Today is Chakri Day. Two hundred and thirty three years ago, Chaophraya Chakri — later King Rama I, or King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke the Great — founded Bangkok as the country's new capital and ...

First banknotes of the new reign will be issued on Chakri Day. New coins and the 500- and 1,000-baht notes will be issued later, some on His Majesty's birthday, July 28.

King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, who died Thursday aged 88, reigned through an era of rising prosperity and frequent political turmoil. A member of the Chakri dynasty, which has occupied the ...