One of the first winners of the 1 million baht was a young man from the poor province of Buriram who could suddenly afford to marry his sweetheart. Tan, of course, will attend the wedding. He also flew down from Bangkok to present the prize to a schoolteacher in Yala, one of the southern provinces that has been wracked by the Muslim insurgency since 2004. Schoolteachers are frequent murder targets and addressing the plight of the South is one of Tan’s pet causes. He has donated more than $1 million to schoolchildren, schools and soldiers in the three provinces.