And Secretary Rusk, en route to Bangkok, doubtless is trying to make emergency arrangements for the possible entry of Australian or Thai SEATO forces.

This is the case for Vietnamese ( a true alphabet ) and Thai ( an abugida ).

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

To make up for a lack of hard currency, Thailand's township, Amphoe Kut Chum, once issued its own local scrip called Bia Kut Chum: Bia is Thai for cowry shell, was once Baht, and is still current in metaphorical expressions.

Khmer differs from neighboring languages such as Thai, Lao and Vietnamese in that it is not a tonal language.

The language of this transition period, from about the 14th to 18th centuries, is referred to as Middle Khmer and saw borrowing from Thai, Lao and, to a lesser extent, Vietnamese.

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.

Cambridge is also the birthplace of Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej ( Rama IX ), who is the world's longest reigning monarch at age 82 ( 2010 ), as well as the longest reigning monarch in Thai history.

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.

Curry () ( plural, Curries ) is a generic term primarily employed in Western culture to denote a wide variety of dishes originating in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Thai or other Southern and Southeastern Asian cuisines, as well as New World cuisines influenced by them such as Trinidadian or Fijian.

In the Lao language, it is called phak see, and in Thai, it is known as phak chee Lao.

The pilot flying the Thai Airways Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.

For example, in court of justice where strictly formal Thai language is used, Dr cannot be mentioned as a person's title.

Kaeng phet pet yang ( Thai roast duck curry ) is an example of early fusion cuisine of the Multiculturalism | cosmopolitan court of the Ayutthaya Kingdom ( 1350 CE to 1767 CE ) combining Thai cuisine | Thai red curry, Chinese roast duck and grapes originally from Persia

The khim is the name of both the Thai and the Khmer hammered dulcimer.

* 1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.

Kickboxing ( in Japanese ) is a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from Karate, Muay Thai and Western boxing.

The French term Boxe pieds-poings ( literally " feet-fists-boxing ") is also used in the sense of " kickboxing " in the general meaning, including French boxing ( savate ) as well as American and Japanese kickboxing, Burmese and Thai boxing, any style of full contact karate, etc.

However, some written languages like Chinese, Japanese and Thai do not mark word boundaries in such a fashion, and in those languages text segmentation is a significant task requiring knowledge of the vocabulary and morphology of words in the language.

Traditional Thai vegetarian restaurants will carry this yellow sign with the word che written in red in Thai alphabet | Thai script

Tharp has written three books: an early autobiography, Push Comes to Shove ( 1992 ; Bantam Books ); The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life ( 2003, Simon & Schuster ), translated into Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Thai and Japanese ; “ The Collaborative Habit ” ( 2009, Simon & Schuster ), also translated into Thai, Chinese and Korean.

* Isan ( Northeastern Thai ), the language of the Isan region of Thailand, a socio-culturally distinct Thai – Lao hybrid dialect which is written with the Thai script.

* Elegant or formal Thai ( ภาษาเข ี ยน, written Thai ): official and written version, includes respectful terms of address ; used in simplified form in newspapers.

* The English writer Auberon Waugh, writing in The Spectator in the 1970s in response to an article Pilger had written alleging Thai complicity in child trafficking ( whose research was challenged ), coined the verb " to pilger ", defined as: to present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion.

Thai, spoken in Thailand and some areas of Laos, Burma and China, is written with its own script, probably descended from mixture of Tai – Laotian and Old Khmer, in the Brahmic family.

Thaification policies removed the alphabet and now the language is written in the Thai alphabet, if at all, and the name changed to Isan to sever the political connection with Laos.

In Thai language these murals are known to form the Ramakian, the Thai national epic, which was written during the reign of Rama I.

Mural of the epic Ramakien, written by the King, the Thai version of the Ramayana, on the walls of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Grand Palace, Bangkok.

Currently written with the Thai alphabet ( instead of the slightly different Lao alphabet ), Isan belongs to the Chiang Seng and Lao – Phutai language groups, which along with Thai are members of the Tai languages of the Tai – Kadai language family.

The Ta ' ang ( ; Thai: ปะหล ่ อง, also written as Benglong ) are a Mon – Khmer ethnic minority found in Shan State of Burma, Yunnan province of China and northern Thailand.

