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...done the Jim Thompson House - the gallery and museum set up in the late silk baron's former home, and a mainstay of the tourist trail. So, next time you're in town, head instead to its lesser-known but arguably more interesting rival: the M.R. Kukrit Pramoj Heritage Home, tel: (66-2) 286 8185. The Kukrit residence - open only on weekends and national holidays - is one of the best-preserved examples of Thai vernacular architecture in Bangkok. Set amid lush greenery on South Sathorn Road, it belonged to former Prime Minister M.R. Kukrit Pramoj (1911-1995), an Oxford-educated...
...gallery and museum set up in the late silk baron's former home, and a mainstay of the tourist trail. So, next time you're in town, head instead to its lesser-known but arguably more[an error occurred while processing this directive] interesting rival: the M.R. Kukrit Pramoj Heritage Home, tel: (66-2) 286 8185,. The Kukrit residence - open only on weekends and national holidays - is one of the best-preserved examples of Thai vernacular architecture in Bangkok. Set amid lush greenery on South Sathorn Road, it belonged to former Prime Minister M.R. Kukrit Pramoj (1911-1995), an Oxford...
DIED. KUKRIT PRAMOJ, 84, Thailand's Prime Minister from 1975-76; in Bangkok. In a case of politics imitating art, Kukrit assumed office 12 years after starring opposite Marlon Brando in the film The Ugly American--in the role of a Southeast Asian Prime Minister...
Less than a month after it ousted the fractious democratic government of Prime Minister Seni Pramoj, the Thai military's 24-man National Administrative Reform Council (NARC) formally turned over the reins of authority to a civilian Cabinet. In ceremonies presided over by King Bhumipol Adulyadej, NARC'S nominal chief, Admiral Sangad Chaloryu, even bade an official farewell to the nation as a new civilian Prime Minister, Tanin Kraivixien, 49, was sworn in. A former justice of the Thai Supreme Court, Tanin announced that Thailand would be "guided" by stages back to full democracy. "From...
More ominously, the fragile detente that Thai democracy had evolved with its Communist neighbors in Indochina seems to have been derailed. Broadcasts from Hanoi and Vientiane have been sharply hostile to Tanin's government. Still, former Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj dismisses the possibility that Thai opposition groups-even aided by the Vietnamese-can wage real guerrilla war. Instead, he predicts, those who have gone underground or into exile "will be back on bended knees to ask forgiveness so they can go back to the baths, massage parlors and nightclubs. The jungle is not for them...