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Its economy grew at 6.2 percent per annum during the 1990s. In 1995, 28 percent of the population was classed as below the poverty line, compared to just 7 percent in central Thailand. In 2000, per capita income was 26,317 baht, compared to 208,434 in Bangkok. Even within Isan, there is a rural / urban divide.
1786–1789. v. t. e. Lê Thánh Tông (黎聖宗; 25 August 1442 – 3 March 1497), personal name Lê Hạo, temple name Thánh Tông, courtesy name Tư Thành, was an emperor of Đại Việt, reigning from 1460 to 1497, the fifth and the longest-reigning emperor of the Later Lê dynasty, and is widely praised as one of the greatest emperors ...
Cầu Giấy is an urban district of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. It is located within the Nhuệ and Tô Lịch River, situating roughly to the south-west of West Lake. With the sixth-highest population density among Hanoi's districts, Cầu Giấy hosts many administrative and corporate headquarters within the Trung Hoà–Nhân Chính ...
List of Vietnamese subdivisions by GDP. The article lists Vietnam 's province-level divisions by Gross regional domestic product (GRDP). Each province's GRDP is listed in both the national currency VND, and at nominal U.S. dollar values according to annual average exchange rates and according to purchasing power parity (PPP).
He was born September 21, 1934, in Nam Thành village, Yên Thành district, Nghệ An province, within a family of wealthy Catholic rice farmers ; his father Nguyễn Ðình Long (1906-1976) and several family members were persecuted during the great land reform (1954). When he was in primary and secondary schools, he used to study at Vinh ...
Thailand, [b] officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), [c] is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of 66 million, it spans 513,120 square kilometres (198,120 sq mi).
History. Historical exonyms include place names of bordering countries, namely Thailand, Laos, China, and Cambodia. During the expansion of Vietnam ( Nam tiến) some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese ...
The foreign relations of Thailand are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand . Thailand participates fully in international and regional organizations. It has developed close ties with other ASEAN members—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Laos,and Vietnam—whose foreign and economic ministers hold ...