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Lifeguard service enters murky waters
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 19/11/2017
» As a restless teenager, Amnad Chuasaman threw himself into any daredevil stunt. With friends by his side, he would drink and drive, race bikes and do loads of other things considered unsafe. Being young and carefree, it never crossed their minds they could get hurt doing it.
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Flood control to shore up Pattaya
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 15/10/2017
» As a Pattaya native, Noppinun "Nu" Sangthong, a 47-year-old owner of a souvenir shop on Beach Road, has seen virtually everything -- from the behaviour of crazy drunken sex tourists to transgender thieves with tricks up their sleeves.
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Sex work lures African women to Pattaya
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 17/09/2017
» Sea, sand and sun are what most people expect when they come to visit Pattaya. But one thing that makes Sin City so infamous is its wealth of nightlife and entertainment venues. For this beachfront city, the day seems to stretch on endlessly into the wee hours.
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The South's best-kept secrets
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 27/08/2017
» No one can deny that Thailand has much to offer as a tourist destination. With its diverse culture, natural wonders and ethnic groups, it is regularly named one of the world's top must-see places on annual travel destination rankings.
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Law cops out on transgender rights in Pattaya
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 20/08/2017
» After a long night performing at one of Pattaya's most famous cabaret shows, Aom only wanted a good rest. The 35-year-old cabaret performer left work at 1am without pausing to remove her make-up. Mounting her motorcycle, she decided to go home via Pattaya Beach Road, a stretch known as a hangout for transgender sex workers and heavily patrolled by police.
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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.
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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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Answering naturism's call
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/11/2016
» In an isolated area of Ram Intra in Bangkok, a typical two-storey, modern Thai house sits at the end of a quiet street. House number 85 is situated in a dead-end soi with little traffic and there is not much to distinguish it from the few neighbouring homes apart from a large wooden door at the entrance to the white building. But ringing the doorbell at Baan BareFeet opens the door to a whole new world.
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Tale of the travelling dolls
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 25/09/2016
» When the Empower Foundation surveyed migrant women in Chiang Rai about where they would travel if they had the chance, many of them answered that they wanted to see the ocean -- they'd never been before.
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Mission tanks as rescuers try to save sharks from bar
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 28/08/2016
» Bali-based marine rescue worker Paul Friese found it hard to take the day off work when he came to Bangkok on a visa run last month.
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