• NEWS

  Romance, by the numbers

  Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 14/01/2018

  » Aaron is a physically active man in his late 50s. He owns a distribution company and is a widower, his wife having passed away from cancer six years ago. They were high school sweethearts. He has tried to move on and meet new women, including by signing up with a speed dating company, but says he found he was at "the bottom of the dating barrel" at such events due to his advanced age.

• THAILAND

  Search for missing mother soldiers on

  Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 24/09/2017

  » 'Would you like to take a day trip with me to the military camp?" So read the text invitation sent by Juthaporn "Aoi" Oun-on, 37, a director at the education division of tambon Cham in Si Sa Ket, to her friend Noi, a restaurant owner living in Baan Phum Sarol in Kantharalak district.

• THAILAND

  Mum's tears over slow police probe

  Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 27/08/2017

  » For as long as she could remember, it was a daily ritual for single mother Patcharee Punthong, 51, and her daughter, Ploynarin "Nong Ploy" Palipol, 22, to have dinner together after work in the Tha Rue district of Ayutthaya, where they lived only steps away from the factory where they both worked. Nong Ploy usually commuted to and from work on her bike.

• THAILAND

  Bordering on a bootleg crisis

  Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 18/06/2017

  » On a day of heavy downpour, Rapiphat was starting his morning by cleaning the front of his one-storey shophouse that sells construction equipment in Trat province. Afterwards, while sipping coffee at the kitchen table, he spotted a truck hurtling along the road coming from the Cambodian border towards Trat town at high speed. That's when his otherwise normal morning took a turn.

• THAILAND

  Deep southern comfort

  Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 04/06/2017

  » After living a happy life with her family in Pattani's Sai Buri district, Janjira Prasatsin faced an incident that completely turned her life upside down when her policeman husband was shot dead in 2003.

• THAILAND

  Close to home: Big C blasts unsettle lives and security

  Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 28/05/2017

  » It was going to be a fun afternoon for Nurshafiqa Surorayo, a four-year-old Pattani girl reuniting with her uncle Abdul. After several months of working in Malaysia, he was returning to Pattani to see family. He decided to take his niece and nephew out for lunch followed by a trip to the only shopping mall in town, Big C, for ice cream.

• THAILAND

  'Economic interests' named as potential motive behind Big C blast in Pattani

  News, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 28/05/2017

  » A Thai army commander based in the deep South believes that the perpetrators behind the Big C bombing in Pattani were more motivated by economic interests than the separatist movement's desire to assert regional autonomy.

• THAILAND

  One born every minute

  Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 30/04/2017

  » Purapat Somyanarong, a business owner from Rayong, is always looking for new ways to invest his money. Although the 45-year-old entrepreneur is not a multimillionaire, he always seems to be able to find money to invest in anything that sounds like a good deal.

• THAILAND

  Transcending the front lines

  Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 02/04/2017

  » When thinking back on her life, Jess can recall some things that she's not proud of. But of all her the bad experiences, there is one that stands out to her -- one that never fails to make her feel sinful to think about.

• THAILAND

  No sex please, we're Thai

  Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 26/02/2017

  » It started off as nothing more than a small fishing village on the Gulf of Thailand. Its long sweeping bay was dotted with a few boats and shacks where the villagers lived. Then a group of 500 American soldiers stationed at a military base in Nakhon Ratchasima were driven to Pattaya on June 29, 1959, for a week of rest and relaxation (R&R). They rented several houses at the southern end of the beach from a prominent local, Luang Sunthorn, thus opening a Pandora's box for this sleepy fishing village.

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