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- 1932 establishments in Asia
- 1932 establishments in Siam
- 1932 establishments in Southeast Asia
- Kingdoms
- Member states of ASEAN
- Newly industrializing countries
- Observer states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
- Southeast Asian countries
- States and territories established in 1932
Absolute monarchy
Absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign is the sole source of political power, unconstrained by constitutions, legislatures or other checks on their authority.
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Abugida
An abugida (from Ge'ez: አቡጊዳ)sometimes also called alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabetis a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, similar to a diacritical mark.
Administrative division
Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, #-level subdivisions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided.
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Adventure travel
Adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion.
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AFC Asian Cup
The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Thailand and Afghanistan are countries in Asia and member states of the United Nations.
Afonso de Albuquerque
Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa (– 16 December 1515), was a Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman.
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Agriculture in Thailand
Agriculture in Thailand is highly competitive, diversified and specialized and its exports are very successful internationally.
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Air pollution
Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials.
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Airport Rail Link (Bangkok)
The Airport Rail Link (ARL) (รถไฟฟ้าแอร์พอร์ต เรล ลิงก์) is an express and commuter rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Akha language
Akha is the language spoken by the Akha people of southern China (Yunnan Province), eastern Burma (Shan State), northern Laos, and northern Thailand.
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Alaungpaya
Alaungpaya (အလောင်းဘုရား,; also spelled Alaunghpaya or Alaung-Phra; 11 May 1760) was the founder and first emperor of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar).
Allies of World War I
The Allies, the Entente or the Triple Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
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Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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Amata Spring Country Club
The Amata Spring Country Club is a private golf and country club near to Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Ananda Mahidol
Ananda Mahidol (20 September 19259 June 1946) was the eighth king of Siam (later Thailand) from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VIII.
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Andaman Sea
The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from the Bay of Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands.
Angkor
Angkor (អង្គរ, 'Capital city'), also known as Yasodharapura (យសោធរបុរៈ; यशोधरपुर),Headly, Robert K.; Chhor, Kylin; Lim, Lam Kheng; Kheang, Lim Hak; Chun, Chen.
Angkor Borei District
Angkor Borei (អង្គរបូរី) is a district located in Takéo Province, in southern Cambodia.
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Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat (អង្គរវត្ត, "City/Capital of Temples") is a Hindu-Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia.
Animism
Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
Anouvong
Chao Anouvong (ເຈົ້າອານຸວົງສ໌; เจ้าอนุวงศ์), or regnal name Xaiya Setthathirath V (ໄຊຍະເສດຖາທິຣາຊທີ່ຫ້າ; ไชยเชษฐาธิราชที่ห้า), (1767 – 1829), led the Lao rebellion (1826–28) against Siam as the last monarch of the Kingdom of Vientiane.
Anti-Chinese sentiment
Anti-Chinese sentiment (also referred to as Sinophobia) is an irrational fear or dislike of China, Chinese people and/or Chinese culture.
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Apidej Sit-Hirun
Apidej Sit-Hirun (อภิเดช ศิษย์หิรัญ; September 1941 – April 4, 2013), born Narong Yaenprateep, was a famous muay Thai fighter.
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ArcGIS
ArcGIS is a family of client, server and online geographic information system (GIS) software developed and maintained by Esri.
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
Armistice
An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.
ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia. Thailand and ASEAN are southeast Asian countries.
ASEAN Basketball League
The ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) was an international professional men's basketball league in the East Asia, composed of eight teams, including six clubs from Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam), in addition to Hong Kong and Macau.
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ASEAN Free Trade Area
The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) is a trade bloc agreement by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations supporting local trade and manufacturing in all ASEAN countries, and facilitating economic integration with regional and international allies.
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Asia Sentinel
The Asia Sentinel is an online blog focused on news, business, arts and culture in Asia.
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Asian black bear
The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the Indian black bear, Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle.
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Asian Championship
An Asian Championship is a top level international sports competition between Asian athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs.
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Assam
Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Australians
Australians, colloquially known as Aussies or Antipodeans, are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia.
Austroasiatic languages
The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia.
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Austronesian languages
The Austronesian languages are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples).
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Auto rickshaw
An auto rickshaw is a motorized version of the pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw.
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Automotive industry in Thailand
, the automotive industry in Thailand is the largest in Southeast Asia and the 10th largest in the world.
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Ayutthaya Kingdom
The Ayutthaya Kingdom (อยุธยา,, IAST: or) or the Empire of Ayutthaya was a Mon and later Siamese kingdom that existed in Southeast Asia from 1351 to 1767, centered around the city of Ayutthaya, in Siam, or present-day Thailand.
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Ayutthaya–Lan Na War (1441–1474)
The Ayutthaya–Lan Na War (1441-1474) was a border conflict between the Ayutthaya Kingdom (present-day Thailand) and the Lan Na Kingdom (in northern Thailand) that started with the Ayutthayan invasion of southern Lan Na and continued with periodic breaks until 1474.
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Điện Biên Phủ
Điện Biên Phủ (is a city in the northwestern region of Vietnam. It is the capital of Điện Biên Province. The city is best known for the decisive Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, which occurred during the First Indochina War of independence against France. The region is a center of ethnic Thai culture.
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Bad Genius
Bad Genius, known in Thai as Chalard Games Goeng (ฉลาดเกมส์โกง), is a 2017 Thai heist thriller film produced by Jor Kwang Films and distributed by GDH 559.
Bamboo network
The Bamboo network or the Chinese Commonwealth is a term used to conceptualize connections between businesses operated by the Overseas Chinese community in Southeast Asia.
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Ban Chiang
Ban Chiang (บ้านเชียง,; บ้านเซียง) is an archaeological site in Nong Han district, Udon Thani province, Thailand.
Bang Pakong River
The Bang Pakong (แม่น้ำบางปะกง) is a river in east Thailand.
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Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.
Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System
The Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System (BERTS, โครงการระบบการขนส่งทางรถไฟยกระดับในกรุงเทพมหานคร), commonly known as the Hopewell Project (โครงการโฮปเวลล์) after main contractor Hopewell Holdings, was a failed project to build an elevated highway and rail line from central Bangkok to Don Mueang International Airport.
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Bangkok Malay
Bangkok Malay, also referred to as Bangkok Melayu or Nayu, is the local variant of Malay spoken by ethnic Malays living in Bangkok and its surrounding areas.
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Bank of Thailand
The Bank of Thailand (BOT; abbr. ธปท.; ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย) is the central bank of Thailand.
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Basketball at the 1966 Asian Games
Basketball was one of the 14 sports disciplines held in the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Bayinnaung
Bayinnaung Kyawhtin Nawrahta (ဘုရင့်နောင် ကျော်ထင်နော်ရထာ; บุเรงนองกะยอดินนรธา,, Portuguese: Braginoco; 16 January 1516 – 10 October 1581) was king of the Toungoo Dynasty of Myanmar from 1550 to 1581.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Bhavavarman II
Bhavavarman II (Khmer: ព្រះបាទភវវរ្ម័នទី២ Thai: พระบาทภววรรมัมที่ ๒) was King of the Chenla Kingdom, predecessor polity of the Khmer Empire, from 639 to 657.
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
Bhumibol Adulyadej (5 December 192713 October 2016), posthumously conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great, was the ninth king of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IX, from 1946 until his death in 2016.
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Bhumjaithai Party
Bhumjaithai Party (BJT; พรรคภูมิใจไทย) was founded on 5 November 2008, in anticipation of the 2 December 2008 Constitutional Court of Thailand ruling that dissolved its "de facto predecessor", the Neutral Democratic Party, along with the People's Power Party (PPP), and the Thai Nation Party.
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Binturong
The binturong (Arctictis binturong), also known as the bearcat, is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia.
Biocapacity
The biocapacity or biological capacity of an ecosystem is an estimate of its production of certain biological materials such as natural resources, and its absorption and filtering of other materials such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Black May (1992)
Black May (พฤษภาทมิฬ), also known as "Bloody May", was a series of mass protests and subsequent crackdowns by security forces and police in Bangkok in May 1992.
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Borommarachathirat II
Borommarachathirat II or Borom Rachathirat II (บรมราชาธิราชที่ ๒), also known as King Samphraya (เจ้าสามพระยา) (1386–1448), was a king of Ayutthaya.
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Borommatrailokkanat
Borommatrailokkanat (บรมไตรโลกนาถ,, Brahmatrailokanātha) or Trailok (1431–1488) was the king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1448 to 1488.
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Boworadet Rebellion
The Boworadet rebellion (Thai: กบฏบวรเดช) was a 1933 Thai rebellion (or unsuccessful coup d'état) led by royalist Prince Boworadet, as a result of the conflicts between the previous royalist regime (those loyal to Chakri dynasty rule and King Prajadhipok) and the succeeding constitutional regime led by Khana Ratsadon ('People's Party'), following the Revolution of 1932.
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Bowring Treaty
The Bowring Treaty was a treaty signed between the British Empire and the Kingdom of Siam on 18 April 1855.
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Brau people
The Brau people (Người Brâu) are an ethnic group living in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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British Hong Kong
Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the United Kingdom from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War.
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British Malaya
The term "British Malaya" (Tanah Melayu British) loosely describes a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Singapore that were brought under British hegemony or control between the late 18th and the mid-20th century.
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British people
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.
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Bru people
The Bru (also Bruu, Riang or Bru-Vân Kiều; Người Bru - Vân Kiều; Lao: ບຣູ; Thai: บรู; which literally means "people living in the woods") are an indigenous ethnic group living in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
BTS Skytrain
The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS Skytrain (รถไฟฟ้าบีทีเอส), is an elevated rapid transit system in Bangkok, Thailand.
Buakaw Banchamek
Sombat Banchamek (สมบัติ บัญชาเมฆ, born May 8, 1982), also known by his ring name Buakaw Banchamek (บัวขาว บัญชาเมฆ, Buakaw meaning "white lotus") is a Thai professional Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer who formerly fought out of Por.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhism in Thailand
Buddhism in Thailand is largely of the Theravada school, which is followed by roughly 93.4 percent of the population.
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Buddhist art
Buddhist art is visual art produced in the context of Buddhism.
Buddhist calendar
The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam as well as in Malaysia and Singapore and by Chinese populations for religious or official occasions.
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Buffer state
A buffer state is a country geographically lying between two rival or potentially hostile great powers.
Bumrungrad International Hospital
Bumrungrad International Hospital (โรงพยาบาลบำรุงราษฎร์) is a private hospital founded in 1980 in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Burmese in Thailand
Burmese in Thailand (ชาวพม่าในไทย, ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံရှိမြန်မာများ) constitute Thailand's largest migrant population.
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Burmese–Siamese War (1568–1569)
The Burmese–Siamese War (1568–1569) also known as the War of the first fall (สงครามคราวเสียกรุงครั้งที่หนึ่ง) was a military conflict fought between the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (Siam) and the Kingdom of Burma.
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Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760)
The Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760) (ယိုးဒယား-မြန်မာစစ် (၁၇၅၉–၁၇၆၀); สงครามพม่า-สยาม (พ.ศ. 2302–2303)) or Alaungpaya's War (สงครามพระเจ้าอลองพญา) was the military conflict between the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) and the Ban Phlu Luang Dynasty of the Ayutthaya Kingdom of Siam, in which the Burmese forces under King Alaungpaya of the Konbaung dynasty invaded Siam.
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Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
The Burmese–Siamese War also known as the War of the second fall was the second military conflict between Burma under Konbaung dynasty and Ayutthaya Kingdom under Siamese Ban Phlu Luang dynasty that lasted from 1765 until 1767, and the war that ended the 417-year-old Ayutthaya Kingdom.
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Burney Treaty
The treaty between Kingdom of Siam and Great Britain commonly known as the Burney Treaty was signed at Bangkok on 20 June 1826 by Henry Burney, an agent of British East India Company, for Britain, and King Rama III for Siam.
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Cabinet of Thailand
The cabinet of Thailand (formally, the Council of Ministers of Thailand; คณะรัฐมนตรี; is a body composed of thirty-five of the most senior members of the government of the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia. Thailand and Cambodia are countries in Asia, kingdoms, member states of ASEAN, member states of the United Nations and southeast Asian countries.
Cambodian–Thai border dispute
The Cambodian–Thai border dispute (Khmer–Thai border dispute) began in June 2008 as part of a century-long dispute between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand involving the area surrounding the 11th-century Preah Vihear Temple, in the Dângrêk Mountains between Choam Khsant District, Preah Vihear Province of northern Cambodia and the Kantharalak District, Sisaket Province of northeastern Thailand.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Cannabis
Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Central Tai languages
The Central Tai languages include southern dialects of Zhuang, and various Nung and Tày dialects of northern Vietnam.
