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84 unusual facts about Bangkok


1503d Air Transport Group

As United States military forces began to increase in Indochina, more and more equipment moved into first Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, then to Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base, near Bangkok, and in early 1965 to the huge new Cam Ranh Air Base with the jet C-141 Starlifter transports.

2008 World University Cycling Championship

Prague, Czech Republic and Bangkok, Thailand were also candidate cities to organize the championship.

2011 ACC Under-19 Elite Cup

The ACC Under-19 Elite Cup 2011 was a cricket tournament organised by the ACC for Under-19 teams from its member nations held in Bangkok, Thailand on 1-10 Feb 2011.

352d Special Operations Group

The unit then served in the China-Burma-India Theatre of operations, with the fighter units flying missions over Bangkok, Thailand.

511th Tactical Fighter Squadron

As the Vietnam War intensified, deployed flights to both Thailand and South Vietnam throughout the 1960s, providing air defense of Bangkok and Saigon as well as other areas from enemy aircraft.

677th Bombardment Squadron

The squadron flew its first combat mission on 5 June 1944 against the Makasan railroad yards at Bangkok, Thailand.

A Kind of Alaska

Speaking of Pauline, Deborah states, bluntly: "She is a widow. She doesn't go to her ballet classes any more. Daddy and Estelle and Mummy who is actually dead are on a world cruise. They've stopped off in Bangkok. It'll be my birthday soon. I think I have the matter in proportion" (40).

Aela Callan

Aela Callan is a freelance foreign correspondent based in Bangkok, Thailand.

Ajahn Khemadhammo

In December 1971 in Bangkok he became a novice monk and about a month later moved to Ubon to stay with Ajahn Chah at Wat Nong Pah Pong.

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi

1) Senior Economist at The World Bank, working in East Asia (based in Bangkok from 2004 to 2006), Africa, Middle East, and Eastern Europe in the fields of macroeconomics, growth, public finance, infrastructure and energy;

Andrew Bolt

His time as a reporter included a stint as the newspaper's Asia correspondent, based first in Hong Kong and later in Bangkok.

Antonio López Habas

In January 2012, López was appointed director of the Target Football Academy in Bangkok, Thailand.

Ara Wilson

Her work examines the cultural, social, and sexual aspects of Bangkok economies, as well as illustrating the inaccuracies of Eurocentric ideology.

Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Glass Temple

He was in a tuk-tuk (auto-rickshaw) in Bangkok when he saw a light shining like a diamond, some 2 km away.

Ashok Mitra

He taught at the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in Bangkok, Thailand before returning to Delhi in 1961.

Asian and Pacific Coconut Community

In Bangkok on 12 December 1968, the Agreement establishing the Asian Coconut Community was concluded and signed by India, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Asian Australian Football Championships

The Asian Australian Football Championships were first held in 2000, although a precursor tournament named the Four Nations Cup was held in Bangkok, Thailand in 1999.

Asoka Handagama

Novel in the form, this minimalist film travelled all around the world, was critically acclaimed at more than 50 international film festivals, and won numerous awards in Singapore, Chonju, Delhi, Houston, Bangkok and Tokyo.

Bangkok 11th district

Bangkok 11th district is an electoral district in Bangkok.

Bangkok 12th district

Bangkok 12th district is an electoral district in Bangkok.

Beatrice Heuser

Beatrice Heuser (Bangkok, 1961) is an historian and political scientist.

Benito Guerra, Jr.

As of the 2012, PWRC champion Benito Guerra, Jr. is invited to participate in the 25th edition of the Race of Champions, from 14 to 16 December in Bangkok along with racing legends like Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel.

Brian Kershisnik

Because of his father's employment as a petroleum geologist, he grew up in Luanda, Angola; Bangkok, Thailand, Conroe, Texas, and Islamabad, Pakistan.

Chang-Sat Bangkok Open

The Chang-Sat Bangkok Open (former SAT Bangkok Open) is a tennis tennis tournament held in Bangkok, Thailand since 2009.

Charra Airfield

The first combat mission by the group finally took place on 5 June when squadrons of the group took off from India to attack the Makasan railroad yards at Bangkok, Thailand.

