THAILAND

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.