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Central Thailand
Central Thailand (Central plain) (historically also known as Siam or Dvaravati) is one of the regions of Thailand, covering the broad alluvial plain of the Chao Phraya River.
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Chakri dynasty
The Chakri dynasty (จักรี) is the current reigning dynasty of the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Cham language
Cham (Cham: ꨌꩌ, Jawi: چام) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, spoken by the Chams of Southeast Asia.
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Champa
Champa (Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ; ចាម្ប៉ា; Chiêm Thành 占城 or Chăm Pa 占婆) was a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd century CE until 1832.
Chanthaburi
Chanthaburi (จันทบุรี) is a town (thesaban mueang) in the east of Thailand, on the banks of the Chanthaburi River.
Chao Phraya River
The Chao Phraya (or; แม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา,, or) is the major river in Thailand, with its low alluvial plain forming the centre of the country.
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Chart Korbjitti
Chart Korbjitti (ชาติ กอบจิตติ;; born 25 June 1954) is a Thai writer.
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Chatuchak Weekend Market
The Chatuchak Weekend Market (ตลาดนัดจตุจักร), on Kamphaeng Phet 2 Road, Chatuchak, Bangkok, is the largest market in Thailand.
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Chenla
Chenla or Zhenla (ចេនឡា, Chénla; Chân Lạp) is the Chinese designation for the successor polity of the kingdom of Funan preceding the Khmer Empire that existed from around the late 6th to the early 9th century in Indochina.
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand, the capital of Chiang Mai province and the second largest city in Thailand.
Chiang Rai province
Chiang Rai (เชียงราย,; ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩁᩣ᩠ᨿ เจียงฮาย) is one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces, which lies in upper northern Thailand and is Thailand's northernmost province.
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Chiang Saen Lake
Chiang Saen Lake (ทะเลสาบเชียงแสน) is a natural freshwater lake in Thailand, it is located in Yonok Subdistrict, Chiang Saen District, Chiang Rai Province, northernmost Thailand.
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Chief of Defence Forces (Thailand)
The Chief of Defence Forces, previously known as the Supreme Commander, (ผู้บัญชาการทหารสูงสุด) is the overall field commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. Thailand and China are countries in Asia and member states of the United Nations.
Chinese art
Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists.
Chit Phumisak
Chit Phumisak (also spelt Jit Poumisak; จิตร ภูมิศักดิ์,; 25 September 1930 – 5 May 1966) was a Thai Marxist historian, activist, author, philologist, poet, songwriter, and communist revolutionary.
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Christianity in Thailand
Christianity was first introduced to Thailand by European missionaries.
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Chuan Leekpai
Chuan Leekpai (ชวน หลีกภัย,,;; born 28 July 1938) is a Thai politician who is the former president of the National Assembly of Thailand as well as the speaker of the Thai House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023.
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Chulalongkorn
Chulalongkorn, reigning title Phra Chula Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua (20 September 1853 – 23 October 1910), was the fifth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama V. He reigned from 1868 until his death in 1910.
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Chulalongkorn University
Chulalongkorn University (CU, จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย), nicknamed Chula (จุฬาฯ), is a public autonomous research university in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Chumphon province
Chumphon (ชุมพร) is a southern province (changwat) of Thailand on the Gulf of Thailand.
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Class consciousness
In Marxism, class consciousness is the set of beliefs that persons hold regarding their social class or economic rank in society, the structure of their class, and their class interests.
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Climate and energy
In the 21st century, the Earth's climate and its energy policy interact and their relationship is studied and governed by a variety of national and international institutions.
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Clinch fighting
Clinch fighting or trapping is the part of stand-up fighting where the combatants are grappling in a clinch, typically using clinch holds.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Coconut milk
Coconut milk is an opaque, milky-white liquid extracted from the grated pulp of mature coconuts.
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Colonization
independence. Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of exploitation and possibly settlement, setting up coloniality and often colonies, commonly pursued and maintained by colonialism.
Combat sport
A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat.
Communist insurgency in Thailand
The communist insurgency in Thailand was a guerrilla war lasting from 1965 until 1983, fought mainly between the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and the government of Thailand.
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Communist Party of Thailand
The Communist Party of Thailand (Abrv: CPT; พรรคคอมมิวนิสต์แห่งประเทศไทย) was a communist party in Thailand active from 1942 until the 1990s.
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Composition (visual arts)
The term composition means "putting together".
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Constitution of Thailand
The Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (รัฐธรรมนูญแห่งราชอาณาจักรไทย) provides the basis for the rule of law in Thailand.
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Constitutional Court of Thailand
The Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand (ศาลรัฐธรรมนูญ) is an independent Thai court created by the 1997 constitution with jurisdiction over the constitutionality of parliamentary acts, royal decrees, draft legislation, as well as the appointment and removal of public officials and issues regarding political parties.
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Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
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Controlled-access highways in Thailand
Multiple toll-collecting controlled-access highway systems are in operation in Thailand, The service can be used only for cars, trucks and certain types of buses currently serving the Greater Bangkok area and nearby provinces.
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Coriander
Coriander (Coriandrum sativum), also known as cilantro, is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae.
Corvée
Corvée is a form of unpaid forced labour that is intermittent in nature, lasting for limited periods of time, typically only a certain number of days' work each year.
Coup d'état
A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.
COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
The COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
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Cram school
A cram school (colloquially: crammer, test prep, tuition center, or exam factory) is a specialized school that trains its students to achieve particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities.
Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse Group AG is a global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland as a standalone firm but now a subsidiary of UBS.
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Cultural diffusion
In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis, is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.
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Cyclone
In meteorology, a cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anticyclone).
Cymbopogon
Cymbopogon, also known as lemongrass, barbed wire grass, silky heads, oily heads, Cochin grass, Malabar grass, citronella grass or fever grass, is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and tropical island plants in the grass family.
Dali Kingdom
The Dali Kingdom, also known as the Dali State (Bai: Dablit Guaif), was a dynastic state situated in modern Yunnan province, China from 937 until 1253.
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is a subgenre of pop music that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
David K. Wyatt
David Kent Wyatt (September 21, 1937November 14, 2006) was an American historian and author who studied Thailand. He taught at Cornell University from 1969 to 2002, and also served as Chair of the Cornell University Department of History and as the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1993.
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Dechawat Poomjaeng
Dechawat Poomjaeng (Dechāwạt Phùmcæ̂ng, born July 11, 1978) is a Thai former professional snooker player.
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Democracy
Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.
Democrat Party (Thailand)
The Democrat Party (พรรคประชาธิปัตย์) is a Thai political party.
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Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation
The Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP), กรมอุทยานแห่งชาติ สัตว์ป่า และพันธุ์พืช) is an agency of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Its headquarters are in Chatuchak District, Bangkok.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Dharma
Dharma (धर्म) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism), among others.
Dieselnoi Chor Thanasukarn
Charin Sorndee (ชรินทร์ สอนดี; born December 27, 1961), known professionally as Dieselnoi Chor.Thanasukarn (ดีเซลน้อย ช.ธนะสุกาญจน์), is a Thai retired Muay Thai fighter.
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Dimension
In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it.
Districts of Thailand
An amphoe (sometimes also amphur, อำเภอ)—usually translated as "district"—is the second level administrative subdivision of Thailand.
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Doi Inthanon
Doi Inthanon (ดอยอินทนนท์) is the highest mountain in Thailand.
Drama (film and television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.
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Duanwad Pimwana
Pimjai Juklin (born 1969), known by her pen name Duanwad Pimwana, is a Thai novelist, poet and journalist.
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Duarte Fernandes
Duarte Fernandes (16th century) was a Portuguese diplomat, explorer, and was the first European to establish diplomatic relations with Thailand, when in 1511 he led a diplomatic mission to Ayutthaya Kingdom (Kingdom of Siam), after the Portuguese conquest of Malacca.
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Duncan McCargo
Duncan McCargo is President's Chair in Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where is also a professor of English (by courtesy).
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Dvaravati
Dvaravati (ทวารวดี) was an ancient Mon political principality from the 6th century to the 11th century, located in the region now known as central Thailand, and was speculated to be a succeeding state of Lang-chia or Lang-ya-hsiu (หลังยะสิ่ว).
Earthquake
An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
East Timor
East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor islands of Atauro and Jaco. The western half of the island of Timor is administered by Indonesia. Thailand and east Timor are countries in Asia, member states of the United Nations and southeast Asian countries.
Ecological footprint
The ecological footprint measures human demand on natural capital, i.e. the quantity of nature it takes to support people and their economies.
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Economic system
An economic system, or economic order, is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society.
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Economy of Thailand
The economy of Thailand is dependent on exports, which accounted in 2021 for about 58 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).
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Elephant meat
Elephant meat is the flesh and other edible parts of elephants.
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Emerald Buddha
The Emerald Buddha (พระแก้วมรกต, or พระพุทธมหามณีรัตนปฏิมากร) is an image of the meditating Gautama Buddha seated in a meditative posture, made of a semi-precious green stone (jasper rather than emerald or jade), clothed in gold.
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Emerging market
An emerging market (or an emerging country or an emerging economy) is a market that has some characteristics of a developed market, but does not fully meet its standards.
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Employment-to-population ratio
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development defines the employment rate as the employment-to-population ratio.
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Environmental Performance Index
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a method of quantifying and numerically marking the environmental performance of a state's policies.
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Ethnonym
An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.
Extraterritoriality
In international law, extraterritoriality or exterritoriality is the state of being exempted from the jurisdiction of local law, usually as the result of diplomatic negotiations.
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Fall of Saigon
The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.
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Fang district
Fang (ฝาง) is a district (amphoe) in the northern part of Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand.
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Farther India
Farther India, Further India, or Ultraindia, is an old term, now rarely used, for Southeast Asia, seen in colonial days from Europe as the part of the Far East beyond the Indian subcontinent, but south of China.
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Fine Arts Department
The Fine Arts Department (กรมศิลปากร) is a government department of Thailand, under the Ministry of Culture.
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First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War (ပထမ အင်္ဂလိပ်-မြန်မာ စစ်;; 5 March 1824 – 24 February 1826), also known as the First Burma War in English language accounts and First English Invasion War (ပထမ အင်္ဂလိပ် ကျူးကျော် စစ်) in Burmese language accounts, was the first of three wars fought between the British and Burmese empires in the 19th century.
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FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body.
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FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body.
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FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix
The FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix was an annual women's volleyball competition created in 1993.
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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy is an American news publication founded in 1970 focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.
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Forest Landscape Integrity Index
The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification.
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Fox News
The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.
Franco-Thai War
The Franco-Thai War (October 1940 – January 28, 1941, Karani Phiphat Indochin; Guerre franco-thaïlandaise) was fought between Thailand and Vichy France over certain areas of French Indochina.
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Free Thai Movement
The Free Thai Movement (เสรีไทย) was a Thai underground resistance movement against Imperial Japan during World War II.
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Free trade agreement
A free trade agreement (FTA) or treaty is an agreement according to international law to form a free-trade area between the cooperating states.
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Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
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Freedom in the World
Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant related and disputed territories around the world.
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Front Palace Crisis
The Front Palace Crisis or the Front Palace incident (วิกฤตการณ์วังหน้า) (Wang Na crisis) was a political crisis that took place in the Kingdom of Siam from 28 December 1874 to 24 February 1875 (93 of the Rattanakosin Era).
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Funan
Funan (Hvunân,; Phù Nam, Chữ Hán: 夫南) was the name given by Chinese cartographers, geographers and writers to an ancient Indianized state—or, rather a loose network of states (Mandala)—located in mainland Southeast Asia covering parts of present-day Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam that existed from the first to sixth century CE.
Future Forward Party
The Future Forward Party (FFP; พรรคอนาคตใหม่,,; otherwise known as 'New Future Party') was a Thai political party from March 2018 to February 2020.
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Galangal
Galangal is a common name for several tropical rhizomatous spices.
Garlic
Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the genus Allium.
Gender-affirming surgery
Gender-affirming surgery is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their identified gender.
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Geography (Ptolemy)
The Geography (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις,, "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.
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Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
George Cœdès
George Cœdès (10 August 1886 – 2 October 1969) was a French scholar of southeast Asian archaeology and history.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe. Thailand and Germany are member states of the United Nations.
Girl from Nowhere
Girl from Nowhere (เด็กใหม่;; lit. New Girl) is a Thai mystery thriller anthology television series created by studio SOUR Bangkok and starring actress Chicha "Kitty" Amatayakul in the lead role.
