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Study links foreign homelessness to divorce
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 25/08/2013
» Not all cross-cultural marriages between rural Thai women and foreigners are doomed to divorce, as one academic's comprehensive study has found that these women's marriages to men from other Asian countries often find success on shared values.
Restrictions sinking sea gypsies
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 11/11/2012
» Sanit tried to maintain his stride while walking towards the sea, but everybody knew that he was sick.
Koh Samet's serenity shattered by development and disputes
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 23/09/2012
» As we arrive at the exclusive five-star beach resort on the southern tip of Koh Samet a young security guard approaches us and asks us where we think we are going.
Overwhelming odds get better of efforts to stamp out prison drug trade
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 09/09/2012
» In the early morning of Aug 18, Nakhon Si Thammarat prison warder Od Sae Pua was shot dead on the way home from the prison where he worked for years. The reason was simply that he had refused to help smuggle drugs into the prison and that he reported the attempt to bribe him to do so to his bosses.
Two agencies diverged in a wood
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 26/08/2012
» Road 304 slices through Nakhon Ratchasima's Wang Nam Khieo district running north by northeast, forming the unofficial boundary between the Phu Luang national forest reserve to the west and Thap Lan National Park to the east. Charges of forest encroachment are rampant throughout the area, but the fates of those deemed guilty are vastly different depending on which side of the road they lie.