Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forces retreated rapidly to the Thai border.

Within a year of serious border clashes in 1987, Lao and Thai leaders signed a communiqué, signaling their intention to improve relations.

The main highway of the country extends over 800 km, reaching the Thai border from Singapore.

The longest highway of the country, the North-South Expressway, extends over between the Thai border and Singapore.

Goods travel primarily across the Thai border ( where most illegal drugs are exported ) and along the Ayeyarwady River.

Richard W. Hughes, author of Ruby and Sapphire, a Bangkok based gemologist who has made many trips to Burma makes the point that for every ruby sold through the junta, another gem that supports subsistence mining is smuggled over the Thai border.

The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 defined the modern border between Siam and British Malaya by securing Thai authority over the provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Satun, which were previously part of the semi ‐ independent Malay sultanates of Pattani and Kedah.

Although neither China nor Vietnam border Thailand, the territories of both countries come within 100 km of Thai territory.

Adding to general border tensions were the activities of communist-led insurgents, whose operations had been of paramount concern to the Thai government and its security forces for several decades.

* Cambodian – Thai border stand-off ( 2008-ongoing )

* January 24 – God's Army, a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border.

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border.

Malaysian Army conduct the artillery bombardment from remote locations which targeted CPM positions in the Malaysian Thai border which the artillery was transported using a under slung.

* Shan ( Thai Luang, Tai Long, Thai Yai ), spoken by about 100, 000 in north-west Thailand along the border with the Shan States of Burma, and by 3. 2 million in Burma ( 2006 ).

That night ( for the second evening in a row ) two flights of CIA-sponsored Laotian fighter-bombers ( piloted by Thai mercenaries ) attacked border outposts well within southwestern North Vietnam.

The Mon ( or ; ; ; ) are an ethnic group from Burma ( Myanmar ), living mostly in Mon State, Bago Division, the Irrawaddy Delta, and along the southern Thai – Burmese border.

Southern portions of the divide's boundary correspond less to the nation's political border, because isolation in this area was prevented by the ease of transportation along the lowlands surrounding the Gulf of Thailand, allowing a unified Thai civilisation to extend beyond the watershed without issue.

* Cambodian – Thai border dispute near the Preah Vihear Temple

A trip from Huay Xai, just across the river from the Thai border, costs 20 baht on a boat.

By January 1970, the People's Republic of China had taken advantage of a pre-existing treaty to build a highway south from Yunnan Province through western Laos toward the Thai / Lao border.

On 6 March 1999, the general was captured by the Cambodian army near the Thai border and brought to Phnom Penh, where he joined former comrade Khang Khek Ieu (" Duch ") at the Military Prosecution Department Detention Facility.

The family of Khaw Soo Cheang on the Thai side of the border had been given the name meaning " from Ranong " by the Thai King and became the Na Ranong family.

The highest point of the Sankalakhiri Range ( Northern Titiwangsa Mountains ), 1, 533 m high Ulu Titi Basah ( ย ู ล ู ต ิ ต ิ บาซาห ์), is located at the Thai / Malaysian border between Yala Province and Perak.

However, following a series of internal party disputes, changes in international communist alliances, successful counter-insurgency policies of the Thai government and, ultimately, the end of the Cold War, the party disappeared from the political scene in the early 1990s.

In Thai, tone is determined primarily by the choice of consonant, with diacritics for disambiguation.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

Without one official teaching on the death penalty, Thai monks are typically divided on the issue with some favoring abolition of the death penalty while others see it as bad karma stemming from bad actions in the past.

There is no widespread use of fresh herbs in Cantonese cooking, in contrast with their liberal use in other cuisines such as Sichuan, European, Thai or Vietnamese.

* They form part of a subtle energy body, along with the energy channels, or nadis, and the subtle winds ( vayus ), or pranas ( Thai: ปราณส ์).

** Khmer Pradal Serey – similar to Muay Thai with an emphasis on elbow techniques ( Ring-wise ).

** Thai boxing or Muay Thai – the modern Thai martial art with strong emphasis on knee and elbow strikes.

Tatsuo Yamada, who established " Nihon Kempo Karate-do ", was interested in Muay Thai because he wanted to perform karate matches with full-contact rules since practitioners are not allowed to hit each other directly in karate matches.

The elbow and knee techniques allowed in Japanese kickboxing by contrast were associated with Muay Thai, and Japanese kickboxing went mostly unnoticed in German-speaking Europe before the launch of K-1 in 1993.

They are rather contemporary regional sports that coexist with the modern forms of martial arts sports as they have developed since the 19th century, often including cross-fertilization between sports and folk styles ; thus, the traditional Thai style of Muay Boran developed into the modern national sport of Muay Thai, which in turn came to be practiced worldwide and contributed significantly to modern hybrid styles like kickboxing and mixed martial arts.

Muay Thai (,, ) is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques.

King Mangra was so impressed that he allegedly remarked, " Every part of the Thai is blessed with venom.

Muay Thai is often a fighting art of attrition, where opponents exchange blows with one another.

This is certainly the case with traditional stylists in Thailand, but is a less popular form of fighting in the contemporary world fighting circuit where the Thai style of exchanging blow for blow is no longer favorable.

Almost all techniques in muay Thai use the entire body movement, rotating the hip with each kick, punch, elbow and block.

This game is commonly played in practice with only one heap ( for instance with k = 3 in the game Thai 21 on Survivor: Thailand, where it appeared as an Immunity Challenge ).

For example, in Thai, Hindi, and Quechua, there are minimal pairs of words for which aspiration is the only contrasting feature ( two words with different meanings that are identical except that one has an aspirated sound where the other has an unaspirated one ).

Thai ceramic, illustrating " Don't torch a stump with a hornet nest.

More exotic flavors are Thai sweet chili, roast pork & creamy mustard sauce, lime and Thai spices, chicken with Italian herbs, sea salt and cracked black pepper, turkey & bacon, caramelized onion & sweet balsamic vinegar, stilton & cranberry, mango chili, and special flavors such as American Cheeseburger and English Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pud.

In some East Asian populations studied ( Han Chinese and Thai ), carbamazepine-and phenytoin-induced SJS is strongly associated with HLA-B * 1502 ( HLA-B75 ), an HLA-B serotype of the broader serotype HLA-B15.