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2022 In Thailand
The year 2022 is reckoned as year 2565 in the Buddhist Era. The year was marked by anticipated APEC meetings, the first Bangkok governor election after the 2014 coup, and raising inflation following COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Incumbents * King: Vajiralongkorn * Prime Minister: Prayut Chan-o-cha * Supreme Patriarch: Ariyavongsagatanana (Amborn Ambaro) Events Ongoing events * COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand January–March * Early January – Pork prices in Thailand's wet markets rose to 210-250 Bahts per kilogramme, the highest in years. * 10 January – Park rangers at Thong Pha Phum National Park in Kanchanaburi discovered 2 Tiger carcasses at a campsite in the park. * 16 January ** COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand: Thailand reported its first death from Omicron variant. ** By-elections were held at Songkhla and Chumphon, with the Democrat party gaining victory in both provinces. * 25 January – Thailand's Prime Minister made an official 2-day visit to Saudi Arabia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022
File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeypox outbreak begins in the United Kingdom on 6 May; Lying-in-State of Elizabeth II at Westminster Hall; A child stands among the rubble of a house after the June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China; Demonstrators on the central square of Aktobe during the 2022 Kazakh unrest; A Russian BMP-3 near Mariupol destroyed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 400 200 Assassination of Shinzo Abe rect 400 0 800 400 2022 Sri Lankan protests rect 800 0 1200 400 2022 monkeypox outbreak rect 0 400 600 800 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine rect 600 400 1200 800 Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II rect 0 800 400 1200 2022 Kazakh unrest rect 400 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries by area, fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Arab world, and the largest in Western Asia and the Middle East. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to the south. Bahrain is an island country off the east coast. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt. Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and most of its terrain consists of arid desert, lowland, steppe, and mountains. Its capital and List of cities and towns in Saudi Arabia, largest city is Riyadh. The country is home to Mecca and Medina, the two Holiest sites in Islam, holiest citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HTMS Sukhothai
HTMS ''Sukhothai'' (FS-442) ( th, เรือหลวงสุโขทัย, ) was a corvette of the operated by the Royal Thai Navy that was launched in 1986. On 18 December 2022 in the Gulf of Thailand, high winds and strong waves caused seawater to flow into the warship; this flooding caused the engines to fail, and the pumps also became unusable. ''Sukhothai'' continued to take on water until eventually sinking overnight. , the Royal Thai Navy had rescued 76 sailors and found 24 dead. An additional five sailors are presumed dead but their bodies were not found. Characteristics ''Sukhothai'' was a corvette. The intended role of the ''Ratanakosin''-class vessels was to provide surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missile capability on a highly maneuverable platform. The ''Ratanakosin''-class corvettes, of which there were two, were long and wide, and had a displacement of 960 tons at full load. The class shares characteristics with the Royal Saudi Navy . T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APEC Thailand 2022
) APEC 2022 Thailand is a year-long hosting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Thailand took place in 2022. Thailand previously hosted APEC meetings in APEC Thailand 2003, 2003 and APEC Thailand 1992, 1992. The theme for 2022 APEC meetings is "Open. Connect. Balance." The summit returned into an in-person meeting since the APEC Papua New Guinea 2018, 2018 summit after the APEC Chile 2019, 2019 summit in Chile was cancelled due to the 2019–2022 Chilean protests, protests at the country and the last two editions were held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the assassination of Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, on 8 July 2022, security concerns were raised for the event that was only four months away, which lead to heightened security measures being taken by Thailand. Logo The APEC 2022 logo was selected from the 2021 National Youth Design Award competition, jointly organized by the Ministry of For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Nong Bua Lamphu Massacre
On 6 October 2022, 34-year-old Panya Khamrab killed 36 people and injured 10 others by shooting, stabbing, and vehicle-ramming in Nong Bua Lamphu province, Thailand, before killing himself. The attack mainly occurred in a children's nursery located in the Uthai Sawan subdistrict of the Na Klang district. It is the deadliest mass murder by a single perpetrator in the modern history of Thailand, surpassing the death toll of the Nakhon Ratchasima shootings in 2020. Attack On 6 October 2022, at around 11:24 ICT (UTC+7), the assailant, Panya Khamrab, drove a white pickup truck out of his residence. He arrived at the nursery at 12:50, where the attack began shortly after lunch. Armed with a 9mm pistol, a shotgun, and a knife, Khamrab fatally shot a father and son at the Uthai Sawan Sub-district Administrative Organization, near the nursery. He then entered the nursery building and attacked four or five staff members, three of whom died. Among them was a teacher who was eight mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Thai Coup D'état
