Politics of Thailand - Politics of Thailand The king of Thailand has little direct power under the constitution but is a symbol of national identity and unity. King Bhumibol--who has been on the throne since 1946--commands enormous popular respect and moral authority, which he has used on occasion to resolve political crises that have threatened national stability. Thailand's legal system blends principles of traditional Thai and Western laws. The Constitutional Court is the highest court of appeals, though its jurisdiction is limited to clearly defined constitutional issues. Its members are nominated by the Senate and appointed by the King. The Courts of Justice have jurisdiction over criminal and civil cases and are organized in three tiers: Courts of First Instance, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Justice..
2002 in politics - 2002 in politics Years in politics: 2000-2001-2002-2003-2004 - list of years in politics Events January 1- Eduardo Duhalde is appointed President of Argentina. He appoints Jorge Capitanich as cabinet chief, Carlos Ruckauf as foreign minister; Felipe Solá becomes governor of Buenos Aires. January 1- Safet Halilovic becomes President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. January 1- Manuel Andrade Díaz takes office as governor of Tabasco. Janyary 1- Kaspar Villiger becomes president of Switzerland; Pascal Corminboeuf becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg; Claudio Lardi president of the government of Graubünden; Anita Rion president of the government of Jura; Ulrich Fässler Schultheiss of Luzern; Herbert Bühl president of the government of Schaffhausen; Rolf Ritschard Landammann of Solothurn; and Francine Jeanprêtre president of the Council of.
Thailand - Thailand The Kingdom of Thailand is a country in southeast Asia, bordering Laos and Cambodia to the east, the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia to the south, and the Andaman Sea and Myanmar to the west. Thailand is also known as Siam, which was the country's official name until May 11, 1949. The word Thai means "free" in the Thai language. It is also the name of the Thai people - leading some inhabitants, particularly the sizeable Chinese minority, to still use the name Siam. ราชอาณาจักรไทย (In Detail) National motto: None Official language Thai Capital Bangkok King Bhumibol Adulyadej Prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra Area - Total - % water Ranked 49th 514,000 km² 0.4% Population - Total (2002) - Density Ranked 19th 62,354,402 121/km² Establishment 1238.
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List of political parties in Thailand - List of political parties in Thailand This is a list of political parties in Thailand Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Major 2 Minor 3 Historic Major Democratic Party National Development Party New Aspiration Party - in coalition Thai Nation Party - in coalition Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) - ruling Minor Citizens' Party Social Action Party Thai Motherland Party Historic Liberal Democratic Party - merged into Thai Rak Thai See also: Politics of Thailand, List of political parties.
Indian Ocean - have entered the area, but no settlements resulted. The Greeks and Romans knew something of the ocean; the unknown author of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea describes ports and trade goods along the coasts of Africa and India from around the 2nd century AD. Indonesian peoples crossed the Indian Ocean to settle in Madagascar. Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) is thought to have returned from the Far East by way of the Strait of Malacca. Chinese expeditions of exploration reached East Africa in the 15th century, but Arab traders dominated shipping in the Indian Ocean before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 and sailed to India, the first European to do so. The ancient peoples who lived along the ocean each tried unsuccessfully to control its.
International Socialist Tendency - in the UK. It has sections across the world, however its strongest presence is in Europe, especially in the UK and Ireland. The politics of the IST are similar to the politics of many Trotskyist Internationals. Where it differs with many is on the question of Soviet Union, the IST adopting the position that it was state capitalist, rather than a degenerate worker's state, and the theories of the permanent arms economy and deflected permanent revolution. Unlike many international tendencies the IST has no formal organisational structures and has only ever made one publically known decision, which was to expell the American ISO from its ranks. However the antecedents of the ISt go back to the 1950s when the founders of the British Socialist Review Group, around Tony Cliff, were expelled.
