Paul Williams writes that some modern Theravada meditation masters in Thailand are popularly regarded as bodhisattvas.

Copper and tin ores are rarely found together ( exceptions include one ancient site in Thailand and one in Iran ), so serious bronze work has always involved trade.

Other such breast mountains are Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, Beinn Chìochan and the Maiden Paps in Scotland, the " Bundok ng Susong Dalaga " ( Maiden's breast mountains ) in Talim Island, Philippines, the twin hills known as the Paps of Anu ( Dá Chích Anann or the breasts of Anu ), near Killarney in Ireland, the 2, 086 m high Tetica de Bacares or " La Tetica " in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain, and Khao Nom Sao in Thailand, Cerro Las Tetas in Puerto Rico and the Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, among many others.

Researchers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam are currently working on delayed-ripening papaya in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and Zeneca.

Notable variations are found in speakers from Phnom Penh ( which is the capital city ), the rural Battambang area, the areas of Northeast Thailand adjacent to Cambodia such as Surin province, the Cardamom Mountains, and in southern Vietnam.

In Thailand, where the Thai solar calendar is used, the months and days have adopted the western standard, although the years are still based on the traditional Buddhist calendar.

These two ranges are bordered on the west by a narrow coastal plain that contains Kampong Saom Bay, which faces the Gulf of Thailand.

Parts of Cambodia's border with Thailand are indefinite, and the maritime boundary with Thailand is not clearly defined.

Other temples in this style are Banteay Samre and Thommanon in the area of Angkor, and Phimai in modern Thailand.

Chile's trade talks with Malaysia and Thailand are also scheduled to continue in 2008.

However, the two most populous constitutional monarchies in the world are in Asia: Japan and Thailand.

At the ATCI many teams from all over Thailand compete, joining them are many invited neighbouring nations who also send cheer squads.

Beach sands rich in heavy minerals, and offshore placer deposits are actively exploited by bordering countries, particularly India, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

These mountains are sparsely populated by tribal minorities who traditionally have not acknowledged the border with Vietnam any more than lowland Lao have been constrained by the 1, 754-kilometer Mekong River border with Thailand.

Despite strong economic and cultural ties with Thailand, parts of the border shared by the two countries are indefinite.

There are more than 125 Campus Lions clubs in the world including nearly 2, 500 members on college and university campuses in Australia, Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uganda, United States, Venezuela, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ghana-Lions KNUST.

The Karen, Karenni, and Mon ethnic groups have been forced to seek asylum in neighboring Thailand, where they are also abused by an unfriendly and unsympathetic government.

Border disputes are now coming more prominent and Thailand as disturbed by the imprisonment of Burma ’ s dissident Aung San Suu Kyi.

* 1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100, 000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government ; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.

The north near the border with Ecuador is opposite much of Malaya, including the east coast and Penang, and the adjacent part of the Kra Peninsula in Thailand ; whereas many of the Riau Islands of Indonesia are antipodal to the northern Peruvian Amazon.

Pufferfish, called pakpao in Thailand, are usually consumed by mistake.

Pawnbroking is also a traditional trade in Thailand, where pawnshops are run both privately and by local governments.

Sacred Buddhist amulets are made within that religious schema, created and blessed in various temples in Thailand, many depicting Buddha with cocks in fighting stance, sacred within that religion.

It may contain a single species, Cosymbotus craspedotus ( Mocquard's House Gecko ); another species included in the genus, Cosymbotus platyurus ( Thailand House Gecko ) is now usually classified under the genus Hemidactylus.

An estimated 50, 000 Karenni people classified as IDPs ( Internally Displaced Persons ) and thousands more are in refugee camps in Thailand.

In Thailand, they are classified as one of the six hill tribes, a term used for all of the various tribal peoples who migrated from China and Tibet over the past few centuries and who now inhabit the dense forests on the borders between Thailand, Laos, and Burma.

The Indochinese tiger ( Panthera tigris corbetti ) is a tiger subspecies found in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and southwestern China that has been classified as endangered by IUCN.

It also conducted classified counter-insurgency research in Thailand for the Defense Department.

Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Volume IV: Twelve Cases in Thailand and Burma.

Additionally one million Khmer native to southern Vietnam and 1. 4 million in northeast Thailand speak dialects of Khmer.

Its 2, 572 km border is split among Vietnam ( 1, 228 km ), Thailand ( 803 km ) and Laos ( 541 km ), as well as 443 km of coastline.

Year-on-year growth in imports was especially strong from a number of countries-Ecuador ( 123. 9 %), Thailand ( 72. 1 %), Korea ( 52. 6 %), and China ( 36. 9 %).

However, a study in Thailand found the cost per malaria case prevented of DDT spraying ($ 1. 87 US ) to be 21 % greater than the cost per case prevented of lambda-cyhalothrin – treated nets ($ 1. 54 US ), at very least casting some doubt on the unexamined assumption that DDT was the most cost-effective measure to use in all cases.

border countries: Burma 235 km, Cambodia 541 km, the People's Republic of China 423 km, Thailand 1, 754 km, Vietnam 2, 130 km

In 2010, Burma trafficked 1 billion tablets to neighboring Thailand.

* registered in other countries: 1, 366 ( Bahamas 9, Bangladesh 1, Belize 107, Bermuda 10, Bolivia 1, Cambodia 166, Cyprus 10, France 5, Georgia 4, Germany 2, Honduras 3, Hong Kong 309, India 1, Indonesia 2, Liberia 32, Malaysia 1, Malta 13, Marshall Islands 3, Mongolia 3, Norway 47, Panama 473, Philippines 2, Sierra Leone 8, Singapore 19, St Vincent and The Grenadines 106, Thailand 1, Turkey 1, Tuvalu 25, unknown 33 ) ( 2007 )

Most of the remaining production originated from Russia ( 2, 500 t ), Canada ( 1, 964 t ), Bolivia ( 1, 023 t ), Austria ( 900 t ), Portugal ( 900 t ), Thailand ( 600 t ), Brazil ( 500 t ), Peru ( 500 t ) and Rwanda ( 500 t ).

Increasing numbers of migrants from Burma, Laos, and Cambodia as well as nations such as Nepal, India, along with those from the West and Japan have pushed the number of non-nationals residing in Thailand to close to 2 million in 2008, up from about 1. 3 million in the year 2000.

After the war, as a result, Thailand had an obligation to supply 1. 5 million tons of rice to the Western allied countries without charge, which was a burden to the country's economic recovery.

The State Railway of Thailand operates 4, 070 km of 1. 000-m gauge railway line ( 372. 63 km double track and 106. 01 km triple track ).

*: During the United Nations mandated conflict in the Korean peninsula, Thailand provided the 21st Regiment of about 1, 294 men.

Thailand established diplomatic relations with the PRC on 1 July 1975.

The main origins of Vietnam ’ s imports were China ( 13. 9 %), Taiwan ( 11. 6 %), Singapore ( 11. 3 %), Japan ( 11. 1 %), South Korea ( 10. 4 %), Thailand ( 5. 8 %), and Malaysia ( 3. 8 %).

Thailand 46, 1 %, Malaysia 19, 1 %, Poland 8, 1 %, Japan 7, 6 % ( 2005 )