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Pay coconuts, get monkeys
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 06/09/2015
» The next time you drink canned coconut milk, look at the label. If it’s produced in Thailand, the coconuts have most likely been collected by monkeys — specifically, southern pig-tailed macaques.
Cracking the code to freedom
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 30/08/2015
» About three months after his arrest on lese majeste charges, Surapak Phuchaisaeng was certain the evidence against him had been doctored.
Subs plan tests navy to sink or swim
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 09/08/2015
» It has been 64 years since the Royal Thai Navy decommissioned their four submarines in 1951, but when they first expressed their desire to purchase a new fleet from Sweden in 1995, they ended up empty-handed due to insufficient funds.
Bangkok’s baffling booze ban
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 02/08/2015
» By 7pm, the six employees of the Hunsa bar had gathered around the white wooden table to eat their home-made kanom jeen, a dish consisting of rice vermicelli served with curry.
Finding dignity in death
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 19/07/2015
» Sixty-year-old Sukjai* lies on a raised hospital bed, her stomach bloated as if she was several months pregnant.
Do we really want to be just like Singapore?
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 12/07/2015
» The meeting on June 15 at the Chatuchak district office lasted less than an hour. By the end of the month, the 14 licensed street-food vendors were told, they would have to move out.
Where sex pests turn to talk dirty
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 14/06/2015
» As a new voice on the Samaritans of Thailand suicide prevention hotline, Manee* had been warned she would be a target for callers seeking sexual gratification. Although the job was still unfamiliar territory, she was ready and had rehearsed her response in her head. “We’re not here for that,” she would would say firmly.
Out of the jungle, but left in the wilderness
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 31/05/2015
» Sathien Jaiping has made the long journey to Government House almost every month since 2009, carrying a two-inch-thick spiral-bound stack of documents containing what he believes are the names of more than 2,000 former communist insurgents.
Webster's degrees of disappointment
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 24/05/2015
» Petcharat Saksirivetkul was relieved to be among the 70 seniors who graduated from Webster University Thailand (WUT) two weeks ago. It almost didn’t happen.
The big business of saving lives
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 10/05/2015
» Patcharin Arabiya scurried to find 5,000 baht to secure a room at Thonburi Hospital’s coronary care unit while doctors performed CPR on her mother, Samruay Sopajaree. The 78 year old suffered a heart attack on March 24, 2013, an hour after arriving home from a visit to Khao Yai National Park.