Thai Navy on high alert as threat of flooding looms over Bangkok
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2022
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The Royal Thai Navy has announced it is on 24-hour standby to help Bangkok residents who may be flooded due to heavy rain and the Chao Phraya breaking its banks.
Navy spokesman Admiral Pokklong Montartpalin said on Sunday that affected people can call the 1696 disaster mitigation hotline any time of the day or night.
He said the Navy has prepared troops, tools and equipment to respond to inundation caused by runoffs, heavy rain triggered by the monsoon ridge and rising sea tides all this month.
The mitigation centre is also working closely with the Navy’s Hydrographic Department and Bangkok Noi and Bangkok Yai district offices to support flood mitigation with troops and tools.
He said troops were on standby to help fix flood levees along the Chao Phraya in the two districts to prevent floodwaters from entering people’s homes.
“The Navy has troops, heavy machines and water-propelling boats ready to help at all times,” Pokklong said. “We are ready to step in to reinforce flood-fighting operations as soon as we are asked.”
Rainstorms until Tuesday for upper Thailand and South: Meteorological Dept
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2022
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The Thai Meteorological Department has warned residents in upper Thailand and the South to beware of heavy rain until Tuesday.
The department said a high-pressure system would linger over upper Thailand until October 14 (Friday), leading to thundershowers with isolated gusty winds and heavy rain for the next two days.
Temperatures in the Northeast will fall by 3-5 degrees Celsius and by 1-3C in the North, Central and East regions, according to the forecast.
“People should beware of variable weather conditions and stay safe,” the department said.
The prevailing easterly wind across the Gulf and the South will strengthen bringing heavy to very heavy rain in the South until Tuesday, it added. The department forecasts waves of 2 metres high in the Gulf, and higher in thundershowers.
All ships should proceed with caution until October 14 (Friday), it added.
Anger over CNN encroachment at massacre scene puts spotlight on Thai officials
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2022
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The Thai Journalists Association (TJA) has asked government agencies to explain whether a CNN media crew was invited to film from the scene of the Nong Bua Lamphu nursery massacre on Saturday.
CNN is accused of encroaching on the crime scene in Uthai Sawan Subdistrict, where a 34-year-old ex-policeman launched a gun and knife attack that left 36 dead, including 24 young children.
The CNN broadcast went viral among netizens amid controversy over how the outlet gained access to the scene.
Teeranai Charuvastra, TJA vice president for Press Freedom and Media Reform, said the association had received a flood of complaints that the CNN crew had invaded the crime scene, where police were posted to bar people from entering.
He condemned CNN’s move as a violation of journalistic ethics that could trigger copycat behaviour by other media outlets.
“Even though CNN was allowed to enter the crime scene, its crew should have realised that broadcasting a news report at the crime scene was not appropriate,” he said.
He added that images and video clips from the report may have triggered further distress among viewers, especially the victims’ relatives.
He urged CNN and government officials to clarify immediately whether CNN had been allowed to enter the crime scene or not.
“If CNN did not gain permission, it must say how it will compensate Thai society, while officials [on duty at the scene] must clarify why they neglected their duties and what legal action should be taken,” he said.
He also urged all media outlets not to imitate CNN’s move.
CNN defended the action of its crew with a Twitter message confirming it had received permission from Thai public health officials to enter the crime scene.
CNN claimed its crew had filmed at the Nong Bua Lamphu nursery along with other media in a period when the centre’s police cordon had been removed.
“While filming, three public health officials exiting the building spoke to the team and told them they could film inside,” CNN said.
It added that the team gathered footage inside the centre for around 15 minutes before climbing over the fence at the centre to leave after the cordon had been set back in place.
On Saturday, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) issued a statement condemning CNN’s coverage of the mass killing as “unprofessional and a serious breach of journalistic ethics”.
“CNN meanwhile should answer a simple question,” the FCCT statement added. “Would one of their crews have behaved in the same way at a serious crime scene in the United States?”
Assistant National Police chief Surachate Hakparn said Nong Bua Lamphu police station has been ordered to investigate the case.
He added that police had not allowed CNN to enter the crime scene as doing so could interfere with evidence inside.
He said the CNN crew could be liable to five years in jail if found guilty of encroaching on the crime scene and interfering with evidence.
