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Bigotry on the boil over halal project
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/03/2016
» Muslim businessman Kavinthorn Wongluekiat, 62, was born and bred in Chiang Mai and hopes he can make his home town prosperous for generations to come. As chairman of the Chiang Mai Islamic Committee (CMIC), Mr Kavinthorn is the driver of a plan to build a halal industrial estate on the outskirts of Chiang Mai which he says would generate tens of billion in baht in annual exports.
A different school of thought
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 14/09/2014
» 'We don't have a flag ceremony at 8am," Mechai Viravaidya said. "I have learned that children's brains seem to be able to absorb things much better in the morning, so I make them skip the ceremony in the morning and go straight to class.
Skimming off the cream
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 24/11/2013
» As his accomplice keeps watch, the scam artist moves towards an ATM early in the morning on a busy road off Sukhumvit. He quickly takes a metallic numeric keypad from his rucksack and fits it over the machine's keypad. The keypad has double-sided sticky tape on the back and fixes firmly on top.