Vongvanij family

The Vongvanij family (Thai: ว่องวานิช, pronounced [wɔ̂ŋ.wāː.nít]) is a Thai Chinese family. The family was founded by Luan Vongvanij, a Hainanese immigrant who settled in Siam in 1903 at the age of twelve. In 1928 he acquired the British Dispensary, a pharmaceutical company which continues to be owned by the family. The company passed onto his sons Boonchit and Boonyong in 1963, and from Boonyong to his son Anurut in 1993.[1]

People

People with the surname Vongvanij include:

gollark: Wait, it can't do that? Weird.
gollark: What do you mean "optional polymorphic function"?
gollark: Unless you use `unsafe`, in which case you instantly die.
gollark: It's also so concurrent that it doesn't only run on your CPU, it runs on your GPU, and the CPUs and GPUs of everyone else's devices.
gollark: I write some projects in Rust, which is literally incapable of having bugs and uses negative amounts of RAM.

References
  1. "การคงอยู่ของชนรุ่น 3 เตี่ยกับเสี่ยในว่องวานิช". Manager. July 1992. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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