LIFE

Courting tourists

Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 20/06/2013

» Tourism and Sports Minister Somsak Pureesrisak comes across as a man of conviction. The 61-year-old has come a long way since embarking on a political career which began at the Interior Ministry in 1977. He was deputy governor of Ang Thong and Suphan Buri and governor of Suphan Buri for seven years before taking the ministerial job in April.