Aloha Aina Party of Hawaii an official Aloha Aina Party Rally in Hilo for petition signing and voter registration on January 3, 2016. The State of Hawaii Elections Board required 707 qualified, registered voters to sign and complete the petition to qualify ballot status. The party was not able to obtain the minimum number of signatures required by the deadline, and were not on the ballot in 2016. Aloha Aina Party of Hawaii The Aloha Aina Party is a conservative political party in Hawaii. The main office of the Aloha Aina Party is located in Hilo, Hawaii Island with satellite offices on each island; Maui,
Thai greeting The "wai" is also common as a way to express gratitude or to apologise. The word often spoken with the "wai" as a greeting or farewell is "sawatdi" (RTGS for , , sometimes romanized as "sawasdee"). This verbal greeting is usually followed by "kha" when spoken by a female and by "khrap" when spoken by a male person (see note on Thai polite particles). The word "sawatdi" was coined in the mid-1930s by Phraya Upakit Silapasan of Chulalongkorn University. Derived from the Sanskrit "svasti" (स्वस्ति meaning 'well-being'), it had previously been used in Thai only as a formulaic opening to