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The Thai National Anthem (Thai: เพลงชาติไทย, romanized: Phleng chāt Thai [pʰlēːŋ t͡ɕʰâːt̚ tʰāj]) is the title of Thailand's ...
TCU’s 14 year streak of ranking among U.S. News & World Report’s top 100 national universities has come to an end. U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday released its latest rankings of the best ...
This is a list of national newspapers, i.e. those that circulate throughout the whole country, contrasted with local newspapers serving a city or region. National newspapers on this list also include metropolitan newspapers with expanded distribution networks.
The origins of Thai nationalist thought derive from the creation of the Thai nation-state in the mid-nineteenth century during the reigns of Vajiravudh's predecessors Mongkut (Rama IV, 1851-1868 ) and Chulalongkorn (Rama V, 1868-1910), whose reforms in response to colonial pressures resulted in the reconceptualization of the kingdom as a modern polity.
The 1997 Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s. The crisis began in Thailand in July 1997 before spreading to several other countries with a ripple effect, raising fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion. [1]
The popularity of the populist Thai Rak Thai Party in Thai politics from 2001 to 2006 presented new challenges to the Democrat Party. The TRT championed populist policies with its focus on providing affordable and quality health care for all citizens, village-managed microcredit development funds, the government-sponsored One Tambon One Product ...
The private Thai think tank Kasikorn Research Center (KResearch) reported in mid-April 2014 that Thailand was at risk of entering into a recessionary period due to the ongoing political turmoil in the nation. The Center presented data that indicated an absence of growth in Thai exports during the first quarter of 2014, similar to the final ...
The Penal Code Amendment Act (No. 14), B.E. 2540 (1997) [15] does not state that prostitution in Thailand is illegal. However, Title IX, Section 286 of the Penal Code states: “Any person, being over sixteen years of age, [sic] subsists on the earning of a prostitute, even if it is some part of her incomes [sic], shall be punished with imprisonment of seven to twenty years and fined of ...