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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.
In an interview with the Bangkok Post on 21 March, which was the first media outlet he visited in Thailand, Vacharaesorn said that he wished to permanently reside in Thailand. When asked by the Bangkok Post on if his return visits had a purpose, he said, "I only wanted to return to my homeland. This is the feeling of a person who left over 27 ...
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 ...
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, 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.
Hollywood has played an important role in the development of Thailand's film industry. One of the first feature films made in Thailand, 1923's Miss Suwanna of Siam, was a Hollywood co-production, made with the royal assistance of King Vajiravudh, who gave the production free use of his 52 automobiles, 600 horses, use of the Royal Thai Navy, the Grand Palace, the railways, the rice mills, rice ...
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 between Don Mueang International Airport, Suvarnabhumi Airport and ...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) people in Thailand have several but not all of the same rights as non-LGBT people. [6] [7] [4] Both male and female types of same-sex sexual activity are legal in Thailand, and same-sex marriage rights within the nation are pending legalisation. [4] About eight percent of the Thai population, five ...
Thai university applicants scored an average 28.34 per cent in English in recent university entrance exams. Thailand produces a "workforce with some of the world's weakest English-language skills." In a recent IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook Thailand was ranked 54th out of 56 countries globally for English proficiency. Singapore was third ...