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Conscription lottery
Today was the call-up for military service in Nong Bua Daeng. There were also young men from our village with their families to take part in the selection process. The conscription process in Thailand begins with a lottery system that determines which men will be selected for military service. The lottery is held annually, and…
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Songkran 2566
Today we celebrated Songkran (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์) in our village. Songkran is the Thai New Year’s national holiday. In Thailand, New Year is now officially celebrated 1 January. Songkran was the official New Year until 1888, when it was switched to a fixed date of 1 April. Then in 1940, this date was shifted to 1…
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Chatbot Sydney talks about Thailand
Microsoft’s Bing-KI, Codename “Sydney” with the new AI OpenAI language model “Prometheus” that powers the Chatbot were asked some questions about Thailand: Here the answers: Question 1: Tell me Problems in Thailand! CHAT-BOT: Here are problems in Thailand: Question 2: What are the 10 biggest problems of farmers in Thailand? Some of the biggest problems…
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Monks on the waterfall
Our tourism magnet – the waterfall น้ำตกดาดาด was ordained with a buddhistic ceremony. For this purpose our monks came from “Wat Rattana Khongkha Ram” วัดรัตนคงคาราม and from the Forest Temple “Wat Pa Lam Huai Han” วัดป่าลำห้วยหัน. Our village honour to the Thai traditions and our tourist visitors with the ceremony on the waterfall. Over 100…
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Welcome to the preschool
The accommodation of the children in the preschool (kindergarten) from the age of third is common in Thailand. Today was a celebration to greet the new preschool children in our Tambon Wang Chompphu. The children’s parents were most excited. The children were also very happy about the gifts of their parents and grandparents. The official…
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The climate time-bomb is ticking
The Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summarises the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. (CNN) The world is running out of time to avoid catastrophe, new UN report warns. The world is rapidly approaching catastrophic levels of heating with international climate…
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Violence and the military coup in Thailand
by Puey Ungphakorn To cite this article: Puey Ungphakorn (1977) Violence and the military coup in Thailand, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 9:3, 4-12,To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1977.10406422 Note: Puey Ungphakorn was in 1975 appointed Rector of Thammasat University. On the evening of the bloody 6 October 1976 Massacre, Puey resigned from his position…
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Magha Bucha Day
Today we celebrated Magha Bucha Day (Pali: Māgha Pūjā, Magha Pucha; Roman letters: Magha Puja). This day is an important day for Theravada Buddhists and a public holiday in Thailand. I asked the Bing Chatbot: Tell me 10 main aspects of thai buddhism! CHAT-BOT: There is no definitive list of the 10 main aspects of…
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Isaan Lyanna
“Societies differ greatly as to the actual physical separation of the living and the dead.” (Silverman, Helaine, and David B. Small, eds. 2002 The Space and Place of Death. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 11. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.) In early December the bones of an indigenous native discovered on the edge…
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Test your knowledge
I would like you to test your knowledge about the world. There are only 13 short questions to be answered. Ready? Let’s go. If you are a teacher, send your class “traveling” on dollarstreet.org and ask them to find differences within countries and similarities across countries. (1 US Dollar = approx. 35 THB)
