![]() ![]() Dozens of young protest leaders have been imprisoned. Some critics of the coup that brought him to power fled overseas and turned up dead. While a mass protest movement has stalled, discontent with Prayuth’s government simmers. “But what I know is that all these people, they don’t even see vendors like me as human.” “I don’t want to say more about the capital name because I don’t have good connections,” Jintana said, her fingers rolling dough. On road signs, the more common form is sometimes appended in brackets. Korat, for instance, is formally known as Nakhon Ratchasima. ![]() “The upper-class Thais love to do this kind of thing, changing common names, real Thai names, into these fancy, partly Pali, partly Sanskrit, mixed-up names.”Ĭharnvit noted that other Thai city names have been gussied up over the years, leading to confusion among locals who continue to refer to their hometowns by the older names. “Using Krung Thep over Bangkok is crazy to the point of being idiotic,” said Charnvit Kasetsiri, a Thai historian and former rector of Thammasat University in Bangkok. Rather, the way an elite clique did the update is what bothered some in a populace that appears increasingly unwilling to accept diktats from royalist, tradition-bound institutions. Some people prefer their leaders focus on fixing the economy rather than on changing the city’s name. People repair pavement near the Grand Palace in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. ![]()
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