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Elephant jam session
Jon Fernquest, Published on 23/08/2011
» Marimba, harmonica, cymbals, bells, chirps, roars, barks and thuds; the versatile tools of elephant musicianship.
Slow travel to far away places
Jon Fernquest, Published on 19/08/2011
» Remote areas in Nan, Loei and Mae Hong Son, as well as green hotels targeted at the now retiring "baby boom" generation.
Isan monks helping their communities
Jon Fernquest, Published on 18/08/2011
» Development monks help their poor communities with economic and educational needs, living examples of why monks still matter.
Bicycling back into the past
Jon Fernquest, Published on 11/08/2011
» Memories of a ride to Tobacco Lake thirty years ago (now: Benjakitti Park), take a swim in the lake and partake of other childhood adventures.
State officials altered land records
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/08/2011
» Illegal transfer of land reform and forest reserve land to private ownership used politicians and village headmen. Land even sold over the internet.
Land reform abuse
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/08/2011
» Only half of 1990s land reform land from forest reserves actually got to the poor landless farmers. Buildings of rich developers on this land to be demolished.
Looks like justice, but isn't
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/08/2011
» Village poisoned by lead mine wins legal case but after decades gets nothing. A microcosm of bigger problems.
When humans and elephants fight
Jon Fernquest, Published on 02/08/2011
» If a wildlife sanctuary is too small, elephants stray into villages in search of food and damage croplands of farmers.
Mekong river: New drug smuggler route
Jon Fernquest, Published on 01/08/2011
» Facing death if caught, for a measly 5,000 baht, drug mules swim across the Mekong river from Laos with loads of methamphetamines.
Kicked out of the forest
Jon Fernquest, Published on 27/07/2011
» Farms, resorts, property of influential people, built in protected forests, revealed by aerial photos, all to be demolished.