Bangkok
a seaport in and the capital of Thailand, in the S central part, on the Chao Phraya.
(lowercase) a kind of Siamese straw.
(lowercase) a hat woven of strands of this straw.
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Growing up in Bangkok, Leela Punyaratabandhu, a cookbook author who writes on the food of Thailand, was used to seeing pork blood cakes on her dinner table.
Blood is a respected ingredient around the world, but less so in the U.S. A new book aims to change that. | Mayukh Sen | February 26, 2021 | Washington PostSoraj Hongladarom is a professor of philosophy at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
“We have not relied only on one testing technique from one laboratory,” Krit Pongpirul, a researcher and clinical epidemiologist at Bangkok’s Bumrungrad International Hospital, said in an email exchange with The Post.
The CDC’s failed race against covid-19: A threat underestimated and a test overcomplicated | David Willman | December 26, 2020 | Washington PostBangkok’s popular Siam Paragon, Siam Discovery and Siam Center malls are all built on land leased from the Crown.
As Thailand’s economy shrinks, protesters question the $40 billion value of the King | eamonbarrett | October 31, 2020 | FortuneOver the weekend, as tens of thousands in Thailand defied a ban on gathering and turned out to protest in Bangkok and across the country, Hong Kongers responded with messages of support.
Thailand and Hong Kong protesters are brewing a strong #MilkTeaAlliance | Mary Hui | October 19, 2020 | Quartz
“Mostly people on a budget use it,” Franz Dobersberger, managing director of a Bangkok travel agency, told The Daily Beast.
The Presumed Crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Is Nothing Like MH370 | Lennox Samuels | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe next day, three more students were detained in Bangkok after being escorted out of a high-end cinema.
‘The Hunger Games’ Stars Silent on Thai Protesters | Asawin Suebsaeng | November 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA Bangkok theater chain subsequently canceled its planned screenings of the new film.
‘The Hunger Games’ Stars Silent on Thai Protesters | Asawin Suebsaeng | November 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo Langley decided to cut short the tour of the then-CIA station chief in Bangkok and bring him in to head up the show.
Peoria indulges in, and mostly enjoys, just about every vice known to man or woman from New York to Baghdad to Bangkok.
Newsweek Takedown From Beyond the Grave: Michael Hastings’s Fiction Tells the Truth | Christopher Dickey | June 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo he started doggedly southward again, stopping at Saigon and Bangkok and Singapore.
The Shadow | Arthur StringerIt is easily reached by house-boat from Bangkok in two or three days.
The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe | Ernest YoungThe Chinese are the beasts of burden as far as the Bangkok rickshaw is concerned.
The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe | Ernest YoungThis was the only foundation for the claim made by the Bangkok Government.
The Pacification of Burma | Sir Charles Haukes Todd CrosthwaiteIt must have resembled the stone foot of Buddha at Bangkok, Siam.
The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It | R. W. Beers
British Dictionary definitions for Bangkok
/ (ˈbæŋkɒk, bæŋˈkɒk) /
the capital and chief port of Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River: became a royal city and the capital in 1782. Pop: 6 604 000 (2005 est): Thai name: Krung Thep (ˈkrʊŋ ˈteɪp)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for Bangkok
Capital of Thailand and largest city in the country, located in the heart of Thailand's rice-growing region near the Gulf of Thailand.
Notes for Bangkok
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