Children of the Dark

Filming for Children of the Dark took place in Bangkok despite initial problems securing a filming permit for Thailand, who denied Sakamoto's attempts to procure one.

Claude de Forbin

When Chaumont returned to France, Forbin was induced to remain in the service of the Siamese king, and accepted, though with much reluctance, the posts of grand admiral, general of all the king's armies and governor of Bangkok.

Colin Ng

Ng Wee Tai Colin is a Singaporean yachtsman best known for winning a gold medal in the 13th Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Daihatsu Midget

-- TukTuk Forwerder Co., Ltd. & TukTuk (Thailand) Co., Ltd. --> in Bangkok.

Death Track: Resurrection

The game involves racing and trying to finish first across several tracks located around the world, including Bangkok, Vatican City, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Prague, San Diego, Istanbul and Tokyo.

Drew Caldwell

In 2001, Caldwell announced that Manitoba would open high schools in Beijing, Shanghai and Bangkok in an effort to attract overseas students to Manitoba's post-secondary education system.

Edmund A. Gann

In 1997, Edmund Gann partnered with Tri-Marine International, Inc. of Singapore and Thai Union International of Bangkok to create Tri-Union Seafoods LLC which acquired the San Diego, California based canned tuna processing and packing company, Chicken of the Sea.

Edward A. Lacey

While working in Thailand, Lacey suffered life-threatening injuries in 1991 when he passed out drunk in a street in Bangkok and was run over by a vehicle.

Galileo Chini

He was responsible for several of the paintings and decorations in the Brandini Chapel at Castelfiorentino, the church of San Francesco de' Ferri in Pisa, and the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall in Bangkok.

Genzan Air Group

At the end of February, the unit was transferred to Bangkok and assigned to patrols over the Indian Ocean; however, facilities at Bangkok were not satisfactory and the unit was soon reassigned to Palembang in Sumatra in the Netherlands East Indies, with some aircraft dispersed to Kuching in Sarawak.

Gloria Chan sex scandal

Prior to the scandal, Gloria Chan is mostly known in Hong Kong as a boat rower who participated at the Bangkok 1998 Asian Games at the age of 15.

Harry Rolnick

His other restaurant guides, to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Macau, prompted Alan Levy to write in The Foodie’s Guide to the World, "Nobody eats in Asia without consulting Harry Rolnick first”.

Hilsa, Bihar

As a center important to Buddhism, Hilsa has connections to Bangkok, Singapore, Colombo, Thimphu and Yangon.

House of Valaya

The group has showcased its collections at various fashion weeks across the globe in cities like Dubai, Paris, London, Germany, New York, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong.

Irwin B. Laughlin

In 1906, he was secretary to the American legation in Bangkok and Consul General of Siam.

Jens Söring

Jens Söring (born August 1, 1966 in Bangkok, Thailand and grew up in Bonn) is a German citizen who has been imprisoned since 1986 for a double murder in Virginia, USA.

Jerry Markham

Markham has been a lecturer at the Université Jean Moulin in Lyon, France, and also has lectured in Sydney, Warsaw, Beijing, Mexico City, Montevideo, Fukuoka, and Bangkok.

John Riseley-Prichard

After a lengthy illness he died in Baan Kai Thuan, a remote village approximately 200 km inland of Bangkok.

Julie Mehta

Julie was also a feature writer on religion, arts, and cultures of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, India and Cambodia; and columnist for The Nation, Bangkok, and The Straits Times, Singapore.

Kenneth Duremdes

Before leading the Philippines to a bronze-medal finish in the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Duremdes was named as the league's Most Valuable Player at age 24.

Leslie Froggatt

In 1947 he was posted to Singapore where he worked until 1954, with interim postings in Bangkok and Penang.

Lisa F. Jackson

When she was young, both her father and step-father, Donald Carmichael, were in the CIA and as a result she moved often, living in Bangkok, Thailand and in Bogota, Colombia before settling in Washington DC in 1963.

Malachi Cush

In November 2003 he visited Bangkok where he performed at several concerts, met fans and took part in radio and TV interviews.

Manicasothy Saravanamuttu

Manicasothy served as Ceylon's Commissioner in Singapore and Malaya (1950–1957), Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Indonesia (1954–1957) during which time he was involved in organising the Asian-African Conference, better known as the Bandung Conference, in 1955 and Honorary Consul-General in Bangkok (1958–61).

