The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, or AIST, showed Japan's metre and kilogram prototypes to the press on Monday, ahead of the 150th anniversary later this month of the conclusion of the Metre Convention in 1875.

FORMER Belgian Ambassador to Thailand Baron Patrick Nothomb was in the same room with former minister Chavarat Charnvirakul at the Silom residence of the Belgian Ambassador on Saturday as he recalled the building of the Thai-Belgian Bridge, the first fly-over bridge to ease traffic congestion in Bangkok 30 years ago.