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.