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Summer dreams dashed in divisive beach clean-up
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 19/04/2015
» For many Westerners who visit Thailand, the ideal tropical holiday means lounging on a sunbed on the beach, having a massage while the cool ocean breeze sweeps through, and ordering food and drinks from vendors who ply their wares along the sandy coast.
Murder probe DNA testing ‘nearly done’
News, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 28/09/2014
» Results from more than 200 DNA tests conducted in the Koh Tao double murder investigation should be completed by tomorrow, the head of the police forensic unit said.
Doctor sick of all the 'trash'
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 03/08/2014
» The founder of a group of vigilante lese majeste hunters stirred controversy earlier this year when he suggested offenders were "trash" worthy of being discarded. Now, more than two months after the military toppled the Pheu Thai-led government, Rienthong Nanna and his Rubbish Collection Organisation (RCO) are struggling to maintain relevancy.
Nothing to see here
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 27/07/2014
» For more than 40 years, Kao Bart was a lively village of 170 households tucked away in the mountains of Buri Ram’s Non Dindaeng district. Now it stands as a creepy, abandoned town no one dares set foot in.
You’re just my stereotype
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/07/2014
» Every society has its stereotypes, but one that values class structure and hierarchy arguably has more than others. In Thailand, there are plenty of labels to go around — you’ll probably fit in to one or more.
Deep divisions in fight over mine
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 08/06/2014
» When gold-bearing copper was discovered in them there hills, Loei villagers were expected to let the company walk in and take it. And they did, until their crops failed, their water was no longer fit to drink and their neighbours began getting sick, very sick.
Slain poet fled with red leaders
News, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 27/04/2014
» Assassinated poet Mai Nueng fled to Cambodia after the 2010 crackdown with 11 other red shirt leaders as he feared the Abhisit Vejjajiva government would charge him with terrorism, a political colleague says.
The kingdom of the north
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 09/03/2014
» ‘You are Thai, but I never considered myself Thai to begin with. I am proud of my Mueang identity and there is nothing that can change that.”
The fight tearing the country in two
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 09/02/2014
» Since the crackdown on the red shirts at Bangkok's Ratchaprasong intersection almost four years go, the once-cheerful Lung Gong has become a jittery man, jumping at the sound of a car backfiring or a firecracker being let off.
Support bleeds away from the heartland
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 19/01/2014
» In the middle of nowhere _ near a pond surrounded by jungle and bamboo _ four men in a distant corner of Udon Thani gather every evening after working in the fields.