- December 16th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Bangkok's Birthday Party Originally uploaded by Ian FullerBangkok is celebrating its 38th birthday in this week. Anyone wondering now that the city was around way longer - you are of course right, th…
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- December 15th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
December 3 two announcements were published in the Royal Gazette, both about the boundaries of either subdistrict or administrative villages. The first one lists three subdistricts in San Sai district…
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- December 14th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Another Election is Coming Originally uploaded by Ian Fuller As BKK Photographer spotted the first truck with election campaign posters, it reminded me that the last elections for the district counci…
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- December 11th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
While adding the locations of the administrative entities into my XMLs in order to have the automatically created map as full as possible, flying to Nakhon Sawan with Google Earth to my surprised show…
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- December 10th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
In petition ๐๘๕/ร the member of parliament and former Deputy Minister of Public Health Wichan Meenchaiyanant (นายวิชาญ มีนชัยนันท์), he asks for improveme…
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- December 9th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Rarely plagiarizing blogs have some good effects, but in this case it helped me to reread an article where I missed an interesting point at first reading months ago. The Huai Hee village blog copied a…
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- December 8th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Yesterday I discovered the website deepsouthwatch featuring independent news on the three southernmost Muslim provinces troubled by the insurgency since 2004. Most welcome is of course the English sec…
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- December 7th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Since I am often referring to the website of the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA), I should maybe write about this government structure a bit. DOPA (กรมการปกครอง…
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- December 4th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
The origins of place names sometimes quite interesting. I have stumbled upon the one for the district Hot in Chiang Mai reading a book I did not expect to find anything on the administrative entities…
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- December 3rd, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Googeling the websites of the local government units - municipalities and subdistrict administrative organizations - I have come across some who are present on the blogging sites Blogspot or Wordpress…
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- December 2nd, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
While extracting the Muban lists from TAO websites, I have come across something noteworthy again. The TAO Pang Mapha in Mae Hong Son on the data page give their subdivision as follows องค์…
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- December 1st, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Just on Friday I mentioned an old clipping on a planned special administrative area for Laem Chabang, I found the one below at thephuketinsider posted on last Friday as well. News out of the nation's…
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- November 30th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
The Royal Gazette now starts with publishing the constituencies for the municipal council elections in the municipalities newly created this year. Even though so far it were only a few of them covered…
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- November 29th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: My Unseen Thailand
A daytrip from Bangkok I have done three times already is the market at Don Wai, close to Phutthamonthon in Nakhon Pathom province. It is a huge market where almost everything is sold - from fresh fru…
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- November 27th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Another gem from the old news reports of the National News Bureau of Thailand. According to this one from June 2004 the area of Laem Chabang was planned to become another special administrative…
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- November 26th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Last week the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA) issued another report on the ongoing creation of the 878th district Galyani Vadhana in Chiang Mai. While most part of the announcement is j…
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- November 25th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
While reading the book Thaksin : the business of politics in Thailand on the political system of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, one short section fits into the topic of this blog. It is on…
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- November 24th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Published in the Royal Gazette on last Friday is the first creation of a new administrative village (Muban) since 2007. Effective September 11, Village 6 Ban Chatsan (บ้านจัดสรร) o…
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- November 23rd, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
When I noticed the Excel sheets with the names of the administrative villages (Muban), I wrote that those are apparently compiled by DOPA to be checked with the local entities. I am right now slowly w…
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- November 20th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
On Youtube I found the video below, which shows the construction of the new office building for the TAO Maluan (องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบลมะลวน), Phunphi…
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- November 19th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
In case you want to fully use the data on the administrative entities I collected in XML, or the programming I did around that, you can download the whole thing to your computer and compile it yoursel…
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- November 18th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
In an earlier example, I showed one subdistrict municipality where the boroughs (Chumchon, ชุมชน) and the administrative villages (Muban, หมู่บ้าน) coincide one-to-one. Now I…
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- November 17th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Last week I wrote on the sixth amendment of the Tambon Council and Tambon Administrative Organization act, removing the limit of two consecutive terms for the TAO chairman. Now amendments for the acts…
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- November 16th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
When I worked through the DOLA geocodes for the local administrative units (LGUs), there were several cases where the code lists contains outright mistakes, or even more interesting cases where the nu…
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- November 15th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: My Unseen Thailand
The temples within the city Surat Thani did not impress me that much, there are neither really historical ones - maybe except the one building of Wat Pattanaram - nor as lavishly decorated. Slighly ou…
