Mayor Boonlert Buranupakorn (right) inspects the flood damage. Deputy Interior Minister Somchai Soonthornwat (not shown), who was also on the inspection tour, promised the cabinet would approve funds for the restoration process.

“In the past, whenever people saw me standing on a road to take pictures of mundane things, they thought I was clown, but nowadays those pictures have become very valuable,” Boonserm Satrabhaya told us when we finally managed to get to talk to him about his life.

Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui to wed

The wedding of Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui, the Chinese Panda bears, would be organized as a Lanna traditional wedding ceremony, as both animals would be ready for breeding by February next year. Pandas born out of wedlock do not fit the Lanna image that the province would like to put forward.

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