12/16/2005 - ASIAN TRAVELS
So where do you guys go when you travel to asia?
So far i`ve been all over Thailand, especially Bangkok- pattaya-sisaket and then Hong Kong and Taiwan.
I loved all 3 countries and find all very welcoming and all have the famous asian welcome smile and wonderful asian hospitality.
The added bonus of sunshine - warm weather - great beaches and hot hot asian gay men make it a paradise on earth.
lets hear you asian travel stories and adventures? Post pics and stories about the most sexy gay asian man you ever met?
Sawasdee krub!
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7/18/2007 - asian gay story |
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My first Gay Asian Cock experience came when I was at a graduate school summer seminar at a major university in Peking. I decided that I was going to have my first Asian man while I was in China, but for the first few weeks of the seminar, I had no luck. My command of the language was imperfect and it was frustrating my hunt for Gay Asian Cock.
That was, until I met Hu. I decided to sleep in late one Sunday morning and ordered up a breakfast from room service. When I opened the door for the waiter I was wearing just a robe tied at the waist. I was greeted by the most beautiful yellow-skinned man with a mop of black hair down to his
shoulders. He looked to be about twenty. He rolled the trolley with the food into the room and as he leaned over the trays to lift off the covers, I caught a look at a firm, round bubble butt under his tight uniform pants. Thank God that the companies that make uniforms haven't succumbed to the notion that baggy pants are fashionable.
I'd gotten up a little too close and when he stood up straight, his firm ass bumped into my crotch and rubbed against my cock, causing it to start rising to attention. Then, he did something odd, he gyrated his butt and ground it into my dick. He turned around and smiled and my eyes caught a glimpse of his cock, imprisoned in those tight pants and bulging tightly against the polyester. It was just a glance, but when I looked back up, he was staring straight into my eyes and smiling. I offered him a tip, but he waved his hand and said, in perfect English, that that could wait until later. He told
me his name was Hu and that the concierge had told him that I had been looking for a little Gay Asian Cock and that he was there to fulfill my request. Any remuneration could wait.
Before I could say anything, he had opened my robe and had begun rubbing my cock with one hand and was squeezing my balls with the other one as he licked my nipple. I was hard almost immediately and he had my six-inch prick's full attention as he continued to rub it. I slipped my hands round his waist and grabbed that bubble butt of his firmly in my hands. It was like I was holding two firm soccer balls. I pulled him up close and he ground his dick into mine. This was my Gay Asian Cock fantasy come true. I hadn't been laid since I'd been in China, so I didn't want to waste any time. I grabbed his pants and undid the button and zipper imprisoning his member. It popped out, hard, surrounded by a rough, black bush and about the same size as mine. He grabbed my hand and placed it there, where I played with the head with my fingers before grasping it tightly and leading him over to the bed.
I had him turn around and bend over so that I could see that butt of his. I gave it a couple of slaps as he braced himself with his hands. Then I took a cheek in each hand and spread them apart. His hole had a little tuft of fur all around it and I ran my cock head around the rim so that I could feel it brush against my skin. I had to have this sexy guy.
I plunged the tip of my spear into his tunnel. His head jerked back as I place my hands on his shoulders and held on tightly, shoving the rest of my manhood deep into him until I felt his butt slap against my thighs. I began slowly thrusting my dick in and out and gyrating my hips, making sure I touched every bit of the inside of his love hole. He was so tight, it was as if a fist had taken hold of my cock. I had some trouble until the leaking precum from the tip of my meat had run down the shaft, then I began to thrust faster. I saw a little pool of sweat forming at the base of Hu's spine. I was now the master of this Gay Asian Cock.
He began telling me to pound him harder and how he was my boy. I happily obliged, squeezing his spare shoulders tightly in my fingers as I pulled my dick almost completely out before ramming it in hard and deep. I felt the hairs on my thighs tighten up and tingle as I slapped them against his ass. His balls were swinging free in time to my beat as my own began to tighten up close to my body. I wanted to cum. I began wildly swinging my ass and I felt like I must have been a blur as I drove my hot stick harder and faster into his tight ass.
I reached around and began stroking his Gay Asian Cock, which to my amazement, was hard as a wooden rod and all slippery with his own pre-cum. I could feel my dick beginning to get a surge and I drove it in hard one last time, afraid that I might split him in two as my cum thundered from my spout. I let it stay in until the last spurt of juice. There was so much that it was running down the backs of his legs. I slowly removed my dick from his ass. His body was collapsed in a heap on the edge of the bed as the head slipped out with a loud "pop" and I got down on my knees to lick my cum from his hole and ran my tongue up and down his legs to clean him up.
