APEC leaders return to feast their eyes on Royal Thai Navy Convention Hall

[webfact]

 

The Royal Thai Navy Convention Hall has once again been chosen to host world leaders at the APEC Gala Dinner, reprising its role after two decades. 

 

On Thursday night, APEC leaders will gather at the Royal Thai Navy Convention Hall, not just for a sumptuous dinner, but to also feast their eyes on a spectacular illuminated boat procession and later to float their own decorative krathongs. They will spend about two hours from 8pm at the same spot where their predecessors sat during APEC 2003.

 

The event some 20 years ago was prefaced by a huge renovation project on the riverside complex, lasting from July 2002 and October 2003.

 

Now, history will repeat when world leaders take their seats on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/apec-leaders-return-to-feast-their-eyes-on-royal-thai-navy-convention-hall/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-11-15

 

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[JoePai]

Hmm you don't find anything like that in Pompy

[DezLez]

3 hours ago, JoePai said:

Hmm you don't find anything like that in Pompy

Have you ever dined in the HMS Nelson wardroom in Porstmouth?  It is magnificent and nearly as spectacular as the "Painted Hall" in the old Royal Naval College Greenwich!

[AgMech Cowboy]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

float their own decorative krathongs

Hopefully, none will follow their ships in the wind (or the brink)