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Barcelona, July 27, 1939 – Bangkok, October 18, 2003) was a prolific Spanish writer: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humourist, critic, as well as a gastronome.

Marius Grinius

He has served abroad in Bangkok (twice), Brussels (NATO), Hanoi and again in Hanoi from 1997 to 1999 as Ambassador to Vietnam.

Nicole Theriault

She began her schooling in Bangkok at Twinkle Star Kindergarten and attended grades one through three at Ruamrudee International School.

Nikola Eftimov

In 2005 he won “The Coca Cola light fashion design award” that enabled him presentation of the winning design in Florence and the position of professor at Accademia Italiana Bangkok (2005–2006).

Nina Solheim

In addition to a bronze medal from the 2001 World Taekwondo Championships in Jeju, South Korea, Solheim won the gold medal in middleweight (72 kg) at the 2006 World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand.

Noppadon Pattama

Noppadon was born in Nakhon Ratchasima and educated at Thammasat University, Bangkok, where he graduated top of his class in law in 1982 and won a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States.

Olga Rypakova

Her personal best long jump is 6.85 metres, achieved at the 2007 Universiade in Bangkok.

Pa Sak Jolasid Dam

The dam also decreases problems of water management in Bangkok by allowing more flood control, as the Pa Sak river was one of the main sources of flooding in the Bangkok metropolitan area.

Prince Christoph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

He died on 6 August 2006 of massive organ failure a few days after being imprisoned in Klong Prem Central Prison in Bangkok on charges of suspicion of illegally altering a visa.

Proton Suprima S

On 29 November 2013, Thailand became the fourth export market for the Suprima S upon its début at the 2013 Thailand International Motor Expo in Bangkok.

Red Gaurs

The ultra-royalist vigilante group focused its activities on Bangkok.

Roughback whipray

They named the ray after Bangkok aquarium fish dealer and prominent fish expert Khun Jarutanin Kittipong, who the year before had provided the original five specimens that formed the basis for the description.

Scandal Savage

While the two were vacationing in Bangkok, Knockout was almost killed when she was shot with a Thanagarian sniper rifle by Pistolera.

SET50 Index and SET100 Index

The constituents of both lists are companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) in Bangkok.

Shandrix

"The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience" are a Scottish ceilidh band who have toured in Bangkok, Bogotá, Melbourne and Moscow.

Si Votha

Sisowath would likely have adopted the same attitude as Si Votha if the Siamese king had allowed him to leave Bangkok.

Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology

Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology (TNI) is an industry-oriented private college located in Bangkok, Thailand.

Thaicom 6

Thaicom 6 is a Thai television satellite of the Thaicom series, to be operated by Thaicom Public Company Limited (formerly Shin Satellite Public Company Limited), a subsidiary of Shin Corporation headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Last Millionaire

Week 5 - Bangkok - Carl Pihl, founder of TicketingHub, Drinkyz and Lost in London and James Taylor, founder of Sport Stars

Transport in Bhutan

Drukair is the national carrier, connecting Paro to Kolkata and Delhi in India, Bangkok in Thailand, Dhaka in Bangladesh and Kathmandu in Nepal.

TrueVisions

IBC launched South East Asia’s first subscriber-based television network in Bangkok in October 1989 using an MMDS transmission platform.

Tutelary deity

Almost every house in Bangkok has a miniature shrine housing this tutelary deity, known as a spirit house.

Ulf Underland

He was stationed in Paris, Bangkok and Vienna before being promoted to assistant secretary in 1967.

Veronica Pedrosa

Pedrosa has considerable experience as the Al Jazeera English correspondent in Bangkok, filing stories from Thailand and throughout the South-East Asia region.

Ward Stare

Stare also made appearances with the Memphis Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra - both in Russia and on the orchestra's North American tour - as well as a special performance with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra as part of the Orchestra's "Great Artists of the World" series celebrating the 80th birthday of the King of Thailand.

Warren Fellows

Fellows came to know drug dealer William Sinclair, who took him to Bangkok, Thailand where he was introduced to Neddy Smith and made his first successful attempt at smuggling heroin into Australia.