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12/1/2007 - thailand gay rights |
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Gay Rights in Thailand 2007
In searching for human rights activity in Thailand it’s easy to be distracted by the sexy flash and booming discos of Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket and Chiang Mai, which to many visitors and reporters appear to present an exciting ‘liberated’ face of homosexuality in Thailand.
However, the reality is quite different the longer one stays or settles in Thailand, or becomes involved in an intimate relationship with a Thai man or woman. A foreigner (farang) soon understands something quite different: the conservative pale that hangs over the lives of LGBT citizens and which overshadows by far the immediate short-lived neon of the nights.
(Note: In June 2007 The Thai Assembly drafting a new constitution under the Kingdom's current military junta agreed on Friday to give gay, lesbian, transgender and transvestite groups official status in the new charter to try to end discrimination.
Along with a guarantee of equal rights for men and women, the 100-member drafting council voted unanimously to include a reference to "those of other sexual identities" in the new charter, due to be put to Thailand's first referendum in August.)
The Past
To help appreciate the significance of the conservative tradition on gay life in Thailand, law professor, author and Thailand resident Douglas Sanders has written: “Asian leaders often describe their societies as conservative. Confucian <and Buddhist> traditions continue to have strong influence in parts of Asia, with their stress on family lineages and procreation.... leaders speak of the ‘Asian values’ of loyalty to family, religion, community and nation, over the individualism and competitiveness of Western systems. An Asian goal is harmony, not self-assertiveness.”
Sociologist and Thai cultural analyst Peter Jackson has written, “Thai culture (and Confucian culture) places the maintenance of public shows of harmony at its core, valuing conformity to displays of orderliness…”
And British activist Peter Tatchell has observed: “For the few lesbian and gay activists in Thailand, their tactics are very different from the confrontational approach of their western counterparts. This is largely due to Thai cultural traditions which attach great value to conciliation and consensus.”
Reading these analyses a reader can begin to understand why gay rights work has been slow in coming in this country where the sexy bright nights, soaring skyscrapers, material enterprise are deceptive measures of Thailand’s true gay scene.
Why have gay rights not been a visible driving cause in this highly westernized country with a real King and many queens of the night?
1-Historically Thailand does not have a tradition of personal sexual self-expression (indeed, in the West this tradition is less than 50 years old). Self-censorship in the service of entrenched customs has bowed the heads of individuals in the past to the authority of leaders, an emperor or king to whom one swore allegiance for life. Personal ‘difference’ could spell trouble for an outspoken person and one’s family.
2-A secondly reason for the muted cry for gay rights is that in the annals of Eastern law and religion the subject of homosexuality has hardly existed in any formal decree or code. It was commonly left out of the regulations about life, work, family or devotion to a higher power. Same-sex activity or feelings were not stigmatized by laws that criminalized it or religious doctrines that condemned it as immoral or sinful. It was simply not included in any institutional codes or mores that governed daily behavior and discourse.
Part of the reason for homo-erotic issues being left out of official codes of conduct was that such attractions were silently understood in a frame of mind quite different from modern times. Far from the medical-legal-religious proscriptions and sensational publicity of the late 19th and entire 20th centuries, same–sex enjoyment was considered by most southeast Asians simply as ‘play’ or ‘having fun’; it was not ‘serious sex’ since it was not a procreative effort. It was a matter to be taken lightly by those engaged in it. Should a deeper and significant love affair emerge it was usually incorporated into the wider scheme of an individual’s duties and other relationships; it was adapted to fit within standard acceptable routines and explanations. A lover was a ‘friend’ not a mate or domestic partner or primary other.
There were no social labels or behavioral categories which uniquely identified an affair outside the realm of normal life. One was in love with a 'friend', an affectionate companion, while both continued to live apart with their families, wives, children and extended relatives. Further, it’s important for an outsider not to presume this apparent non-discriminating laissez-faire attitude meant tolerance or acceptance. Indeed, if two married fathers were caught together they would have faced the (non-violent) scorn of their peers and families and badly damaged the honor of both families.
