Thailand - Understand & Survival (Chapter)

Thailand Understand & Survival (Chapter) Edition 14th Edition, February 2012 Pages 106 Page Range 695- © Lonely Planet Publi ...

Understand Thailand THAILAND TODAY.......................... 696 Thailand’s economy has continued to boom despite the political ...

696 Thailand Today Political Stability? After a fi ve-year period of political instability initiated by the 2006 coup d’état, Th ...

697 Regardless of the division of power, Thais in general seem fatigued from the previous years’ political distress, which under ...

THAILAND TODAY the most recent political troubles, which are partly due to the impend- ing power vacuum that will result after h ...

History & Politics History Thai history begins as a story of migrants heading into a frontier land claimed by distant empire ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 10th century Arrival of Tai peoples in Thailand. 1240– Approximate dates of Sukhothai kingdom. Th ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1283 Early Thai script invented by King Ramkhamhaeng of Sukhothai. 1292 Chiang Mai becomes the ca ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1688 King Narai dies and is followed by the Palace Revolution and the expulsion of the French. 17 ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1851– Reign of King Mongkut (Rama IV) and a period of Western infl uence. 1855 Bowring Treaty con ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1890 Siam’s fi rst railway connects Bangkok with Nakhon Ratchasima. 1893 French blockade Chao Phr ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1902 Siam annexes Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat from the former sultanate of Pattani. 1909 Anglo-S ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1917 Siam sends troops to join the Allies in WWI. 1932 Bloodless coup ends absolute monarchy. 193 ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1945 WWII ends; Thailand cedes seized territory from Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia. 1946 King Bhumi ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1965 Thailand hosts US military bases during the Vietnam War. 1968 Thailand is a founding member ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1979 After three years of military rule, elections and parliament restored. 1980 Prem Tinsulanond ...

HISTORY & POLITICS HISTORY 1988 Chatichai Choonhavan becomes fi rst elected PM since 1976; trade opens with Indochina. 1991- ...

HISTORY & POLITICS POLITICS 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami kills over 5000 people in Thailand and damages tourism and fi shing in ...

HISTORY & POLITICS POLITICS 2010 Red Shirt, pro-Thaksin activists occupy central Bangkok for two months; military crackdown ...

There is no better way to tap into Thailand’s traditional folkways than to attend a festival, be it a provincial parade or a nat ...