Ayutthaya hotel receptionist Panita “Nat” Kochprapa, who was slapped in the face by a Nakhon Ratchasima businessman for prohibiting him from smoking in the hotel’s restaurant on November 6, said on Tuesday that he no longer wished to talk about the matter after having given the Bt40,000 in compensation money he had received to charitable causes.

COSMETIC products made from birds’ nests, Hawm Kradang-Ngah rice carrying the brand “NAT”, and decorative lamps made from banana leaf sheaths and rubber carrying the brand “Econi” - disparate and unlikely items, but they have been placed at the front and