Lek Boon-Air, a 109-year-old Uttaradit local was escorted by her family to cast her vote at a polling station in Muang district’s Na Noi Witthaya School on Sunday morning.

The distance from Chiang Mai to Beijing is nearly 3,000 km, and Kuapan Nakbubpa never imagined that she would one day throw herself into educational work in a place so faraway from home.