“The police will take legal action accordingly,” Surachate said.
Miss Grand International contestants take surprise dip in Bali sea
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 08, 2022
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Beauty queens competing in this year’s Miss Grand International pageant quit the beach to wade thigh-deep into the Bali Sea complete with their tiaras, long dresses and sashes on Saturday.
The contestants were taking part in a promotional beach walk on the Indonesian holiday island when they decided to cool off with a dip in the water.
They were joined by Miss Grand International president Nawat Itsaragrisil, pageant organiser Ivan Gunawan and reigning Miss Grand International Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien from Vietnam.
The beauties had flown in the night before from around the world for a welcome gala dinner at the Seminyak Beach Resort & Spa in Bali.
The event was livestreamed on Miss Grand International’s Facebook page, giving followers around the world a glimpse of what they can expect in the run-up to the pageant finale later this month.
During Saturday’s live broadcast, fans were surprised to see the elegant beauty queens walk into the sea for a paddle, then venture deeper into the surf as waves swelled gently around them.
Miss Grand International 2022 will celebrate its 10th grand finale at Sentul International Convention Centre in West Java on October 25.
The Beatles’ debut single ‘Love Me Do’ was released on this day, 60 years ago.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 06, 2022
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60th anniversary of the song’s release on 5 October 1962, Love Me Do reached number 17 in the UK and number one in the US two years later.
It was 60 years ago today (October 5th, 1962) that the Beatles’ first single “Love Me Do”‘/”P.S. I Love You” was released on EMI’s Parlophone Records in England.
Although the song went on to top the U.S. charts two years later, its initial release in 1962 saw the Beatles score a sizable, but still minor, Top 20 hit with “Love Me Do” peaking at a respectable Number 17. The song, which was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney was far from being one of their most recent collaborations, having been written along with the duo’s first batch of songs from 1957 and 1958.
The history of the “Love Me Do” single is one of the more confusing sagas in the Beatles’ history. After the group’s June 6th, 1962 audition in which a runthrough of “Love Me Do” was taped producer George Martin, who was unhappy with then-drummer Pete Best’s playing, told the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein that he would be using a session drummer for future work with the band. Despite that, when the Beatles with new drummer Ringo Starr showed up to their first proper session on September 4th, a version of “Love Me Do” was recorded with Ringo behind the drums.
“Paul wrote the main structure of this when he was 16, or even earlier. I think I had something to do with the middle.” Said John Lennon, 1972
Lennon spoke again of the song in an interview conducted shortly before his death.
‘Love Me Do’ is Paul’s song. He wrote it when he was a teenager. Let me think. I might have helped on the middle eight, but I couldn’t swear to it. I do know he had the song around, in Hamburg, even, way, way before we were songwriters.” John Lennon, 1980
Despite this, McCartney remembers ‘Love Me Do’ as a joint effort between the two of them, and that it came out of their early songwriting experiments.
“‘Love Me Do’ was completely co-written. It might have been my original idea but some of them really were 50-50s, and I think that one was. It was just Lennon and McCartney sitting down without either of us having a particularly original idea.”
“We loved doing it, it was a very interesting thing to try and learn to do, to become songwriters. I think why we eventually got so strong was we wrote so much through our formative period. ‘Love Me Do’ was our first hit, which ironically is one of the two songs that we control, because when we first signed to EMI they had a publishing company called Ardmore and Beechwood which took the two songs, ‘Love Me Do’ and ‘PS I Love You’, and in doing a deal somewhere along the way we were able to get them back.” Said Paul McCartney
The song was an early Lennon-McCartney composition from 1958, although it wasn’t recorded by the group for another four years.
Unsatisfied with Ringo’s performance, for their September 11th session, Martin hired studio ace Andy White to drum on the two sides of the single with Ringo being relegated to tambourine on “Love Me Do” and maracas on “P.S. I Love You.”
Despite George Martin’s dissatisfaction with the first version of “Love Me Do,” the original Ringo recording from September 4th was accidentally released as the original single version and was the version that shot the song up the British hit parade.
The mix-up wasn’t noticed until the song had long peaked on the charts and was replaced by the “Andy White” version for the Please Please Me album in March 1963 and single’s second UK pressing about a month later.
