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Still Songkran-crazy
News, Prangthong Jitcharoenkul, Published on 16/04/2016
» There was no let-up in the action on the last day of Songkran on Friday, and across the country water was still being thrown about with abandon as Thais and visitors tried to forget the worries of drought days ahead.
The top 10 don’t-do list
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 03/04/2016
» A 57-year-old Chiang Mai woman was charged with inciting rebellion last week for posting a photo of herself with a red plastic bowl on Facebook. The bowl, to sprinkle people with water during Songkran, also happened to carry a message from fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. She faces the prospect of up to seven years’ jail if convicted of sedition.
Cracking under the force
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 21/02/2016
» Pol Lt Col Jan Chaisawasdi did not seem like a man who was about to kill himself.
Embracing militias with open arms
Spectrum, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/11/2014
» Two village defence volunteers stood timidly, holding unloaded M1 carbine rifles, with a group Ban Paku primary school students when a group of Bangkok journalists visited last week. The Pattani school had been torched a month earlier.
Bua Yai’s battle to go it alone
Spectrum, Published on 28/09/2014
» More than a decade ago, Bua Yai district native Jamras Panpiansilp, 54, lost his father to a cerebral haemorrhage.
Here comes the boom in Buri Ram
Spectrum, Published on 21/09/2014
» When China’s fourth-largest oil company arrived in Buri Ram earlier this year to start exploration work on private land, many of the local villagers thought they had struck it rich.
A village haunted by superstition
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 14/09/2014
» More than 10 years ago a village in the northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon made headlines as the home of Thailand's most feared ghosts, known as phi pob, but these days the evil spirits appear to have simply vanished.
Strangers in a familiar land
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 10/02/2013
» Forty-nine year old Prayoon Srisuwan lives in limbo: considered Thai and refused ID papers by the country of her birth; denied citizenship in the country she and her ancestors have always considered their motherland.
A walk in the park: Business as usual at 'encroaching' resorts
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 30/12/2012
» oDwn a path leading into dense bush at Thap Lan National Park, Chaloem Jainok and her family are busy gathering wood for a New Year's Eve bonfire they're planning to hold at their resort, Ban Thong Kham. The resort has been fully booked since early this month, filling up with holiday revellers and those planning to see in the New Year here.
Tangled web behind illegal resort boom
Spectrum, Published on 02/12/2012
» Last month, a major operation by forest officials to crack down on illegal resorts in Phuket _ including those located in Sirinat National Park _ was abruptly suspended after the department's chief retired.