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Bangkok Post. 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.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand died at the age of 88 on 13 October 2016 (B.E. 2559), after a long illness. A year-long period of mourning was subsequently announced. A royal cremation ceremony took place over five days at the end of October 2017. The actual cremation, which was not broadcast on television, was held in the late evening of ...
Bangkok, [a] officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon [b] and colloquially as Krung Thep, [c] is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 9.0 million as of 2021, 13% of the country's population.
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Bhumibol Adulyadej. Bhumibol Adulyadej[b] (5 December 1927 – 13 October 2016), posthumously conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great, [c][2][3][4][5] was the ninth king of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IX, from 1946 until his death in 2016. His reign of 70 years and 126 days is the longest of any Thai monarch, the ...
The Don Mueang–Suvarnabhumi–U-Tapao high-speed railway, officially known as the High-Speed Rail Linking Three Airports Project (Thai: โครงการรถไฟความเร็วสูงเชื่อม 3 สนามบิน) is the second high-speed rail line project in Thailand, being due to open in 2029 [1] between Don Mueang International Airport, Suvarnabhumi Airport ...
The People's Party (PP; Thai: พรรคประชาชน, RTGS:Phak Prachachon) is the successor party of the former Move Forward Party [ 1 ][ 16 ] following its dissolution by the Constitutional Court of Thailand on 7 August 2024. [ 17 ][ 18 ][ 19 ] Originally founded in 2012 as the Thinkakhao Party and later the Thinkakhao Chaovilai ...
The line is 23 km (14 mi) long, [2] serving the north-western area of Bangkok running from Tao Poon to Klong Bang Phai in Nonthaburi Province. The line opened on 6 August 2016. [3][2] It is the second line of MRT system and is operated by BEM under a concession contract. Daily ridership is 70,000. [4][5]