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Since I covered the other changes in the Catholic church of Thailand, I now also mention the last of the bishops beyond the retirement age has found a successor. Bishop George Yod Phimphisan (ยอ…
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- November 13th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Again I noticed an emblem of a local government unit which uses Thai letters distorted so they are hardly anymore recognizable. If you look at the emblem, one needs to use quite some imagination to no…
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- November 12th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Published in the Royal Gazette on November 6 was the 6th amendment of the Tambon council and Tambon administrative organization act (พระราชบัญญัติสภาตำบลแล…
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- November 11th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
While looking for the list of administrative villages (Muban) on the website of the TAO Na Roek (องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบลนาเริก), Amphoe Phanat Nikho…
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- November 10th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Last week the geocode list from the Department of Provincial Administration was updated to include the nine new subdistricts created in Bangkok in July. The new codes are as follows 102704นวมิ…
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- November 9th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
In a German blog I found the reference to the new Google Guru, which is only available in Thai (and now also in Arabic). I took a look for questions concerning Tambon or Amphoe, and among several ques…
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- November 8th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Meeting number 40 of board 1 from August 26 2009 with one TAO upgraded to subdistrict municipalities. Phaisan (เทศบาลตำบลไพศาล), Thawat Buri district, Roi Et province, ef…
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- November 6th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
When I recently added references to the Wikipedia article on Wiang Pa Pao district in Chiang Rai province, I had problems matching the history as taken from amphoe.com with the Royal Gazette announcem…
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- November 5th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
The idea of solving the problem with the insurgency in three southern-most Muslim-dominated provinces by giving the area some kind of autonomy has made it into the main news again this week, after opp…
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- November 4th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
While adding some of the administrative villages into my XML files from the websites of the Tambon administrative organizations (TAO), in some cases I noticed that the lists include some kind of villa…
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- November 3rd, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Announced yesterday were two new car license plate backgrounds, one for Chiang Mai province and one for Nakhon Ratchasima. Both provinces had a picture license plate before. The most interesting is t…
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- November 2nd, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
When I wrote about the reduction of the TAO levels from five to three, maybe the main thing I did not find was a list of all the TAO with their respective level. Now by a Google search for something e…
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- November 1st, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Meeting number 36 from August 13 2009 with one TAO upgraded to subdistrict municipalities. Saphan Hin (เทศบาลตำบลสะพานหิน), Nong Mamong district, Chainat province,…
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- October 30th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
The article Administrative reforms and national intergration: The case of the northeast by Paitoon Mikusol (ไพฑูรย์ มีกุศล) (in: Regions and national integration in Thailand,…
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- October 29th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
On August 12 2008 Dr. Tanet Charoenmuang (ธเนศวร์ เจริญเมือง held a talk at the Informal Northern Thai Group (INTG) on the administrative structure of Chiang Mai prov…
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- October 28th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
For some time already I have added the geographical locations of the administrative into the XML files of my Tambon coding project. Now I have programmed a simple conversion of these XMLs wit location…
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- October 27th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
The 4th series of the stamps featuring the provincial seals is out since September already, and now the First Day Cover blog has featured the envelopes. Posting 1: Phuket, Maha Sarakham, Mukdahan, Mae…
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- October 26th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
While googleing for websites of the local government units, to add the weblinks into my XMLs as well as working through the village lists where I can find them, this respective list on the site of the…
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- October 25th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: My Unseen Thailand
A very interesting museum in the western outskirts of Bangkok is the House of Museums (บ้านพิพิธภัณฑ์), where lots of everyday items of the 1950s and 1960s are collected an…
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Meeting number 34 of board 1 from August 3 2009 with 2 TAO upgraded to subdistrict municipalities. Bua Khao, Kuchinarai district, Kalasin province, effective on July 31 2009, upgraded and renamed to K…
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- October 23rd, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
This blog now exists for two years, and again my worrying that I would run out of topics was strongly rebutted. In fact, I currently have so many topics that I have pre-written postings for two months…
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- October 22nd, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
On October 26 Yahoo will shut down their free webhosting service Geocities, which back at the beginning of the WWW was one of most popular sites. Though most of the sites hosted there won't be missed,…
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- October 21st, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Petitions and the replies by the authority are an interesting special kind of announcements published in the Royal Gazette. Interestingly there are only exactly two of this kind on municipalities, and…
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- October 20th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
Though the recent elections for the TAO did not get much news coverage, at least not in the English press, last week two blogs had interesting postings about the current state of local politics in Tha…
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- October 19th, 2009
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andyho has posted a new entry on: Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
The two premierships of Field Marshall Phibun Songkhram 1938 to 1944 and again 1948 to 1957 were marked with a strong nationalistic politics, like forcing to use the central Thai language instead of t…
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