Former Thai Foreign Minister and ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan, who was one of his country's most charismatic and dynamic diplomats, died of a heart attack on Thursday, according to a fellow Democrat Party member. He was 68.According to Thepthai Senpong, Surin collapsed in the morning and was rushed to the city's Ramkhamhaeng Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Another source said he suffered cardiac arrest at home and could not be revived in ambulance.A religious ceremony for Surin -- a Harvard-educated professor, ex-parliamentarian and Muslim who served as foreign minister of…READ FULL ARTICLE
