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The Royal Thai General System of Transcription (RTGS) is the official [1] [2] system for rendering Thai words in the Latin alphabet. It was published by the Royal Institute of Thailand in early 1917, when Thailand was called Siam .
This list refers to monarchs by the names most often used by traditional historians. [ 1] Western nations referred to the monarch as the "King of Siam" ( Latin: Rex Siamensium ), regardless of Thai titles, since the initiation of relations in the 16th century. Mongkut (Rama IV) was the first monarch to adopt the title when the name Siam was ...
The Thai Wikipedia (Thai: วิกิพีเดียภาษาไทย) is the Thai language edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 25 December 2003. As of August 2024, it has 166,203 articles and 483,039 registered users. [1] As of March 2022, Wikipedia (all languages combined) was ranked 14th in Alexa's Top Sites Thailand. [2]
They avoided full scale guerrilla warfare until the summer of 1965, when militants began engaging Thai security forces. A total of 13 clashes were recorded during that period. [ 59 ] The second half of 1965 was marked by a further 25 violent incidents, [ 59 ] and starting in November 1965, Communist Party of Thailand insurgents began ...
Apichatpong's feature-length debut, Dokfa nai meuman (Mysterious Object at Noon) is a documentary [12] and was conceptually based upon the "exquisite corpse" game invented by surrealists. [ citation needed ] He co-founded the production company, Kick the Machine, in 1999, and uses the company as a vehicle for his own works, alongside Thai ...
Thai is the most spoken of over 60 languages of Thailand by both number of native and overall speakers. Over half of its vocabulary is derived from or borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit, Mon [ 4] and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai has a complex orthography and system of relational markers.
Ray MacDonald (Thai: เรย์ แมคโดนัลด์; born May 21, 1977) is a Thai actor, adventurer, television presenter and host.He won Best Actor awards at the Thailand National Film Association Awards in 1997 and 1998 for his roles in Fun Bar Karaoke, the debut feature by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, and O-Negative, which co-starred Tata Young.
Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) [ 1] – defined as "A transmitter-receiver associated with a fixed navigational mark which, when triggered by a radar, automatically returns a distinctive signal which can appear on the display of the ...