HER ROYAL Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn yesterday performed the auspicious sacred offering ceremony on decorative fresh flowers, elaborate banana stalks, fruit, and vegetables, which will be the natural flame retardant on the royal funeral pyre or Phra Chittakathan for the Royal Cremation.

NONTHABURI - At a studio near Bangkok, a pair of immaculate metre-high statues of the dogs of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej are getting a last lick of paint before adorning his funeral pyre.