Thailand Research Papers Samples For Students

The biggest island in Thailand, the land of smiles is Phuket that is located in the Andaman Sea, and Pattaya is the most important destination in Thailand. The article “Relationship between Destination Image, Food Image, and Revisiting Pattaya, Thailand” by Sarunya Lertputtarak provides a comprehensive description about the exotic beaches, the food in Thailand, the nightlife and entertainment, densest concentration of bars, and the disco’s that is well known as walking street. Lertputtarak reflects more on what attracts the tourists to Thailand and why the tourists like revisiting this fantasy island in the article.
As stated by Lertputtarak ( ...

Environmental regulation level in Thailand and Singapore

For a long time in Thailand, development took place with little concern for the environment. The lack of strict environmental controls was a big incentive to investors, especially industry – based investors. Consequently, Thailand has robust industrial zones (Hookway and Watcharasakwet, 2010). However, this economic growth came at a huge cost, particularly to the environment.
The country is grappling with pollution problems, water scarcity, and loss of natural habitats (World Bank Group, 2011). Consequently, the government has adopted strict environmental regulations and standards (International Business Publications, 2011). The severity of this regulation is illustrated by a 2010 court decision suspending a $ 12 billion investment ...

1. How and why does the risk of moving a business to Thailand differ from moving the same business to Louisiana?
Moving a business to Thailand exposes more risks in operation than if the same business was to be moved to Louisiana. Apparently, Thai’s are reluctant to talk business issues with foreigners, as opposed to Louisiana’s. This cultural behavior may hinder building capacity relationships with the competitors, which are necessities for business performance. Thailand’s economy has been lagging behind for the last decade as a result of increased population and a high regard on the cultures that include language ...

The culture of Thailand is a unique mix of ancient religious beliefs and modern pragmatic laws. It combines elements of the neighboring countries’ cultures such as India, China and Cambodia. Besides, it incorporates elements indicating ancient beliefs of the whole Southeast Asia. From the religious point of view Thai culture manages to include elements of Hinduism, Buddhism and Animism. And all these influences create a real uniqueness of the country, which remained mainly untouched by the European culture because of rarely contacts before Thai exclusive image was discovered by European travelers.

Wedding ceremony is one of the most identifying features of ...

Throughout much of world history, the advent of the rainy seasons has been seen as a positive. Indeed, in ancient Egypt, the arrival of floodwaters down the Nile River were a vital part of the cycle of life, as those floodwaters brought with them the fertile silt that would line the riverbanks the rest of the year, allowing farmers to plant and cultivate crops. The Nile river god and the sun god, Ra, were the two primary deities of that culture – if they did not deliver, then people would starve. Throughout much of Asia, the monsoon season – characterized by long periods ...

Introduction

Well-organized leaders possess a common characteristic; their capability to stimulate and inspire the followers to achieve valuable goals (Dubrin, 2010). The achievement of these goals is intensified after formulation of a strategic framework. This framework should consider the competitive environment, future uncertainty, human resource management, and financial management. In addition, leadership also involves being able to focus on a development of a plan through which the organizations operations will prevail in the future against uncertainty. However for many organizations, uncertainty has been a major challenge that has prevented these companies from implementing their future leadership assignments.

Dubrin (2010) further explains that well-organized leadership should ...

in Thailand and Its Impact on Behavioral Intention

Abstract

The hotel and hospitality industry is expanding as the need for globalization in business operations continues to create much attention. The paper sought to conduct a study on the religious attitudes and behavior that make Muslim consumers subscribe to a particular food or service in hotels across Thailand. The sample for the study was 25 Muslim respondents who are residents as well as visitors. The sample was selected randomly with a structured questionnaire used to collect data from the respondents. Among the key consumers in Thailand are the Muslims who in ...

IN THAILAND AND ITS IMPACT ON BEHAVIORAL INTENTION

Abstract
The hotel and hospitality industry is expanding as the need for globalization in business operations continues to create much attention. The paper sought to conduct a study on the religious attitudes and behavior that make Muslim consumers subscribe to a particular food or service in hotels across Thailand. The sample for the study was 100 Muslim respondents who are residents as well as visitors. The sample was selected randomly with a structured questionnaire used to collect data from the respondents. Regression analysis was then conducted to determine level of significance ion the relationships between the identified variables and ...

