Families with children attend - for some Thais it is an engaging day out.

很多人都全家一同参加，对泰国人来说，这是个绝佳的外出日。

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This would be good news for the 65m Thais and would set an encouraging example for their fellow half-billion South-East Asians and the billion or more Chinese to their north.

对于6500万泰国人来说，这是个好消息，同时也给他们的5亿东南亚伙伴和北方的10多亿中国人树立了一个可喜的榜样。

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Quite what that has to do with vegetarianism is debatable, but the festival is also a chance for ethnic Chinese Thais (and lucky visitors) to munch a dizzying array of faux-meat dishes.

在这里，素食者还是让人争议的话题，但是这个节日是华裔泰国人（包括一些幸运的游客）可以吃到各种素肉的机会。

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The 81 year-old king has presided over Thailand for more than 60 years and is deeply revered by Thais.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

But with the chaos unchecked, the question is how safe it is for Thais.

ECONOMIST: Thailand

Thailand says it wants 300, 000 workers to return to Myanmar in the next six months to make room for unemployed Thais.

ECONOMIST: Asian pride

The results, released on January 17th, show that in lots of ways life changed for many Thais and did indeed get worse (see table).

ECONOMIST: How much did Thailand suffer?