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Global Health Security Index
The Global Health Security Index is an assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries prepared by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
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Global Innovation Index
The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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Golden Age
The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the Golden Race of humanity (chrýseon génos) lived.
Government of the United Kingdom
The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Greater India
Greater India, also known as the Indian cultural sphere, or the Indic world, is an area composed of several countries and regions in South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically influenced by Indian culture, which itself formed from the various distinct indigenous cultures of South Asia.
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Greater Mekong Subregion
The Greater Mekong Subregion, (GMS) or just Greater Mekong, is a trans-national region of the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia.
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Green curry
Green curry (แกงเขียวหวาน,,, literally "sweet-green curry") is a central Thai variety of curry.
Green papaya salad
Green papaya salad (သင်္ဘောသီးသုပ်; បុកល្ហុង; ຕຳຫມາກຫຸ່ງ/ຕໍາສົ້ມ,; ပဒကာသီးသုပ်; ส้มตำ,,; ตำบักหุ่ง/ตำส้ม,; and gỏi đu đủ) is a spicy salad made from shredded unripe papaya.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Guangxi
Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin.
Guided democracy
Guided democracy, also called managed democracy, is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto authoritarian government or, in some cases, as an autocratic government.
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Gulf of Thailand
The Gulf of Thailand, also known as the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet in the southwestern South China Sea, bounded between the southwestern shores of the Indochinese Peninsula and the northern half of the Malay Peninsula.
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Hainan
Hainan is an island province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration.
Haripuñjaya
Haripuñjaya (Central and Northern Thai: หริภุญชัย, also spelled Haribhuñjaya) was a Mon kingdom in what is now Northern Thailand, existing from the 7th or 8th to 13th century CE.
Head of government
In the executive branch, the head of government is the highest or the second-highest official of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.
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Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.
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Heaven
Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside.
Hell
In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as punishment after death.
Hereditary monarchy
A hereditary monarchy is a form of government and succession of power in which the throne passes from one member of a ruling family to another member of the same family.
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Hill tribe (Thailand)
Hill tribe (ชาวดอย, ชาวเขา,; Northern Thai: จาวดอย, คนดอย,; 'mountain people/folk') is a term used in Thailand for all of the various ethnic groups who mostly inhabit the high mountainous northern and western regions of Thailand, including both sides of the border areas between northern Thailand, Laos and Burma, the Phi Pan Nam Range, the Thanon Range, the latter a southern prolongation of the Shan Hills, as well as the Tenasserim Hills in Western Thailand.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hinduism in Thailand
Hinduism in Thailand is a minority religion followed by 84,400 (0.1%) of the population as of 2020.
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History of Thailand
The Tai ethnic group migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of centuries.
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History of the Jews in Thailand
The history of Jews in Thailand began in the 18th century with the arrival of Baghdadi Jewish families and Jewish peoples from Europe during the Napoleonic era (1799–1815).
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Hmong language
Hmong or Mong (RPA:, Nyiakeng Puachue:, Pahawh) is a dialect continuum of the West Hmongic branch of the Hmongic languages spoken by the Hmong people of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, northern Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos.
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Hmong–Mien languages
The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia.
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Hokkien
Hokkien is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China.
Hormones: The Series
Hormones (Full title: Hormones: Wai Wawun, "Hormones: label"), promoted as Hormones: The Series, is a Thai teen drama television series produced by GTH and first broadcast in 2013.
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House of Representatives (Thailand)
The House of Representatives (สภาผู้แทนราษฎร) is the lower house of the National Assembly of Thailand, the legislative branch of the Thai government. Thailand and house of Representatives (Thailand) are 1932 establishments in Siam.
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Hua Lamphong railway station
Bangkok (Hua Lamphong) railway station (สถานีกรุงเทพ (หัวลำโพง)) is a railway station in Pathum Wan, the former central passenger terminal in Bangkok and the former railway hub of Thailand.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Human rights in Thailand
Human rights in Thailand have long been a contentious issue.
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Human trafficking in Thailand
According to the United States Department of State, "Thailand is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking." Thailand's relative prosperity attracts migrants from neighboring countries who flee conditions of poverty and, in the case of Burma, military repression.
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Hybrid regime
A hybrid regime is a type of political system often created as a result of an incomplete democratic transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one (or vice versa).
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Iconography
Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.
Imperial units
The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia. Thailand and India are countries in Asia and member states of the United Nations.
Indian art
Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk.
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.
Indigenous peoples
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.
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Indochina refugee crisis
The Indochina refugee crisis was the large outflow of people from the former French colonies of Indochina, comprising the countries of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, after communist governments were established in 1975.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Thailand and Indonesia are countries in Asia, member states of ASEAN, member states of the United Nations, newly industrializing countries and southeast Asian countries.
Internal Security Operations Command
Internal Security Operations Command (กองอำนวยการรักษาความมั่นคงภายในราชอาณาจักร) or ISOC (กอ.รมน.) is the political arm of the Royal Thai Armed Forces.
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International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a United Nations convention.
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International Futures
International Futures (IFs) is a global integrated assessment model designed to help with thinking strategically and systematically about key global systems (economic, demographic, education, health, environment, technology, domestic governance, infrastructure, agriculture, energy and environment).
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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International rankings of Thailand
The following are international rankings of Thailand.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Intertropical Convergence Zone
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ, or ICZ), known by sailors as the doldrums or the calms because of its monotonous windless weather, is the area where the northeast and the southeast trade winds converge.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Isan
Northeast Thailand or Isan (Isan/อีสาน,; translit; also written as Isaan, Isarn, Issarn, Issan, Esan, or Esarn; from Pāli isāna or Sanskrit ईशान्य īśānya "northeast") consists of 20 provinces in northeastern Thailand.
Isan language
Isan or Northeastern Thai (autonym: ภาษาลาว/ພາສາລາວ) refers to the local development of the Lao language in Thailand, after the political split of the Lao-speaking world at the Mekong River at the conclusion of the Franco-Siamese crisis of 1893.
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Isan people
The Isan people (คนอีสาน,,; คนอีสาน,; ຄົນອີສານ,; အီသန် လူမျိုး) or literally Northeastern people are an ethnic group native to Northeastern Thailand with an estimated population of about 22 million.
Isanavarman I
Īśānavarman (ឦសានវរ្ម័នទី១,, Iśânasena) or Yīshēnàxiāndài was a king of the kingdom of Chenla in 7th century, which would later become the Khmer Empire.
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Islam in Thailand
มัสยิดฮารูณ Islam is a minority faith in Thailand, with statistics in 2006, suggesting 4.9% of the population are Muslim.
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Israel–Hamas war
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023.
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Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.
James Wattana
James Wattana (born January 17, 1970, as วัฒนา ภู่โอบอ้อม Wattana Pu-Ob-Orm, then renamed รัชพล ภู่โอบอ้อม Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm in 2003) is a Thai former professional snooker player.
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Japanese invasion of Thailand
The Japanese invasion of Thailand (การบุกครองไทยของญี่ปุ่น,; Nihongun no Tai shinchū) occurred on 8 December 1941.
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Jasmine rice
Jasmine rice (ข้าวหอมมะลิ) is a long-grain variety of fragrant rice (also known as aromatic rice).
Jataka tales
The Jātaka (Sanskrit for "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.
Jayavarman VII
Jayavarman VII (isbn He was the first king devoted to Buddhism, as only one prior Khom king had been a Buddhist. He then built the Bayon as a monument to Buddhism. Jayavarman VII is generally considered the most powerful of the Khom monarchs by historians. His government built many projects including hospitals, highways, rest houses, and temples.
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Jinakalamali
(ဇိနကာလမာလီ; ชินกาลมาลีปกรณ์) is a Chiang Mai chronicle that covers mostly about religious history, and contains a section on early Lan Na kings to 1516/1517.
Johannes Vingboons
Johannes Vingboons (1616/1617 – Amsterdam, 20 July 1670) was a Dutch cartographer and watercolourist.
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John Bowring
Sir John Bowring, or Phrayā Siam Mānukūlakicca Siammitra Mahāyaśa (17 October 1792 – 23 November 1872) was a British political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong.
John Crawfurd
John Crawfurd (13 August 1783 – 11 May 1868) was a Scottish physician, colonial administrator, diplomat, and author who served as the second and last Resident of Singapore.
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Joint Commission
The Joint Commission is a United States-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) organization that accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs.
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Journal of Contemporary Asia
The Journal of Contemporary Asia is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering Asian studies.
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Journal of the Siam Society
The Journal of the Siam Society (JSS) is a scholarly journal published by the Siam Society in Bangkok since 1904.
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JSTOR
JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994.
Judiciary
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.
Kaffir lime
Citrus hystrix, called the kaffir lime, Thai lime or makrut lime, is a citrus fruit native to tropical Southeast Asia.
Kaki Klon Suphap
Kaki Klon Suphap (กากีกลอนสุภาพ) is Thai narrative poem in the form of klon suphap, written by Chaophraya Phra Khlang (Hon) during the reign of King Rama I (1782–1809).
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Kamphaeng Phet province
Kamphaeng Phet (กำแพงเพชร) is a province in upper central Thailand.
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Karenic languages
The Karen or Karenic languages are tonal languages spoken by some 4.5 million Karen people.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kelantan-Pattani Malay
Kelantan-Pattani Malay (baso Taning in Pattani; kecek Klate in Kelantan) is an Austronesian language of the Malayic subfamily spoken in the Malaysian state of Kelantan, as well as in Besut and Setiu districts of Terengganu state and the Perhentian Islands, and in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.
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Khao soi
Khao soi or khao soy (ข้าวซอย,; ເຂົ້າຊອຍ,; ข้าวซอย,; ၶဝ်ႈသွႆး,; အုန်းနို့ခေါက်ဆွဲ) is a Chin Haw dish served in Laos and northern Thailand.
Khluen Chiwit
Kluen Cheewit (คลื่นชีวิต, lit. "Life's Waves" or "Waves of Life", also spelled Kluen Cheevit) is a 2017 Thai drama that stars Prin Suparat, Urassaya Sperbund, Louis Scott (actor), and Jarinporn Joonkiat.
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Khmer Empire
The Khmer Empire was a Hindu-Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia, centered around hydraulic cities in what is now northern Cambodia.
Khmer language
Khmer (ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people and the official and national language of Cambodia.
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Khmer people
The Khmer people (ជនជាតិខ្មែរ, UNGEGN:, ALA-LC) are an Austroasiatic ethnic group native to Cambodia and the Mekong Delta.
Khmer script
Khmer script (អក្សរខ្មែរ)Huffman, Franklin.
Khon
Khon (โขน) is a dance drama genre from Thailand.
Khorat Plateau
The Khorat Plateau (ที่ราบสูงโคราช; ที่ฮาบสูงโคราช) is a plateau in the northeastern Thai region of Isan.
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Khorat Thai
Khorat Thai, Korat Thai, Thai Korat or Thai Khorat (ไทโคราช) refers to an ethnic group named for their main settlement area in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, unofficially called "Korat".
Khrua In Khong
Khrua In Khong (ขรัวอินโข่ง), one of the most celebrated Thai artists, was active in the 1850s and 1860s during the reign of King Rama IV.
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Khrueang sai
Wong khrueang sai (วงเครื่องสาย,, literally "string ensemble") is a musical ensemble in Thai classical music which consists primarily of string instruments.
Khun Chang Khun Phaen
Khun Chang Khun Phaen (ขุนช้างขุนแผน) is a long Thai epic poem which originated from a legend of Thai folklore and is one of the most notable works in Thai literature.
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Kite
A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces.
Kra Isthmus
The Kra Isthmus (คอคอดกระ,; Segenting Kra) in Thailand is the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula.
Kra–Dai languages
The Kra–Dai languages (also known as Tai–Kadai and Daic), are a language family in mainland Southeast Asia, southern China, and northeastern India.
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Krabi province
Krabi (กระบี่) is a province (changwat) of southern Thailand, on the shore of the Andaman Sea.
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Krap
The krap (กรับ, ក្រាប់) is a Southeast Asian musical instrument used in Cambodia and Thai for percussion.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal
Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal (สถานีกลางกรุงเทพอภิวัฒน์), also known by its former name Bang Sue Grand Station (สถานีกลางบางซื่อ), is the central passenger terminal in Bangkok and the current railway hub of Thailand.
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Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China.
Kukrit Pramoj
Mom Rajawongse Kukrit Pramoj (คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช,,; 20 April 1911 – 9 October 1995) was a Thai politician, author, scholar and professor.
