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20 unusual facts about Thailand


Baby food

Similar rites of passage are practiced across Asia, including the Bengal region, Vietnam, and Thailand.

Burkholderia acidipaludis

Burkholderia acidipaludis is a gram-negative, catalase and oxidase-positive aerobic, aluminium-tolerant, non-spore-forming, non motile bacterium from the genus of Burkholderia and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) in Vietnam and Thailand

Burkholderia bannensis

Burkholderia bannensis is a gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, bacterium from the genus of Burkholderia and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from highly acidic swamps from torpedo grass (Panicum repens) in Thailand.

Dietrich v The Queen

On 17 December 1986, the accused, a career criminal named Olaf Dietrich (born 1952), flew from Bangkok, Thailand, to Melbourne Airport.

Feminism in Thailand

Orapin Chaiyakan is the first woman elected to a post in the Parliament of Thailand, on June 5, 1949 Chaiyakan was elected as member of the House of Representatives of Thailand of The National Assembly of the Kingdom of Thailand.

Food craving

In Thailand a woman who starts craving sour foods after her period has stopped is deemed to be pregnant.

Kingdom of Siam

Thailand before 24 June 1939 and again from 8 September 1945 to 20 July 1949

Masanobu Tsuji

After Japan's surrender in September 1945, Tsuji went into hiding in Thailand for fear of being tried on war crimes charges.

Mead Johnson

The company is gaining a presence in such emerging markets as the People's Republic of China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam and is also starting to develop a presence in India.

OK Baytong

But after hearing that his sister has been killed in an attack on a train by insurgents, he decides to leave the monastery and make his way to southern Thailand where his sister ran a beauty salon in a town called Betong in a district in Yala Province on the border with Malaysia.

Openmind Projects

OpenmindProjects offers a summer camp for local students in Northeast Thailand(Isan) and South Thailand (Krabi).

Prevalence of teenage pregnancy

Surveys from Thailand have found that a significant minority of unmarried adolescents are sexually active.

Sex trafficking of women and children in Thailand

It was in the 1970s that the sex industry began to flourish in Thailand.

Song Khwae

Song Khwae District is a district (Amphoe) in the northwestern part of Nan Province, northern Thailand.

T.991-class patrol boat

The Tor 991 is a class of patrol boats design and built in Thailand.

Tapi River

Tapi River, Thailand (Thai: ตาปี, also sometimes spelled Tapee), in Surat Thani Province, Southern Thailand

Thailand's Got Talent

The winner of the first season is Myra Maneepatsorn Molloy, a 13 year old singer, who performed a combination of cross-over classical and Broadway songs.

Uzhavoor

He served as ambassador to Japan, United Kingdom, Thailand, Turkey, People's Republic of China and United States of America and was referred by Nehru as "the best diplomat of the country".1

Volunthai

The project brings young volunteers to rural schools in Thailand to teach English for a month or longer.

Yat Hwaidi

Yat Hwaidi was a Khmer politician, born in Surin province, Thailand.


? Nycticebus linglom

? Nycticebus linglom was described in 1997 by French paleontologists Pierre Mein and Léonard Ginsburg in a report on the fossil mammals of Li Mae Long, a Miocene site in 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.

Acropora grandis

When fragments of Acropora grandis were planted into a mid-water nursery bed, over 95% survived and these were later transplanted onto a reef at Phi Phi Islands, Thailand that had been devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

Anocha Suwichakornpong

Featuring a scene of full-frontal male nudity and masturbation, it was the first Thai film under Thailand's motion-picture rating system to be given the most-restrictive 20+ rating.

Arabesk trilogy

Frequent flashbacks tell the story of Sally Welham, Raf's mother, from New York to Tunis via Thailand as she sets out to get what she wants.

Asia Security Conference

18 countries represented at the ministerial-level: Korea, Australia, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Automated Systems Holdings Limited

The ASL Group, consisting of Automated Systems (HK) Limited, ELM Computer Technologies Limited, CSA Automated (Macau) Ltd., Taiwan Automated Systems Ltd., Guangzhou Automated Systems Limited and ASL Automated (Thailand) Ltd., offers professional information technology services to corporate clients in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Mainland China and Thailand.

Birth in Thailand

The demography of Thailand has changed since the 1970s, mostly because of the promotion of small family sizes with the help of family planning outreach programs such as the Population and Community Development Association and efforts of Mechai Viravaidya.

Chananporn Rosjan

She studied at the Francis Lewis High School and returned to Thailand to study at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology at Thammasat University where she later received Bachelor of Electrical Engineering.

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.

Chin Peng

On December 2 of that year, at the town of Had Yai in Southern Thailand, Chin Peng, Rashid Maidin and Abdullah CD met with representatives of the Malaysian and Thai governments.

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.

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.

Crime in Burma

Burma is a major source of prostitutes (an estimate of 20,000–30,000) in Thailand, with the majority of women trafficked taken to Ranong, a location that borders Burma at its south, and Mae Sai, which is located at the eastern tip of Burma.

Cruis'n Exotica

The levels take place in exotic locations in the universe, such as Las Vegas, Thailand, and even the surface of Mars.

