THAILAND

Flower market vendors face last lonely Valentine's

News, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 14/02/2016

» This may be the last Valentine’s Day Onsirin Saenyakul ships her roses to vendors at Bangkok's famous Pak Khlong Talat flower market. Her two-rai plantation in Chiang Mai’s Mae Rim district has been the only source of income for her family for the past 12 years, and 80% of the roses are shipped by truck to Thailand’s largest fresh flower market.