On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, Commander of the Royal Thai Army (RTA), launched a coup d'état, the 12th since the country's first coup in 1932, against the caretaker government of Thailand, following six months of political crisis. The military established a junta called the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to govern the nation. The coup ended the political conflict between the military-led regime and democratic power, which was still going on from 2006 Thai coup d'état known as the unfinished coup. 7 years later, it has developed into 2020 Thai protests to reform the monarchy of Thailand. After dissolving the government and the Senate, the NCPO vested executive and legislative powers in its leader and ordered the judicial branch to operate under its directives. In addition, it partially repealed the 2007 constitution, save the second chapter which concerns the king, declared martial law and curfew nationwide, ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutional Court Of Thailand
The Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand ( th, ศาลรัฐธรรมนูญ, , ) is an independent Thai court created by the 1997 Constitution with jurisdiction over the constitutionality of parliamentary acts, royal decrees, draft legislation, as well as the appointment and removal of public officials and issues regarding political parties. The current court is part of the judicial branch of the Thai national government. The court, along with the 1997 Constitution, was dissolved and replaced by a Constitutional Tribunal in 2006 following the 2006 Thai coup d'état. While the Constitutional Court had 15 members, seven from the judiciary and eight selected by a special panel, the Constitution Tribunal had nine members, all from the judiciary. A similar institution, consisting of nine members, was again established by the 2007 Constitution. The Constitutional Court has provoked much public debate, both regarding the court's jurisdiction and compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain B Nightclub Fire
On 5 August 2022 at 1:00 AM ICT, a fire broke out at ''Mountain B'', a nightclub located on the Sukhumvit Road in Phlu Ta Luang sub-district, Sattahip District, Chonburi Province, Thailand. The fire began at 1 am ICT and caused 13 immediate deaths. Out of the 38 people injured, seven later died in hospital, bringing the total death toll to 20. In October 2022, another victim died in the hospital; she was the 25th death related to the fire. It was the first disaster of its kind in Sattahip. Incident On the night of the fire, the club had performances by ''DJ ONE & DJ Tiger'', and the band ''Taewnaew'' popular amongst the locals. At the time of the disaster, 1:00 am ICT, it was reportedly near its closing time and had between 50 and 100 patrons inside. A prior performer at the club told reporters that there was only one exit and entry point for customers at the front of the club, and the back entry point for musicians was locked during performances. An eyewitness account reported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Bangkok Gubernatorial Election
The eleventh election for the governorship of Bangkok was held on 22 May 2022. It took place 9 years after the latest election in 2013, long delayed due to the 2014 coup d'état. Chadchart Sittipunt, an independent candidate who was a member of the Pheu Thai Party, won the election in a landslide. He gained over 1.38 million votes, breaking the record set by Sukhumbhand Paribatra in 2013. Chadchart won an outright majority—over 1 million votes more than the second leading candidate, Suchatvee Suwansawat, who contested for the Democrat Party. Background After the 2014 coup d'état, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) became the military government in control of Thailand. It ordered all local elections to be halted, while the Governor of Bangkok, Sukhumbhand Paribatra, remained in his position. In 2016, Sukhumbhand was removed by the NCPO and replaced by Aswin Kwanmuang, the Deputy Governor of Bangkok at the time. With the adoption of the 2017 constitutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chadchart Sittipunt
Chadchart Sittipunt (, , ; born 24 May 1966) is a Thai politician, engineer, and professor who is the incumbent Governor of Bangkok. He previously was Minister of Transport from 2012 to 2014. Early life and education Chadchart is the third son of Police General Sa-nae Sitthiphan, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau and Jitcharung Kullawanit. His sister, Preechaya Sittipunt, is a retired lecturer in Architecture at Chulalongkorn University receiving a Master’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, while his twin brother, Assoc.Prof.Chanchai Sittipunt, is the dean of Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University Chatchart graduated high school from Chulalongkorn University Demonstration School and Triam Udom Suksa School. He completed a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (First Class Honors) from Chulalongkorn University and then Master of Structural Engineering from the Massachuset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pheu Thai Party
The Pheu Thai Party (PTP; th, พรรคเพื่อไทย, lit=For Thais Party, , ) is the third incarnation of a Thai political party founded by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The Pheu Thai Party was founded on 20 September 2007, as an anticipated replacement for the People's Power Party (PPP), which the Constitutional Court of Thailand dissolved less than three months later after finding party members guilty of electoral fraud. The People's Power Party was itself a replacement for Thaksin's original Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT), dissolved by the Court in May 2007 for violation of electoral laws. , Pheu Thai had 22,771 members. Formation and opposition years (2008–2011) The PPP was dissolved by the Constitutional Court of Thailand on 2 December 2008. On 3 December 2008, the majority of the former PPP MPs defected to the Pheu Thai Party. In a PTP general assembly, the first executive commission was elected on 7 December 2008. Candidates for the party's lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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