Just these few facts displayed show how much it's changed here.
Population: 17 million
GDP: 31 billion baht
Tourist Arrivals: 20,965
Life Expectancy (Male/Female): 40.2/43.5
Price of the Bangkok Post: 1 baht
Number of pages: 4
(Source: Chronicle of Thailand: Headline News Since 1946)
Read it for the content, not the title. Hard to find so much modern history of the country condensed into one place like there is in that web site. Pete
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