The actual master and mixdown tapes of the “Ringo” version of “Love Me Do” have long been lost and the version that’s now included in the Beatles’ catalogue was taped from a collector’s pristine mint version of the single.
‘Hansan: Rising Dragon’ star attraction at Bangkok Korean Film Festival
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 05, 2022
“Hansan: Rising Dragon”, a hit Korean movie, will be screened in Thailand during the “Bangkok Korean Film Festival Joint with Busan International Film Festival”
The event will also have “Conversations with the Audiences” by the film’s director and actors, including Byun Yo Han and Kim Sung Kyu.
The Korean Cultural Center in Thailand and Korean Culture and Information Service have joined hands with SF Corporation Pcl to host the “Bangkok Korean Film Festival Joint with Busan International Film Festival” on October 7 from 6pm to 8.50pm at SFW cinema, CentralWorld. The event is a part of the “Korean Culture Scene”, 2022 Korean Week Events, from September 24 to October 15, and coinciding with the 27th Busan International Film Festival, as well.
By ‘Bangkok Korean Film Festival Joint with Busan International Film Festival’, the Korean historical epic ” Hansan: Rising Dragon ” will be a double feature playing at the Cinema in Busan and Bangkok, and the “Conversations with the Audiences” event will be followed after the movie.
By this event, the Thai audience will meet the director and actors including Byun Yo Han and Kim Sung Kyu in Busan online.
The film ” Hansan: Rising Dragon “, which surpassed 7 million admissions in Korea this year, is about naval battles led by the legendary general Lee Soon Shin in 1592.
It is the second instalment of director Kim Han-min, after the film ” Myeong-ryang ” in 2014 focused on the Battle of General Lee in 1597.
Actor Park Hae-il, who plays the lead role in the Cannes-competing feature ” Decision To Leave”, took on the role of Yi, and Actor Byun Yo Han played Park’s Japanese counterpart.
Famous actors were also featured, such as Ahn Sung Ki, Son Hyun Ju, 2PM’s Taekyeon, and Kim Sung Kyu.
After the film, there will be real-time online meetings between Busan and Bangkok. Directors and Actors including Byun Yo Han and Kim Sung Kyu will have Q&A time with the audience.
Cho, Jae Il, the Director of the Korean Cultural Center said, “It is meaningful to release Korean historical films during the Korean national day and Korean Week Events. The event is also to promote BIFF, which resumes as an on-site event after being halted by the pandemic for three years, and Busan city as the candidate for the hosting of the World Expo 2030.”
The Korean Cultural Center will distribute the tickets for free through its SNS channel’s event.
‘Cassette Festival’ rewinds to the ’90s with stars of Thai pop’s golden era
MONDAY, OCTOBER 03, 2022
Fans of 1990s Thai pop music were treated to four hours of blissful nostalgia with the recent return of the “Cassette Festival”.
“Cassette Festival 2”, a sequel to the inaugural concert in May 2019, featured around 50 classics from the golden age of Thai pop performed by almost two-dozen famous singers. All were hits before the age of iPods, YouTube and streaming, when the device of choice for storing music was the cassette tape.
The concert was among the first to unspool in Bangkok following the Covid-19 crisis, marking a return of razmataz to the capital.
Despite the packed hall, fans simply could not sit still, getting up on their feet and dancing to the lively tunes pretty well from start to finish. The groove was aided by an almost seamless transition between performers, providing a non-stop soundtrack of yesteryear.
The background screen onstage added to the nostalgic vibe, with oversized dummies of ’90s icons forming the décor — including a Gameboy, Nokia phone, early boxy Macintosh, VHS video cassette — and of course, lots of audio tape cassettes.
The sold-out concert, held by Atime Showbiz on September 24 and 25 at the 5,000-seat Royal Paragon Hall, kicked off with Mos Patiparn performing his dance-music hits “Lew Lai”, “Salat Sabat” and “Duai Rak Lae Platoo”. He was followed onto the stage by his long-time buddy Aom Sunisa.
Tata Young got people up on their feet with her dance number “A-Bo-Da-Bae” before returning later in the concert with a set of her international hits — “I Believe”, “Sexy Naughty Bitchy” and “Dhoom Dhoom”.
Her appearance on a temporary platform just behind seats closest to the stage was too much for many audience members, who leapt to their feet as Saturday night fever struck.