3-Lacking official oppression or persecution from the state or temple or unaware family there was no active public ‘enemy’ to fear. There was no public struggle, no need over generations to change anything. The idea of sexual rights and sexual freedom is a 20th century Western notion where oppression, stigma, persecution and prohibition against blacks, women and gays has evoked a rebellion, a civil rights rebellion against identified oppressors. In the East there was no clamoring to gain civil rights because there was no sense they had been lost, neglected or abused—or that they even existed.
Douglas Thompson of Purple Dragon Tours put it this way: “a visitor probably will not ever be able to understand Thai homosexuality in all of its various forms and degrees. As I have said many times before, ‘gay’ is an idea that people bring with them from outside. It does not exist here, so subjecting Thai culture to foreign standards is fruitless and insulting. There is no big movement to liberate people because they really do not feel the need to be liberated. We don't have nuns here with rulers, Republican politicians, or the Christian right telling us that we are mentally ill or disciples of Satan.”
The Present
But the world progresses and societies change over time. Human rights in the 21st century, like global warming, is an issue that has come front and center on the world stage, urged forward by the horrors of genocide in Africa, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the cruelties of war in Iraq and blatant worldwide homophobia against gay citizens in virtually every country.
So it’s no surprise to find in mostly peaceful Thailand gay that activists are pushing against a logjam of religious, cultural and legal silence, absence and denial. Within recent years Thai gay human rights advocates have attempted to open a window of new thought among a complacent population as well as among political and social leadership. The struggle is uphill but there are determined activists who have decided the time is appropriate to push against the gravity of conservative Thai rituals, unquestioned practices and ignorant institutions to pry open minds that have no will (or awareness) to understand the varieties of human sexuality.
Anjaree
Enter Anjaree the most vocal and active gay rights organization in Thailand today with a clear sense of mission and take-charge leadership.
Anjaree is unique among Thai LGBT organizations. Originally, in 2003, it was the only group targeting women who love women. Headquartered in Bangkok, it now has members throughout Thailand, providing information, encouraging community formation, and sponsoring social events for Thai lesbians.
Founded by Anjana Suvarnanonda who still leads it, Anjaree (http://www.anjaree.net/ in Thai) is unique because it goes beyond the purpose of social support to include political activism and advocacy.
The international organization Astrea Lesbian Foundation describes Anjaree this way: “Anjaree is a lesbian activist group that has almost single-handedly changed the landscape for Thailand’s estimated 6 million LGBT citizens. Anjaree helped overturn a college policy prohibiting gays and trans-gendered students from enrolling in 36 campuses; in 1998 they helped reverse a government policy banning homosexuals from appearing on television.
“ Today, they continue to facilitate connections among lesbians through their website and newspaper. In January 2002, Anjaree achieved a historic victory by successfully pressuring Thailand’s Ministry of Health to state publicly that homosexuality was not a mental illness...”
Throughout Thailand LGBT people have historically been vilified—behind closed doors, face harsh discrimination in schools and workplaces, and are constantly pressured to be “cured” and get married. Anjaree wants the Thai government to train mental health workers to be responsive—without prejudice—to its LGBT citizens.
Currently, Anjaree is working with the Ministry of Mental Health to organize government-subsidized trainings for psychiatrists and other professionals in the field.”
(Another LGBT activist organization in Thailand is the Rainbow Sky Association in Bangkok . It was founded in 2001 by Natee Teerarojjanapongs as an out-spring of his White Line Dance Troupe, which Natee founded, directed, choreographed, and danced, in an early effort to raise money for the poor. In 1987 he changed its focus to campaigning against AIDS. Today Rainbow Sky is respected for its untiring work on HIV/AIDS health issues.)
The Future
The 2006 bloodless military coup that unseated the prime minister and suspended Thailand’s constitution was a national trauma and a nervous shimmer for the international business world.
Ironically, it inadvertently offered a unique window of opportunity for human right activists: the military leaders suspended the old constitution and called for rewriting the country’s legal and social foundation.
Such events happen rarely in the civilized world and this opportunity is one that Anjaree, with the active support of Rainbow Sky, is taking advantage of. Anjana and her group are leaning on political leaders, constitutional scholars and legal experts who are trying to hash out changes to the old charter in an effort to reduce the political corruption which brought about the coup in November. With the new changes Anjana wants to be sure sexual minorities receive their share of recognition and protection under the law.
