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Art attack in a shell-shocked city
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 24/04/2016
» The heart of Yala town is marked as a "red zone" for insurgent attacks. Along its main street, car bombings have proved a frequent threat.
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Bringing controversy into fashion
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 10/04/2016
» He made his name in fashion photography, but Oliviero Toscani has little time for the "stupid people" who enjoy designer labels. Instead, he is much happier in the presence of "real" people.
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Bigotry on the boil over halal project
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/03/2016
» Muslim businessman Kavinthorn Wongluekiat, 62, was born and bred in Chiang Mai and hopes he can make his home town prosperous for generations to come. As chairman of the Chiang Mai Islamic Committee (CMIC), Mr Kavinthorn is the driver of a plan to build a halal industrial estate on the outskirts of Chiang Mai which he says would generate tens of billion in baht in annual exports.
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Burning bridges: Police raid threatens ‘quality’ tourism
News, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 07/02/2016
» The police raid on elderly card players in Pattaya last week may have earned Thailand international ridicule, but it also looks set to cost the country money as hundreds of “bridge tourists” threaten to cancel their holiday plans.
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The League of extraordinary gentlemen
B Magazine, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 25/10/2015
» During the week, Thanakorn “Anan” Luengpradit, 44, looks like a typical hard-working family man. He owns a small business fixing windows and wakes early to drop his 15-year-old son Geng off at school. Running his own business, Anan never turns down the chance to earn money, no matter how small or big the projects are.
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Summer dreams dashed in divisive beach clean-up
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 19/04/2015
» For many Westerners who visit Thailand, the ideal tropical holiday means lounging on a sunbed on the beach, having a massage while the cool ocean breeze sweeps through, and ordering food and drinks from vendors who ply their wares along the sandy coast.
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Murder probe DNA testing ‘nearly done’
News, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 28/09/2014
» Results from more than 200 DNA tests conducted in the Koh Tao double murder investigation should be completed by tomorrow, the head of the police forensic unit said.
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Deep divisions in fight over mine
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 08/06/2014
» When gold-bearing copper was discovered in them there hills, Loei villagers were expected to let the company walk in and take it. And they did, until their crops failed, their water was no longer fit to drink and their neighbours began getting sick, very sick.
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The fight tearing the country in two
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 09/02/2014
» Since the crackdown on the red shirts at Bangkok's Ratchaprasong intersection almost four years go, the once-cheerful Lung Gong has become a jittery man, jumping at the sound of a car backfiring or a firecracker being let off.
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Manners lost in translation
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/10/2013
» Piles of animal bones lie scattered across the table, picked clean and thoughtlessly discarded by diners.
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