Bangkok Sentence Examples

The result is that practically all the trade of these states is in the hands of Bangkok Chinese firms, of a certain number of European houses and others, while most of the manual labour connected with the teak industry is done by Ka Mus, who migrate in large numbers from the left bank of the Mekong.

The khiao were invested by a gold dish, betel-box, spittoon and teapot, which were sent from Bangkok and returned at their death or deposition.

Two companies provide Bangkok with a complete system of electric tramways, and the streets are lined with shade-trees and lit by electricity.

Many fine buildings are to be seen - the various public offices, the arsenal, the mint, the palaces of various princes and, in addition to these, schools, hospitals, markets and Christian churches of many denominations, chiefly Roman Catholic. There are four railway stations in Bangkok,the termini of the lines which connect the provinces with the capital.

The climate of Bangkok has without doubt recently changed.

Of the 750 steamships which cleared the port in 1904, three out of every seven were German, two were Norwegian and one was British, but in 1905 two new companies, one British and the other Japanese, arranged for regular services to Bangkok, thereby altering these proportions.

The trade of Bangkok is almost entirely in the hands of Europeans and Chinese.

The government of Bangkok is entrusted to the minister of the capital, a member of the cabinet.

Before 1769 Bangkok was nothing but an agricultural village with a fort on the river bank.

There are also mints at Osaka, Bangkok and Teheran, and the Seoul mint was at work in 1904.

The full force of the monsoon is, however, broken by the western frontier hills; and while the rainfall at Mergui is over 180, and at Moulmein 240 in., that of Bangkok seldom exceeds 54, and Chiengmai records an average of about 42 in.

A four-mile reach of the Me Nam, immediately below the city proper, forms the port of Bangkok.

Many of the best known mercantile firms and banks of the Far East have branches in Bangkok.

The first census of Bangkok and its suburbs was taken in 1909.

Of Europeans and Americans there are between 1300 and 1500, mostly resident in Bangkok.

Bangkok, the capital, with some 650,000 inhabitants, is about one-third Chinese, while in the suburbs are to be found settlements of Mohns, Burmese, Annamites and Cambodians, the descendants of captives taken in ancient wars.

The main line from Bangkok to the north had reached Pang Tong Phung, some distance north of Utaradit and 10 m.

This latter was the continuation through southern Siam of the line already constructed from Bangkok south-west to Petchaburi (110 m.), with funds borrowed, under a recent agreement, from the Federated (British) Malay States government, which work, following upon surveys made in 1907, was begun in 1909 under the direction of a newly constituted southern branch of the Royal Railways department.

To the east of Bangkok the Bangkok-Petriew line (40 m.) was completed and open for traffic.

Bangkok, with an annual trade valued at £13,000,000, easily overtops all the rest of the country, the other ports together accounting for a total of imports and exports not exceeding £3,000,000.

The old tribunals where customary law was administered by ignorant satellites of the great, amid unspeakable corruption, have all been replaced by organized courts with qualified judges appointed from the Bangkok law school, and under the direct control of the ministry in all except the most outlying parts.

After the fall of Ayuthia a great general, Phaya Takh Sin, collected the remains of the army and restored the fortunes of the kingdom, establishing his capital at Bangkok; but, becoming insane, he was put to death, and was succeeded by another successful general, Phaya Chakkri, who founded the present dynasty.

In 1822 John Crawfurd was sent to Bangkok to negotiate a treaty with the suzerain power, but the mission was unsuccessful.

Bowring signed a new treaty whereby Siam agreed to the appointment of a British consul in Bangkok, and to the exercise by that official of full extraterritorial powers.

The French' then despatched gunboats from Saigon to enforce their demands at Bangkok, and these made their way up to the capital in, spite of an attempt on the part of the Siamese naval forces to bar their way.

The laws of the sovereigns who have reigned at Bangkok form the most notable part of this branch of Siamese literature.

Great quantities of paddi are annually sent by river and rail to Bangkok, in return for which cloth and other goods are imported to supply the wants of the agriculturist peasantry.

Trade is small and is carried on by Chinese settlers, chiefly overland with Bangkok, but to a small extent also by water with Saigon.

Unveiled from the dusty backroom of a Bangkok shop last week, the pair were offered to The Observer for £ 3,500.

The Bangkok fish was particularly tasty, with cod in a really gooey garlic and ginger sauce.

Autobiography Sandra Gregory was caught smuggling heroin through Bangkok airport in 1993.

The provincial town of Samut Sakhon lies about 45 km south of Bangkok.

For administrative purposes the country is divided into seventeen montons (or divisions) each in charge of a high commissioner, and an eighteenth, including Bangkok and the surrounding suburban provinces, under the direct control of the minister for metropolitan government (see Bangkok).

We found a good Thai place that did a load of tofu dishes called something like Bangkok Best.

An undoubted highlight of any visit to Bangkok is to wander around the Royal Grand Palace.

The Bangkok to Hanoi journey is a one-of-a-kind experience for those with a yearning for true overland adventure.

It cleverly combines the charm of Bangkok 's yesteryears with modern amenities.

The shop, based in Bangkok, Thailand, is renowned for producing quality work.

My Custom Tailor, also based in Bangkok, designs clothing in a wide range of fabrics, blends and styles.

If it was made in Switzerland, Germany or the United States, chances are the quality is better than those manufactured in Taiwan, Bangkok and parts of China outside of Hong Kong.

After 1828 the Laos became entirely subject to Siam, and were governed partly by khiao, or native hereditary princes, partly by mandarins directly nominated by the Bangkok authorities.

In central Siam, after Bangkok and Ayuthia, places of importance on the Menam Chao Phaya are Pak-Nam at the river mouth, the seat of a governor, terminus of a railway and site of modern fortifications; Paklat, the seat of a governor, a town of Mohns, descendants of refugees from Pegu; Nontaburi, a few miles above Bangkok, the seat of a governor and possessing a large market; Pratoomtani, Angtong, Prom, Inburi, Chainat and Saraburi, all administrative centres; and Lopburi, the last capital before Ayuthia and the residence of kings during the Ayuthia period, a city of ruins now gradually reawakening as a centre of railway traffic. To the west of the Menam Chao Phaya lie Suphanburi and Ratburi, ancient cities, now government headquarters; Pechaburi (the Piply of early travellers), the terminus of the western railway; and Phrapatoom, with its huge pagoda on the site of the capital of Sri Wichaiya, a kingdom of 2000 years ago, and now a place of military, agricultural and other schools.