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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.
Rooting out the rosewood robbers
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 11/05/2014
» A botched deal and a routine inspection at a police checkpoint of a white four-wheel drive vehicle led to the country’s biggest bust of an alleged Siamese rosewood smuggling kingpin.
The kingdom of the north
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 09/03/2014
» ‘You are Thai, but I never considered myself Thai to begin with. I am proud of my Mueang identity and there is nothing that can change that.”
Manners lost in translation
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/10/2013
» Piles of animal bones lie scattered across the table, picked clean and thoughtlessly discarded by diners.
Fleeing Rohingya at the mercy of a smuggling network greased by graft
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/01/2013
» For desperate Rohingya arrested in Thai territory, hope for the future can rest simply with how much money they have to pay off local officials and human traffickers. The prospects are dire for those without the required cash _ being sold into slavery is commonplace.