Anjaree’s most recent rallying effort was recently reported in the Bangkok Post on May 26, 2007 by Sanitsuda Ekachai, a staff reporter:
“ The new constitution must recognise the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered, gay rights activists urged yesterday. The equality clause in the draft constitution only endorses equal rights between men and women. ''There should be an additional clause to recognise diverse sexuality, which will help ease the problems of discrimination we are facing,'' said Anjana Suvarnanonda, founder of Anjaree, an advocacy group of female homosexuals. (Note: In July 2007 The Thai Assembly drafting a new constitution under the Kingdom's current military junta voted to include "persons of other sexualities" (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders).
“ The National Human Rights Commission also supports the move to amend the draft charter so the gay community is accorded the same rights as heterosexuals, said human rights commissioner Khunying Ambhorn Meesook."
Kittinan Tharamatat from Fah Si Roong (Rainbow Sky), a gay rights advocacy group, said that if the new charter recognises diverse sexuality and mandates equal rights for the gay community, various other, discriminatory laws will also have to be amended.
“ Rape laws, which currently protect only female victims, for example, will have to be amended to protect men, homosexuals and the trans-gendered too. At present, raping boys or men is legally considered to be only sexual molestation, which carries lighter punishment than that of rape. ''Rapists, regardless of the gender of their victims, are all similar animals from hell, so they deserve the same punishment,'' he said.
“ The law, he added, must also be subsequently amended to legalise same- sex marriage, thus allowing homosexual partners to have inheritance rights. At present, when one of the partners dies, his or her money and other assets go to the family of the deceased.
“ Job discrimination against homosexuals and the trans-gendered will also become illegal if the new constitution addresses the issue, he added. ''Right now we, the trans-gendered, have a very limited work choice. The constitutional change will help protect us against this discrimination,'' said Tanyarat Jirapatpakorn, Miss Tiffany Universe 2007, a trans-sexual beauty queen.
“ Meanwhile, Chantalak Raksayoo of the Sapan Group stressed how important it was for the constitution to clearly state a specific timeframe for legal amendments to recognise diverse sexuality and gay rights. ''Otherwise such rights will exist only on paper,'' she said.
“ According to Ms Anjana, half of young people who attempted suicide in Thailand were homosexuals and trans-gendered people who could not put up with severe pressure and condemnation from their own families and society."
In addition to legal changes, Prof Suporn Koetwang, a noted public health expert, called for better public education to rein in homophobia among the general public.
Sawing Tan-oot, a member of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) and the Constitution Drafting Assembly, will propose the clause on gay rights be included in the draft charter. But many NLA members still do not understand the concepts of gender and diverse sexuality, he said.
Finally
An irrevocable step has been taken. Homosexuality exists throughout Thailand; for many it is not just child’s play or ‘fooling around’; the silence of homophobia is being called to task; the veil of ignorance is being lifted; human rights must include recognition of gays and their inclusion in those rights; the constitution must be modernized to create full equality to all citizens regardless of their differences; these demands are now public and cannot be ignored.
A Happy Ending--for Now
In July 2007 (after this story was written), the following was reported by Reuters News service: "Writers of Thailand's post-coup constitution agreed on Friday to give gay, lesbian, transgender and transvestite groups official status in the new charter to try to end discrimination.
"Along with a guarantee of equal rights for men and women, the 100-member drafting council voted unanimously to include a reference to "those of other sexual identities" in the new charter, due to be put to Thailand's first referendum in August.
"This council has already guaranteed equal rights for the disabled, so why can't we give the same treatment to those who have sexual preferences," said charter write Chirmsak Pinthong, who sponsored the idea.
"Earlier this month, the council rejected a proposal to guarantee the rights of those with various sexual orientations, saying it would create a legal status of a "third sex".
"Gay rights groups welcomed the inclusion, saying it would pave the way for fairer treatment.
'The clause will guarantee our basic rights that have been ignored for such a long time,' Natee Teerarojjanapongs of the Thai Political Gay Group told Reuters in tears."
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12/27/2007 - History of Thailand |
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History of Thailand
The history of Thailand begins with the migration of the Thais from their ancestral home in southern China into mainland southeast Asia around the 10th century AD. Prior to this Mon, Khmer and Malay kingdoms ruled the region. The Thais established their own states starting with Sukhothai and then Ayutthaya kingdom. These states fought each other and were under constant threat from the Khmers, Burma and Vietnam. Much later, the European colonial powers threatened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but Thailand survived as the only Southeast Asian state to avoid colonial rule. After the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932, Thailand endured sixty years of almost permanent military rule before the establishment of a democratic system.