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Kulap Saipradit
Kulap Saipradit (กุหลาบ สายประดิษฐ์; 31 March 1906 – 16 June 1974), better known by the pen name Siburapha (ศรีบูรพา; also romanized as Sriburapha or Sri Burapha), was a newspaper editor and one of the foremost Thai novelists of his time.
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Laem Chabang
Laem Chabang (แหลมฉบัง) is a port city municipality (thesaban nakhon) in Si Racha and Bang Lamung districts of Chonburi Province, Thailand.
Lakhon nai
Lakhon nai (ละครใน) is a Thai performing art originating in the royal court of Thailand (formerly Siam).
Lan Na
The Lan Na Kingdom or The Kingdom of Lanna (ᩋᩣᨱᩣᨧᩢᨠ᩠ᨠ᩼ᩃ᩶ᩣ᩠ᨶᨶᩣ,, "Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields"; อาณาจักรล้านนา), also known as Lannathai, and most commonly called Lanna or Lanna Kingdom, was an Indianized state centered in present-day Northern Thailand from the 13th to 18th centuries.
Lan Xang
Lan Xang or Lancang was a Lao kingdom that held the area of present-day Laos from 1353 to 1707.
Lao language
Lao (Lao: ພາສາລາວ), sometimes referred to as Laotian, is the official language of Laos and a significant language in the Isan region of northeastern Thailand, where it is usually referred to as the Isan language.
Lao New Year
Lao New Year, called Pi Mai (ປີໃໝ່) or less commonly Songkan (ສົງການ), is celebrated every year from 13 or 14 April to 15 or 16 April.
Lao people
The Lao people are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia, who speak the Lao language of the Kra–Dai languages.
Lao rebellion (1826–1828)
The Lao Rebellion of 1826–1828 (also known as Anouvong's Rebellion or the Vientiane-Siam War) was an attempt by King Anouvong (Xaiya Sethathirath V) of the Kingdom of Vientiane to end the suzerainty of Siam and recreate the former kingdom of Lan Xang.
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Lao–Siamese War (1778–1779)
Lao–Siamese War or the Siamese Invasion of Laos (1778–1779) is the military conflict between Thonburi Kingdom of Siam (now Thailand) and the Lao kingdoms of Vientiane and Champasak.
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Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia. Thailand and Laos are countries in Asia, member states of ASEAN, member states of the United Nations and southeast Asian countries.
Lar gibbon
The lar gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the white-handed gibbon, is an endangered primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae.
Lat Krabang district
Lat Krabang (ลาดกระบัง) is one of the eastern districts of Bangkok.
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Lavalin Skytrain
Lavalin Skytrain (โครงการรถไฟฟ้าลาวาลิน) is a cancelled rapid transit in Bangkok, planned since 1984 during Prem Tinsulanonda reign as prime minister.
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Lavo Kingdom
The Lavo Kingdom was a political entity (mandala) on the left bank of the Chao Phraya River in the Upper Chao Phraya valley from the end of Dvaravati civilization, in the 7th century, until 1388.
Lawa language
Lawa (La'wa, L'wa) is a Mon–Khmer language of Thailand.
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Lèse-majesté
Lèse-majesté or lese-majesty is an offence or defamation against the dignity of a ruling head of state (traditionally a monarch but now more often a president) or of the state itself.
Lèse-majesté in Thailand
In Thailand, lèse-majesté is a crime according to Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code.
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Leopard
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.
Li Fang-Kuei
Li Fang-Kuei (20 August 190221 August 1987) was a Chinese linguist known for his studies of the varieties of Chinese, his reconstructions of Old Chinese and Proto-Tai, and his documentation of Dene languages in North America.
Library of Congress Country Studies
The Country Studies are works published by the Federal Research Division of the United States Library of Congress, freely available for use by researchers.
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Likay
Likay (ลิเก) is a form of popular folk theatre from Central Thailand (not in Bangkok, where Teochew opera are folk theatre.). Its uniqueness is found in the combination of extravagant costumes with barely equipped stages and vaguely determined storylines, so that the performances depend mainly on the actors' skills of improvisation and the audiences' imagination.
Lisa (rapper)
Lalisa Manobal (also spelled Manoban; born Pranpriya Manobal; March 27, 1997), known professionally as Lisa, is a Thai rapper, singer, and dancer.
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List of Buddhist temples in Thailand
There are a total of 41,205 Buddhist temples (wat) in Thailand since last update.
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area.
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List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency.
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List of countries by GDP (PPP)
GDP (PPP) means gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity.
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List of countries by Human Development Index
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 193 nations in the annual Human Development Report.
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List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.
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List of countries by motor vehicle production
This is a list of countries by motor vehicle production based on International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and other data from 2016 and earlier.
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List of national animals
This is a list of countries that have officially designated one or more animals as their national animals.
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List of national parks of Thailand
National parks in Thailand (อุทยานแห่งชาติ) are defined as areas that contain "natural resources of ecological importance or unique beauty, or flora and fauna of special importance".
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Logging
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.
Lopburi
Lopburi (ลพบุรี) is the capital city of Lopburi Province in Thailand.
Lower house
A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where second chamber is the upper house.
Luang Prabang
Luang Phabang, (Lao: ຫລວງພະບາງ/ຫຼວງພະບາງ) or Louangphabang (pronounced), commonly transliterated into Western languages from the pre-1975 Lao spelling ຫຼວງພຣະບາງ (ຣ.
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Luang Saranupraphan
Luang Saranupraphan (Nuan Pachinphayak) (หลวงสารานุประพันธ์ (นวล ปาจิณพยัคฆ์); 24 August 1896–14 June 1954) was a Thai writer.
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Lumpinee Boxing Stadium
Lumpinee Boxing Stadium (สนามเวทีมวยลุมพินี) is a sporting arena in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Mae Klong
The Mae Klong, sometimes spelled Meklong, is a river in western Thailand.
Mae Sai district
Mae Sai (แม่สาย,; Shan) is the northernmost district (amphoe) of Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand.
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Maha Thammaracha I
Maha Thammaracha I (มหาธรรมราชาที่ ๑), born as Li Thai (ลิไทย), was a king of the Sukhothai Kingdom, and the first Buddhist philosopher to write in the Thai language.
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Mahidol University
Mahidol University is an autonomous public research university in Thailand.
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Mahori
The mahori (มโหรี), possibly from Sanskrit मनोहर (manohara, meaning "fascinating, attractive, charming, beautiful") + -ई (-ī, a feminine suffix), is a form of Thai classical ensemble traditionally played in the royal courts for the purpose of secular entertainment.
Mainland Southeast Asia
Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.
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Major non-NATO ally
A major non-NATO ally (MNNA) is a designation given by the United States government to countries that have strategic working relationships with the U.S. Armed Forces while not being members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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Malacca Sultanate
The Malacca Sultanate (Kesultanan Melaka; Jawi script: کسلطانن ملاک) was a Malay sultanate based in the modern-day state of Malacca, Malaysia.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.
Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula is located in Mainland Southeast Asia.
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Malayan sun bear
The Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus malayanus) is a subspecies of sun bear, occurring in southeast Asia.
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Malays (ethnic group)
Malays (Orang Melayu, Jawi) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Thailand and Malaysia are countries in Asia, member states of ASEAN, member states of the United Nations and southeast Asian countries.
Manager Daily
Manager Daily 360 Degree (ผู้จัดการรายวัน 360 องศา) is a Thai-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok and distributed nationwide.
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Mandala (political model)
Maṇḍala is a Sanskrit word meaning 'circle'.
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Mango sticky rice
Mango sticky rice is a traditional Southeast Asian and South Asian dessert made with glutinous rice, fresh mango and coconut milk, and eaten with a spoon or the hands.
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Mangrai
Mangrai (ᨾᩢ᩠ᨦᩁᩣ᩠ᨿ; มังราย; 1238–1311) was the 25th king of Ngoenyang (r. 1261–1292) and the first king of Lanna (r. 1292–1311).
March 1992 Thai general election
General elections were held in Thailand on 22 March 1992, the first after the National Peace Keeping Council overthrew the elected government of Chatichai Choonhavan in a coup on 23 February 1991.
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Maritime boundary
A maritime boundary is a conceptual division of Earth's water surface areas using physiographical or geopolitical criteria.
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Mass Rapid Transit Master Plan in Bangkok Metropolitan Region
The Mass Rapid Transit Master Plan in Bangkok Metropolitan Region, or M-Map, is the latest version in a series of Thai government plans for the development of an urban rail transit network serving the Greater Bangkok area.
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Massaman curry
Massaman curry (แกงมัสมั่น) is a rich, flavourful, and mildly spicy Thai curry.
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Matichon
Matichon (มติชน, also known as Matichon Daily to distinguish it from other related publications) is a major Thai-language national daily newspaper.
Medical cannabis
Medical cannabis, medicinal cannabis or medical marijuana (MMJ), is cannabis and cannabinoids that are prescribed by physicians for their patients.
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Medical tourism
Medical tourism is the practice of traveling abroad to obtain medical treatment.
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Mekong
The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Menora (dance)
Menora or Manora (มโนราห์), sometimes shortened as Nora (โนรา) is traditional Siamese theatrical, musical, and acrobatic dance performance originated from the southern regions of Thailand.
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Metre-gauge railway
Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.
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Metric system
The metric system is a decimal-based system of measurement.
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Michel Ferlus
Michel Ferlus (1935–2024) was a French linguist who specialized in the historical phonology of languages of Southeast Asia.
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Middle power
A middle power is a state that is not a superpower or a great power, but still exerts influence and plays a significant role in international relations.
Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.
Military dictatorship
A military dictatorship, or a military regime, is a type of dictatorship in which power is held by one or more military officers.
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Military junta
A military junta is a government led by a committee of military leaders.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
Minibus
A minibus, microbus, or minicoach is a passenger-carrying motor vehicle that is designed to carry more people than a multi-purpose vehicle or minivan, but fewer people than a full-size bus.
Ministry of Defence (Thailand)
The Ministry of Defence (Abrv: MOD; กระทรวงกลาโหม), is a cabinet-level government department of the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Ministry of Digital Economy and Society
The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (Abrv: MDES; กระทรวงดิจิทัลเพื่อเศรษฐกิจและสังคม), formerly known as the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT), กระทรวงเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและการสื่อสาร, is a cabinet ministry of Thailand.
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Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation
The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (Abrv: MHESI; กระทรวงการอุดมศึกษา วิทยาศาสตร์ วิจัยและนวัตกรรม), is a Thai government body responsible for the oversight of Higher education, research, and science and technology in Thailand.
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Ministry of Labour (Thailand)
The Ministry of Labour (Abrv: MOL; กระทรวงแรงงาน), is a Thai government body responsible for the oversight of labour administration and protection, skill development, and the promotion of employment in Thailand.
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Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Thailand)
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Abrv: MNRE; กระทรวงทรัพยากรธรรมชาติและสิ่งแวดล้อม) is a cabinet ministry in the Government of Thailand.
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Ministry of Public Health (Thailand)
The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH; กระทรวงสาธารณสุข) is a Thai governmental body responsible for the oversight of public health in Thailand.
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Mlabri language
Mlabri is a language spoken by the Mlabri people in the border area between Thailand and Laos.
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Modernization theory
Modernization theory holds that as societies become more economically modernized, wealthier and more educated, their political institutions become increasingly liberal democratic.
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Moken language
Moken is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by inhabitants in southern Myanmar and Southern Thailand, who refer to themselves as Moken (people) and Mawken.
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Mon kingdoms
Mon kingdoms were polities established by the Mon-speaking people in parts of present-day Myanmar and Thailand.
Mon language
The Mon language (ဘာသာမန်; Mon-Thai ဘာသာမည်; မွန်ဘာသာစကား; ภาษามอญ; formerly known as Peguan and Talaing) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Mon people.
Mon people
The Mon (ဂကူမန်; Thai Mon.
Monarchies of Malaysia
The monarchies of Malaysia exist in each of the nine Malay states under the constitutional monarchy system as practised in Malaysia.
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Monarchy of Thailand
The monarchy of Thailand is the constitutional form of government of Thailand (formerly Siam). Thailand and monarchy of Thailand are kingdoms.
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Mongkut
Mongkut (มงกุฏ; 18 October 18041 October 1868) was the fourth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IV.
Mores
Mores (sometimes;, plural form of singular mōs, meaning "manner, custom, usage, or habit") are social norms that are widely observed within a particular society or culture.
Move Forward Party
The Move Forward Party (พรรคก้าวไกล) is a social democratic and progressive political party in Thailand.
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MRT (Bangkok)
The Metropolitan Rapid Transit or MRT is a mass rapid transit system serving the Bangkok Metropolitan Region in Thailand.
