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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.
The garden of erotic delights
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 06/03/2016
» ‘Eroticism is in everyone’s thoughts, but not everyone is brave enough to express it,” Katai Kamminga says of the passion which has taken over her garden. In the past two years, she has transformed the two rai of land she owns in a tucked-away part of Chiang Mai’s Mae Rim district, filling it with suggestive art.
Waiting for the day the music dies
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 21/02/2016
» When Thira Techayuenyong’s father sent for him more than 70 years ago, the eight year old had no doubts about taking the one-way ticket out of his home town of Shantou in China. He packed his bags, took a good look around for the last time and said goodbye to his birthplace before heading out the door.
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.
Child sex case dropped, but a life still left in ruins
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 11/10/2015
» On June 8 last year, the life that American engineer Christopher Lee Hobbs had been building for himself and his family came tumbling down. The 56-year-old was arrested in Pattaya on six counts of molesting two underage boys — a Thai and a Cambodian — and faced the prospect of 42 years in prison.
Thrust into the spotlight
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 06/09/2015
» Located just 50km from the heart of Bangkok, Nong Chok district could have been pincered from the southern provinces and relocated on the eastern outskirts of the capital.
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.
HIV home leaves a community divided
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 21/06/2015
» Pat has been living with HIV for more than seven years. Isolated and alone, the 38-year-old has no family or loved ones left in her life; her parents died when she was young, and her husband died almost a decade ago.
Popular Soi 38 food stalls face developer's axe
News, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 24/05/2015
» One of Bangkok's most iconic street food venues, Sukhumvit Soi 38, is the latest city institution to be targeted by the developers' wrecking ball.