Initial states of Thailand
Prior to the southwards migration of the Tai people from Yunnan in the 10th century, the Indochina peninsula had been a home to various indigenous animistic communities for as far back as 500,000 years ago. The recently discovery of Homo erectus fossils such as Lampang man is but one example. The remains were first discovered during excavations in Lampang province, Thailand. The finds have been dated from roughly 1,000,000 - 500,000 years ago in the Pleistocene. Historians agree that the diverse Austro-Asiatic groups that inhabited the Indochina peninsula are related to the people which today inhabit the islands of the Pacific. As these peoples dispersed along the Gulf of Thailand, Malay Peninsula and Malay Archipelago, they inhabited the coastal areas of the archipelago as well as other remote islands. The seafarers possessed advanced navigation skills, sailing as far as New Zealand, Hawaii and Madagascar.
The most well known pre-historic settlement in Thailand is often associated to the major archaeological site at Ban Chiang; dating of artefacts from this site is a consensus that at least by 3600 BC, the inhabitants had developed bronze tools and also began the cultivation of rice. Around the first century of the Christian era, according to Funan epigraphy and the records of Chinese historians(Coedes), a number of trading settlements of the South, appears to have been organized into several Indianised states, among the earliest of which are believed to be Langkasuka and Tambralinga. the history of thailand is diff. to the others.
Sukhothai and Lannathai
Thais date the founding of their nation to the 13th century. According to tradition, Thai chieftains gained independence from the Khmer Empire at Sukhothai, which was established as a sovereign Kingdom by Pho Khun Si Indrathit in 1238. A political feature called, in Thai, 'father governs children' existed at this time. Everybody could bring their problems to the king directly; there was a bell in front of the palace for this purpose. The city briefly dominated the area under King Ramkhamhaeng, who established the Thai alphabet, but after his death in 1365 it fell into decline and became subject to another emerging Thai state known as the Ayutthaya kingdom, which dominated southern and central Thailand until the 1700s.
Another Thai state that coexisted with Sukhothai was the northern state of Lanna. This state emerged in the same period as Sukhothai, but survived longer. Its independent history ended in 1558, when it fell to the Burmese; thereafter it was dominated by Burma and Ayutthaya in turn before falling to the army of the Siamese King Taksin in 1775.
Ayutthaya
The first ruler of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, King Ramathibodi I, made two important contributions to Thai history: the establishment and promotion of Theravada Buddhism as the official religion ¡ª to differentiate his kingdom from the neighbouring Hindu kingdom of Angkor ¡ª and the compilation of the Dharmashastra, a legal code based on Hindu sources and traditional Thai custom. The Dharmashastra remained a tool of Thai law until late in the 19th century. Beginning with the Portuguese in the 16th century, Ayutthaya had some contact with the West, but until the 1800s, its relations with neighbouring nations as well as with India and China, were of primary importance. Ayutthaya dominated a considerable area, ranging from the Islamic states on the Malay Peninsula to states in northern Thailand. Nonetheless, the Burmese, who had control of Lanna and had also unified their kingdom under a powerful dynasty, launched several invasion attempts in the 1750s and 1760s. Finally, in 1767, the Burmese attacked the city and conquered it. The royal family fled the city where the king died of starvation ten days later. The Ayutthaya royal line had been extinguished. Overall there are 33 kings in this period, including an unofficial king.
There were 5 dynasties during Ayutthaya period:
Eu Thong Dynasty which consists of 3 kings
Suphanabhumi Dynasty consisting of 13 kings
Sukhothai Dynasty consisting of 7 kings
Prasart Thong (Golden Tower) Dynasty consisting of 4 kings
Bann Plu Dynasty consisting of 6 kings
Thornburi and Bangkok period
After more than 400 years of power, in 1767, the Kingdom of Ayutthaya was brought down by invading Burmese armies, its capital burned, and the territory split. General Taksin managed to reunite the Thai kingdom from his new capital of Thonburi and declared himself king in 1769. However, Taksin allegedly became mad, and he was deposed, taken prisoner, and executed in 1782. General Chakri succeeded him in 1782 as Rama I, the first king of the Chakri dynasty. In the same year he founded the new capital city at Bangkok, across the Chao Phraya river from Thonburi, Taksin's capital. In the 1790s Burma was defeated and driven out of Siam, as it was now called. Lanna also became free of Burmese occupation, but the king of a new dynasty was installed in the 1790s was effectively a puppet ruler of the Chakri monarch.