This long platform allowed audience members further from the stage to get up close and personal with the idols of their youth.
The duo Bow and Joyce of Triumphs Kingdom took to the crowd platform and thrilled fans with their trademark dance number “Pa Chet Na” before moving back to the main stage.
China Dolls duo Bell and Hwa Hwa ramped up the energy a few more notches with their hit “Muay Nee Ka”. Then Katreeya English and Yaya Ying performed their respective hits “OK Na Ka” and “Jeb Nid Nid” alternately in a rousing “dance battle”.
The quartet, who formed “2002 Ratri” two decades ago, followed up by regrouping centre stage for a set of their famous numbers, including “Hula Hula”.
This was among the highlights of the evening’s entertainment as the frenetic foursome rewound the years for their fans in the packed hall. With sweat streaming down their faces, the singers were obviously exhausted as they chatted with the audience after their long performance.
J Jetrin, once known as the “King of Dance”, grabbed the limelight towards the end of the show, performing five of his hits including “Fak Liang”, “Kong Wai” and “Ka Jai”.
The nostalgia-soaked evening wrapped with a finale featuring the song “All I Wanna Do”, with all the singers on the stage getting up close and cosy with their fans before waving a final goodbye.
Surasak “Tor” Muangkaew was named the most handsome man in Thailand on Saturday, and it’s not difficult to see why.
Judges swooned over the chiselled looks and buff body of the “Mister International Thailand 2022” contestant, in the event held at Show DC mall in central Bangkok.
Surasak walked away with the first prize of 500,000 baht in cash and the chance to represent Thailand at the 14th Mister International 2022.
The global contest to find the world’s hottest man will be held in the Philippines at the end of this month.
Thailand’s second-hottest male was Kanawach “Gun” Kueakanchanaphon while the sizzling profile of Teerapat “Seagames” Angkanit earned third spot.
The fourth and fifth most handsome men in the land were named as Nathaphop “Atom” Kanjanteak and Nathas “Top” Tancharoen.
Mister International Thailand featured the most gorgeous guys from all 77 provinces in the country. The event has been held every two years since 2017 by organiser Yes Creation.
“Only You,” the most recent single from Tor Thanai, showcases his sonic experimentation and represents his new identity
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
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From previous songs such as “Hotel” and “Heart of Stone,” Tor Thanai’s music has been described as a mixture of Minimal, Lo-Fi, and Soul. It is music that is characterized by both its simplicity and its charisma and attention to detail.
However, coming back with his third single, Tor Thanai’s “Only You” delivers a sound that feels like something else entirely. From this song, we see a deviation from Minimal-Lo-Fi-Soul to undefined sounds and genre.
In this new song, Tor Thanai chooses to add vintage synths, giving an 80s nostalgia to the song. And if we were to place this song in a movie, it might perfectly fit as the secret track of the cult classic sci-fi film “Blade Runner” by director Ridley Scott.
In early September, Tor Thanai posted a photo of the cover art for “Only You” on his Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter account, @TorThanai. It was designed by Thai graphic designer Thanapol Praditkanok, or Mac (IG – @mac_a_bre). It features a bold orange background that highlights the black crystal font of the song title and the artist’s name.
He then uploaded an Official Audio of the song to his YouTube channel on September 16th. Upon hearing it, we immediately noticed that the song was full of well-crafted lyrics, starting with the verse where he wonders if there’s something wrong in his life: “Watching B movies on Friday night… Thinkin’ something isn’t right… Why am I so deeply flawed?… Stayed awake and now I’m torn.”
Next comes an excerpt from the second verse, where he talks about how two hearts are interwoven: “My heart is hard-wired to your device…” Rather than saying it directly, he compares his lover’s heart to a device. The verses and pre-chorus gradually serve to build up to the powerful chorus, “Only you can destroy me… And only you, only you can repair me,” where he adds layers and layers of electric guitars and complex synthesizers.
Even though Tor Thanai is emerging as a Lo-Fi/Soul singer-songwriter who writes and sings in English, not many people know that he is the same artist who once sang the Thai song “Tur Mai Koey Roo” (“She never knows”) in 2006, and “Poo Ying Won Sai, Poo Chai Won Kwa” (Women turn left, Men turn right) with Mam Patcharida Wattana in 2007, released under RS Music.
