A place that is gentle and soft like a girl, that is beautiful like a piece of painting, it is the city of
Menam, the jungle of Wat, a place named Krung Thep by the Siamese, a well-known city named Bangkok among the foreigners.
In 1683 French priest Nicolas Gervaise, went to Siam and reported on the
Menam or Chao Phraya river:
The Siam Commercial Bank, Ltd., has purchased a piece of land on the banks of the
Menam Chow Phya and adjoining the Harbour Department; they have caused a handsome and decorative building to be erected thereon for the purpose of carrying on their increased banking business of which they now hold one of the biggest shares of all the Banks, (quoted in Porphant 1999, p.
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Today, the jobs the Drummoyne 'girls' once performed on the shores of Iron Cove are done by fresh generations of super-exploited women on the banks of the Ganges, the Mekong, the Yangtze and the
Menam rivers.
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Another ADIB client, Hana Abdul
Menam, won the AED 500,000 prize while 10 other winners won AED 10,000 each.
PT Alam Lestari Unggul, is a welding electrode manufacturer, getting the stainless steel supply mostly from
Menam Stainless Wire of Thailand and Kuang Tai Metal of Taiwan.
The British and French willingness to keep Thailand as a buffer between them was finally accepted in a modus vivendi in 1896, when the two powers guaranteed the integrity and neutrality of the
Menam basin (the central plain of the Chao Phyra River that forms Thailand's core).