Bangkok--17 Dec--Pullman Khon Kaen Raja Orchid
His Impress Highness Prince Akishino graciously visited Pullman Khon Kaen Raja Orchid after 19 years and was welcomed by Mrs. Orawan Pattanapeeradej – Executive Director, Mr Stanley Chan – General Manager and hotel executives on arrival. Prince Akishino – younger son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko and currently second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne is visiting Thailand to attend an award ceremony at Mahasarakham University in northeast Thailand for his long years of research into Mekong giant catfish and poultry. Princess Kiko, the director general of a Japanese organization promoting maternal and child health, will stay in Bangkok to give an address at the opening ceremony of an international conference on maternal and child health handbooks and scheduled to visit a children's hospital in the same week.
Cr.info: The Mainichi.jp, NHK WORLD - Thai