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Bangkok slum gets Michelin-starred meals from Thai beauty queen | Life

Thai beauty queens Miss Universe Thailand 2020 Amanda Obdam (centre), Miss Universe third runner-up Praewwanich Ruangthong (left) and Miss Universe Thailand 2019 contestant Patrapong Wang (centre right) hand out food boxes made by Michelin-starred chefs to children in the Klong Toei slum area of Bangkok on June 14, 2021. — AFP pic

BANGKOK, June 14 — Surrounded by children in a Bangkok slum, Miss Universe Thailand handed out lunch boxes prepared by Michelin-starred chefs today — a project to help some of the capital’s worst Covid-hit communities.

The kingdom is currently battling a third wave of coronavirus — an outbreak that authorities traced in April to a nightlife district frequented by Bangkok’s uber-rich and politically connected.

The government slapped restrictions on businesses and public spaces — much to the chagrin of restaurants already battered by a year…

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