In this MCOT story today…
68 Thais stranded in Egypt arrive Thailand safely via Jordan:
Sixty-eight Thai nationals earlier stranded at Cairo airport because of violent protests there arrived in Thailand safely early Wednesday via Amman, Jordan after spending three difficult days at Cairo airport because of a shortage of food.
Thai International Airways (THAI) charted flight TG8851 from Amman landed at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport at 4am with the 68 Thai citizens who were stranded in Egypt. Their families had waited at the airport since 2am.
…I couldn’t help but notice this:
Phnom Muekhunthod, a member of a team of four Thai ice and snow sculptors who won laurels in the International Ice & Snow Sculpture Competition in France last week said the team spent three nights at the airport without bathing, but received food boxes every eight hours.
(Emphasis mine.)
No time to look this up now, but Thailand — a tropical country with famously hot and humid weather — is home to ice and snow sculptors? Where and how do they practice?
Image: MCOT.