History of Cambodia - Southeast Asia to adopt religious ideas and political institutions from India and to establish centralized kingdoms encompassing large territories. The earliest known kingdom in the area, Funan, flourished from around the first to the sixth century A.D. It was succeeded by Chenla, which controlled large areas of modern Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. The golden age of Khmer civilization, however, was the period from the ninth to the thirteenth century, when the kingdom of Kambuja, which gave Kampuchea, or Cambodia, its name, ruled large territories from its capital in the region of Angkor in western Cambodia. Under Jayavarman VII (1181-ca. 1218), Kambuja reached its zenith of political power and cultural creativity. Following Jayavarman VII's death, Kambuja experienced gradual decline. Important factors were the aggressiveness of neighboring peoples (especially the Thai, or.
History of Malaysia - Ocean trade, and the region prospered. As maritime trade among Middle Eastern, Indian, and Chinese ports flourished, the peninsula benefited from its location as well as from development of its diverse resources, including tropical woods and spices. Malay ships became prominent in that trade, and Malay ports served as transshipment centers. Indian trade brought Indian culture, economy, religion, and politics, with historic results for what is now Malaysia. The early Buddhist Malay kingdom of Srivijaya, based at what is now Palembang, Sumatra, dominated much of the Malay Peninsula from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD. The powerful Hindu kingdom of Majapahit, based on Java, gained control of the Malay Peninsula in the 14th century. Conversion of the Malays to Islam, beginning in the early 14th century, accelerated with the rise.
History of Singapore - reported that there were Chinese already living here. One of the earliest references to Singapore as Temasek, or Sea Town, was found in the Javanese Nagarakretagama' of 1365. The name was also mentioned in a Vietnamese source at around the same time. By the end of the 14th century, the Sanskrit name, Singapura (Lion City), became commonly used. At that time, Singapore was caught in the struggles between Siam (now Thailand) and the Java-based Majapahit Empire for control over the Malay Peninsula. According to the Sejarah Melayu (Malay Annals), Singapore was defeated in one Majapahit attack, but Iskandar Shah, or Parameswara, a prince of Palembang, later killed the local chieftain and installed himself as the island's new ruler. Shortly after, he was driven out, either by the Siamese or by the.
History of Cambodia (1979-present) - and the World Food Program. More than $400 million was provided between 1979 and 1982, of which the United States contributed nearly $100 million. At one point, more than 500,000 Cambodians were living along the Thai-Cambodian border and more than 100,000 in holding centers inside Thailand. Vietnam's occupation army of as many as 200,000 troops controlled the major population centers and most of the countryside from 1979 to September 1989. The Heng Samrin regime's 30,000 troops were plagued by poor morale and widespread desertion. Resistance to Vietnam's occupation continued, and there was some evidence that Heng Samrin's PRK forces provided logistic and moral support to the guerrillas. A large portion of the Khmer Rouge's military forces eluded Vietnamese troops and established themselves in remote regions. The non-communist resistance, consisting of a.
Football World Cup 2006 - expected that the tournament would take place in Africa, probably South Africa, but various backroom politics delivered hosting the Cup to Germany. The draw for five of the six qualification tournaments took place on 5 December 2003 in Frankfurt, whilst all of the members of the South American federation (CONMEBOL) will compete in a single group. Qualification itself will begin in January 2004. There has been some interest in the allocation of places in the finals to the various football confederations. Initially, the Oceania Football Confederation was allocated one place in the finals. With the confederation containing only Australia, New Zealand, and a number of tiny island nations, Australia was widely regarded as having been gifted virtual automatic qualification. South America's confederation, by contrast, was allocated only 4 places, down from.
United States steel tariff 2002 - steel makers had declared bankruptcy in recent years. Steel producers had originally sought up to a 40% tariff. Canada and Mexico were exempt from the tariffs because of penalties the U.S. would face under free-trade agreements. Additionally, developing countries such as Argentina, Thailand, and Turkey were also exempt. Both the issuing and the lifting of the tariffs caused controversy in the United States. Some of the president's political opponents, such as Representative Dick Gephardt criticized the plan for not going far enough. For some of the president's conservative allies, imposing the tariff was a step away from Bush's committment to free trade. Critics also contended that the tariffs would harm consumers and U.S. businesses that relied on steel imports, and would cut more jobs than it would save in the steel.
