DeputyBangkok Governor Taya Teepsuwan, on Sunday, presided over the launch ofthe "Happy Smile Blind Event", held by the Bangkok MetropolitanAdministration (BMA) in collaboration with the Thai Association of theBlind (TAB).
The activity saw a group of blindvolunteers gathering near the Grand Palace to form a yellow smilingface wearing black sunglasses, which showed Thailand ’s readiness tohost the joint meeting of the World Blind Union 8th General Assemblyand the meeting of the International Council for Education of Peoplewith Visual Impairment at the end of this year.
TheWBU-ICEVI 2012 will be held during 8-18 November at the Imperial QueensPark Hotel in Bangkok, with over 2,000 blind delegates from 190countries across the world expected to participate in the event.-VNA