In Thailand, Pali is written using the Thai alphabet, resulting in a Thai monotone-like pronunciation of the Pali language.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

In 2012, the Thai economy is expected to grow by 5. 5-6. 0 percent, a V-shaped recovery from last year ’ s flood.

The racial makeup of Fairfield was 48, 407 ( 46. 0 %) White, 16, 586 ( 15. 7 %) African American, 869 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 15, 700 ( 14. 9 %) Asian ( 9. 1 % Filipino, 1. 8 % Indian, 1. 0 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Japanese, 0. 4 % Korean, 0. 3 % Laotian, 0. 2 % Thai, 0. 1 % Pakistani ), 1, 149 ( 1. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 13, 301 ( 12. 6 %) from other races, and 9, 309 ( 8. 8 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of El Monte was 44, 058 ( 38. 8 %) White, 870 ( 0. 8 %) African American, 1, 083 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 28, 503 ( 25. 1 %) Asian ( 13. 5 % Chinese, 7. 4 % Vietnamese, 1. 2 % Filipino, 0. 4 % Cambodian, 0. 2 % Burmese, 0. 2 % Japanese, 0. 2 % Korean, 0. 2 % Indian, 0. 2 % Thai ), 131 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 35, 205 ( 31. 0 %) from other races, and 3, 625 ( 3. 2 %) from two or more races.

These include a large number of ethnic restaurants including Chinese, Thai, Greek, Pakistani, Italian, Indian and Mexican.

The Thai fighter's photo was on the magazine " The Primer of Nihon Kempo Karate-do, the first number " which was published by Yamada.

**: In Muay Thai, kicking to mid-body and head are scored highly generating a large number of points on judges ' scorecards.

Among them were a large number of Thai kickboxers, who were taken to the city of Ava.

On current data, slightly over half of the Thai population owns a mobile cellular telephone, with more numbers allocated than number of population.

To illustrate this appreciation of Thai cuisine: the number of Thai restaurants went up from four in 1970s London to between two and three hundred in less than 25 years.

# Thai borrowed a large number of words from Sanskrit and Pali, and the Thai alphabet was created so that the original spelling of these words could be preserved as much as possible.

This means that the Thai alphabet has a number of " duplicate " letters that represent separate sounds in Sanskrit and Pali ( e. g. the breathy voiced sounds bh, dh, ḍh, jh, gh and the retroflex sounds ṭ ṭ ḍ ḍh ṇ ) but which never represented distinct sounds in the Thai language.

# The desire to preserve original Sanskrit and Pali spellings also produces a particularly large number of duplicate ways of spelling sounds at the end of a syllable ( where Thai is strictly limited in the sounds that can occur but Sanskrit allowed all possibilities, especially once former final / a / was deleted ), as well as a number of silent letters.

Thai numerals (, IPA: ) constitute a numeral system of Thai number names for the Khmer numerals traditionally used in Thailand, also used for the more common Arabic numerals, and which follow the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.

The Thai language lacks grammatical number.

The World Wide Center has a number of small ethnic businesses which include House of Lee Chinese Restaurant, NAM STE Indian Grocery, Bangkok Kitchen Thai Restaurant, and China Merchandise.

Thai Beverage Public Company Limited owns and distributes a number of significant brands including Chang beer and Mekhong and Sang Som rum.

The school has educated three monarchs: Mukarram Jah the last Nizam of Hyderabad, King Hussein of Jordan and his cousin, Faisal II, the last King of Iraq, and had among its pupils a large number from the Thai, Indian, Malaysian and Middle Eastern royal families.

There are a large number of restaurants with Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese cuisines.

Until a sufficient number of Lao pilots had been trained, Thai pilots, whose language was akin to Lao, would fill the close air support role, leaving U. S. Air Force planes free to strike interdiction targets.

* Ong-Bak: Muay Thai WarriorThai actor Tony Jaa performed a number of stunts for the film, suffering injuries such as a ligament injury and a sprained ankle.

The minority ethnic Thai inhabitants of Kelantan are mostly centered in an area around the coastal town of Tumpat, site of most of the state's two hundred or so Buddhist temples, and noteworthy for its number of relatively well-off Siamese villages.

Thai nationals, through training and experience, were gradually able to assume full managerial responsibility and the number of expatriate staff duly decreased, with expatriates accounting for less than one percent of staff based in Thailand in 1987.