous for its macaque population rounded up and sterilised hundreds of monkeys that had reportedly been showing aggressive behaviour for years. Authorities in Lopburi, nearly 150km ...