The last fifteen years have been a trying road for this singer-songwriter. After he graduated from Political Science faculty, Tor Thanai applied for a job at Government Spokesman Bureau, working as a Foreign Relations Officer. He worked there until 2011, when he resigned from his position to study abroad in the USA for the few years.
He eventually returned to Thailand to concentrate on being a full-time stock investor.
But why is he releasing music again after so many years of being on hiatus?
The reason might be that the dream of making music still lingers in his mind, and it now motivates him to return to the music industry to pursue his passion once again.
These days, the daily life of Tor Thanai involves trying to find a balance between being the best stock investor that he can be and staying true to his nature of being a singer-songwriter.
Every day, he spends his early morning reading business news and the company analysis reports sent to him by brokerage firms. Most of these activities start at 8 a.m. He reads the news and reports until 10 a.m., when the Stock Exchange of Thailand opens for trading. Then, the next two hours are spent checking each stock’s technical indicators.
After 2 p.m., he usually visits his favorite cafés in his neighborhood. This is a time for him to forget that he’s an investor and set aside his stern personality for a while to return to his delicate, emotional, and vulnerable songwriter personality.
The ideas and vocabulary he uses in his songs often come from listening to the songs of other artists. But many times, they emerge from the articles he reads in business newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and the Monocle.
Out of the many artists who have influenced him, Sufjan Stevens stands out as one of the most important. He is a Lithuanian/Greek-American artist that many Thai people may not be familiar with, but he introduced Tor Thanai to the world of Indie/Lo-Fi in terms of both musical style and the production process.
The way that Sufjan Stevens works on his music is quite wrong, but it feels right. From mixing on headphones and using the Shure SM57s microphone to record almost everything to setting up a sampling rate for recording at 32kHz, which is considered below an industry standard, his music is strange and unique in an ineffable way.
The work of Sufjan Stevens and the way it challenges rules has impressed Tor Thanai, encouraging him to emulate Stevens’s production style with his songs.
As for the way Tor Thanai works, he has his own method that he calls the “10% system.” For every original draft of ten demos and ideas that he conceives, only one to two of them will be developed into a complete song with melodies and lyrics. And for every ten complete songs, only one or two of them will be taken to the recording studio. While this process takes months and is quite exhaustive, the finished products are songs he feels proud of.
It’s been quite a long journey for this artist, who grew up in a family of musicians and was exposed to music from an early age.
Tor Thanai picked up the guitar at the age of 11 and took classical guitar lessons for almost two years with Kiattipong Tangsakul at Yamaha Ubonratchatani. During his middle school and high school years, he was a member of the school’s marching band, playing clarinet.
He started singing when he was an AFS-exchange student in Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During his stay with a Brazilian host family for one year, his host brothers often played CDs from Brazilian Bossa Nova artists, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Brazilian Pop/Samba artist, Djavan, until he started to be interested in these music genres. He started singing these songs to help him learn Portuguese words and accents and performed these songs in a host family gatherings many times.
When he came back to Thailand a year later, he met a Thai artist Smith Bundit, one of the members of a music duo, Smith & Shane, who temporarily settled in Ubon Ratchathani to give music classes and write songs for his new album. Every time he arrived at Yamaha Ubon Ratchathani school, he saw Smith writing and playing his new demos. Smith’s performance inspired Tor Thanai to write his own materials.
During his time in a Political Science faculty, he formed a band with his friends and performed in various occasions whether acoustic shows or full band shows. He often had a role of the main singer and guitarist of the band. The group performed at various shows including Freshy Night, Christmas Party, and during the lunch break of every Thursday.
Near the end of his bachelor degree study, he released his debut single “Tur Mai Koey Roo”, a Thai phrase which means “She never knows” in 2006, followed by his 2nd single “Poo Ying Won Sai, Poo Chai Won Kwa” (Women turn left, Men turn right) with Mam Patcharida Wattana in 2007.
After he graduated from Political Science faculty, Tor Thanai applied for a job at Government Spokesman Bureau, working as a Foreign Relations Officer. While still worked at Government Spokesman Bureau, Tor Thanai and his friends formed a band called “Sareera” to release an EP called “Light” in 2010. The band’s single “I+Love+You” was played on a radio “Seed 97.5 FM” and gained some success in the Thai music industry. In 2011, he resigned from his position to focus on his music and stock investing full-time.
