Tag: Commemoration

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Thais across country commemorate late King Bhumibol Adulyadej birthday anniversary

  • By TN
  • December 5, 2020
Mayor John F. Collins and Mary Collins with Queen Sirikit and King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand in Boston, 1960
Mayor John F. Collins and Mary Collins with Queen Sirikit and King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand in Boston, 1960. Photo: Mayor John F. Collins records, Collection #0244.001, City of Boston Archives, Boston. CC BY 2.0.

Thousands of yellow-clad people gathered at Sanam Luang in Bangkok on Saturday to greet Their Majesties the King and the Queen and light candles to [Read More…]

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University Bans Annual Commemoration of 1976 Student Massacre

  • By TN
  • September 16, 2014
Thammasat University
View of Thammasat University. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

BANGKOK — Thammasat University’s administrators have preemptively banned any political events commemorating the 1976 massacre that took place inside the university on 6 October, presumably [Read More…]