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Thailand celebrates 79th birthday of beloved king
0 Comments | AFP, December, 2006
BANGKOK (AFP) — Thailand is celebrating the 79th birthday of its beloved King Bhumibol Adulyadej, with tens of thousands of people expected to pay him tribute near Bangkok's Grand Palace. Across the country, Thais donned yellow shirts, the colour traditionally associated with the revered monarch, and began their morning with traditional alms-giving in honour of the king.
In Bangkok, banners were hoisted atop buildings with birthday wishes for the king, who is revered with a semi-religious devotion. Businesses took out full-page adverts in newspapers, which ran editorials praising the monarch. "The contribution to the nation by His Majesty can barely be measured and never repaid in words," the English-language Bangkok Post said. "So far as unifying the Thai people, His...
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