While some polling shows a majority of ordinary thais approve of martial law, the political class is roiled with suspicion. |
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Westerners may have grown accustomed to lurid tales of European royals, but not so the thais. |
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Verapat says thais should come out and vote in force Sunday. |
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Chinese, Thais, Malays and Indonesians, for example, love the display of multiple forms, shapes, and colours. |
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I'm sorry for the Indians, Indonesians, Sri Lankans and Thais who have to clean this mess up. |
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But the Filipinos and Thais are the region's most combative and best organized reporters. |
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The forerunners of today's Thais gradually moved from what is now southern China into the area of the Mekong and Chao Phraya river basins. |
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They eventually found two boats, one of them a fishing vessel crewed by Thais which had been seized off Somalia. |
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The one point imposed by the Dutch on the Thais and greatly resented was the clause introducing extraterritoriality. |
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The missing are thought to include a Briton, a Swiss, a German, five Thais, two Americans, two Australians and three others. |
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Ricebowl is a phrase used to describe people of Asian origin, Indians, Cambodians, Lao, Thais, Vietnamese, Chinese, et cetera. |
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You see Thais offering white lotuses, waving incense and kneeling in quiet prayer at the various temples to the Enlightened One. |
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The gang of burglars confessed to targeting homes of foreigners and Thais alike, mainly targeting the more prosperous working girls. |
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They have strong ties to Malaysia, speak a dialect of Malay and identify themselves as Pattanis rather than Thais. |
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Middle Eastern people and Thais eat nearly all types of insect but foreigners tend to love the green mantis most. |
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The Thais immediately interned and later seized as war reparations no less than 12 ocean-going ships of the North German Line. |
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Immigration police last week busted an international drug ring operating out of Naklua, arresting five people, two Thais and three Malaysians. |
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However, Bulgaria, which is regarded as a gateway to countries in the Baltic region, has invited Thais to invest more in the country. |
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Like the Power Pat members, a lot of Thais are growing up in a Japanese-influenced environment. |
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For 50 years Thais and Filipinos have participated in cultural exchange, especially in the field of education. |
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The true advantage to foreign visitors in Thailand is that they are extremely welcome and most Thais will bend over backwards to please them. |
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The fact is that thousands of Thais are entering our area from all parts of the nation for business and jobs. |
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Over the past year or so, a lot of time, effort and money have been put into promoting internal tourism, i.e., Thais touring Thailand. |
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About 3,000 Thais of Chinese ethnicity from associations around Bangkok turned up to welcome the two ships. |
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Every year Thais of Chinese descent celebrate the traditional lunar New Year in grand style and this year was no exception. |
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The plain truth is that Chonburi Province is in Thailand, populated by Thais and run by Thais. |
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The movie implies that at least as many whites as Thais live in Thailand and that the few local markets exist only for the tourists. |
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The Dai, the largest of Xishuangbanna's 13 ethnic groups are the northern cousins of the Thais. |
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Finally, the cultural difference between Thais and other national groups constrains generalization of the findings. |
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Further separatist attacks on security forces and ethnic Thais were carried out over the following days. |
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The second was the mountainous Shan States in north-eastern Burma, populated by people ethnically related to the Thais. |
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Overseas Thais are being encouraged to take holidays in Thailand in order to reacquaint themselves with their motherland and native culture. |
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In the beginning there are notes on Thai transliteration, always a problem to the outsider and to the Thais. |
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This period is often viewed by modern-day Thais as a golden age of Siamese religion, politics, and culture. |
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Thais and Vietnamese also came in large numbers and this is really where Asian Fusion cooking was born. |
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The Thais had a traditional creation myth before the arrival of the Buddhist religion. |
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Scots regard whisky as a more traditional drink, while Spaniards, Greeks, Thais and Americans view it as trendy. |
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All we Thais can do is talk about the evil of the Burmese 200 years ago when they sacked Ayuthaya. |
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It also temporarily barred Cambodians and Thais from crossing at border checkpoints. |
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The Thais, like the Cambodians after them, failed to respond with much enthusiasm to the new faith and the clergy eventually had to admit defeat. |
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The couple returned to thank local Thais who helped them survive the ordeal. |
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Despite the loss of their capital, the Khmer counter-attacked and by 1432 had compelled the Thais to retire. |
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As Thais or other Asians become more involved in the global trade and global interaction of all kinds, they are beginning to assert their identities to the world. |
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I was sent on assignment to Thailand by Hinduism Today to meet the Indian Hindus of Thailand and to explore the ways in which Thais worship the Hindu Gods and Goddesses. |
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It is thought that Brahmanism came to the geographical area, now known as Thailand, many hundreds of years before the Thais themselves migrated to this region. |
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Although many traditional beliefs are retained by Thai Americans, Thais often try to adjust their beliefs in order to live in the United States comfortably. |
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Krabi has 76 prefectures, with each containing Thais of Chinese descent. |
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The bridge is a part of the Thai-Burma railway, built by Allied PoWs and well as unwilling local Thais, Malays and Burmese, under the instructions of their Japanese masters. |
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I've been coming here since it first opened and the crowd was a classy mix of well heeled expats, fashionable Thais and a lot of beautiful people. |
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In the men's international race, held in the early afternoon, the South Africans hotly pursued the Thais, but could not take the lead, coming in almost four seconds behind. |
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This flexibility and adaptability has had a profound effect on first-generation American-born Thais, who tend to be quite assimilated or Americanized. |
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But Thais were accustomed to rices that, like Thai people, stick together. |
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Thailand is still a very free country and Thais do value their freedom. |
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Although Indonesians, Nepalis, Pakistanis, and Thais are prominent in the SAR, the most significant minority group consists of Filipino domestic helpers. |
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Wet dishes such as soups and curries play off the drier dishes, relishes and the crunchy raw vegetables Thais consider a mandatory part of a good meal. |
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It seems like Pattaya to Thais is like New Orleans is to Americans, great place to visit and go slumming, but you really don't want to live there. |
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Ordinary Thais across the nation have folded and written peace messages on the paper cranes in a campaign devised by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. |
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The Chinese, Indonesians, Central Filipinos and Thais use sea horses in their medicines as cures for illnesses, as aphrodisiacs, decorations and even for food. |
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There was a serious side to the evening, too, with violinist Ruth Palmer playing Messenet's Meditation from Thais and Monti's Czardas superbly. |
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The Chinese troops could not retreat because the routes to Yunnan were controlled by the Thais and Japanese. |
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Thais have a strong sense of hospitality and generosity, but also a strong sense of social hierarchy. |
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It is not uncommon to see Thais cheering their favourite English Premier League teams on television and walking around in replica kit. |
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French engineers constructed fortifications for the Thais and built a new palace at Lopburi for Narai. |
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He said the men need a fall guy because they do not want blame casted on Thais. |
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Army during World War II, was introduced to Thais by his mother in the winter of 1946 soon after his discharge from service. |
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Thais haemastoma is a large gastropod with a strong columellar muscle and heat may have made prying them from their shells easier. |
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Thailand in its earliest days was under the rule of the Khmer Empire, which had strong Hindu roots, and the influence among Thais remains even today. |
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He also told Hun Sen that Thailand will send commandos and C-130 transport planes early Thursday to secure the safe return of some 400 Thais currently living in Phnom Penh. |
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The greatest source of slaves came from southern tribes, including Thais and aboriginals from the southern provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guizhou. |
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Thais living on moshavim are assigned to work for individual farmers. |
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