In 2012, he went to study abroad in Los Angeles. During his time there, he released an album named “Summer Sky” with songs such as Summer Sky, Forgive Me, and Black Bird, etc. He toured extensively in various local coffee shops and clubs in Los Angeles such as Republic of Pie, Kibitz Room, Kulak’s Woodshed, and Bank of Venice.
After taking a hiatus from the music industry for many years to study in a master degree at New York University and to focus on his stock investing business, he is back with an English single “Hotel” and started to work more seriously on his music projects again.
“Only You” was mixed and mastered by the prolific Thai mixing and mastering engineer Pete Tanskul of 8Bit Mixlab, whose credits include Stamp, Lipta, and Nap A Lean. This is the third time he has collaborated with this mixing and mastering engineer.
Discovery of King Richard III’s remains under car park re-told in ‘The Lost King’
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
The news of the discovery of King Richard III’s skeleton in a Leicester car park in August 2012, more than five centuries after his death, made headlines around the world.
Ten years on, the story of the woman who spearheaded the search that led to the exhumation of his remains is told in the new feature film “The Lost King”, which received its UK premiere in London on Monday (September 26).
Directed by veteran filmmaker Stephen Frears and written by co-star Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, the film centres around Philippa Langley, an amateur historian from Edinburgh who became captivated by Richard’s story and crowdfunded over £30,000 to launch the excavation that unearthed the monarch’s remains.
The movie highlights Langley’s role as the driving force behind the discovery, under the banner “the incredible true story – her story,” downplaying the contributions of the team of archaeologists and scientists.
“We’ve had ten years of University of Leicester’s point of view. I mean, it was important to redress the balance and tell the story from Philippa’s point of view and put her front and centre and on a pedestal where she belongs,” Coogan told Reuters on the red carpet.
Langley, who was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2015, also attended Monday’s premiere alongside the actor portraying her, Sally Hawkins.
The 60-year-old author said she hoped the film and her story would inspire and empower young girls.
Frears, director of films including “Dangerous Liaisons”, “High Fidelity” and “Florence Foster Jenkins”, said he jumped on the chance to reunite with Coogan and Pope, with whom he made the 2013 movie “Philomena.”
The 81-year-old filmmaker, who also directed “The Queen” and “Victoria and Abdul,” said he did not particularly seek out stories about British royals to tell in his films – and didn’t in fact hold a special interest in monarchs and monarchies.
Richard, the last Plantagenet king of England, remains a complex figure whose life, made famous by Shakespeare’s play, deeply divides opinion among historians in Britain and abroad.
A tough soldier and popular in northern England, Richard was crowned at Westminster Abbey in July 1483 after replacing his 12-year-old nephew Edward V on the throne after claims that the young prince and his brother, the sons of Richard’s elder brother Edward IV, were illegitimate.
The two boys later disappeared from the Tower of London, and their fate is one of the greatest unanswered historical questions.
However, Richard has long been blamed for ordering, or even carrying out, the murder of the “Princes in the Tower”.
His supporters say this is misleading, written as it was over 100 years later when Queen Elizabeth I, the granddaughter of Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII after his victory over Richard at Bosworth in 1485, was on the throne.
Archaeologists from the University of Leicester were able to confirm from his remains that the body showed signs of injuries consistent with wounds received in battle; a bladed implement appeared to have cleaved part of the rear of the skull while a barbed metal arrowhead was found between vertebrae of the skeleton’s upper back.
The team also found that the curvature of his spine was consistent with Shakespeare’s depiction of Richard as a hunchback.
It took the team several months to confirm the identity of the bones.
DNA from the skeleton was traced back to a direct descendent of the medieval king’s sister, Anne of York, which helped the team to identify that the remains belonged to Richard.
“The Navy has troops, heavy machines and water-propelling boats ready to help at all times,” Pokklong said. “We are ready to step in to reinforce flood-fighting operations as soon as we are asked.”
By ‘Bangkok Korean Film Festival Joint with Busan International Film Festival’, the Korean historical epic ” Hansan: Rising Dragon ” will be a double feature playing at the Cinema in Busan and Bangkok, and the “Conversations with the Audiences” event will be followed after the movie.
