he from the south and ethnic Malay?] Thaksin Shinawatra Thaksin was born in San Kamphaeng , Chiang Mai Thaksin's great-great-grandfather Seng Sae Khu was a Hakka Chinese immigrant from Meizhou , Guangdong who arrived in Siam in the 1860s and settled in Chiang Mai in 1908. Chuan Leekpai A third-generation Thai