The provincial slogan is Fa Daet Song Yang Ancient City, Pong Lang Folk Music, Phu Thai Culture, Phrae Wa Silk, Pha Saweoi Phu Phan, Lam Pao River, and Million-year Dinosaurs.

In 1948, he partnered with George Barrie to found the Thai Silk Company.

It was only after Thompson's disappearance that the Thai Silk Company relocated its weaving operations to Korat, a city which serves as a base of operations for the Royal Thai Army.

Although it abandoned home-based weaving in favor of factories in the early 1970s, the Thai Silk Company's Korat facility looks more like a landscaped campus than a factory.

The Thai Silk Company was the first to declare a reward for finding Thompson.

Charles U. Sheffield, 40, who was appointed acting manager, announced that “ a generous reward of US $ 10, 000 will be paid by the Thai Silk Company to any person or persons ” who succeeded in finding Thompson.

* The Thai Silk Company

* The Curious Case of Jim Thompson, Thai Silk King by Kenneth Champeon

* Jim Thompson, the Thai Silk King www. YouTube. com

The " Mysterious " Disappearance of Jim Thompson, the Legendary Thai Silk King by Edward Roy De Souza

* Thai Airways " Royal Silk "

Amaranth greens, also called Chau lai ( Hindi ) and Chu or Chua ( Kumauni ), Chinese spinach, hinn choy or yin tsoi (); callaloo, dhantinasoppu ( ದ ಂ ಟ ಿ ನ ಸ ೊ ಪ ್ ಪ ು) / harive ( ಹರ ಿ ವ ೆ) ( Kannada ); త ో టక ూ ర ( Telugu ); Rajgira ( र ा जग ी र ा) ( Marathi ); ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை ( Tamil ); cheera ച ീ ര ( Malayalam ); bayam ( Indonesian ); phak khom ผ ั กโขม ( Thai ); tampala, or quelite ( Oriya ); Khada Saga, are a common leaf vegetable throughout the tropics and in many warm temperate regions.

The Khmer language has influenced, and also been influenced by, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese and Cham, all of which, due to geographical proximity and long-term cultural contact, form a sprachbund in peninsular Southeast Asia.

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.

During this period, he also fought as an amateur boxer in 16 matches and obtained a title in Muay Thai.

Most of the encodings contain only spacing characters although the Thai, Hebrew, and Arabic ones do also contain combining characters.

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.

At this time, the Thai fighter was taken by Osamu Noguchi who was a promoter of boxing and was also interested in Muay Thai.

The IKF also hosts the Largest All Amateur – Full Contact & Muay Thai – Kickboxing Tournament in the World, the IKF World Classic.

Harinck also founded the MTBN ( Dutch Muay Thai Association ) in 1983, and the WMTA ( World Muay Thai Association ) and the EMTA ( European Muay Thai Association ) in 1984.

It was also around this time that the term muay Thai became commonly used while the older form of the style came to be known as muay boran, which is now performed primarily as an exhibition art form.

Other variations of this story had him also winning the release of his fellow Thai prisoners.

It is also occasionally seen in Korean and Thai cuisines.

It is also used in Krabi Krabong, a Thai martial art.

Albanian, Arabic, Assyrian ( VSO and VOS are also followed, depending on the person ), Berber, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Ganda, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kashmiri, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Quiche, Rotuman, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu are examples of languages that can follow an SVO pattern.

Land subsidence in Bangkok area resulting from the depletion of the water table ; droughts ( see also 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and 2011 Thai floods ).

Most Thai governments have stipulated parliamentary systems ; however, several of them also called for dictatorships, e. g., the 1957 Constitution.

Nonetheless, it was also in 1947 that the Thai economy regained its momentum.

This means, as the U. S. Dollar accounted for 80 percent in the Thai basket of currencies, the Thai Baht was also depreciated further-making Thailand's export even more competitive and making the country more attractive to Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ), especially from Japan whose national currency appreciated considerably since 1985.

This war also supported Phibun ’ s program of Thai nationalism.

He also said that Cambodia was interfering in Thai internal affairs and as a result bi-lateral co-operation agreements would be reviewed.

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

While prolonged grappling in muay Thai will result in a separation of the competitors, the art extensively uses the clinch hold known as a double collar tie.

A practitioner of muay Thai is known as a nak muay.

In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the Burmese King Hsinbyushin ( known in Thai as " King Mangra ") decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics.

General Taksin ( now known as King Taksin the Great ) managed to reunite the Thai kingdom from his new capital of Thonburi and declared himself king in 1769.

Having known all of the economic problems confronting the Kingdom and that Thailand had used the multiple currency basket peg exchange rate, the foreign speculators ( including the Hedge Funds ) were certain that the Thai Government would soon have to devalue the Baht.

The spiciness of Thai cuisine is well known.

Thai food is known for its balance of three to four fundamental taste senses in each dish or the overall meal: sour, sweet, salty, and bitter.

Thai food is known for its enthusiastic use of fresh ( rather than dried ) herbs and spices.

While the oldest known inscription in the Khmer language dates from 611 CE, inscriptions in Thai writing began to appear around 1292 CE.

** The Letter ( 2004 film ), a Thai remake of the 1997 Korean film, also known as Jod mai rak

The Thai equivalent of the tael is known as the tamlueng, a term derived from Khmer.

She was known as Empress Thai Phương after her husband's death in 1997.

There are many varieties of sausages known to Thai cuisine, some of which are specialities of a specific region of Thailand.

Despite their early prohibition, recorded in the Pali Canon, these practices ( known as the Dhutanga practices or in Thai as thudong ) eventually became acceptable to the monastic community.

Its currency value was originally expressed as that of silver of corresponding weight ( now defined as fifteen grams ), and was in use probably as early as the Sukhothai period in the form of bullet coins known in Thai as phot duang ().

It is known as Airavat ( ಐರ ಾ ವತ ) in Kannada, Airavatam in Tamil, Telugu and Erawan in Thai.

While Patpong is internationally known as a red light district at the heart of Bangkok's sex industry, it is in fact only one of numerous red-light districts some catering primarily to Thai men and some others, like Patpong, catering primarily to foreigners.

Traditional Thai historians considered the foundation of the Sukhothai kingdom as the beginning of their nation because little was known about the kingdoms prior to Sukhothai.

In Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other areas in Southeast Asia, Min Nan is known as Hokkien, in addition to the Teochew variant, originating in the Chaoshan region, which is the ancestral home of many ethnic Chinese in Singapore as well as in Bangkok, Thailand ( see Thai Chinese for more information about the Chinese community in Thailand ).

Thai Beverage, better known as ( ThaiBev, Thai: ไทยเบฟ ) () is Thailand's largest and one of the largest beverage alcohol companies in South East Asia with distilleries in Thailand, Scotland, Poland, Ireland, China, and France.

Madurai is also known for Jallikattu, the annual bull taming event celebrated along with the Thai Pongal festival, organised in villages outside the city.

English: kaffir lime ; French: citron combera, citron ridé ; Indonesian / Malay: jeruk obat, jeruk purut, limau purut ; Khmer: krô: ch saë: ch ; Thai magrood ; also known as combava, kieffer lime, makrut lime or kabuyao / cabuyao.