Democratic Kampuchea - 2 Revolutionary Terror 3 Society under the Angkar 3.1 Religious and Minority Communities 3.2 Education and Health 3.3 The Economy 4 Politics under the Khmer Rouge 5 Establishing Democratic Kampuchea 6 The Fall of Democratic Kampuchea 7 Reference Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) Mid-April is the beginning of the Cambodian new year, the year's most festive celebration. For many Cambodians, the fall of Phnom Penh promised both a new year and a new era of peace. The people of Phnom Penh and of other cities waited in anticipation for the appearance of their new rulers. The troops who entered the capital on April 17 were mostly grim-faced youths clad in black with the checkered scarves that had become the uniform of the movement. Their unsmiling demeanor quickly dispelled popular enthusiasm. People began to.
2003 - - November - December This is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar) See also: 2003 in Canada 2003 in film 2003 in literature 2003 in music 2003 in politics 2003 in science 2003 in sports 2003 in television Deaths in 2003 The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes 5 External Links Events January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. January 1 - Pascal Couchepin becomes President of the Confederation in Switzerland January 15 - The Supreme Court hands down its decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft allowing the extension of copyright terms. January 21 - Kevin Mitnick is allowed to use a computer again..
Ananda Mahidol - - June 9, 1946) was the eighth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand. Ananda Mahidol was born September 20, 1925 in Heidelberg, Germany, where his parents, Mahidol Adulyadej Prince of Songkhla (son of king Chulalongkorn) and Somdej Phra Sri Nakarindhara were studying at that time. He spent his youth mostly in Switzerland after his father died in 1929. On March 2, 1935 he was elected by the Thai parliament and government to succeed his uncle, king Prajadhipok (Rama VII), who abdicated earlier due to political quarrels with the new republican government as well as health problems. The republican government worried about the king influencing politics too much and therefore chose the young Ananda Mahidol, only 9 years old at that time and attending school in Lausanne, Switzerland. At age 13.
Yuan T. Lee - Lee played an important role during the 2000 ROC Presidential election. On the last week of the election he announced his support for the candidacy of Chen Shui-bian who subsequently won a narrow victory over James Soong. This crucial endorsement has caused a great deal of hostility to be directed at him, particularly by novelist Li Ao. At the request of ROC politicians, Lee was the Chinese Taipei's representative in the 2002 APEC leaders' summit in Mexico. (Presidents of the Republic of China have been barred from joining the APEC summits because of objections from Beijing.) Lee represented President Chen again in 2003's APEC summit in Thailand. Lee's participation in politics has been verbally attacked by Li Ao, who criticized Lee to be "filled with hypocrisy" (「充滿偽善」) by claiming to be.
Attack on Pearl Harbor - of the battleships left the U.S. Navy with no choice but to put its faith in aircraft carriers and submarines, these being most of what was left--and these were the tools with which the U.S. Navy halted and then reversed the Japanese advance. The loss of the battleships didn't turn out to be as important as most everyone thought before (in Japan) and just after (in Japan and the U.S.) the attack. Most significantly of all, the Pearl Harbor attack galvanized a divided nation into action as little else could have done. Overnight, it made the whole of America utterly determined to defeat Japan, and it probably made possible the unconditional surrender position taken by the Allied Powers. Some historians believe that Japan was doomed to defeat by the attack on.
Cambodia - Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered in the south by the Gulf of Thailand, in the west by Thailand, Laos in the north, and Vietnam in the east. Preahreacheanachakr Kampuchea (In Detail) (Full size) National motto: Nation, Religion, King Official language Khmer Capital Phnom Penh King Norodom Sihanouk Prime Minister Hun Sen Area - Total - % water Ranked 87th 181,040 km² 2.5% Population - Total (Year) - Density Ranked 65th 13,124,764 72.5/km² Independence - Declared - Recognised from France November 9, 1953 Currency Riel Time zone UTC +7 National anthem Nokoreach Internet TLD .CB Calling Code 855 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Politics 3 Provinces 4 Geography 5 Economy 6 Demographics 7 Culture 8 Miscellaneous topics 9 Notes 10 References 11.