Wat Bueng Thong Lang

Watbungthonglang Temple is a Buddhist temple in Bangkapi, Bangkok, Thailand.

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Phichet Tungtoo, Dhamma of Luang Poo Too, (Bangkok : Sinthana Publishing,2549 : Anniversary 80 ํYear old of Phrakrupisalviriyakhun, in Thai) pp.

Wat Pho

It is located in the Rattanakosin district directly adjacent to the Grand Palace.

Yangzee FC

The team dominated the domestic football scene at the time, and in 1968 reached the final of the Asian Club Championship, losing 1-0 to Maccabi Tel Aviv in the final in Bangkok.

Yellow Card Man

The story follows Tranh, the once wealthy head of the multi-national "Three Prosperities" trading company, now a refugee suffering from PTSD, who is forced to eke out a living in the slums of a future Bangkok.

Yoneo Ishii

He completed his studies there as well, and got hired at the Japanese embassy in Bangkok where he worked for seven years.

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In 1958, due to his knowledge in history and religion of the region, he spent three months as a Buddhist priest at the Wat Bowonniwet temple in Bangkok.

Yuki Ota

Ota won the 2008 Asian Fencing Championships held in Bangkok.

Zetazeroalfa

June 12, 2011 - The band plays a show in solidarity with the Karen People live in Bangkok.


1985 Narita International Airport bombing

This bag was interlined to Air India Flight 301 leaving for Don Muang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand.

Bangkok Doll Museum

The Bangkok Dolls Museum was established in 1957 by Khunying Thongkorn Chanthawimol, who was a renowned doll maker who trained in the Ozawa Doll School, in Tokyo, Japan.

Bangkok Post

Nevertheless, under MacDonald's stewardship, the Bangkok Post was reasonably independent and employed many young newsmen, including Peter Arnett and T. D. Allman, who later became known internationally.

Boaz Zippor

He has supported several projects in Thailand, including Camillian Hospital, Rotary Club Bangkok South, Baan Unrak, Baan Prakart, Newsmakers Clutter Sale, and Bangkok Opera Education Fund, most of which are projects in the field of education for underprivileged children.

Bora Yoon

As a performer, Yoon has toured her experimental soundwork internationally, presenting her works at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the KBS/Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Guggenheim Museum, Tonic, Roselee Goldberg’s PERFORMA Arts Biennial, John Zorn’s Stone, the annual Pop!

Cheung Tze-keung

He reportedly gave away tens of thousands dollars to a young street painter when in Bangkok.

Christoffel Nortje

Professor Nortje has spoken extensively in Maxillofacial Radiology scientific meetings in Hungary, Italy, USA, Brazil, Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, Bangkok, Thailand, China, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Cranston McEachern

He overstepped his authority to countermand Allied officers to concentrate prisoners in the Bangkok area as he knew many prisoners would not survive the long march.

Damien Dernoncourt

He oversees an international team of 1500 individuals across the company’s facilities in Bali, Hong Kong, Bangkok and New York.

Débora Sulca

In May she competed in the Miss Universe 2005 pageant held in Bangkok, Thailand, where she placed finalist on the 6th place (in the top ten).

Economy of Thailand

From 25 November to 3 December 2008 the Yellow Shirts, protesting Somchai Wongsawat's prime ministership, seized the two Bangkok airports (Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang) and damaged Thailand's image and economy.

Faculty of Medicine, Princess of Naradhiwas University

Moreover, majority of doctors concentrates in big city and Bangkok therefore provincial part and the three southern border provinces of Thailand including Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat has the lowest density of doctor.

Gérard Landry

Landry also starred in Les Trottoirs de Bangkok (The Sidewalks of Bangkok), a film from French director Jean Rollin.

Henry Kamm

He reported for the Times from Southeast Asia (based in Bangkok), Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Hua Hin District

From 2004 until 2006 it had been the full-time residence of Bhumibol Adulyadej (after which chronic poor health forced him to return to Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, where the medical facilities and doctors he needs are closer at hand).

International Law Enforcement Academy

Presently, there are five ILEAs located around the world: ILEA Budapest in Hungary, ILEA Bangkok in Thailand, ILEA Gaborone in Botswana, ILEA Roswell in New Mexico, USA, and ILEA San Salvador in El Salvador.

