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Travel Destinations in Thailand

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Thailand is the leading tourist destination in Asia (According to the Asia Travel Intentions survey 2007), with more than 10 million people visiting it every year. Its attractions range from exquisitely beautiful scenery to culture preserved for centuries. Tourists list out the outstanding cuisine, breath-taking natural scenery, inspirational temples and mythical beaches with graceful tall palm trees swaying over the pearl-white sands along shores, which overlook the thriving coral gardens along Thailand’s two coastal shores as some of the reasons Read More

Thailand in the 19th Century and After

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Thailand’s 19th-century rulers modernized the government, the army, education, and transportation to meet the threat of the European powers then carving out colonial empires in Southeast Asia, inviting Western advisers to assist in the modernization. Thailand lost much of its territory in the process, and a series of treaties limited its control of foreign trade, taxes, customs collections, and jurisdiction over foreigners. The Kingdom of Siam Until 1939, Thailand was known as the Kingdom of Siam. At that time, Thailand’s Read More