Abstract

Disaster analysis is essential in the management of disasters. It assists in the identification of gaps in the management cycle within a given region. Management of disasters occurs in four cycles including planning or preparedness, response, recovery, as well as mitigation. Planning is an essential tool in all the phases of the cycle. The primary aim of disaster response is to offer immediate aid to improve health, sustain life, as well as assist in the improvement of the morale of the affected population. Recovery phase aims at restoring the infrastructure as well as the operations of the community services ...

Galaxy International operates in a niche market; this is because skiing is only possible in very specific areas, and only a limited number of the population skis regularly anyway. Despite this, the company has performed outstandingly well to be achieving the level of sales with a small staff. This being said, Galaxy International needs to raise capital quickly and in an efficient way to successfully continue expanding to fully capture its full market size. By offering a unique product that is flexible yet tough, Jeremy is likely to continue to increase the volume of his sales and therefore the ...

Abstract

The hotel and hospitality industry is expanding as the need for globalization in business operations continues to create much attention. The paper sought to conduct a study on the religious attitudes and behavior that make Muslim consumers subscribe to a particular food or service in hotels across Thailand. The sample for the study was 100 Muslim respondents who are residents as well as visitors. The sample was selected randomly with a structured questionnaire used to collect data from the respondents. Regression analysis was then conducted to determine level of significance ion the relationships between the identified variables and a ...

A Domestic and International Epidemic

INTRODUCTION
The word “slavery” is a word with many meanings and ideas conceived by nations, cultures and peoples all over the world. However, at the core slavery is any form of activity that forces one human being to be dependent and at the mercy of others, a loss of freedom, and the definitive crime against humanity. People imagine a lot of things when we think of slavery. Some might think back to biblical stories and the Jewish slaves in Egypt or the indentured servitude practices in Western Europe in the 1600s. However, in the United States, the word slavery automatically brings ...

Brief Description of the Lead Organization

The lead Organization charged with this assessment is Triodia consultancy. It is an Australian NGO, which provides specialized training services and project management for communities. Their mandate includes landscaping, native vegetation, horticultural and community gardening management projects. It is a specialization in service-delivery for the Aboriginal communities in Australia. Triodia’s bases its services on two main areas, namely, training and project management (Australian Indigenous)

Statement of the Nutritional Problem

Breastfeeding naturally provides ideal nourishment for the infant. Children who have various self-limiting illnesses require lots of breast milk. The lower solute load of breast milk keeps the baby well hydrated despite their fever and ...

The problem of water resources of the Mekong River threatens to escalate into a serious conflict between China and several Southeast Asian countries. The origins of the Mekong, which occupies the 13th place among the longest rivers in the world (about 4350 km), are located on the Tibetan Plateau. The Mekong flows through China (Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province), Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. China is already having on the Mekong (China calls it the Lancang River) two operating hydroelectric power stations and at the beginning of September 2012 announced the launch of the third one called ...

The very word “human trafficking” brings chills of distaste to the average American. However, many adults do not understand the actual scale of the practice and what it entails. Around the world, children are forced to be murdering soldiers, children of both genders are compelled to become prostitutes, and migrants workers labor for little or no wages in a desperate attempt to feed themselves (Office of the United States Press Secretary, 2014). President Barack Obama issued a proclamation stating the United States fully recognizes the problem and in keeping with historic values, dedicated the power of the country to ...

The Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami that occurred in the Indian Ocean were one of the deadliest in modern history. It took place on 26 December 2004 and killed at least 220,000 people including the destruction of property worth billions of dollars (Bondevik, 2008). The areas hit by the tidal waves were Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, The Maldives, Thailand and the western coast of Somalia. This tsunami measured a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3 becoming the third largest earthquake ever to be recorded on a seismograph. It was a Megathrust quake.
Such an incident occurs when a ...

Introduction

The study on economic development can be traced back in the earliest at the end of the Second World War were the respective academics and policy developers are largely debated the essence role of the public policy of some of the developing economies. It is evident based on the economic progress and the percentage of growth that the respective nations on Asia have recorded since that period. East Asia is one of the regions where the respective nations have recorded a one of the world economies and were being able to sustain economic growth and development. Menom, (2004) not only ...

