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Boonpeng was born in 1890 to a Chinese father and a Lao mother in Tha Uthen, Monthon Lao Phuan (now Nakhon Phanom province). [2] He was brought to Bangkok at age 5, where he lived in the Bang Khun Phrom district. [2] Some sources claim that it was an elderly couple, Souk and Pian, who raised him as their grandson. [3]
His father was a Chinese immigrant from Chaoyang, Shantou, Guangdong, China [1] who worked at a sawmill, while his mother was a local-born Thai Chinese. [2] [3] At the age of five years, Chin was sent back to China for education, and upon returning to Thailand at 17, he took up his first job as a manual labourer. In 1944, Chin founded Bangkok ...
Chow was born to Chinese parents in Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand on 19 June 1937. His ancestors came from Chaozhou, Guangdong, China. [2] [4] Prior to his religious work, he reportedly repaired electronics, fixed bikes, and was a hawker. [3] [2] [4]
The second part is the regnal name, of which only a portion may be used to commonly refer to the monarch. It may differ from their birth name, their name as uparaja , or their posthumous name and/or historical style. This list refers to monarchs by the names most often used by traditional historians. [1]
Hong Taechawanit, [a] born Zheng Yifeng [b] (1851 – 5 March 1937) and also known as Zheng Zhiyong [c] or Er Ger Feng [d] (lit. 'Second Brother Feng', rendered in Thai from Teochew as Yi Ko Hong [e]), was a Chinese businessman, philanthropist, and secret society member who was active in early twentieth-century Siam.
In Bangkok, Thais of Chinese ancestry dominate the entertainment and media industries, being the pioneers of Thailand's early publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios. [99] By 1899 in Bangkok, the Chinese owned 18 of the 23 rice mills in the city that produced a capacity of over 100 tons of rice paddies and controlled 56 out of the 66 by ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai police are investigating the deaths of six foreign nationals whose bodies were found in a room at an upmarket hotel in Bangkok on Tuesday, including looking for a seventh ...
The history of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, dates at least to the early 15th century, when it was under the rule of Ayutthaya.Due to its strategic location near the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, the town gradually increased in importance, and after the fall of Ayutthaya King Taksin established his new capital of Thonburi there, on the river's west bank.