Eight months in the making, three master sculptors have nearly finished the statues of Thongdaeng and Cao Cao, the late King's favorite canines. - AFP
Nonthaburi (Thailand) (AFP) - At a studio near Bangkok, a pair of immaculate metre-high statues of the dogs of Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej are getting a last lick of paint before adorning his funeral pyre.
Bhumibol, a monarch whose reign spanned 70 years, died last October, plunging the country into mourning.
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