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Unmasked Songkran parties dent Phuket’s reopening hopes
New York Times, Published on 26/04/2021
» PHUKET: Around the corner from the teeth-whitening clinic and the tattoo parlour with offerings in Russian, Hebrew and Chinese, near the outdoor eatery with fried rice meant to fuel sunburned tourists or tired go-go dancers, the Hooters sign has lost its H.
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‘Captain Condom’ turned the tide in war on Aids, overpopulation
New York Times, Published on 06/08/2022
» Mechai Viravaidya twice saw Thailand in desperate trouble — first from a ruinous population explosion and then from the Aids epidemic — and he responded to both crises the same way: with condoms and his own considerable charisma.
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Barbers back in business - for schnauzers too
New York Times, Published on 10/05/2020
» When the coronavirus lockdown in Bangkok eased a bit after six weeks, the first appointment my family made was not for a medical check-up or a walk in a park.
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Wildlife trafficking ‘kingpin’ claims he was pawn
New York Times, Published on 25/09/2018
» Chumlong Lemthongthai, a Thai citizen, and his band of gun-toting prostitutes were surely one of the most remarkable of the ‘pseudo-hunting’ gangs behind the ongoing rhino poaching crisis.
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Hun Sen’s bodyguards convicted of assault
New York Times, Published on 28/05/2016
» HONG KONG - Three members of the bodyguard unit of Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen were convicted Friday of assaulting a pair of opposition lawmakers outside the country’s National Assembly in October.
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Malaysia fears US may ease trafficking stance
New York Times, Published on 11/07/2015
» WASHINGTON - Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, and human rights advocates expressed alarm Friday over a report that the State Department might declare that Malaysia's record on human trafficking had improved since last year, even though, they say, the record has not.
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Desperate to escape Myanmar, migrants left to starve
New York Times, Published on 15/05/2015
» ANDAMAN SEA — A wooden fishing boat carrying several hundred desperate migrants from Myanmar was spotted adrift in the Andaman Sea between Thailand and Malaysia, part of an exodus in which thousands of people have taken to the sea in recent weeks but no country has been willing to take them in.
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