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An open road ahead
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 16/10/2016
» The Department of Land Transport is getting used to visits from people looking to invest in a driving school. A decade ago, there was only one private driving school registered under the department. But that quickly changed last year when at least one person visited every week to ask about the qualifications needed to open a school. The department now answers similar queries on a daily basis.
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Supreme showdown
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 06/03/2016
» As two feuding camps clash over the nomination of the new supreme patriarch, the government has been caught in the crossfire.
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The jury's still out on young judges
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 17/01/2016
» Five years ago Thidaporn Kornchoodej, then a 24-year-old lawyer’s assistant, was asked to sit in court to hear the verdict in a case she’d been working on. Her client was an American businessman fighting for custody of his four-year-old son, and Ms Thidaporn ended up sitting alone in the room with the judge as she delivered her ruling.
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Called up in the military's charter draft
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 11/10/2015
» After Meechai Ruchupan helped write a new constitution following the 1991 coup, he was criticised for paving the way for a non-elected general to be appointed prime minister.
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Right qualifications, wrong colour skin
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 04/10/2015
» When Lyndsay Cabildo booked her ticket to Thailand in 2012, she had been promised 2,000 baht per day to work as a part-time English teacher supplying cover to schools around the country.
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Where sex pests turn to talk dirty
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 14/06/2015
» As a new voice on the Samaritans of Thailand suicide prevention hotline, Manee* had been warned she would be a target for callers seeking sexual gratification. Although the job was still unfamiliar territory, she was ready and had rehearsed her response in her head. “We’re not here for that,” she would would say firmly.
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Testing teachers in democracy 101
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 19/04/2015
» In 20 years of teaching, nothing has given Taweewat Pimpat more joy than leading the military mandated civics class.
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Planets fail to align for aspiring astronaut
News, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 22/02/2015
» A Thai woman whose Mars dream fell to Earth last week is clinging to hope that she will still have a chance to take a one-way trip to the red planet.
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The need for compassion when lives are on the line
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 01/02/2015
» ‘Hello, I need someone to talk to. Who wants to talk to me?” asked Sai. “I have a secret that I can’t tell, not even to my family members.”
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Rise of the rural middle class
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 10/08/2014
» Outside the Central department store in Ubon Ratchathani, a black Mercedes-Benz S-Class with yellow Lao licence plates drove from the car park. It was a Wednesday, but at weekends, a security guard told me, some 20% of the vehicles parked here are from Laos, many of which are European cars travelling to the northeastern province through Pakse or Mukdahan.
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