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Muang Sua
Muang Sua was the name of Luang Phrabang following its conquest in 698 by a Tai/Lao prince, Khun Lo, who seized his opportunity when the king of Nanzhao was engaged elsewhere.
Muay Thai
Muay Thai (มวยไทย), sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, is a Thai martial art and full-contact combat sport that uses stand-up striking, sweeps, and various clinching techniques.
Mueang
Mueang (เมือง mɯ̄ang), Muang (ເມືອງ mɯ́ang,; Tai Nuea: ᥛᥫᥒᥰ muang), Mong (မိူင်း mə́ŋ), Meng or Mường (Vietnamese) were pre-modern semi-independent city-states or principalities in mainland Southeast Asia, adjacent regions of Northeast India and Southern China, including what is now Thailand, Laos, Burma, Cambodia, parts of northern Vietnam, southern Yunnan, western Guangxi and Assam.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest. Thailand and Myanmar are countries in Asia, member states of ASEAN, member states of the United Nations and southeast Asian countries.
Nakhon Pathom
Nakhon Pathom (นครปฐม) is a city (thesaban nakhon) in central Thailand, the former capital of Nakhon Pathom province.
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Nakhon Si Thammarat
Nakhon Si Thammarat (นครศรีธรรมราช,; from Pali Nagara Sri Dhammaraja) is a city municipality (thesaban nakhon) located in Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat, the capital of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.
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Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom
The Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom (อาณาจักรนครศรีธรรมราช), Nagara Sri Dharmarashtra or the Kingdom of Ligor, was one of the major constituent city states (mueang) of the Siamese kingdoms of Sukhothai and later Ayutthaya and controlled a sizeable part of the Malay Peninsula.
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Nam tok mu
Nam tok mu (ໝູນໍ້າຕົກ; น้ำตกหมู) is one type of Lao and Thai salad.
Narai
King Narai the Great (สมเด็จพระนารายณ์มหาราช) or Ramathibodi III (รามาธิบดีที่ ๓) was the 27th monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom, the 4th and last monarch of the Prasat Thong dynasty.
Narathiwat province
Narathiwat (นราธิวาส,; Malay: Menara) is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand.
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Naresuan
King Naresuan the Great (สมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช,,,, မဟာ နရဲစွမ်) or Sanphet II (สรรเพชญ์ที่ ๒), (1555/1556 – 25 April 1605) was the 18th monarch of the Ayutthaya Kingdom and 2nd monarch of the Sukhothai dynasty.
National Assembly (Thailand)
The National Assembly of Thailand (Abrv: NAT; รัฐสภา) is the bicameral legislative branch of the government of Thailand. Thailand and National Assembly (Thailand) are 1932 establishments in Siam.
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National Council for Peace and Order
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO; คณะรักษาความสงบแห่งชาติ;; abbreviated (คสช.)) was the military junta that ruled Thailand between its 2014 Thai coup d'état on 22 May 2014 and 16 July 2019.
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National Peace Keeping Council
The National Peace Keeping Council (NPKC) (คณะรักษาความสงบเรียบร้อยแห่งชาติ.) was the name assumed by a Thai military junta that overthrew the elected civilian government of Chatichai Choonhavan in 1991.
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National Statistical Office (Thailand)
The National Statistical Office of Thailand (NSO) (สำนักงานสถิติแห่งชาติ) is the government of Thailand's official statistics surveyor.
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Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
Nepotism
Nepotism is the act of granting an advantage, privilege, or position to relatives or friends in an occupation or field.
Network monarchy
The network monarchy is a conceptual framework developed by some academics of Thai politics to describe a political network involved in active interventions in the political process by the monarch and his proxies under the country's constitutional monarchy system.
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New York Asian Film Festival
The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is a film festival held in New York City dedicated to the display of Asian film and culture.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.
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Newly industrialized country
The category of newly industrialized country (NIC), newly industrialized economy (NIE) or middle income country is a socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world by political scientists and economists.
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Ngoenyang
The Kingdom of Hiran or the Kingdom of Ngoenyang (อาณาจักรหิรัญเงินยาง) was an early mueang or kingdom of the Northern Thai people from the 7th through 13th centuries AD and was originally centered on Hiran, formerly Vieng Prueksa, in modern-day Thailand near today's Mae Sai district in Chiang Rai, and later on Ngoenyang or Chiang Saen.
Nguyễn lords
The Nguyễn lords (主阮; 1558–1777, 1780–1802), also known as the Nguyễn clan, were a feudal nobility clan that ruled southern part of Đại Việt during the Revival Lê dynasty and ancestors of Nguyễn dynasty's emperors.
Nicholas II
Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 186817 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.
Non-communicable disease
A non-communicable disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another.
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Noppon Saengkham
Noppon Saengkham (born 15 July 1992) is a Thai professional snooker player.
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Northeast India
Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. It comprises eight states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (commonly known as the "Seven Sisters"), and the "brother" state of Sikkim.
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Northern and southern China
Northern China and Southern China are two approximate regions within China.
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Northern Thai language
Kam Mueang (ᨣᩴᩤᨾᩮᩬᩥᨦ, กำเมือง) or Northern Thai language (ภาษาไทยถิ่นเหนือ) is the language of the Northern Thai people of Lanna, Thailand.
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Northern Thai people
The Northern Thai people or Tai Yuan (ไทยวน), self-designation khon mu(e)ang (ᨤᩫ᩠ᨶᨾᩮᩬᩥᨦ, คนเมือง meaning "people of the (cultivated) land" or "people of our community") are a Tai ethnic group, native to nine provinces in Northern Thailand, principally in the area of the former kingdom of Lan Na.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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ODI (think tank)
ODI is a global affairs think tank, founded in 1960.
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Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council
The Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (สำนักงานสภาพัฒนาการเศรษฐกิจและสังคมแห่งชาติ), also known as NESDC (สภาพัฒน์), is a national economic planning agency of Thailand.
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Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (องค์บาก), also known as Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior or simply Ong-Bak, is a 2003 Thai martial arts film directed by Prachya Pinkaew and featured action choreography by Panna Rittikrai.
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia.
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Organization of American States
The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; Organización de los Estados Americanos; Organização dos Estados Americanos; Organisation des États américains) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.
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Outline of Thailand
The following outline is an overview of and topical guide to Thailand.
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Overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
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Pad thai
Pad Thai, phat Thai, or phad Thai (or; ผัดไทย,, ISO: p̄hạd thịy,, 'Thai stir fry'), is a stir-fried rice noodle dish commonly served as a street food in Thailand as part of the country's cuisine.
Pagan Kingdom
The Kingdom of Pagan (ပုဂံခေတ်,,; also known as the Pagan dynasty and the Pagan Empire; also the Bagan dynasty or Bagan Empire) was the first Burmese kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern-day Myanmar.
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Painting
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").
Palace
A palace is a large residence, often serving as a royal residence or the home for a head of state or another high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.
Palace Revolt of 1912
The Palace Revolt of 1912 (Thai: กบฏ ร.ศ. 130) was a failed uprising against the absolute monarchy of Siam.
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Palang Pracharath Party
Palang Pracharath Party (พรรคพลังประชารัฐ) is a Thai civil-military political party with ties to the National Council for Peace and Order, the military junta that ruled the country after the 2014 coup.
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Pali
Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.
Paramilitary
A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.
Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)
The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious Allies set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.
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Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
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Patani (historical region)
Patani Darussalam (Malay: Kesultanan Patani Darussalam, Jawi: كسلطانن ڤطاني دارالسلام, also sometimes Patani Raya or Patani Besar, Greater Patani; ปตานี) is a historical region and sultanate in the Malay Peninsula.
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Pattani province
Pattani (ปัตตานี,; Jawi: ڤطاني, 'ตานิง,, Malay: Patani) is one of the southern provinces of Thailand.
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Pattaya
Pattaya (พัทยา) is a city in Eastern Thailand, the second-largest city in Chonburi province and the eighth-largest city in Thailand.
People's Alliance for Democracy
The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD; Phanthamit Prachachon Pheu Prachathipatai; commonly known as "Yellow Shirts") was a Thai reactionary, monarchist political movement and pressure group.
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People's Democratic Reform Committee
The People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) or People's Committee for Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State (PCAD) was a reactionary umbrella political pressure group in Thailand.
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People's Party (Thailand)
The People's Party, known in Thai as Khana Ratsadon (คณะราษฎร), was a Siamese group of military and civil officers, and later a political party, which staged a bloodless revolution against King Prajadhipok's government and transformed the country's absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy on 24 June 1932.
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People's Power Party (Thailand)
The People's Power Party (PPP; พรรคพลังประชาชน) was a defunct Thai political party.
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Perspective (graphical)
Linear or point-projection perspective is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection.
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Phang Nga
Phang Nga (พังงา) is a town (thesaban mueang) in southern Thailand, capital of Phang Nga Province.
Phanom Rung Historical Park
Phanom Rung Historical Park is an archaeological site in Thailand, covering the ruins of Prasat Phanom Rung (ปราสาทพนมรุ้ง), a Hindu Khmer Empire temple complex set on the rim of an extinct volcano at elevation.
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Pheu Thai Party
The Pheu Thai Party (PTP; lit) is a major Thai political party and is the third incarnation of a Thai political party founded by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Philippine jade culture
Philippine jade culture, or jade artifacts, made from white and green nephrite and dating as far back as 2000–1500 BC, have been discovered at a number of archaeological excavations in the Philippines since the 1930s.
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Phimai
Phimai (พิมาย) is a township (thesaban tambon) in Nakhon Ratchasima Province in northeast Thailand.
Phitsanulok
Phitsanulok (พิษณุโลก) is a city, municipality, the capital and the largest populated place of the Thai province of Phitsanulok.
Phra Aphai Mani
Phra Aphai Mani is a 48,700-line epic poem composed by Thai poet Sunthorn Phu (สุนทรภู่), who is known as "the Bard of Rattanakosin" (กวีเอกแห่งกรุงรัตนโกสินทร์).
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Phra Pathommachedi
Phra Pathommachedi or Phra Pathom Chedi (พระปฐมเจดีย์) is a Buddhist stupa in Thailand.
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Phra Ruang
Phra Ruang (พระร่วง) is a legendary figure from Thai history, usually described as the founder of the first Thai kingdom who freed the people from the rule of the ancient Khmer Empire.
Phrom
Phrom (พรหม), also known as Phrom the Great (พรหมมหาราช) or Phromkuman (พรหมกุมาร) was a ruler of Singhanavati (Yonok) realm in Lanna region (modern northern Thailand).
Phu Thai language
Phu Thai (Phuu Thai; Thai, Phu Thai: Phasa Phuthai, ภาษาผู้ไท or ภูไท) is a Southwestern Tai language spoken in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Phuket province
Phuket is one of the southern provinces (''changwat'') of Thailand.
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Pileated gibbon
The pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus) is a primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae.
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Piphat
A piphat (วงปี่พาทย์) is a kind of ensemble in the classical music of Thailand, which features wind and percussion instruments.
Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram (แปลก พิบูลสงคราม; alternatively transcribed as Pibulsongkram or Pibulsonggram; 14 July 1897 – 11 June 1964), locally known as Marshal P. (จอมพล ป.), and contemporarily known as Phibun (Pibul) in the West, was a Thai military officer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Thailand from 1938 to 1944 and 1948 to 1957.
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Populism
Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group with "the elite".
Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.
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Portuguese people
The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.
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Post Today
Post Today (โพสต์ทูเดย์) was a Thai-language daily newspaper published from 7 February 2003 to 31 March 2019, and operating since then as a news website.
Powerlifting
Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.
Prabda Yoon
Prabda Yoon (ปราบดา หยุ่น;; born 2 August 1973 in Bangkok) is a Thai writer, novelist, filmmaker, artist, graphic designer, magazine editor, screenwriter, translator and media personality.
Prajadhipok
Prajadhipok (8 November 1893 – 30 May 1941) was the seventh king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VII.
Prayut Chan-o-cha
Prayut Chan-o-cha (sometimes spelled Prayuth Chan-ocha; ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา,; born 21 March 1954) is a Thai former politician and army officer.
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Preah Vihear Temple
Preah Vihear Temple (Khmer: ប្រាសាទព្រះវិហារ Prasat Preah Vihear) is an ancient Hindu temple built by the Khmer Empire, located on top of a cliff in the Dângrêk Mountains, in the Preah Vihear province of Cambodia.
