Former deputy PM Paiboon passes away

Paiboon passed away at 1.43pm at Chulalongkorn Hospital, where he had been admitted for a week of medical treatment. His family will apply for a royalsponsored bathing rite for him.
Paiboon served as deputy prime minister and minister of social development and human security from October 2006 to February 2008 during the General Surayud Chulanont administration.
Paiboon was a member of the National Economic and Social Advisory Council between 2001 and 2005. He was also former head of the Government Savings Bank and a former board member and manager of the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Born on March 24, 1941 in Tambon Na Khu in Ayutthaya’s Phak Hai district, Paiboon had 10 siblings. He received a scholarship from the Bank of Thailand to study in the UK, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Hull University in 1967. He then worked at the central bank and the stock exchange. He married Khunying Chada Wattanasiritham, with whom he had two children.
Paiboon also worked in the field of nongovernment organisations and was respected among NGO activists.