The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights claims “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood” (United Nations). This means that people all over the world should live in peace and respect each other’s rights and freedoms no matter what race, color, ethnicity, and sex they represent. These universal rights became pillars of modern liberal society and spread rapidly across the globe. Article 4 of the Declaration states that no one shall be held ...

The article looks at different ways buyers can carve their market share in a given economy to maximize their profits. Thus, various industries across the globe study consumers and keep track of their varying tastes and preferences. Thus, most industries have to be innovative in order to find a market strategy that captures most consumers needs to fulfill them. Given the improved technological measures, marketers can easily capture consumer needs through the internet and also can speculate future profits and losses of the company. This means that a company can alter their marketing strategy through keenly observing and tracking the consumers because ...

AIDS, Early pregnancy and Artificial conception are just some of the main issues commonly interrelated with fertility or reproduction, both of which are sensitive topics, that ironically must be given more attention academically.
This paper is divided in two parts. The first part tackles In-Vitro Fertilization and other kinds of artificial conception, and the correlation of AIDS, early pregnancy and prostitution, while the latter part focuses the socio-economic and health impacts of AIDS and prostitution with more emphasis on developing countries.

Emergence of Artificial Conception

Artificial insemination and In-Vitro Fertilization are just two ways of replicating pregnancy through the normal process of ...

Malaysia is located in Southeast Asia at a major crossroad. It has been a route for trade from China, Europe, and India. The region experiences tropical climate and natural resources, which has made it a destination for immigrants. This is how the indigenous people of Malaysia settled here. These were followed by the Malays, who brought farming using metallic tools. Arab traders introduced Islam in Malaysia while Indians brought Hinduism. The Europeans brought major changes in Malaysia. Portuguese tried to capture the region but the Europeans resisted resulting to sovereign states of Malaysia. The Dutch in turn defeated the Portuguese until the ...

Executive summary

Unicord Public Limited Company PLC, was initiated in 1978 and its headquarters at Thailand. The organization was set up with the objective of processing seafood and its’ first attempt was to process tuna, a worldwide commodity that is consumed by many people. It specialized in manufacturing a wide variety of canned tuna and frozen seafood products and its’ factory was located in Samutsakhon. Unicord PLC was the main manufacturer, producer, and exporter of canned seafood in Thailand before it was taken over by Sea value Co. Ltd on 15 September 2005, at that time the production capacity of the company was ...

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Introduction

Projects are carefully planned and designed works, either individually or collaborative, that, are intended to achieve a particular aim. Projects have life cycles and aren’t meant to last forever that’s why detailed planning with, schedules, timeline, tasks, tasks dependent on those task, resources, and etc. are clearly very important. Determining what breaks down into these life cycles is how projects are successful or not. Beginning with conceptualization, the development of the initial goal and technical specifications, then planning, or the cycle where all the detailed specifications, schedules, etc are developed. Then comes the ...

Toyota Multinational Corporation was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda to create the automobiles. It is a multinational Corporation, and its headquarters is located in Japan. The corporation has employed about 320,000 people worldwide, and it is among the largest carmakers by sale.
Toyota Multinational Corporation is a leading automobile firm, and it operates in more than 170 nations in the world. The company operates in many parts of the world, and its major markets include Japan, North America, Asia, and Europe.
Its main objective and aim are to provide high quality and good customer service to its ...

1. The country with the highest fertility rate is India which stands at 2.45bpw, followed by Indonesia at 2.18bpw. The country with the lowest fertility rate is South Korea at 1.2bpw. The fertility rate of the US is 1.87bpw, which is almost the same rate with Australia and China. With regards to women’s labor force participation, the country with the highest percentage is North Korea at 72%, followed by Thailand at 64%. The country with the lowest women’s labor force participation is India at 24%. For the US, the participation of women in the labor force is ...

Extreme Islamic Terrorism.

Abstract
This article is a research article about Extremist Islam Terrorism or commonly known as the Jemaah Islamiyah. The article focuses on the background of the Jemaah Islamiyah, their origin and organization and how they are involved in the global terror attacks. The article also focuses on the founders and members of the Jemaah Islamiyah and the terror attacks that they have been linked to over the years. Also, the article will include the methods that have been put in place by the terror victim countries such as the United States of America in order to stop the terror ...

