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The Bangkok Post is an English -language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand. It is published in broadsheet and digital formats. The first issue was sold on 1 August 1946. It had four pages and cost one baht, a considerable amount at the time when a baht was a paper note.
Thailand Post (THP) ( Thai: ไปรษณีย์ไทย, RTGS : Praisani Thai ), formerly part of the Communications Authority of Thailand until 2003, is a state enterprise that provides postal services in Thailand . The Post and Telegraph Office was first established in 1883 by King Rama V. [2] : 19 Its first post office was in a large ...
Postal codes in Thailand are five digit numbers. The first two digits of the postal code denote the province or special administrative area (e.g., 43120 Phon Phisai, Nong Khai ), while the last 3 digits represent the post office within the province. [1] There are exceptions, for example, Bangkok and Samut Prakan province shared the first two ...
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, [1] against the caretaker government of Thailand following six months of political crisis. [1] The military established a junta called the ...
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. The coup d'état, which was Thailand 's first non-constitutional change of government in fifteen years since the 1991 Thai coup d'état, followed a year-long ...
General Post Office (Bangkok) The General Post Office ( Thai: อาคารไปรษณีย์กลาง, RTGS : Akhan Praisani Klang, pronounced [ʔāː.kʰāːn prāj.sā.nīː klāːŋ] ), also known as the Grand Postal Building, is a historic building in the Bang Rak District of Bangkok. Opened on 24 June 1940 on the former site of ...
The British Consular Post Office in Bangkok was established by Great Britain in 1858 as a consequence of a treaty signed between Great Britain and Siam (now known as Thailand) on 18 April 1855, and in response to a demand by expatriate merchants and missionaries. It ceased to provide service on 1 July 1885, the day Siam joined the Universal ...
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") [3] in Bangkok, Thailand from 12 March–19 May 2010 against the Democrat Party -led government. The UDD called for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve ...