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A different killer lurking in the forest
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 29/09/2013
» Yoo-ae, 18, could not decide whether or not to leave the cemetery. The Karen girl's mother and friends were urging her to go, but she replied, ''No, I want to stay a little longer,'' her eyes filling with tears.
Park rangers train sights on logging gang targets
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 07/07/2013
» Senior park ranger Chatchai Laikrathok successfully finished his shooting training course yesterday _ most of his bullets, however, failed to hit their paper target 10m away.
Elephant slaughter: The gangs get bold
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 05/05/2013
» In early March, Kaeng Krachan National Park chief Chaiwat Limlikhit-aksorn was outraged to learn of another elephant killing in the area he oversees. A female elephant about 15 years old was discovered close to Krarang 3 Reservoir shot in the head and brutally axed, milk still flowing from her breast. Investigators reasoned that the elephant had a baby with her at the time of the killing.
Shots in the park threaten nation's endangered species
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 10/02/2013
» It was the shooting of the cat-sized krachong (mouse deer) that really made Kaeng Krachan National Park chief Chaiwat Limlikhitaksorn angry. He and a team of park officials had just arrested a group of illegal hunters who had shot the krachong for sport, along with more than 100 rare giant Asian river frogs, in November of last year inside the park.
Thailand at the centre of rising illegal ivory trade
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 13/01/2013
» 'They are all authentic elephant ivory,'' a middle-aged retailer of crafted ivory ornaments told a group of visitors at her shop in Nakhon Sawan's Phayuha Khiri district last week.
Court set to begin 2010 riot inquests
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 20/05/2012
» The first of 18 inquests into state authorities' involvement in the bloody red shirt crackdown which claimed 91 lives in 2010 will be held tomorrow.
Thai to the bone, But still just Second-Class
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 05/02/2012
» Take a walk through villages on the other side of the Tanao Sri mountain range separating Thailand and Myanmar and it's like you've never crossed the border. Everyone is speaking Thai.