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China Daily | Updated: 2008-12-23 07:46

Thai premier gets soccer jersey

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Britain's ambassador to Thailand presented new prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva with a Newcastle United football shirt yesterday to mark the Thai leader's links with the city of his birth.

At a formal ceremony of congratulations, ambassador Quinton Quayle handed over the famous black-and-white striped shirt complete with the number 27 - because the Eton- and Oxford-educated Abhisit is Thailand's 27th premier.

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