David A. Sonnenfeld

In 1993-94, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University, from where he based his field research on the adoption of environmental technologies in the pulp and paper industries of Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Dhammakaya Tradition

Wat Phra Dhammakaya is a Buddhist temple (wat) in Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani Province north of Bangkok, Thailand.

Douglas Clayton

From 1993-1997, Clayton served as CLSA's chief representative in Thailand, and led the office to #1 ranking in the Asiamoney Brokers Poll.

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.

Eric Szmanda

Szmanda supports the U.S. Campaign for Burma and traveled to Thailand to see the conditions of Burmese refugees who have fled their native country.

John Gunther Dean

The evacuation of Phnom Penh scene was filmed near Bangkok in 1983 and Wheeler met Dean, who was then the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand.

Kaeng Suea Ten Dam

Kaeng Sua Ten (แก่งเสือเต้น) is a site in the Phi Pan Nam Range, in Song District, Phrae Province, Thailand.

Khun Tan

Khun Tan Tunnel, the longest railway tunnel in Thailand in Lampang and Lamphun provinces

Luca Bellisomo

Bellisomo captained Canada to a fourth-place finish at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, eventually finishing in fourth place when Canada lost on penalties to hosts Thailand in the bronze medal playoff game.

Malaysia Airlines subsidiaries

Operating out of its hub in Penang, Firefly provides exclusive routes daily to Subang, Penang, Kuantan, Kuala Terengganu, Kota Bharu and Langkawi in Malaysia, and 4 times a week to Phuket and Koh Samui in Thailand.

Malaysian Plover

The main remaining large populations of Malaysian plovers in Thailand are in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park (Thailand's first marine protected area), and beaches around Bonok village both in Prachuap Khiri Khan province and Laem Phak Bia in Petchburi province.

Megophrys montana

Records of Megophrys montana outside this range (from Thailand southeast to Sumatra, Natuna Islands, Borneo, and the Philippines) apply to related named and unnamed species.

Nyah Kur

Nyah Kur people, an indigenous ethnic group in Thailand related to the Mon

Petchara Chaowarat

In 1964, Petchara was named best actress by the Thailand National Film Awards committee for her role in Nok Noi, and received the award from the hands of King Bhumibol.

Polyplex

With its headquarters in NOIDA, adjoining New Delhi the company has four PET Film manufacturing facilities–one in Khatima and one in Bajpur, in the state of Uttarakhand, India, one in Rayong province, Thailand, and one in Tekirdağ, Turkey (owned and operated by Polyplex (Thailand) Public Company Ltd. and Polyplex Europa Polyester Film Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. respectively, its wholly owned subsidiaries).

Pridiyathorn Devakula

He was succeeded as governor of the Bangkok of Thailand by Tarisa Watanagase, the first woman to head the BoT.

Puerto Ricans in the Vietnam War

Brigadier General Antonio Maldonado, who in 1967 became the youngest pilot and Aircraft Commander of a B-52 Stratofortress nuclear bomber, was assigned in January 1971 to the 432nd Tactical Fighter Reconnaissance Wing, Udon Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand.

Rice production in Thailand

Noppadon Pattama, the foreign minister of Thailand, wants to call the forum the Council on Rice Trade Cooperation and was planning, as of May 2008, to invite; China, India, Pakistan, Cambodia, Burma, and Vietnam.

Srinagarind Dam

The Srinagarind Dam (also known as the Srinakarin Dam) is an embankment dam on the Khwae Yai river in Si Sawat District of Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.

Street dogs in Bangkok

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

Sultanate of Singgora

The Sultanate of Singora was a port city located on and around the foothills of Khao Daeng mountain, now in Singha Nakhon, Songkhla Province, Thailand.

Sumolah

The film has a multi-national cast including Thai actress Inthira Charoenpura who was previously known for her performance in Nang Nak, and Singaporean actor Gurmit Singh known for his performance in the sitcom Phua Chu Kang.

Thai Airways International Flight 261

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

The film looks at solutions to the problems of the previous film and at those who are making a difference, including the Bangladeshi creator of the micro-loan system Muhammad Yunus, Thailand's premier family planner Mechai Viravaidya,and The Miracle Foundation, among many others.

Titiwangsa Mountains

The Titiwangsa Mountains is part of suture zones that runs north-south, starting in Thailand (Nan-Uttaradit/Dien Bien Phu suture zone) and extending south towards peninsular Malaysia (Bentong-Raub suture zone).

Ulf Ekberg

After Ekberg experienced the tsunami in Phuket, Thailand he founded the Surin Relief Fund to support affected children by providing facilities to educate children and care for orphaned children.

Ursula Hall

Residents of Ursula Hall welcomes undergraduate and postgraduate students of all nationalities, religions and cultures—residents are from dozens of countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.

Wat Aranyawiwake

Wat Aranyawiwake (Thai script: วัดอรัญญวิเวก, RTGS: Wat Aranyawiwek), also known as Wat Ban Pong (Thai script: วัดบ้านปง) is a monastery ("Wat") in the Thai Forest Tradition of the Theravada lineage of Buddhism located in Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand.

Wat Bueng Thong Lang

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

Wildlife Alliance

CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° series, Planet in Peril, features Wildlife Alliance programs in Thailand and Cambodia, including Care for Rescued Wildlife, Bokor National Park, and efforts to stop the illegal wildlife trade in Asia.