The Thai Government is planning infrastructure investment in various " megaprojects ", including motorway expansion to approximately 4, 500 kilometers.

One of the most notable infrastructure projects at the time was the construction of the North – South Expressway, a motorway running from the Thai border to Singapore ; the contract to construct the expressway was awarded to a business venture of UMNO.

* Bangkok Outer Ring Road, see Thai motorway network

The Thai highway network links every part of Thailand.

Locally, a remarkable collaborative network is the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, a group of leading Thai universities in environmental and energy technology area.

Bombing raids continued, a B-29 raid on Bangkok destroying two key power plants on 14 April 1945 .; nevertheless, the Seri Thai network was effective in the rescue of downed allied airmen.

In this capacity, Pridi built up the anti-Japanese underground Free Thai Movement (" Seri Thai ") network in Thailand.

The Royal Thai Army also controls at least one television network, the Thai Global Network.

Main co-organizers were the Sathirakoses Nagapradipa Foundation ( Thailand ), Centre for Bhutan Studies, while local NGOs, progressive business group Social Venture Network and the government of Thailand in particular The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Thailand, have formed a support network together with research agencies and other government departments like the Thai Health Promotion Foundation.

In December 2010, following Chinese plans to extend their ( standard gauge ) network to Xishuangbanna on the China-Laos border and further into Laos, the Thai government agreed to start negotiations on building a standard-gauge network.

BBTV broadcasts Channel 7 using one of two network and spectrum allocations owned by the Royal Thai Army (“ RTA ”).

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.

In most Thai restaurants, diners can find a selection of Thai condiments, often including sugar or MSG, available on the dining table in small containers with tiny spoons.

In Southeastern Asia, shallots are called bawang merah kecil ( small red onions ) in Malay, brambang in Java, and hom ( หอม, fragrant ) in Thai.

Thai letters do not have small and capital forms like the Roman alphabet.

Thai sūn is written as oval 0 ( number ) when using Arabic numerals, but a small circle when using traditional numerals, and also means centre in other contexts.

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.

Ceremonies, which centre around the setting adrift of small boats similar to the Thai festival of Loi Krathong, are held at night and their purpose is to drive away evil and bring good luck.

Only a small portion of Lisu are actually able to read or write the script, with most learning to read and write the local language ( Chinese, Thai, Burmese ) through primary education.

* Wang Phayanak – This group is led by Deputy Prime Minister Phinij Jarusombat, who was leader of the small Seritham Party before it merged with Thai Rak Thai after the 2001 elections.

The Thai economy was heavily dependent on rice exports, and the prime minister hoped to increase the amount for available to export by encouraging Thais to make and sell rice noodles from street carts and in small restaurants.

Nok Air (, derived from nok ( นก ), the Thai word for ( small ) bird, sparrow ) is a low-cost airline headquartered on the 17th floor of the Rajanakarn Building ( ร ั จนาการ ) in Sathorn, Bangkok, Thailand, operating domestic and international services out of Bangkok Don Mueang Airport.

Minced pork or beef and chopped spring onions are usually added, and the dish is optionally topped with a small version of youtiao ( called pathongko in Thai ), fried garlic, slivered ginger, and spicy pickles such as pickled radish.

Knoxfield is home to a small shopping strip, with shops including the Knoxfield Florist, two fish and chip shops, an IGA supermarket, Diamonds and Lace Lingerie, a sandwich bar / cafe, Knoxfield Newsagency & Tattslotto, Knoxfield Hot Bread bakery, a milkbar, Pepper Thai restaurant, A ' blaze Hair Artistry hairdresser, and a Chinese Restaurant.

Bangor is a mostly residential suburb with a small shopping centre which consists of Bangor Community Pharmacy, Bangor post office, Bangor Bakery, The Chicken Spot, Franklins, Peter's Bangor Chinese, Thai Max Malaysian Restaurant, ABC School Wear, Bangor Dry Cleaners, Bangor Butchers, Doug Frost Swim School and My Kids Party Shop.

Shrines inside Thai residences are arranged so as to ensure that the feet are not pointed towards the religious icons — such as placing the shrine on the same wall as the head of a bed, if a house is too small to remove the shrine from the bedroom entirely.

While not a government-observed holiday, it is nonetheless an auspicious day in Thai culture, in which Thai people " loi ", meaning " to float " a " krathong ", a small raft traditionally made from a section of banana tree, decorated with elaborately-folded banana leaves, flowers, candles, incense sticks etc.

Yan is a Chinese / Thai restaurant located very close to the Police Station, in a small retail outlet, and Amaya, an Indian restaurant, is located near to Aldi.

Thailand's township Amphoe Kut Chum once issued its own local scrip called Bia Kut Chum: Bia is Thai for cowry shell, which was once used as small change, and still so used in metaphorical expressions.

Five small traditional Thai houses were dismantled and reassembled at the present site to make one house.

She also had a small role, playing a Thai interpreter, in the 1989 Australian mini-series Bangkok Hilton, with Nicole Kidman.

Though he utilizes a small core of these techniques as part of his teachings, Thompson prefers more pragmatic full-contact martial arts and combat sports such as boxing, Muay Thai and wrestling ( Greco-Roman, Judo, Jujutsu, and Freestyle ).

Bunyen Worthong and a small section of other ex-student leaders / intellectuals broke with the party leadership and on October 22, 1979 they formed the Thai Isan Liberation Party ( generally called Pak Mai, the ' New Party ') in Vientiane.