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Thai (left) and Chinese (right) holy days. Red numerals mark Sundays and public holidays in Thailand.; Buddha images mark Buddhist Sabbaths, Wan Phra (วันพระ).; Red tablets with white Chinese characters mark the New and Full Moons of the Chinese calendar, which typically differ by one day from those of the Thai.
The Khmu were the indigenous inhabitants of northern Laos. It is generally believed the Khmu once inhabited a much larger area. After the influx of Thai/Lao peoples into the lowlands of Southeast Asia, the Khmu were forced to higher ground (), above the rice-growing lowland Lao and below the Hmong/Mien groups that inhabit the highest regions, where they practiced swidden agriculture. [5]
Here, native Thai words are immediately followed by a vocabulary entry in this pattern: Phonetic Thai (Thai phonetic respelling, if different) [Comment] definition; variant definitions. Example: Thai ไทย (ไท) [Archaic] free, frank; Thai race, language, alphabet; citizen of Thailand.
Chart shows the peopling of Thailand. Thailand is a country of some 70 ethnic groups, including at least 24 groups of ethnolinguistically Tai peoples, mainly the Central, Southern, Northeastern, and Northern Thais; 22 groups of Austroasiatic peoples, with substantial populations of Northern Khmer and Kuy; 11 groups speaking Sino-Tibetan languages ('hill tribes'), with the largest in population ...
Thailand uses the Thai solar calendar as the official calendar, in which the calendar's epochal date was the year in which the Buddha attained parinibbāna. This places the current year at 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar. The year 2025 AD is indicated as 2568 BE in Thailand.
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The Thai government and Muslim separatists from the southern part of the country agree on a possible peace process to stop an insurrection which started in 2004. [ 22 ] Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet visits Thailand to sign several documents on further cooperation between Cambodia and Thailand.
A panel from a typical calendar, showing the month of August 2004 (B.E. 2547). Lunar dates are also provided. The Thai solar calendar (Thai: ปฏิทินสุริยคติไทย, RTGS: patithin suriyakhati thai, "solar calendar") was adopted by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1888 CE as the Siamese version of the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Thai lunar calendar as the legal ...