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Let the punishment fit the crime
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 02/07/2017
» Just when people thought that capital punishment no longer exists in Thailand, a Thai criminal court recently ordered sending two repeat offenders to death row for fatally stabbing a young man during an iPhone robbery.
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The Last Communists settle past accounts
News, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 18/06/2017
» Chainat Raikratok can vividly recall the day he left the jungle on Feb 17, 1983. The 63-year-old former communist fighter, along with several dozens of ex-soldiers from Zone 207 in Prachin Buri province, decided to put behind their guerrilla fighting days for good.
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Needlessly living with the stigma of HIV
News, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 11/06/2017
» 'It's like I have a new life," Suthida Saengsumart said last week after the Thai Red Cross Aids Research Center confirmed that she is free of HIV. Ms Suthida no longer had to live with fear that people would despise her for having HIV.
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No minor offence
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 14/05/2017
» Moo Yong is the nickname of an 18-year-old male suspected of murdering Niran Soisoongnoen, a 25-year-old new graduate. Niran's body was found buried along a road that he was travelling en route from Bangkok to his home province of Chaiyaphum. Shortly before he died, he phoned his mother to say he would be coming home for Songkran soon and that he missed her cooking.
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To be or not to be in Thailand
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 30/04/2017
» Most Thais regard William Shakespeare's plays as high art which they have to climb a balcony to understand, though they may be surprised to find that the Bard's plays are not all Greek to them.
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A long way from home
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 11/12/2016
» Mohammad, a teenage refugee, barely escaped becoming a child soldier in Somalia three years ago. "They [the militants] wanted to take me and use me as a child soldier but my grandmother refused to let me join them," the 16-year-old recalled of the incident in Mogadishu, the capital city where Mohammad, who uses an alias, was born and raised.
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Irin accepts a stranger's gift tuned into kindness
News, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 30/10/2016
» Classical virtuoso Irin Prechanvinit has received a touching replacement for the guitar she sold to fund her mother's unsuccessful cancer treatment, with a reader giving her a family heirloom.
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Shooting victim takes aim at Paralympic gold in Rio
News, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 21/08/2016
» The survivor of a school bus shooting on the Thai-Myanmar border 14 years ago which killed three children has set her eyes on gold at next month's Paralympics in Rio.
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Jongkolnee Phumkrajang
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 21/08/2016
» Jongkolnee Phumkrajang, 51, left home early on the morning of Mother's Day making a promise to her children she would never keep. "Mum said she would come back and we would celebrate Mother's Day together," said daughter Ajjima Saenyakorn.
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Picherd Wiriyanupappong
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 21/08/2016
» Picherd Wiriyanupappong was known among locals for his delicious pa tong ko which he sold in the centre of Trang city in the peaceful southern province.
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