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Tainted by a sordid tradition
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 21/05/2017
» For Note, a 42-year-old freelance journalist in northern Thailand, there's nothing bigger or more exciting than welcoming government officials from the central office in Bangkok. The officials visit for inspections, meeting with locals and talking to the local media. The trip is usually well organised from the moment they arrive until they leave the area.
The sex workers embraced by the wrong arms of the law
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 24/07/2016
» Strolling around downtown Udon Thani, visitors quickly gain the impression it is not much different from other major cities in Thailand. The locals are genuinely friendly and the streetscape consists of the usual food stalls, mega shopping malls and night market, adding a big-city vibe to the culturally rich northeastern hub.
On a mission to blend in
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 20/03/2016
» Fifty-year-old Robert Orwiler has become famous in the Thai media as the American who fell in love with Thailand and doesn't want to go home.
Bigotry on the boil over halal project
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/03/2016
» Muslim businessman Kavinthorn Wongluekiat, 62, was born and bred in Chiang Mai and hopes he can make his home town prosperous for generations to come. As chairman of the Chiang Mai Islamic Committee (CMIC), Mr Kavinthorn is the driver of a plan to build a halal industrial estate on the outskirts of Chiang Mai which he says would generate tens of billion in baht in annual exports.
Separating fact from fear in the rise of Zika
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 07/02/2016
» A flat, red rash is one of the Zika virus’ first obvious symptoms. But for many people, it simply won’t show.
As cultures come together, it's all in bad spirits
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 17/01/2016
» When Benjawan Singthuean moved into her new home in Phnom Penh after her husband transferred from Thailand for work, the 36 year old didn’t know much about the area.
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.
Islanders left drowning under a sea of waste
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 28/06/2015
» For the casual day-tripper to Koh Lan, the island off bustling Pattaya is a picture postcard destination of rolling hills, pristine waters and white sand beaches.
From boyish good looks to all-singing hospital glam girl
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 12/04/2015
» To the outside world, Pornbuncha “O” Maikanta looks like any ordinary young man.