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Mourners In Thailand Pay Final Respects To Thai King

Lines of mourners gathered to pay respects to King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died last year at the age of 88. He will be cremated on Thursday after 5 days of funeral rites.

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Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.
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