Thailand recently amazed the world once again when its team became the first eight-time champion of the annual International Snow Sculpture contest at Japan's world-famous Sapporo Snow Festival. Firstly, everybody knows that there's no snow in Thailand; so how on earth did the Thai sculptors practise? And secondly, why has the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) been sponsoring a team at this event every year for over two decades? "With a limited budget, we knew we couldn't afford to buy enough advertisement space in the Japanese media," he recalled. The Thai snow sculpting team will keep doing their bit.

Source: Bangkok Post February 13, 2019 23:26 UTC