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Teflon Thailand starts to flake
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 12/04/2015
» It’s almost noon and the Toyota saleswoman still hasn’t seen her first customer. Thaiyont, a Toyota dealership in Chon Buri’s Muang district, used to serve at least eight customers a day. But these days, they are lucky to have two.
Meeting resistance: the hard road of opposition in exile
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 15/06/2014
» After waiting for 90 minutes at the hotel for the man who many in the Thai establishment consider the “most dangerous mind” in politics, a white Toyota Fortuner rumbles to the entrance.
Cash for no comment
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 20/07/2014
» Few people outside the media industry had heard of the Thailand Information Centre For Civil Rights and Investigative Journalism (TCIJ), but by Monday it had the attention of every major news organisation in Thailand.
Fertile imagination
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 09/09/2013
» A teenage farm boy, lying down in a haystack in his usual old jeans, grey cotton long-sleeved shirt and straw hat, pulled a local Mac magazine out of his bag made of fertiliser sacks while tending to cows grazing in the green pastures.
Coats of many colours
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 06/05/2013
» Ten years ago, when global awareness of cutting energy use began to spread, not many options were available for Thailand's paint industry to cash in on the trend.
UK firm: Big bags the way to go in flood prevention
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 10/02/2012
» Special flood prevention barriers should be erected instead of the concrete walls that have been proposed by industrial estates to prevent a repeat of last year's flood crisis, says the UK-based Hesco Bastion Ltd, which makes the barriers.