Seng Sae Khu

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Seng Sae Khu is the great-grandfather of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Seng Sae Khu (also known as Khu Chun Seng; surname 丘) was a Hakka Chinese immigrant from Meizhou, Guangdong who arrived in Siam in the 1860s. In 1908 he settled in Chiang Mai. He married a Thai woman called Sangdi. His eldest son, Chiang Sae Khu, was born in Chanthaburi in 1890, and also married a Thai woman, called Saeng Somna. Chiang's eldest son, Sak, adopted the Thai surname Shinawatra ("does good routinely") in 1938 during the Phibun regime's anti-Chinese campaigns, and the rest of the family also adopted it, including Loet, Thaksin's father, born in Chiang Mai in 1919. Loet married Yindi Ramingwong. Thaksin is thus one-eighth Chinese by descent through his great grandfather.

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