The Forbes billionaires

On Wednesday night the Ambassador invited Dung and I to his house for dinner along with Dr. Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi and his family. Dr. Charoen happens to be founder and owner of Thai Beverage, a self-made billionaire, and the richest man in Thailand. Forbes came out with their annual list of the world's billionaires this week and Charoen came in at 264th place with 3.4 billion dollars. His family was all quite nice and down to earth and we spent the evening telling stories in Thai, which I tried gamely to follow, but didn't quite have the skill to join.