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Prem Tinsulanonda
Prem Tinsulanonda (เปรม ติณสูลานนท์,,; 26 August 1920 – 26 May 2019) was a Thai military officer, politician, and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Thailand from 3 March 1980 to 4 August 1988, during which time he was credited with ending a communist insurgency and presiding over accelerating economic growth.
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Prime Minister of Thailand
The prime minister of Thailand (นายกรัฐมนตรี,,; literally 'chief minister of state') is the head of government of Thailand. Thailand and prime Minister of Thailand are 1932 establishments in Siam.
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Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) (ศูนย์มานุษยวิทยาสิรินธร) is an academic institution under the Ministry of Culture in Taling Chan District, Bangkok, Thailand, established in 1992, with the aim of the systematic gathering, processing, and maintenance of anthropological data scattered throughout the country.
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Prostitution in Thailand
Prostitution in Thailand is not itself illegal, but public solicitation for prostitution is prohibited if it is carried out "openly and shamelessly" or "causes nuisance to the public".
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Provinces of Thailand
The provinces of Thailand are administrative divisions of the government of Thailand.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
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Rail transport in Bangkok
Rail transport was introduced to Bangkok in 1893, and the national railway network was developed during the 20th century.
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Raja
Raja (from, IAST) is a royal Sanskrit title that was historically used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Rajamangala Stadium
The Rajamangala National Stadium (ราชมังคลากีฬาสถาน) is the national stadium of Thailand national football team.
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Ram Khamhaeng
Ram Khamhaeng (รามคำแหง) or Pho Khun Ram Khamhaeng Maharat (พ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราช), also spelled Ramkhamhaeng, was the third king of the Phra Ruang Dynasty, ruling the Sukhothai Kingdom (a historical kingdom of Thailand) from 1279 to 1298, during its most prosperous era.
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Ram Khamhaeng Inscription
The Ram Khamhaeng Inscription, formally known as Sukhothai Inscription No. 1, is a stone stele bearing inscriptions which have traditionally been regarded as the earliest example of the Thai script.
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Rama I
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Phutthayotfa Chulalok Maharat (20 March 1737 – 7 September 1809), personal name Thongduang (ทองด้วง), also known as Rama I, was the founder of the Rattanakosin Kingdom (now Thailand) and the first King of Siam from the reigning Chakri dynasty.
Ramakien
The (รามเกียรติ์,,;; sometimes also spelled) is one of Thailand's national epics.
Ranong
Ranong (ระนอง) is a town (thesaban mueang) in southern Thailand, capital of the Ranong Province and the Mueang Ranong District.
Ratchaburi province
Ratchaburi province (จังหวัดราชบุรี) or Rat Buri is one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces (changwat) lies in Western Thailand.
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Ratchayothin Yotharuck
Ratchayothin Yotharuck (รัชโยธิน โยธารักษ์, born 13 December 1995 in Nakhon Nayok, Thailand) is a Thai former professional snooker player.
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Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)
The Rattanakosin Kingdom (อาณาจักรรัตนโกสินทร์,,, abbreviated as รัตนโกสินทร์), the Kingdom of Siam, or the Rattanakosin Empire, were names used to reference the fourth and current Thai kingdom in the history of Thailand (then known as Siam).
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Relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
Religion in Thailand
Buddhism is the largest religion in Thailand, practised by roughly 94% of the population.
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Republicanism
Republicanism is a Western political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others.
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Rice production in Thailand
Rice production in Thailand represents a significant portion of the Thai economy and labor force.
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Right of conquest
The right of conquest was historically a right of ownership to land after immediate possession via force of arms.
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Rohingya people
The Rohingya people (Rohingya) are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
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Romvong
Romvong (រាំវង់, also romanized as Rom Vong or Roam Vong), Lamvong (Lao: ລຳວົງ -) or Ramwong (รำวง;; Tai Lue: ᩃ᪁ ᩴᩅᩫ ᩬ; Tai Khun: ᨽ᩠ᨿᨦᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᩃᩨᩢ;; လမ်းဝူင်), Rambung (رمبوڠ), lăm-vông) is a type of Southeast Asian dance where both females and males dance in a circle.
Royal intermarriage
Royal intermarriage is the practice of members of ruling dynasties marrying into other reigning families.
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Royal prerogative
The royal prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege, and immunity recognized in common law (and sometimes in civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy) as belonging to the sovereign, and which have become widely vested in the government.
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Royal Thai Air Force
The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) (กองทัพอากาศไทย) is the air force of the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Royal Thai Armed Forces
The Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTARF; กองทัพไทย) are the armed forces of the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters
The Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters (กองบัญชาการกองทัพไทย) or the RTARF HQ, is the "mostly ornamental" joint headquarters of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, which is composed of the Royal Thai Army, the Royal Thai Navy and Royal Thai Marine Corps, and the Royal Thai Air Force.
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Royal Thai Army
The Royal Thai Army or RTA (กองทัพบกไทย) is the army of Thailand and the oldest and largest branch of the Royal Thai Armed Forces.
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Royal Thai Navy
The Royal Thai Navy (Abrv: RTN, ทร.; กองทัพเรือไทย) is the naval warfare force of Thailand.
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Saek language
Saek (Sek; Thai: ภาษาแสก) is a Tai language spoken in at least ten villages in Khammouane Province, Laos, and at least four villages in Nakhon Phanom Province in northeastern Thailand, just across the Mekong River.
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Sakdina
Sakdina (ศักดินา) was a system of social hierarchy in use from the Ayutthaya to early Rattanakosin periods of Thai history.
Samart Payakaroon
Samart Tiptarmi (สามารถ ทิพย์ท่าไม้; born December 5, 1962), known professionally as Samart Payakaroon (สามารถ พยัคฆ์อรุณ), is a Thai retired Muay Thai fighter, professional boxer, and entertainer.
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Sanitation
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sansoen Phra Barami
"Sansoen Phra Barami" (สรรเสริญพระบารมี) is the current royal anthem of Thailand.
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Sanya Dharmasakti
Sanya Dharmasakti (สัญญา ธรรมศักดิ์,,; 5 April 1907 – 6 January 2002) was a Thai jurist, university professor and politician.
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Sarit Thanarat
Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat (also spelt Dhanarajata; สฤษดิ์ ธนะรัชต์,; 16 June 1908 – 8 December 1963) was a Thai general who staged a coup in 1957, replacing Plaek Phibunsongkhram as Thailand's prime minister until Sarit died in 1963.
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Sattahip district
Sattahip (สัตหีบ) is a district (amphoe) in Chonburi province, Thailand.
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Satun province
Satun (สตูล, is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Trang, Phatthalung, and Songkhla. To the south it borders Perlis of Malaysia.
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Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
Sea level rise
Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.
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Senate of Thailand
The Senate of Thailand (วุฒิสภา,,; formerly known as the Phruetthasapha, พฤฒสภา) is the upper house of the National Assembly of Thailand, Thailand's legislative branch.
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Sepak takraw
Sepak takraw, or Sepaktakraw, also called buka ball, kick volleyball or foot volleyball, is a team sport.
Separation of powers
The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each.
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Sepha
Sepha (เสภา) is a genre of Thai poetic storytelling that had its origins in the performances of troubadours who stylized recitations were accompanied by two small sticks of wood (krap) to give rhythm and emphasis.
Shan language
The Shan language is the native language of the Shan people and is mostly spoken in Shan State, Myanmar.
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Shan people
The Shan people (တႆး,; ရှမ်းလူမျိုး), also known as the Tai Long or Tai Yai, are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia.
Shutter (2004 film)
Shutter (Thai: ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ Chattoe: Kot Tit Winyan, "Shutter: Press to Capture Ghosts") is a 2004 Thai supernatural horror film by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom; starring Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, and Achita Sikamana.
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Si Inthrathit
Si Inthrathit (ศรีอินทราทิตย์,; also spelt) was the first king of the Sukhothai Kingdom, a historical kingdom of Thailand, and ruled from 1238 until around 1270.
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Siamese conquest of Lan Na (1774–1775)
The Siamese conquest of Lan Na (1774–1775) was a military conflict between the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (now Myanmar) and the Thonburi Kingdom of Siam (now Thailand).
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Siamese revolution of 1688
The Siamese revolution of 1688 was a major popular uprising in the Siamese Ayutthaya Kingdom (modern Thailand) which led to the overthrow of the pro-French Siamese king Narai.
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Siamese revolution of 1932
The Siamese revolution of 1932 or Siamese coup d'état of 1932 (การปฏิวัติสยาม พ.ศ. or การเปลี่ยนแปลงการปกครองสยาม พ.ศ.) was a coup d'état by the People's Party which occurred in Siam on 24 June 1932.
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Siamese–Vietnamese War (1771–1773)
The Siamese–Vietnamese War (1771–1773) was a war between Siam (modern Thailand) of the Thonburi Period in the reign of King Taksin and the Nguyễn Lords of Cochinchina or Southern Vietnam.
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Siamese–Vietnamese wars
The Siamese–Vietnamese wars were a series of armed conflicts between the Siamese Ayutthaya Kingdom and Rattanakosin Kingdom and the various dynasties of Vietnam mainly during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Sikhism in Thailand
Sikhism is a recognised minority religion in Thailand, with about 70,000 adherents.
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Singhanavati
Singhanavati was a Tai semi-legendary kingdom based along the Kok River in the Chiang Rai Basin in northern Thailand, existed from 691 BCE to 638 CE.
Sino-Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers.
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Sinosphere (linguistics)
The Sinosphere is the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area.
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Snooker
Snooker (pronounced) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.
Somdet Chaophraya Borom Maha Sri Suriwongse
Somdet Chaophraya Borom Maha Sri Suriwongse (สมเด็จเจ้าพระยาบรมมหาศรีสุริยวงศ์,,; also spelled Suriyawong, etc.; 23 December 1808 – 19 January 1883), whose personal name was Chuang Bunnag, was a prominent 19th century Thai figure who served as the regent during the early years of the reign of King Chulalongkorn.
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Song Huiyao Jigao
Song Huiyao Jigao ('Song Government Manuscript Compendium') is a Qing dynasty collection of Song dynasty writings on Song government, edited by Xu Song and others who extracted the manuscripts in part from the Ming dynasty Yongle Encyclopedia (1408).
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Songkhla province
Songkhla (สงขลา,, Singgora) is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand.
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Songthaew
A songthaew (two rows,,; ສອງແຖວ,; dua baris) is a passenger vehicle in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar adapted from a pick-up or a larger truck and used as a share taxi or bus.
South Thailand insurgency
The South Thailand insurgency (ความไม่สงบในชายแดนภาคใต้ของประเทศไทย; Pemberontakan di Selatan Thailand) is an ongoing conflict centered in southern Thailand.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines.
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Southern Thai language
Southern Thai (ภาษาไทยถิ่นใต้), also known as Dambro (ภาษาตามโพร), Pak Tai (ภาษาปักษ์ใต้), or "Southern language" (ภาษาใต้), is a Southwestern Tai ethnolinguistic identity and language spoken in southern Thailand as well as by small communities in the northernmost Malaysian states.
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Southerners Sports Club
The Southerners Sports Club is an informal, non-commercial Bangkok-based club of expats and Thais.
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Southwestern Tai languages
The Southwestern Tai or Thai languages are a branch of the Tai languages of Southeast Asia.
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Special 301 Report
The Special 301 Report is prepared annually by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) that identifies trade barriers to United States companies and products due to the intellectual property laws, such as copyright, patents and trademarks, in other countries.
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Srettha Thavisin
Srettha Thavisin (เศรษฐา ทวีสิน,,; born 15 February 1962), nicknamed Nid (นิด), is a Thai businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Thailand since 22 August 2023.
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Sri Thanonchai
Sri Thanonchai (ศรีธนญชัย) is a trickster and antihero from Thai folklore and the subject of a traditional oral epic set during the Ayutthaya Kingdom.
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SRT Red Lines
The Red Line Mass Transit System Project is a commuter rail system serving the Bangkok Metropolitan Region in Thailand.
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State Railway of Thailand
The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) (การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย, abbrev. รฟท.) is the state-owned rail operator under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport in Thailand.
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Strait of Malacca
The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, long and from 65 to 250 km (40–155 mi) wide, between the Malay Peninsula to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, connecting the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean).
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Suchinda Kraprayoon
Suchinda Kraprayoon (สุจินดา คราประยูร,; born 6 August 1933) is a Thai retired army general and politician.
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Sujit Wongthes
Sujit Wongthes สุจิตต์ วงษ์เทศ (or Wongthet) (b. April 20 1945) is a Thai journalist and author.
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Sukavich Rangsitpol
Sukavich Rangsitpol (สุขวิช รังสิตพล; born 5 December 1935) is a Thai business executive and politician.