The heirs of Rama I became increasingly concerned with the threat of European colonialism after British victories in neighbouring Burma in 1826. The first Thai recognition of Western power in the region was the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United Kingdom in 1826. In 1833, the United States began diplomatic exchanges with Siam, as Thailand was called until 1939, and again between 1945 and 1949. However, it was during the later reigns of King Chulalongkorn, and his father King Mongkut, that Thailand established firm rapprochement with Western powers. It is a widely held view in Thailand that the diplomatic skills of these monarchs, combined with the modernising reforms of the Thai Government, made Siam the only country in South and Southeast Asia to avoid European colonisation. This is reflected in the country's modern name, Prathet Thai or Thai©\land, used unofficially between 1939 and 1945 and officially declared on May 11, 1949, in which prathet means "nation" and thai means "free".
The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 made the modern border between Siam and British Malaya by securing the Thai authority on the provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Satun, which were previously part of the semi independent Malay sultanates of Pattani and Kedah. A series of treaties with France fixed the country's current eastern border with Laos and Cambodia.
Military rule
The Siamese coup d'¨¦tat of 1932 transformed the Government of Thailand from an absolute to a constitutional monarchy. King Prajadhipok initially accepted this change but later surrendered the throne to his ten year old nephew, Ananda Mahidol. Upon his abdication, King Prajadhipok said that the duty of a ruler was to reign for the good of the whole people, not for a select few. King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) died in 1946 under somewhat mysterious circumstances, the official explanation being that he shot himself by accident while cleaning his gun. He was succeeded by his brother Bhumibol Adulyadej, the longest reigning king of Thailand, and very popular with the Thais. Although nominally a constitutional monarchy, Thailand was ruled by a series of military governments, most prominently led by Luang Phibunsongkhram and Sarit Dhanarajata, interspersed with brief periods of democracy.
In early January 1941, Thailand invaded French Indochina, beginning the French-Thai War. The Thais, better equipped and outnumbering the French forces, easily took Laos. The French decisively won the naval Battle of Koh Chang.
The Japanese mediated the conflict, and a general armistice was declared on January 28. On May 9 a peace treaty was signed in Tokyo, with the French being coerced by the Japanese into relinquishing its hold on the disputed territories.
After the end of World War II, Prime Minister Pridi Phanomyong agreed to return the captured territories to France, as a condition for admission to the newly created United Nations.
On December 8, 1941, a few hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan demanded the right to move troops across Thailand to the Malayan frontier. Japan invaded the country and engaged the Thai army for six to eight hours before Phibun ordered an armistice. Shortly thereafter Japan was granted free passage, and on December 21, 1941, Thailand and Japan signed a military alliance with a secret protocol wherein Tokyo agreed to help Thailand get back territories lost to the British and French colonial powers and Thailand undertook to assist Japan in her war against the Allies.
After Japan's defeat in 1945, with the help of a group of Thais known as Seri Thai who were supported by the United States, Thailand was treated as a defeated country by the British and French, although American support mitigated the Allied terms. Thailand was not occupied by the Allies, but it was forced to return the territory it had gained to the British and the French. In the postwar period Thailand enjoyed close relations with the United States, which it saw as a protector from the communist revolutions in neighbouring countries.
Communist guerillas existed in country from early 60's up to 1987, but never posed a serious threat to the state, but at the peak of movement they counted almost 12,000 full-time fighters.
Recently, Thailand also has been an active member in the regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), especially after democratic rule was restored in 1992.
Democracy
Post-1973 has been marked by a struggle to define the political contours of the state. It was won by the King and General Prem Tinsulanonda, who favoured a democratic constitutional order.
The post-1973 years have seen a difficult and sometimes bloody transition from military to civilian rule, with several reversals along the way. The revolution of 1973 inaugurated a brief, unstable period of democracy, with military rule being reimposed after a bloody right-wing coup in 1976. For most of the 1980s, Thailand was ruled by Prem, a democratically-inclined strongman who restored parliamentary politics. Thereafter the country remained a democracy apart from a brief period of military rule from 1991 to 1992. The populist Thai Rak Thai party, led by prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, came to power in 2001.
On September 19, 2006, with the prime minister in New York for a meeting of the UN, Army Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Sonthi Boonyaratglin launched a successful coup d'¨¦tat.
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2/2/2008 - tours in thailand |
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