Abstract

The research within this study examines the underlying influences that propel consumers to use international airline travel. With much of the previous studies focusing on economic principles, this investigation seeks to determine the value that the inclusion of social data has on the travel desire. The underlying concept of this study is to explore common economic influences and combine this understanding with the social and emotional drivers that serve to sustain the effort. Using a combination of case study and academic, peer related material this paper will assess the past, current and future potential in a direct effort to construct a reasonable ...

Betta Splendens: Aggression levels in males in the presence of a female stimulus

Abstract
The aggression is one of the behaviors that have been studied in the Betta splendens. In this study, the male Betta splendens behavior is affected by the presence of different stimuli such as female presence. They interact differently aggressively with the other males when the female are present. Three stimuli were tested where each of them has a different effect on different behaviors.

Introduction

Betta splendens has a normal name Siamese fighting fish and is a popular species among the freshwater aquarium fish. The genus name for this fish is derived from ikan bettah, which is a local dialect of Malay (Luna, ...

Trade increases the economic growth and GDP of a country and also fosters great relationships between countries. Over the years there has been the formation of regional trading blocs to enhance trade among neighboring countries. They have been successful however there are challenges that have to be continually addressed.

North America Free Trade Area (NAFTA)

NAFTA refers to the North America Free Trade Area that brings together the countries of Canada, Mexico and the United States. The trilateral trade area came into force in 1994 when President Bill Clinton signed on the agreement. The agreement called for the phasing out of the tarriffs that existed among ...

In this part of the paper the subject of the discussion will be the history and various causes of inflation. We will talk about the history of inflation, the factors which influence it, the mechanism of inflation and its effects, as well as the way government policies deal with inflationary pressures.

History of inflation

In the first step, it is important to discuss the history of inflation and the reasons for its existence. For centuries the problem of money supply increase appeared all over the world. Therefore, countries used to change the type of currency quite often. Thus, initially many countries used ...

Abstract

The growing demand for the competitive specialists justifies the particular attention and concern to the Malaysian students’ reading comprehension skills from the Malaysian authorities. The introduction of teaching the Malaysian core school subjects in the English language (Yassin et al., 2009) provided the continual attempts and experiments to define the most efficient way to decrease achievement gaps in the reading of Malaysian pupils.
Starting from the 5th grade, students extend their vocabulary through reading (Zubairi & Sarudin, 2009). The following research proposes the method of using “Reading Cues’ as scaffolding answering the closed or WH-questions to improve the performance of ...

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy-adventure film and one of Walt Disney' s original classics. It is based on the play Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by J.M. Barrie. One of Walt Disney’s greatest financial successes, the film has often been criticized due to its unfavorable depiction of Native Americans. The film and the play upon which it is based, reflect American Societal norms at the time. The film has a lot to say about the psychology of the American male and female gender roles during the first half of the ...

Children are often considered treasures for families especially as they would be the voices of the future. They must be given the capacity to study, grow and become productive citizens without fearing to work or be abused in any way. However, some children are forced into slavery and trafficked into sexual workers. Although action has been enacted by the international community to stop child sexual trafficking, there are still regions – such as South Asia, which still has high cases of child trafficking. Considering this issue, it is a question as to why child sex trafficking continues to persist in ...

The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco), which now also includes all states in the Caribbean just turned 40 years since signature in 1967.
Its importance as a model for other non-nuclear areas, is constant to peace and international securities contribution, which stood and continue placing today in the center of the political and legal interest. Its parallelism with the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) but without Latin American treaty has affected the principle of legal equality of States and has not been an expression of "unequal rights and ...

Introduction

Myanmar is a third world country beset with a major social and health issue in the form of HIV/AIDS. The epidemic in Myanmar is largely concentrated in key cities such as the Kachin State in the North, Shan and Kayin State in the East, and Mon State and Tanintharyi Region in the South. Recognized as a huge health problem by the Ministry of Health, about 270,000 adult people in Myanmar are infected with HIV. While some studies claim that the number of infected people is declining, there are also concurrent reports that say HIV prevalence has spread in ...

Executive Summary

Saddle point approximation implementation and derivations have typically relied on tools such as Edgeworth expansions, exponential tilting, complex integration, Hermite polynomials, and other advanced notions. Saddle point approximations are very important tools used in obtaining accurate expressions for distribution functions and densities. It has been a very valuable tool in asymptotic analysis. Since the seminal paper by Daniels (1954), several techniques of accurate approximations that rely on the saddle point approximation on one way or another have been developed. The saddle point approximations, however, derived its concept from the game theory, which involved two suspected criminals under police investigations. The ...