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Sukhothai Historical Park
Sukhothai Historical Park (อุทยานประวัติศาสตร์สุโขทัย) covers the ruins of Sukhothai, literally 'dawn of happiness', capital of the Sukhothai Kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries, in north central Thailand.
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Sukhothai Kingdom
The Sukhothai Kingdom (สุโขทัย,, IAST) or the Northern Cities was a post-classical Siamese kingdom (mandala) in Mainland Southeast Asia surrounding the ancient capital city of Sukhothai in present-day north-central Thailand.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Sunthorn Phu
Phra Sunthorn Vohara (Phu) (พระสุนทรโวหาร (ภู่),,; 26 June 1786 – 1855), known as Sunthorn Phu (สุนทรภู่), is Thailand's best-known royal poet.
Suphannahong National Film Awards
The Suphannahong National Film Awards (รางวัลภาพยนตร์แห่งชาติ สุพรรณหงส์, also known as the Thailand National Film Association Awards) is the primary film award of the Thai film industry.
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Suvarnabhumi Airport
Suvarnabhumi Airport (ท่าอากาศยานสุวรรณภูมิ,, or colloquially as สนามบินสุวรรณภูมิ,; from Sanskrit सुवर्णभूमि (Suvarṇabhūmi), literally 'golden land') is the main international airport serving Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
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Tabinshwehti
Tabinshwehti (တပင်ရွှေထီး,; 16 April 1516 – 30 April 1550) was king of Burma (Myanmar) from 1530 to 1550, and the founder of the First Toungoo Empire.
Taekwondo
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving punching and kicking techniques.
Tai languages
The Tai, Zhuang–Tai, or Daic languages (ภาษาไท or ภาษาไต, transliteration: or, or phasa tai; ພາສາໄຕ, Phasa Tai) are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family.
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Tai peoples
Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages.
Taksin
King Taksin the Great (สมเด็จพระเจ้าตากสินมหาราช) or the King of Thonburi (สมเด็จพระเจ้ากรุงธนบุรี,;; Teochew: Dên Chao; 17 April 1734 – 7 April 1782) was the only king of the Thonburi Kingdom that ruled Thailand from 1767 to 1782.
Tambralinga
Tambralinga (sc) was an Indianised kingdom located on the Malay Peninsula (in modern-day Southern Thailand), existing at least from the 2nd to 13th centuries CE.
Tapi River (Thailand)
The Tapi (or Tapee) river (แม่น้ำตาปี) is the longest river in southern Thailand.
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Tata Group
The Tata Group is a group of companies headquartered in Mumbai, India.
Tata Young
Amita Marie "Tata" Young (อมิตา มารี "ทาทา" ยัง; born 14 December 1980) is a Thai singer, actress and model who gained prominence in Thailand when she placed first in a national singing contest at age 11, subsequently signing a record deal and releasing her first album Amita Tata Young in 1995.
Tây Sơn dynasty
The Tây Sơn dynasty (Chữ Nôm: 茹西山|lit.
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Telephone numbers in Thailand
Thailand's telephone numbering plan in Thailand is managed by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) in accordance with International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) recommendation E.164.
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Temple
A temple (from the Latin templum) is a place of worship, a building used for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice.
Teochew Min
Teochew, also known as Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan), is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world.
Territorial Defense Student
Territorial Defense Student (นักศึกษาวิชาทหาร) is a military youth organization in Thailand under control of the Royal Thai Army, and recently the Royal Thai Navy and Royal Thai Air Force.
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Territorial losses of Thailand
The territorial losses of Thailand is a concept in Thai historiography, referring to conflicts during the Rattanakosin period of Thailand (or Siam as it was historically known) where the country was forced to cede territory, especially to the Western powers of France and Great Britain during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V, 1868–1910).
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Thai art
Thai art refers to a diverse range of art forms created in Thailand from prehistoric times to the present day, including architecture, sculpture, painting, textiles, decorative arts, crafts, ceramics, and more.
Thai baht
The baht (บาท,; sign: ฿; code: THB) is the official currency of Thailand.
Thai Chinese
Thai Chinese (also known as Chinese Thais, Sino-Thais), Thais of Chinese origin (ชาวไทยเชื้อสายจีน; exonym and also domestically) are Chinese descendants in Thailand.
Thai folklore
Thai folklore is a diverse set of mythology and traditional beliefs held by the Thai people.
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Thai fried rice
Thai fried rice (ข้าวผัด) is a variety of fried rice typical of central Thai cuisine.
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Thai greeting
The Thai greeting referred to as the wai (ไหว้) consists of a slight bow, with the palms pressed together in a prayer-like fashion.
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Thai highlands
The Thai highlands or Hills of northern Thailand is a mountainous natural region in the north of Thailand.
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Thai honorifics
Honorifics are a class of words or grammatical morphemes that encode a wide variety of social relationships between interlocutors or between interlocutors and referents.
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Thai Humanitarian Assistance Task Force 976 Thai-Iraq
The Task Force 976 Thai-Iraq (กองกำลังเฉพาะกิจ 976 ไทย-อิรัก) (กกล.ฉก ๙๗๖) was a military unit of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, it was a part of the Multi-National Force – Iraq The Mission unit was Humanitarian Operation in Iraq, After the successful US invasion of Iraq, Thailand contributed 423 non-combat troops (it's a combined forces between a few combat unit, combat service support unit, and combat support unit) in August 2003 to nation building and medical assistance in post-Saddam Iraq.
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Thai identity card
The Thai identity card (บัตรประจำตัวประชาชนไทย) is an official identity document issued to Thai nationals between the age of 7 and 70 years.
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Thai language
Thai,In ภาษาไทย| ''Phasa Thai'' or Central Thai (historically Siamese;Although "Thai" and "Central Thai" have become more common, the older term, "Siamese", is still used by linguists, especially when it is being distinguished from other Tai languages (Diller 2008:6).
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Thai literature
''Samut Thai'', a traditional medium for recordation and transmission of Thai and other literature in mainland Southeast Asia Thai literature is the literature of the Thai people, almost exclusively written in the Thai language (although different scripts other than Thai may be used).
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Thai Malays
Thai Malays (Standard Malay: Orang Melayu Thailand/Siam, ไทยเชื้อสายมลายู: Jawi: ملايو تاي; Pattani Malay: Oré Nayu Siae, Bangso Yawi; Bangkok Malay: Oghae Nayu Thai), with officially recognised terms including 'Malayu-descended Thais' and 'Malay', is a term used to refer to ethnic Malay citizens of Thailand, the sixth largest ethnic group in Thailand.
Thai National Anthem
The Thai National Anthem (translit) is the title of Thailand's national anthem, which was adopted in its current form on 10 December 1939.
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Thai people
Thai people (ชาวไทย; endonym), Chao Phraya Thai (ไทยลุ่มเจ้าพระยา; exonym and also academic), Central Thai people (คนภาคกลาง; exonym and also domestically), Southern Thai people (คนใต้; exonym and also domestically), Siamese, Thai Siam (ไทยสยาม; historical exonym and sometimes domestically), Tai Noi people (ไทน้อย; historical endonym and sometimes domestically), are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Thailand.
Thai poetry
Poetry has been featured extensively in Thai literature, and constituted the near-exclusive majority of literary works up to the early Rattanakosin period (early 19th century).
Thai Rak Thai Party
The Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT; พรรคไทยรักไทย,,; "Thais Love Thais Party") was a Thai political party founded in 1998.
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Thai script
The Thai script (อักษรไทย) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand.
Thai solar calendar
The Thai solar calendar (ปฏิทินสุริยคติไทย,, "solar calendar") was adopted by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1888 CE as the Siamese version of the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Thai lunar calendar as the legal Thai calendar (though the latter is still also used, especially for traditional and religious events).
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Thai television soap opera
Lakorn (ละคร related to Javanese ꦭꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ lakon from ꦭꦏꦸ laku "behavior") or lakhon is a popular genre of fiction in Thai television known in Thai as ละครโทรทัศน์ (lit. "television drama").
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Thai units of measurement
Thailand adopted the metric system on 17 December 1923.
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Thaification
Thaification, or Thai-ization, is the process by which people of different cultural and ethnic origins living in Thailand become assimilated to the dominant culture of Thailand, that of central Thailand.
Thailand in World War II
Thailand officially adopted a neutral position during World War II until the five hour-long Japanese invasion of Thailand on 8 December 1941, which led to an armistice and military alliance treaty between Thailand and the Japanese Empire in mid-December 1941.
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Thailand men's national basketball team
The Thailand national basketball team represents Thailand in international basketball.
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Thailand men's national volleyball team
The Thailand men's national volleyball team (Thai: วอลเลย์บอลชายทีมชาติไทย) represents Thailand in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches, governed by Thailand Volleyball Association.
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Thailand national football team
The Thailand national football team (ฟุตบอลทีมชาติไทย) represents Thailand in senior international football and is controlled by the Football Association of Thailand.
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Thailand national rugby union team
The Thailand national rugby union team has not played at the Rugby World Cup, but have been playing in qualifying tournaments since the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales.
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Thailand women's national volleyball team
The women's national volleyball team of Thailand (วอลเลย์บอลหญิงทีมชาติไทย) represents the Thailand in international volleyball competitions.
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Thainess
Thainess or the Thai identity (ความเป็นไทย) is a conceptual identity regarding the quality of being Thai, i.e. characteristics seen as distinctive to the Thai people, Thai culture, and those belonging to Thailand as a whole.
Thaksin Shinawatra
Thaksin Shinawatra (born 26 July 1949) is a Thai businessman and politician.
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Thammathibet
Thammathibet Chaiyachet Suriyawong, the Prince Senaphithak (สมเด็จเจ้าฟ้าธรรมธิเบศรไชยเชษฐสุริยวงศ กรมขุนเสนาพิทักษ์) or Prince Narathibet (นราธิเบศร์), also known as Prince Kung/ Chao Fa Kung (เจ้าฟ้ากุ้ง; 1715 – 1755), was Viceroy of the front palace of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, from 1732/33 but he is more well-known as one of the most prominent poets in Thai literature.
Thanom Kittikachorn
Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn (ถนอม กิตติขจร,,; 11 August 1911 – 16 June 2004) was Prime minister of Thailand from 1963 to 1973, military officer, who supported and initiated military coups and became Thailand's defence minister.
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Thanon Thong Chai Range
The Thanon Thong Chai Range (ทิวเขาถนนธงชัย,, formerly Thanon Range; Burmese Tanen Taunggyi) is a mountain range in northern Thailand.
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Thapthim krop
Thapthim krop (ทับทิมกรอบ,; literally 'crispy rubies') is one of the best known Thai desserts, having been named one of the world's best 50 desserts by CNN Travel.
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The Age
The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
The Crown Princess
The Crown Princess (ลิขิตรัก), is a Thai television series, premiered on May 14, 2018 and last aired on June 19, 2018 on Channel 3.
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The Diplomat
The Diplomat is an international online news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Gifted (Thai TV series)
The Gifted (The Gifted – นักเรียนพลังกิฟต์; The Gifted – Gift, The Gifted: Students With Special Powers) is a 2018 Thai television series starring Korapat Kirdpan (Nanon), Wachirawit Ruangwiwat (Chimon), Apichaya Thongkham (Lilly), Harit Cheewagaroon (Sing), Ramida Jiranorraphat (Jane), Atthaphan Phunsawat (Gun), Pattadon Janngeon (Fiat), Napasorn Weerayuttvilai (Puimek), Chatchawit Techarukpong(Victor) Geoff Garcia (Cardi) and Chayapol Jutamas (AJ) & Chayakorn Jutamas (JJ).
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The National (Abu Dhabi)
The National is a UAE state-owned English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Theravada
Theravāda ('School of the Elders') is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school.
Thesis
A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.
Thonburi
Thonburi (ธนบุรี) is an area of modern Bangkok.
Thonburi Kingdom
The Thonburi Kingdom (ธนบุรี, IAST) was a major Siamese kingdom which existed in Southeast Asia from 1767 to 1782, centered around the city of Thonburi, in Siam or present-day Thailand.
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Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.
Tilokaraj
Tilokaraj (พระเจ้าติโลกราช), also spelt Tilokarat and Tilokkarat, was the 9th monarch of the Mangrai Dynasty.
Tom yum
Tom yum or tom yam (ต้มยำ) is a family of hot and sour Thai soups.
Tom-Yum-Goong
Tom-Yum-Goong (Thai: ต้มยำกุ้ง) is a 2005 Thai martial arts film directed by Prachya Pinkaew and stars Tony Jaa in the lead role.
