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    Fighting Thailand's 'scamdemic'

    News, Published on 17/05/2023

    » The April 8 arrest in Bangkok of a Chinese woman with Thai citizenship alleged to be the leader of a criminal syndicate involved in fraud, surrogacy and human trafficking is just one recent example of an increasingly sophisticated crime wave inside Thailand.

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    Songkhram River threat

    News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 16/04/2022

    » Development projects and agrochemicals are threatening the ecology of the Songkhram River -- the last free-flowing river in the Northeast and one of the country's few remaining freshwater biodiversity hotspots, although some species are already nothing but a memory.

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    Thailand 2031: A Glimpse into the Future

    Published on 01/08/2021

    » Why 2031? The next decade is likely to become seen as a milestone era during which the world accelerated into a period of development and prosperity having successfully turned the page of one of the worst chapters in modern history after Covid-19 shook the global community to its core.

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    Strong cities needed

    Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 15/07/2018

    » Bangkok has attracted millions of migrants seeking economic opportunity. They will be forced to handle the impacts of climate change in coming decades.

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    Nai Luang, the great traveller

    Life, Published on 20/10/2016

    » Travelling is known as a way to enrich one's life. But that was not the case for one of the country's most well-travelled people, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

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    Damned if you do,damned if you don't

    Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 08/05/2016

    » In the late 1980s, Chatichai Choonhavan's government promised an ambitious water diversion project to provide a constant supply of water to the dry Northeast.

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    Exodus chapter two: the fallout

    Spectrum, Published on 22/06/2014

    » Pol Col Subin Boonlek, a stocky energetic man in his fifties, thought he had seen the worst of the frenetic exodus of Cambodian migrant workers across the Aranyaprathet border crossing.

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    Out of the meat trade, into agony

    Spectrum, Published on 21/10/2012

    » Photos taken immediately following a raid on a canine meat traders' compound in Sakhon Nakhon province in January show dogs seemingly relieved to have escaped from the tiny cages into which they had been crammed. Wide-eyed puppies can be seen among well-groomed dogs with collars _ which, along with their ease among volunteer workers, suggests many of the animals supplying the illicit trade were people's pets.

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    She shall not be moved

    Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 12/02/2012

    » Five years ago, Boeung Kak Lake was Phnom Penh's largest. It served as home to some 20,000 Cambodians as well as the capital's backpacker ghetto, where foreign travellers would sit on guest house patios in a cannabis haze to watch the sun set over the waters and finish another Angkor Beer. And although the lake was full of sewage and debris and was hardly pristine, it served as an important catchment basin for the capital, providing equilibrium during the wet and dry seasons.

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    Is the end of the world a good time to invest?

    Spectrum, Published on 08/01/2012

    » Hopefully the film 2012 won't prove prophetic. In 2012 we saw the end of the majority of human life. A perfect prequel might be called 2011 with floods, earthquakes and near global financial collapse. Anyway, it might be a good idea to keep Dec 21, 2012 free on your calendar, as this is the date some say the Maya predict the world will end.

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