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Town twinning
Town twinning or sister cities are two names for official friendships between cities is a concept popular in Europe for many years, especially after Second World War to overcome the misunderstandings....
Thai spelling reform and province names
Last year I stumbled upon a spelling reform while browsing through the Royal Gazette announcements. Some months later Rikker posted more details on this reform in his blog. What I did not notice back ...
Province changes since 1910
I mentioned earlier that I still have to compile a list of the changes in the provincial layout, to correct some of the mistakes in the listing at statoids.org. Over the last century several provinces...
Satire - 10 new provinces
It's already a bit old, but still a very funny read - Thailand: To Get 10 New Provinces? in Stephen Cleary's column at the Nation written shortly after the plans for the Hua Hin province were made pub...
Planned new provinces - Mae Sot
Out of the several provinces which are apparently planned, only Mae Sot make it into the English language press so far - even though The Irrawaddy in their article from June 2007 only mentions half of...
Planned new provinces - Phu Wiang
One planned new province which occasionally shows up in Thai news is the one planned to be formed from the northwestern part of Khon Kaen, with the district Phu Wiang as the new capital district. By s...
Cancelled new provinces - Nakhon Suvarnabhumi
In 2005 the plans to create a new province around the new Bangkok International Airport (Suvarnabhumi Airport) were made public by the Thaksin administration. The new province - or actually it was sup...
Cancelled new provinces - Hua Hin
In August 2006 the Thai government suddenly came out with the idea of creating a new province around the popular sea bath Hua Hin, to be created for HM King Bhumiphol's 80th birthday one year later. A...
CEO governors
One of the policies of Thaksin Shinawatras government was the introduction of CEO governors, as a way to modernize and decentralize provincial government. Like most of the Thaksins programs it was scr...
Monthon Krung Thep around 1915
It seems like the division of the provinces Phra Nakhon and Thon Buri I suspected earlier are just a misunderstanding. I tried to search a lot in the Royal Gazette to find anything about these provinc...
Amphoe in Monthon Krung Thep
When I found the Royal Gazette announcement about the districts in 1917, it sadly did not contain the Monthon Krung Thep, at that one at that time was not under the Ministry of the Interior but the Mi...
Changwat during World War II
Earlier to the spread of colonialism Siam claimed control over many areas beyond its current extend like all over the Malay peninsula or all of present day Laos and Cambodia, however at that time this...
List of districts in 1917
I have found a very helpful entry in the Royal Gazette database - volume 34, pages 40 to 68 issued on April 29 1917. Innocently titled "ประกาศกระทรวงมหาดไทย เ...
City pillars
When I first came to visit the town Surat Thani, which sadly has only very few beautiful old temples, one building along the drive through the center looked rather striking to me. However I did not pa...
Flags of the provinces
Every province has a seal (ตราประจำจังหวัด), a circular graphic with some typical things of the province depicted. These are relatively often seen in Thailand, for exampl...
Province Hall
The central administrative building of each province is the province hall (ศาลากลางจังหวัด, Sala Klang Changwat). It is often translated as town or city hall, but in real...
New provinces to be created
Before the coup last year two planned new provinces made the news, including reaching international media. However it seems the plans to create the special administrative area around the new Bangkok a...
Stamps with the provincial seals
Just found on the My Philately World blog - the Thai post has started a series with the provincial seals. According to Thai post this first batch was just released on October 15. I will try to get mys...