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Couple lifted out of anguish with new home and new lives
Spectrum, Published on 08/01/2012
» Wichean Lumlha was a very happy man during the week of Dec 12-19. It was a very special time for him and his wife Lamyai Bunlead as they watched their new home being built by Habitat for Humanity Thailand in Mahasorn village in Lop Buri's Ban Mi district after losing their old one to last year's devastating floods.
Dawei feeling pains of development and displacement
Spectrum, Published on 18/03/2012
» Thi Cho had been having sleepless nights since a small fishing community not far from her home was relocated a week earlier to make way for the multi-billion-baht Dawei development project.
Mother Suu brings excitement and hope to campaign trail
Spectrum, Songpol Kaopatumtip, Published on 25/03/2012
» Clutching a bouquet of roses and a small red flag, Min Min Oo stood in the hot afternoon sun along with about 500 other people, many of them in red T-shirts with the National League for Democracy (NLD) logo. ''We started our trip at 6am. It's exhausting but we don't want to miss this once in a lifetime chance to welcome Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,'' said the 28-year-old graduate student from Kyaikhto town.
The jailhouse rocked ... Well, not quite
Spectrum, Published on 01/04/2012
» Let's call him Stan. That's not his real name, as this recently released prisoner doesn't want to get into even deeper trouble than he was last December and January, when for a period of almost one month, he was incarcerated at Samut Prakan prison.
Danger with every step
Spectrum, Published on 27/05/2012
» Chamroon Pengpit, 45, still vividly remembers the saddest day of his life _ the day he lost his leg.
Honour thy parents, a lesson learned too late in Klong Toey
Spectrum, Published on 27/05/2012
» He doesn't wear amulets, but says his tattoos are the best on the planet. Amulets, nowadays, can be fake, or even worse _ not even blessed, no power. You can't be too careful. So tattoos are safer. His Chinese dad told him that long ago.
New faces with a look from antiquity rise at Angkor Wat
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 10/06/2012
» When French archaeologists began their first digs around the temple ruins of Angkor Wat in the early 20th century, few would have appreciated the magnitude of what lay ahead.
Two fortunes linked together _ Klong Toey style
Spectrum, Father Joe Maier, Published on 17/06/2012
» It all went down in Aunty Tien's Noodle Shop, also known as the Klong Toey Slaughterhouse local ladies' noodle shop, where the matriarchs of the neighbourhood trade stories and gossip. Aunty Tien is the proprietor. She had taken the girl in, a teenager on the run from the brokers, sleeping nights in a stall at the Klong Toey fresh market.
Tattoo master leaves mark on rich and famous
Spectrum, Published on 08/07/2012
» Finding Wat Mae Takhrai isn't easy. Driving from Chiang Mai to Mae On district, which by the most direct route takes no more than 40 minutes, we spend two hours winding up and down narrow, ill maintained back roads following conflicting sets of directions offered by villagers along the way.
Tiny charms hold major powers in eyes of ever growing faithful
Spectrum, Published on 15/07/2012
» A hundred small gold-painted terracotta figurines depicting little boys in traditional Thai costumes are brought in by temple staff who busily line them up in front of the old revered monk Luang Pou Yaem for a blessing ceremony.