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A 2025 study commissioned by travel company Agoda projected that the Marriage Equality Act will create 152,000 full-time jobs and increase Thailand's GDP by 0.3%. [15] The law is projected to attract an additional 4 million tourists annually and generate approximately $2 billion in revenue.
While polygamy has since been abolished, it is still alive in Thailand and, according to some, widely accepted. [3] The king of Thailand may, for example, still designate "consorts" other than the queen. [4] Such unions are not recognised under Thai law, which states, "A man or a woman cannot marry each other while one of them has a spouse." [5]
Hundreds of same-sex couples are tying the knot across Thailand on Thursday as the country becomes the first in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.. The landmark bill marks a momentous ...
Uzbekistan: Religious authorities who perform a marriage ceremony for couples without a civil marriage license face fines of up to 9,900,000 so'm. Additionally, propagandizing or encouraging cohabitation with two or more wives is punishble by a fine of the same amount, or administrative detention for up to 15 days. [117] Vietnam; Cambodia [118 ...
Hundreds of same-sex couples in Thailand tied the knot on Thursday as a landmark legislation took effect, making it the first nation in Southeast Asia to recognise marriage equality. Thailand’s ...
The Marriage Equality Act, the first law of its kind in Southeast Asia, redefines marriage as a partnership between two individuals of any gender and grants same-sex couples the legal rights of ...
On 18 June 2024, Thailand passed the same-sex marriage bill with the approval of 130 of the 152 members of the Senate in attendance, with 4 voting against it and 18 abstaining. Thailand was the first Asian UN member state to approve a comprehensive same-sex marriage law, as well as the first in Southeast Asia and the
Hundreds of LGBT+ couples in Thailand began making their wedded status legal Thursday, 23 January, the first day a law took effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples.. The ...