Cyber and Technology Enabled Crime

Introduction
Cybercrime or technology related crime has been on the rise with the advent of technology and the continued sophistication of life in this digital era. Besides the benefits that have flowed therefrom, technology has also brought along numerous challenges, key among them cybercrime (Sieber & Brunst, 2007). This paper is written with the main aim of examining the concept of cybercrime and the war against the vice, in a bid to ensure that online operators are safe and secure from all ills that technology engenders. In the first section, we discuss the term cybercrime and what it constitutes so ...

Introduction

Asoka, an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, is one of the most important followers of Buddhism. During his rule, Buddhism had spread widely throughout the world and became the leading religion. Asoka was initially a follower of Hinduism. At the start of his rule, he governed his empire in a way his predecessors did. The people described him as a cruel ruler. He sought to expand his territory. He invaded Kalinga and saw the deaths of many people. He regretted his actions and felt the sorrow and grief of the families who were abandoned by the people who died in the ...

The workplace of today is very different from what it was a few decades ago. Today, globalization and technological advances mean that a lot of companies have transnational business and have businesses and centers spanning the whole globe. The complex immigration patterns and the increased movement of people across national and international borders for professional reasons mean that there is a lot more diversity at the workplace. Therefore, the typical twenty first century workplace sees a wide range of ethnicities, cultures, races and linguistic capabilities in its workforce. With such diversity, it has become increasingly important for workplaces to have uniformity in their ...

It is widely believed that literature functions as a representative of the period in which it was conceived. More specifically, it is sort of a reminder of the moral values and principles upheld by the society of its era. Throughout the human history, many things have changed, some discovered and some evolved. But one thing has always been constant for the overwhelming majority of human history (at least what we know of it) - women were considered meek individuals, who were forced to bend towards the will of the men of their family and society. Take any civilization across the globe ...

Introduction

The National Development Policy (NDP) policy is a Malaysian development blue print that was introduced into the country in 1990 by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad who was the Prime Minister then. The NDP was meant to replace the NEP. NDP was meant to continue upholding the basic strategies that were held by NEP. In addition, NDP was to look into the following issues; focus on antipoverty strategy, place emphasis on human resource development, change the focus from over reliance on private sector for economic growth and finally focus on development of Bumiputera Community of Industry and Commerce (BCIC). In this paper ...

I. Identification of Global Social Issue
Global warming has been a controversial issue in international realm. Schweizer writes that “Global warming refers to the observed increase in the earth’s average surface temperature of ~1.0 C over the past 100 years” (Schweizer, 2005, p.75). Many scientists claim that the temperatures of the earth surface are on an up rise arguing that this might be detrimental in future. Some of the ways that scientists have been able to justify their claim is by arguing that the arctic ice caps have witnessed a large melt down in the recent past (Rockwell, 2006, ...

This paper reflects on three papers which report the results of researches and experiments conducted, to study the effect of media on language acquisition and language development of children under the age of three years. The papers report observational studies and experiments done in the U.S. and Thailand, and assessment was done based on the Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) scores, various Peabody Individual Achievement Tests for reading and comprehension, Memory for Digit Span assessment, and Denver – II developmental assessment. All the three papers conclude with similar findings that there is a negative association between intense TV viewing by children of ...

Why is Bangladesh considered to be a Less Developed Country and what needs to happen for this to help it become a More Economically Developed country like Thailand or Malaysia?".
Bangaldesh gained its independence from pakistan in 1971 and as the former Indian state of east Bengal it has always been in severe economic straits. This is principally because it is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and its economy is based chiefly on subsistence farming which has practically ruined the landscape. The country is also prone to natural disasters as it is situated in low ...

ABSTRACT:

Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism have influenced the theory and practice of higher education in profound ways from an early age. The traditional model of secular education, in which religious dogma is held separate, is traceable to the ancient religious traditions of the Far East and Southeast Asia. Student-centered education and the belief that learning is an endeavor that proffers its own rewards are principles that stem from Eastern philosophical doctrine. These fundamental ideas remain pertinent to higher education today and offer solutions to problems presented by an excessively commercial approach to higher education in many parts of the world.

Evolution of Higher Education

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