Veteran Bangkok Post writer Suthon Sukphisit died on Thursday night of acute respiratory failure. He was 77.
Born on May 5, 1944, Suthon joined the Bangkok Post on Jan 1, 1980 as a Student Weekly reporter before switching to the editorial desk as a photographer/reporter.
He later moved to the Outlook section as a reporter/feature writer before leaving the paper in February 1994.
However, two years later in October 1996, Suthon rejoined the Bangkok Post team as a writer for the Outlook section.
Following his retirement on Jan 1, 2005, Suthon regularly contributed to the newspaper as a freelance writer and his "Cornucopia" pieces which discussed Thai food from farm to table was one of the paper's most-read columns.
His body is to be donated to the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University, as per his wishes, for anatomical study.