Proud father, HRH Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn holds his newborn son in the delivery room at Siriraj Hospital. The baby is healthy, and both parents are reportedly doing fine. Photo courtesy of the Royal Household Bureau.

It is said that one of the 64 kings of Nan assigned his officers to cut a couple of large timber trees from Khun Samoon forest and craft the stumps into 100 khan tokes (food trays) for the workers. The main logs themselves were carved into two giant boats, 100 men spending two years in the wild to achieve this. Ten elephants then had to drag the huge canoes out of the forest to Nan River at Baan Puang Phayom where the king admired the large boats named “Tai Lah Boat” and the other ‘Tai Thong Boat” being raced.

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Opening Night just around the corner at GIS

Opening Night is just around the corner and the cast and crew of “The Mail-Order Bride” are putting on the finishing touches. It has been a long and sometimes difficult road but the eight cast members from Grace International School (GIS) have worked hard and are eager to share the fruits of their labor.

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