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Even non-Thai restaurants may include Thai-influenced dishes on their menu like Pad Thai and Thai tea. Thai culture's prominence in the United States is disproportionate to their numbers. The stationing of American troops in Thailand during the Vietnam War exposed the GIs to Thai culture and cuisine, and many of them came home with Thai wives.
A Thai political activist died in custody on Tuesday, the department of corrections said, and a legal aid group said she had been on a partial hunger strike during her pre-trial detention on ...
She is the first Sikh American governor in the United States, [16] first female governor of South Carolina, [16] second elected Indian American governor in U.S. history, [17] as well as the third Asian American governor to serve in the continental United States. Nikki Haley's election was not the only first for Asian Americans to occur during ...
1971: Norman Mineta becomes the first Asian-American mayor of a major city (San Jose, CA) in the United States. [51] 1971: Herbert Choy becomes the first Asian-American U.S. federal court judge, appointed to the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit. [52] 1972: Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian-American Democratic candidate for U.S ...
A young activist in Thailand who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for advocating reform of the country’s monarchy system died Tuesday in a prison hospital, officials said. The death ...
A half-decade after becoming the youngest person elected to the Berkeley City Council, Rigel Robinson announced a bid last fall to become the first Korean and Asian American to serve as the city ...
Benny Keister, 83, American politician, mayor of Dublin, Virginia (1989–1997) and member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2000–2005). [ 629 ] Shahryar Khan , 89, Pakistani diplomat, foreign secretary (1990–1994) and chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (2003–2006, 2014–2017).
The messages were deemed offensive to the King and Queen of Thailand. He was denied bail on eight occasions [24] and died from liver cancer in a prison hospital at the age of 61 while serving a 20–year prison sentence. [25] [26] Amnesty International named Ampon Tangnoppakul a prisoner of conscience [27] in 2011. Jan 2013 Somyot Prueksakasemsuk