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The road of paradise to Indochina
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 10/12/2015
» Located about 400km southeast of Bangkok, the Khlong Yai district of Trat province is hoped to become the gateway for trade and tourism to the Cambodian towns of Koh Kong, Sihanoukville and Kampot, as well as Vietnam.
Savouring a sylvan past
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 22/08/2013
» In the late 1760s, when King Taksin was busy establishing his new capital in Thon Buri following the sacking of Ayutthaya, this was a sparsely populated frontier area. Those were unsettled times and the residents of this rural outpost probably lived in constant fear of attack by enemy troops.