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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 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.
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 ...
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[16] [24] The People's Party shares its Thai name with four historical parties, most recently in 1998. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Some commentators noted its English name might be an intentional nod to Khana Ratsadon , the group that overthrew absolute monarchy in Thailand , whose name is commonly rendered into English as the People's Party.
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2014 Thai coup d'état. On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état, the twelfth since the country's first coup in 1932, [1] against the caretaker government following six months of political crisis. [1] The military established a junta called the ...
Thailand is the third most popular study destination in ASEAN. The number of international degree students in Thailand increased by 9.7 times between 1999 and 2012, from 1,882 to 20,309 students. Most of international students come from neighbor countries [285] like China, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam. [293]