"Wat Saket"

Many Thais and foreigners flocked to Wat Saket in Bangkok’s Pom Prap Sattru Phai district on Wednesday morning to make merit for Songkran.

A Royal Cremation for prominent banker Sirin Nimmanahaeminda is to be held at Wat Saket (Golden Mount Temple) in Bangkok on 17 July.

Phra Phromsitti, the abbot of Wat Saket, appears to have fled as 100 police officers descended on the Bangkok temple early Thursday morning to arrest him and three other monks implicated in a temple-fund embezzlement scandal.

THE suspended abbot of Wat Saket (Golden Mount Temple) was found dead in his monastic quarters early yesterday, and other resident monks told police he had hung himself.