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Bid to stop train sex attacks struggles to stay on track
Spectrum, Published on 11/10/2015
» Sexual assault is an all-too-common reality for women across the country. The Public Health Ministry estimates there are almost 90 cases a day, or more than 30,000 incidents each year. Two-thirds of all rapes are committed by someone known to the victim.
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.
Military mind games play out under strict insecurity
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 27/09/2015
» The daily announcements on television started on May 22 last year, the day of the coup. The names of individuals asked to report to the junta were read out and a sheet of paper outlining the date, location and time of their appointment was shown.
Tied up in a trafficking jam
Spectrum, Published on 20/09/2015
» With easy access to Myanmar and remote Andaman Sea islands, the isolated coastal district of Khura Buri is a smuggler’s paradise.
The great khlong clean-up
Spectrum, Published on 23/08/2015
» Saithian Kerdsomboon had always wondered when this day would come. For years he had heard rumours, trickles of news about being chased out by city officials, yet nothing had ever happened. This time, however, he knew it would be different.
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.
A man in full
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 09/08/2015
» About two years after first visiting a doctor, Jimmy had his breasts removed.
Kra Canal dream still far from reality
Spectrum, Published on 07/06/2015
» The idea to cut a canal across the Isthmus of Kra was shot down almost as quickly as it re-emerged. Within days of reports spreading last month that former prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh had signed a deal with Chinese businessmen to dig a waterway from the Gulf of Thailand to the Andaman Sea, a blunt denial was issued.
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.
Taxi activists slide into reverse
Spectrum, Published on 10/05/2015
» Lae is 28 and has been making a living by working construction jobs and waiting tables in Bangkok for most of the past decade. He is, at the moment, a taxi driver, a job he says is much less physically demanding than his previous occupations.