Japanese cruiser Yodo

In November 1911, Yodowas dispatched to Bangkok, Siam as part of the Japanese naval delegation attending the coronation ceremonies for King Rama VI of Thailand.

Joris Putman

From the age of three months until he was nine he and his parents lived out of Europe, firstly in Burkina Faso, West Africa, later in Bangkok, and from 1990 in Semarang in Indonesia, before returning to the Netherlands in 1993.

Koji Ito

In winning the Asian Games 100 m crown on December 13, 1998 (Bangkok) he ran a time of 10.00 seconds, during a semi-final heat.

Lany Kaligis

At the 1966 Asian Games at Bangkok, she won the gold medal in the women's singles, the gold medal in the women's doubles with Lita Liem, the bronze medal in the mixed doubles with Soen Houw Goto.

Lita Liem Sugiarto

At the 1966 Asian Games at Bangkok, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles, the gold medal in the women's doubles with Lany Kaligis, and the bronze medal in the mixed doubles with Sutarjo Sugiarto.

Luang Wichitwathakan

He received his primary education in a Buddhist temple school in Uthaithani and continued the Buddhist education at Wat Mahathat in Bangkok where he excelled in Buddhist studies, reaching a high stage of Prien and graduating first in the kingdom.

Minoru Ohira

The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach, California), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Thailand (Bangkok) and the National Museum of Art in Mexico are among the public collections holding work by Minoru Ohira.

Momokomotion

After attending the San Francisco Institute Of Arts, Momoko became a member of the Bangkok-based international electroclash band Futon (as Momoko Futon), with whom she recorded three albums before her departure in 2006.

Mongolia men's national under-18 ice hockey team

The Mongolia men's national under-18 ice hockey team played its first game in 2000 against New Zealand during the 2000 IIHF Asian Oceanic Junior U18 Championship Division II tournament being held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Nakano Corporation

Major recent works include Changi Business Park, The Metropolitan Condominium, St Thomas Suites, and Villa Rachatewi in Bangkok.

People's Television

Junta chief Sonthi Boonyaratkalin requested Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont to declare emergency in Bangkok on 28 March 2007 in response to the protests.

Peter Nitsch

"These SHOPHOUSES captures show the hidden side of working Bangkok few people know: a fascinating world of color, history and industry. I admire Peter Nitsch's sensitive photography that illuminates historic places that I hope will not vanish." – Sujata Massey, Author

Prostitution in Thailand

The organisation seeks to empower sex workers and has been operating since 1985, with offices in Patpong (Bangkok), Chiang Mai, Mae Sai and Patong Beach (Phuket).

Santi Asoke

He then formed Asoke and established four monasteries: (1) Santi Asoke Monastery at Khet Bang Kapi, Bangkok; (2) Si Asok Monastery at Amphoe Kantharalak, Changwat Si Saket; (3) Sali Asok Monastery at Amphoe Phaisali, Changwat Nakhon Sawan; and (4) Phathomma Asok Monastery at Amphoe Mueang Nakhon Pathom, Changwat Nakhon Pathom.

Street dogs in Bangkok

It is estimated that there are over 120,000 Free-ranging dogs in Bangkok, Thailand.

Thai Airways International Flight 261

Thai Airways International Flight 261 was a scheduled passenger flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Surat Thani, Thailand.

Tonic Rays

From 2006 to 2008 the band performed regularly in Chiang Mai, Pai, Bangkok, Pattaya, Ko Lanta, and Ko Phi Phi.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Transportation in the Philippines

After offering low fares to domestic destinations, Cebu Pacific launched its international operations on November 2001 and now flies to Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.

Victory Monument BTS Station

There are many food stalls, clothing shops and malls around the station, as the monument is a major BMTA bus stop of Bangkok and also van terminals from suburbs and provinces around the capital.

Walter McGowan

In December 1966, he defended his WBC world title against Chartchai Chionoi in Bangkok, Thailand.

Wat Yan Nawa

If you are not comfortable with bus rides, you can go by BTS (Bangkok Mass Transit System) and get down at Saphan Taksin Station.