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Soi Cowboy is a red-light district in Bangkok, Thailand. A short street with some 40 bars, it is similar to Nana Plaza and Patpong and caters mainly to tourists and expatriates. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 594 KB) Summary Soi Cowboy, a red light district in Bangkok. ...
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For the 2004 album by American rapper Ludacris, see The Red Light District. ...
Location within in Thailand Coordinates: , Country Settled Ayutthaya Period Founded as capital 21 April 1782 Government - Type Special administrative area - Governor Apirak Kosayothin Area - City 1,568. ...
Nana Plaza (officially Nana Entertainment Plaza; shortened NEP) is a red-light district in Bangkok. ...
A view of Patpong at sunset Patpong (Thai: , Phatphong) is an entertainment district in Bangkok, Thailand, catering mainly, though not exclusively, to foreign tourists and expatriates. ...
It is located near Sukhumvit Road, between Sukhumvit Soi 21 (also called Soi Asoke) and Soi 23, within walking distance from the SkyTrain's "Asok Station" and the Bangkok Metro's "Sukhumvit Station". Street sign depicting the name of Sukhumvit Road (Thanon Sukhumvit) in Thai and English Sukhumvit Road (Thai: ), or National Highway 3, is a major highway in Thailand. ...
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Skytrain approaching Sala Daeng Station Skytrain leaving Asok Station Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) or Skytrain (Thai: รถไฟฟ้า, rot fai fa, meaning sky train) is the elevated metro system in Bangkok, Thailand, operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited (BTSC) under a concession granted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration...
The entrance to Huai Kwang station The Bangkok Metro, officially called the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), is Bangkoks underground metro system. ...
The go go bars follow the pattern common in Thailand: alcoholic drinks are served and women in bikinis dance on a stage. Topless or even nude dancing occasionally occurs in some bars, but remains technically illegal. Most of the dancers are in fact prostitutes and will join a customer if he pays a "bar fine" to the bar and a separate fee to the woman. Sexual services usually take place in the tourist's hotel room. Thai customers usually are not admitted to these bars unless accompanied by foreigners. A go-go bar is an bar or similar establishment featuring Go-Go dancers. ...
This article is about the womens bathing suit. ...
Nudity is a common subject both in fine arts and popular culture. ...
Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ...
A bar fine, or (in engrish) paybar, is the payment made by customer to the operators of a lady bar or go-go bar that allows a dancer or hostess or some other employee of that bar to stop work early, usually in order to accompany the customer outside the...
There are also a number of restaurants at Soi Cowboy, including what is perhaps Bangkok's best known fish and chips shop.
The area is named after T. G. "Cowboy" Edwards, a retired American airman who opened one of the first bars there in 1973 or 1977 (sources differ). A tall African-American, Edwards got his nickname because he invariably wore a cowboy hat. A cowboys hat, usually with a four to six-inch brim, acts as an umbrella in stormy weather, and a shade from the sun in hot weather. ...
 Soi Cowboy during the day, with Fanny's, Dollhouse and Midnite Bar visible on the left One staple of the Soi Cowboy nightlife are elephants frequently marched up and down the street by their handlers who are in the business of selling elephant food to tourists. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1067x800, 752 KB) Summary w:Soi Cowboy in Bangkok during the day, viewing East. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1067x800, 752 KB) Summary w:Soi Cowboy in Bangkok during the day, viewing East. ...
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When Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was elected in 2001, his government instituted a "social order" campaign. As part of this campaign, all bars and nightclubs had to close by 2 am, later changed to 1 am for all areas not officially designated as "entertainment zones". (Unlike Patpong, Soi Cowboy and Nana Plaza were not so designated). A mandatory midnight closing time was even discussed. As of 2006, the Soi Cowboy bars switch off their outside neon lights by 1 am and usually close at 2 am. “Thaksin†redirects here. ...
2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Soi Cowboy's reputation suffered a temporary blow when, as part of the same social order campaign, the area was closed off by police one Friday night in November 2003 and all workers and patrons were required to submit to urine testing for drugs. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the episode of the American television series The Office, see Drug Testing. A drug test is commonly a technical examination of urine, semen, blood, sweat, or oral fluid samples to determine the presence or absence of specified drugs or their metabolized traces. ...
Near their entrances, all go go bars carry government-mandated signs in Thai and English; the text reads,
NO-ONE INSIDE
UNDER 20 YEARS
DRUG-FREE During the 2004 International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, a bead sculpture made in Soi Cowboy was displayed as part of the cultural program. Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The IMPACT Muang Thong Thani convention centre, Bangkok, venue for the XV International AIDS Conference The XV International AIDS Conference was held in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, from July 11 to July 16, 2004. ...
On June 9, 2006, Thailand commemorated the 60-year anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's accession to the throne. In the evening the employees of all Soi Cowboy bars celebrated the event by stepping outside for about half an hour, holding candles and wearing yellow "We love the King" shirts, and finished by singing the national anthem. Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thai: ; IPA: ; Royal Institute: Phumiphon Adunyadet; ) (born Saturday,December 5, 1927 in the Year of the Rabbit), is the current King of Thailand. ...
Films and songs In 2000, the Norwegian group Getaway People released a song called Soi Cowboy about this area. Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Sun City Girls also have a song called Soi Cowboy on their 1996 album 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond The Rig Veda. The Sun City Girls were a United States experimental rock band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1982. ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
Actor Hugh Grant and his entourage visited Soi Cowboy in December 2003, while shooting the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The Tilac Bar and several Soi Cowboy bar girls are seen in the film. A London tabloid, The Sun, wrote on 23 December 2003 that Grant was chased by bar girls and had to flee, but that appears to be false. Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960) is a Golden Globe-winning British actor and film producer. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Two 1-hour episodes of the British comedy/drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet were shot in the Summer of 2004 in Bangkok, partly in Soi Cowboy. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a popular British comedy-drama series about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne, Dennis, Oz, Bomber, Barry, Neville and Moxey, who are living and working on a German building site. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The bars Moonshine Joint and Dollhouse appear in Jordan Clark's 2005 documentary Falang: Behind Bangkok's Smile (known as Bangkok Girl in the US) which takes a rather critical view of sex tourism. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Sex tourism is travel to engage in sexual intercourse or sexual activity with prostitutes, and is typically undertaken internationally by tourists from wealthier countries. ...
External links Coordinates: 13°44′12.5″N, 100°33′45″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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