They were playing an Elvis Presley’s Christmas song in the passenger loading area of MRT, Bangkok’s underground subway system. While Thailand is predominantly a Buddhist county - about 96% of the population are Buddhists - there are a small number of expatriates from Western Countries (including Europe, Australia and North America) who live and work in Bangkok. I guess that the powers that be were trying to accommodate this small segment of the population ‘the expatriate farangs”.

Still I chuckled to myself, hearing Elvis singing Merry Christmas in such an inappropriate place -Bangkok’s subway.

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