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  • noun An administrative subunit in Thailand below district (amphoe) and province (changwat).

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Examples

  • They were identified as Sanong Wongcharoen, 37, Ling Pongphet, 39, and Laen Sapsri, all from moo 7 of tambon Tatoom in Sangkha district.

    KI Media 2010

  • "The assembly, as it might be called, is a bottom-up process to listen to the grass-root concerns, sufferings and desires for peaceful and better livelihood from village, tambon, district and province levels," the proposal said.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

  • Pol Col Viroj Boonyasak, the Yarang district police chief, said when Sina Waelae, 41, a female health volunteer of tambon Kolam in Yarang district, was returning home from Pattani town on a motorcycle she was followed by two men on another motorcycle.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

  • When a GMC truck taking 14 soldiers from Phetchabun province for a rotation of troops at the Task Force 16 base in Yala's Than To district approached Ton Krathon village in tambon Parai, an unknown number of insurgents hiding on the side of the road denonated a land mine by remote control.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

  • Pol Col Viroj Boonyasak, the Yarang district police chief, said when Sina Waelae, 41, a female health volunteer of tambon Kolam in Yarang district, was returning home from Pattani town on a motorcycle she was followed by two men on another motorcycle.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

  • A vast wasteland in tambon Khok Chang of Ayutthaya is home to tens of thousands of Asian openbill storks [_Anastomus oscitans_, Order Ciconiiformes, Family Ciconiidae.] ...

    Wildlife Disease News Digest 2010

  • The bomb went off at the kilometre 74 marker on the Yala-Betong road at Moo 5 tambon Maeward of Thanto district.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

  • The bomb went off at the kilometre 74 marker on the Yala-Betong road at Moo 5 tambon Maeward of Thanto district.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

  • Somkid Phumphuang, 45, a native of Nakhon Si Thammarat, was found guilty of strangling to death Pongphan Sabchai, 34, in a hotel room in tambon Suan Dok in Lampang's Muang district on June 3, 2005, and stealing her property worth more than 5,000 baht.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

  • The bomb, hidden in a motorcycle, was detonated remotely about noon when a team of rangers providing protection for teachers walked past the motorbike parked on the side of the road opposite a primary school in tambon Chanae.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

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