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Lifeguard service enters murky waters
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 19/11/2017
» As a restless teenager, Amnad Chuasaman threw himself into any daredevil stunt. With friends by his side, he would drink and drive, race bikes and do loads of other things considered unsafe. Being young and carefree, it never crossed their minds they could get hurt doing it.
When school isn’t safe
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 10/01/2016
» Bung* is in Mathayom 3 and is counting down the days until he can leave and finally join a school where male students are in the minority. “Three more months in hell,” Bung says hopefully.
Change closes in on hidden Chinatown
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 19/07/2015
» For more than a century, four generations of Usanee Sae-gang’s family have lived on Soi Charoen Chai, off Charoen Krung Road in Bangkok’s Chinatown. For half that time, the 70-year-old has been living and working in the same rented shophouse, where she moved after getting married 50 years ago.
The danger could lurk for years
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 23/03/2014
» The spectre of death and suffering from cancers and other chronic illnesses could haunt Samut Prakan residents for many years to come, for it is a reality of major environmental disasters that the after-effects are often worse than the immediate consequences.
Family connection in toxic waste dump fire
News, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 23/03/2014
» The owner of the burning rubbish dump that sent a toxic cloud drifting across Samut Prakan had leased the land to his own son and another operator, police allege.