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Tony Jaa
Tatchakorn Yeerum (ทัชชกร ยีรัมย์,,; formerly Phanom Yeerum (พนม ยีรัมย์)), better known internationally as Tony Jaa and in Thailand as Jaa Phanom (จา พนม), is a Thai martial artist, actor, action choreographer, stuntman, director, and traceur.
Toponymy
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.
Toungoo dynasty
The Toungoo dynasty (တောင်ငူမင်းဆက်,; also spelt Taungoo dynasty), and also known as the Restored Toungoo dynasty, was the ruling dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from the mid-16th century to 1752.
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Tourism in Thailand
Tourism is an economic contributor to the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Trang province
Trang (ตรัง,; Terang), also called Mueang Thap Thiang, is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand, on the west side of the Malay Peninsula facing the Strait of Malacca.
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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination.
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Tropical monsoon climate
An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category Am.
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Tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator.
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Tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories Aw (for a dry "winter") and As (for a dry "summer").
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Turmeric
Turmeric, (botanical name Curcuma longa) is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae.
Two-party system
A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape.
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U-Prince Series
U-Prince Series is a 2016–2017 Thai television series produced by GMMTV together with Baa-Ram-Ewe.
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Ugly Duckling (TV series)
Ugly Duckling (Ugly Duckling – รักนะเป็ดโง่; Ugly Duckling –) is a 2015 Thai television series each presented through one of the four segments entitled Perfect Match, Pity Girl, Don't and Boy's Paradise based on a series of novels published by Jamsai Publishing.
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UN Tourism
UN Tourism (UNWTO until 2023) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which promotes responsible, sustainable and universally-accessible tourism.
Unequal treaties
The unequal treaties were a series of agreements made between Asian countries (including China and Korea) and foreign powers (including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, Russia, and Japan) during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Unitary state
A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority.
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United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship
The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) (แนวร่วมประชาธิปไตยต่อต้านเผด็จการแห่งชาติ; นปช., alternatively translated as National Democratic Alliance against Dictatorship), whose supporters are commonly called Red Shirts, is a political pressure group opposed to the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), the 2006 Thai coup d'état, and supporters of the coup.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. Thailand and United Kingdom are kingdoms and member states of the United Nations.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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Universal health care
Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care.
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Upper house
An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house.
Urak Lawoiʼ language
Urak Lawoiʼ or Urak Lawoc (Urak Lawoiʼ) is a Malayic language spoken in southern Thailand.
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Urbanization
Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
UTC+07:00
UTC+07:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +07:00.
Uthong
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Vajiralongkorn
Vajiralongkorn (born 28 July 1952) is King of Thailand.
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Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh (1 January 188126 November 1925) was the sixth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VI.
Vichy France
Vichy France (Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
Vientiane
Vientiane (ວຽງຈັນ, Viangchan) is the capital and largest city of Laos.
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country. Thailand and Vietnam are countries in Asia, member states of ASEAN, member states of the United Nations and southeast Asian countries.
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
After the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and subsequent collapse of Democratic Kampuchea in 1979, the Khmer Rouge fled to the border regions of Thailand, and, with assistance from China, Pol Pot's troops managed to regroup and reorganize in forested and mountainous zones on the Thai-Cambodian border.
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Vijaya (Champa)
Vijaya (meaning Victorious; Sanskrit: विजय; Chinese: 尸唎皮奈, pinyin: Shīlì Pínài; Vietnamese: Thị Lợi Bi Nai; Chinese alt: 新州, pinyin: Xīnzhōu, lit. 'New Province'; Vietnamese alts: Đồ Bàn or Chà Bàn; Cham: ꨝꩊ ꨨꨊꨭꨥ Bal Hanguw), also known as Vijayapura, is an ancient city in Bình Định province, Vietnam.
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Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.
Wai khru ram muay
Wai khru ram muay (ไหว้ครูรำมวย) is a ritual performed by participants before fighting in Muay Thai competitions.
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Wanchalearm Satsaksit
Wanchalearm Satsaksit (วันเฉลิม สัตย์ศักดิ์สิทธิ์,,; born 11 August 1982) is a Thai pro-democracy activist and political exile.
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Ward's
Ward's is an American organization that has covered the automotive industry for over a century.
Wat
A wat (វត្ត,; ວັດ, vat; วัด,; 「ᩅᨯ᩠ᨰ」(waD+Dha); 「ᩅ᩠ᨯ᩶」 (w+Da2)) is a type of Buddhist and Hindu temple in Cambodia, Laos, East Shan State, Yunnan, the Southern Province of Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
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Wat Phra Kaew
Wat Phra Kaew (วัดพระแก้ว), commonly known in English as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and officially as Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand.
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Wat Sri Chum Inscription
The Wat Sri Chum Inscription, formally known as Sukhothai Inscription No.
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Water resources
Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water.
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Western imperialism in Asia
The influence and imperialism of Western Europe and associated states (such as Russia, Japan, and the United States) peaked in Asian territories from the colonial period beginning in the 16th century and substantially reducing with 20th century decolonization.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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Westernization
Westernization (or Westernisation, see spelling differences), also Europeanisation or occidentalization (from the Occident), is a process whereby societies come under or adopt what is considered to be Western culture, in areas such as industry, technology, science, education, politics, economics, lifestyle, law, norms, mores, customs, traditions, values, mentality, perceptions, diet, clothing, language, writing system, religion, and philosophy.
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William H. Baxter
William Hubbard Baxter III (born March 3, 1949) is an American linguist specializing in the history of the Chinese language and best known for his work on the reconstruction on Old Chinese.
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Women's Asian Volleyball Championship
The Asian Women's Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body.
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Women's Asian Volleyball Cup
The Asian Women's Volleyball Cup, also known as the AVC Cup for Women, was an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the top senior women's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body.
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World Tourism rankings
The World Tourism rankings are compiled by the United Nations World Tourism Organization as part of their World Tourism Barometer publication, which is released up to six times per year.
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World Travel and Tourism Council
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is a forum for the travel and tourism industry.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yala province
Yala (ยะลา, Malay: Jala) is the southernmost Province (changwat) of Thailand.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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Yangtze
Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.
Yingluck Shinawatra
Yingluck Shinawatra (ยิ่งลักษณ์ ชินวัตร,,; born 21 June 1967), nicknamed Pou (ปู,,, meaning "crab"), is a Thai businesswoman, politician and a member of the Pheu Thai Party who became the Prime Minister of Thailand following the 2011 election.
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Yuan Phai
Yuan Phai (ยวนพ่าย, also known as Lilit Yuan Phai, ลิลิตยวนพ่าย, see below for details), "Defeat of the Yuan," is a historical epic poem in the Thai language about rivalry between Ayutthaya and Lanna culminating in a battle that took place in 1474/5 AD at the place then called Chiang Cheun at Si Satchanalai.
Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.
.th
.th is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Thailand.
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1893 Franco-Siamese crisis
The Franco-Siamese crisis of 1893, known in Thailand as the Incident of Rattanakosin Era 112 (วิกฤตการณ์ ร.ศ.) was a conflict between the French Third Republic and the Kingdom of Siam.
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1973 Thai popular uprising
The popular uprising of 14 October 1973 (เหตุการณ์ 14 ตุลา,,; also วันมหาวิปโยค) was a watershed event in Thailand's history.
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1981 Thai military rebellion
The 1981 Thai military rebellion was a military coup attempt to consolidate power by the government of Prem Tinsulanonda, staged by Thai military leaders of Class 7 on 1 April 1981, but a counter-coup by Prem, Arthit Kamlang-ek, and support by the royal family on 3 April led to the coup's failure, turning it into a rebellion.
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1985 Thai coup attempt
The 1985 Thai military coup attempt (known in Thailand as the Retired Officer rebellion, 9 September rebellion and theTwo siblings rebellion) was a military coup attempt against the government of Prem Tinsulanonda, by former Thai military leaders on 9 September 1985, but a counter-coup by Prem government in the morning led to surrender of the coup forces.
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1997 Asian financial crisis
The 1997 Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s.
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1998 Asian Games
The 1998 Asian Games, officially known as the 13th Asian Games and the XIII Asiad, was an Asian multi-sport event celebrated in Bangkok, Thailand from December 6 to 20, 1998, with 377 events in 36 sports and disciplines participated by 6,554 athletes across the continent.
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2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
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2006 Thai coup d'état
The 2006 Thai coup d'état took place on 19 September 2006, when the Royal Thai Army staged a coup d'état against the elected caretaker government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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2007 Thai general election
General elections were held in Thailand on 23 December 2007.
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2008 Thai political crisis
Beginning in 2008, there was worsening conflict between the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) and the People's Power Party (PPP) governments of Prime Ministers Samak Sundaravej and Somchai Wongsawat.
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2009 Thai political unrest
A series of political demonstrations and following unrest occurred in Thailand from 26 March to 14 April 2009 in Bangkok and Pattaya against the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva and the military crackdown that followed.
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2010 Thai military crackdown
On 10 April and 13–19 May 2010, the Thai military cracked down on the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) protests in central Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
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2010 Thai political protests
The 2010 Thai political protests were a series of political protests that were organised by the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) (also known as "Red Shirts") in Bangkok, Thailand from 12 March–19 May 2010 against the Democrat Party-led government.
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2011 Thai general election
General elections were held in Thailand on 3 July 2011 to elect the 24th House of Representatives.
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2013–2014 Thai political crisis
The 2013–2014 Thai political crisis was a period of political instability in Thailand.
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2014 Thai coup d'état
On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander of the Royal Thai Army (RTA), launched a coup d'état, the twelfth since the country's first coup in 1932, against the caretaker government of Thailand following six months of political crisis.
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2014 Thai general election
Early general elections were held in Thailand on Sunday, 2 February 2014, after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra asked King Bhumibol Adulyadej to dissolve parliament more than a year early owing to Thailand's political crisis.
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2016 Thai constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Thailand on 7 August 2016. The charter offered only semi-democracy and was seen to tighten military rule in Thailand. However, it was approved by 61% of voters with a 59% turnout. A second proposal for the next prime minister to be jointly elected by senators and MPs was also approved.
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2019 Thai general election
General elections were held in Thailand on 24 March 2019.
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2020–2021 Thai protests
In Thailand, protests began in early 2020 with demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
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2023 Thai general election
General elections were held in Thailand on 14 May 2023 to elect 500 members of the House of Representatives.
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2024 Thai Senate election
Senate elections were held in Thailand from 9 to 26 June 2024, the first of its kind under the 2017 Constitution.
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2gether (Thai TV series)
2gether: The Series (เพราะเราคู่กัน;, 'because we belong together') is a 2020 Thai romantic comedy series starring Vachirawit Chivaaree and Metawin Opas-iamkajorn.
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6 October 1976 massacre
The 6 October 1976 massacre, also known as the 6 October event (เหตุการณ์ 6 ตุลา) in Thailand, was a violent crackdown by Thai police and lynching by right-wing paramilitaries and bystanders against leftist protesters who had occupied Bangkok's Thammasat University and the adjacent Sanam Luang, on 6 October 1976.
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See also
1932 establishments in Asia
1932 establishments in Siam
- Hin Tok, Nakhon Si Thammarat
- House of Representatives (Thailand)
- Itsaraphap Road
- Memorial Bridge (Bangkok)
- Montfort College
- National Assembly (Thailand)
- Pathumwan Institute of Technology
- People's Committee of Siam
- Prime Minister of Thailand
- Royal Thai General System of Transcription
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1932 establishments in Southeast Asia
- Thailand
Kingdoms
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- Bahrain
- Belgium
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- Monarchy of Jamaica
- Monarchy of Papua New Guinea
- Monarchy of Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Monarchy of Saint Lucia
- Monarchy of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Monarchy of Solomon Islands
- Monarchy of Thailand
- Monarchy of Tuvalu
- Monarchy of the Bahamas
- Monarchy of the United Kingdom
- Morocco
- Norway
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- Spain
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Member states of ASEAN
- Brunei
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- Philippines
- Singapore
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Newly industrializing countries
- Brazil
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Southeast Asian countries
- ASEAN
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- Thailand
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States and territories established in 1932
- Amur Oblast
- Catalonia
- Central District, Dnipro
- Chernihiv Oblast
- Distrito Nacional
- Fridtjof Nansen Land
- Granados Municipality, Sonora
- Hejiang Province
- Iraq
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- Kharkiv Oblast
- Kingdom of Iraq
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- San Cristóbal Province
- Saudi Arabia
- Severo-Yeniseysky District
- Socialist Republic of Chile
- Thailand
- Udmurt Autonomous Oblast
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