Nine-year-old Thai tattooist makes his mark

BANGKOK  –  Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man’s upper thigh. “I want to be a tattoo artist and open my own tattoo palour,” he told AFP in his booth at a…