Thailand

“ Eastern Thailand is a huge, shallow, elevated basin, tilted toward the east, so that while its western rim stands 1,000 feet above the sea, its eastern rim is formed by low hills. The plateau is watered by the system of the Me Nam Mun, a tributary of the Me Khong. A poverty-ridden country of unproductive soil and adverse climatic conditions, it supports indifferently well a comparatively limited population. ”

“ May all the Thais be of one mind and united in preserving and observing the Constitution unanimously, in order to enhance the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of His citizenry. May the members of the royalty, either senior or junior, the public servants, both civil and military, as well as the people under His authority, uphold unity, in order that the regime of democracy should stay well and beside the State of Thailand, the Royal Land, till the end of the epoch, in accordance with His great royal wish. ”

“ May the Thai people unite in observing, protecting and upholding the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand in order to maintain the democratic regime of government and the sovereign power derived from the Thai people, and to bring about happiness, prosperity, and dignity to His Majesty's subjects throughout the Kingdom according to the will of His Majesty in every respect. ”

“ Both Governments consider anyone of Chinese nationality or origin who acquires Thai nationality as automatically forfeiting Chinese nationality. As for those Chinese residents in Thailand who elect to retain Chinese nationality of their own will, the Chinese Government, acting in accordance with its consistent policy, will enjoin them to abide by the law of the Kingdom of Thailand, respect the customs and habits of the Thai people and live in amity with them. ”

“ A lively resistance to the usurpers continues, inside Thailand and through her spokesmen abroad; we may confidently expect that the Thai, with the aid and sympathy of their friends of the United Nations, will at the earliest opportunity rid themselves both of their quislings and their Japanese overlords, again proudly to style themselves "the free men." ”

“ This was their respite after seeing the marble stones that indicated where his brother, Kazem, and his father lay, but now he was as bereft of words as he had been then and he was straggling tortuously in his head the way he had wandered with a numb and aimless gait around the tombstones. He had returned from Thailand to restore a relationship and more importantly to once again be with his mother and hear her call his name and yet for this earnest effort how could he speak with her earnestly? ”

“ A person who falls under article 1 and is born in the Kingdom of Thailand following the entry into operation of this Revolutionary Council Announcement shall not acquire Thai nationality, save where the Minister of Interior finds appropriate and gives a different order with individual effect. ”

“ Whenever we limit our attention only to the cultural area or only to the linguistic area, or to only one of them at a time, we do so at our peril. There is no language without meaning, and there is no culture without words. Nevertheless, this synopsis will violate that principle by concentrating entirely on the mechanics of speaking Thai. It is addressed primarily to native speakers of English who expect to live in Thailand, and gives a bird's-eye-view of the tasks they will encounter in their study of the language. ”

“ A treaty which provides for a change in the Thai territories or extraterrotorial areas over which Thailand has sovereign rights or has jurisdiction in accordance therewith or in accordance with international law or requires the enactment of an Act for the implementation thereof or has extensive impacts on national economic or social security or generates material commitments in trade, investment or budgets of the country, must be approved by the National Assembly. ”

“ Dysfunctional families might be more prevalent in Thailand than most people believed but their members could ignore this fact unless they belonged to extreme cases, and under the "good deeds beget good deeds" philosophy of the Buddhists a wretch like him must have done something monstrous indeed to know nothing but the breaking of family. With virtually everyone paying homage to fathers and all genuflecting to majesty there was such loneliness for members of extreme cases on such a day. ”

“ The Constitutional of the Kingdom of Thailand also recognises the rights of the citizens eligible to vote in elections of local administrative organisations to recall local councillors or local administrators pursuant to the legal provisions and to jointly introduce draft local ordinances to the local councils. ”

“ Disputes - international:
over half of Burma's population consists of diverse ethnic groups who have substantial numbers of kin in neighboring countries; Thailand must deal with Karen and other ethnic refugees, asylum seekers, and rebels, as well as illegal cross-border activities from Burma; Thailand is studying the feasibility of jointly constructing the Hatgyi Dam on the Salween River near the border with Burma ”

“ Thailand has become a State Party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ("CITES") since 21 January 1983 and is to host the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the CITES Parties and the 63rd and 64th Meetings of the CITES Standing Committee from 2 March 2013 to 14 March 2013. ”

“ Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific. ”

“ In an election of members of the House of Representatives on a party-list basis, a voter shall have the right to cast ballot from the lists of candidates prepared by political parties; provided that only one party-list may be voted for and the territory of Thailand shall be regarded as the whole constituency. ”

“ The Council of Bangkok shall be empowered to enact the rules on ethics of its Councillors, as well as the rules of procedure for the selection and performance of duties of its President, Vice Presidents and ordinary or extraordinary committees, the conduct of meetings, the introduction and consideration of draft ordinances, the submission of motions, the discussions, the debates, the passage of resolutions, the interrogations, the general debates, the maintenance of peace and order, and other activities falling within its duties. ”

“ A committee of the Council of Bangkok shall be given the power to summon the Bangkok metropolitan authorities and require them to express certain facts or opinions on the activity it is carrying out or on the matter it is considering, inquiring into or studying. ”