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    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.

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    Regional unity 'lies in sharing languages'

    Spectrum, Tunya Sukpanich, Published on 11/03/2012

    » There has been a great deal said about the need to improve English-language skills ahead of the formation of the Asean Economic Community in 2015, but much less emphasis is put on communication between members in their native languages. While English is indispensable as a common international language, a multilingual approach also has clear advantages for building regional understanding and relations.

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    Order in the house! Make mine a double

    Spectrum, Post Reporters, Published on 04/03/2012

    » Politicians and alcohol _ much like love and marriage _ go together like a horse and carriage. While the Democrats have been wagging their collective finger at Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung for appearing to have had one too many before a debate in parliament, many who aren't Thai or don't understand Thai politics, media or culture are simply bemused.

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    Young lesbian locked up 'for love'

    Spectrum, Published on 05/02/2012

    » Phlong Srey Rann, 20, shuffled across the dusty prison grounds in her blue and white inmate garb one early morning late last month, seemingly resigned to spending the next four and a half years behind bars for having sex with her girlfriend.

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    At first taste of freedom, dreams of a new path

    Spectrum, Published on 29/01/2012

    » It was Jan 12, the night before they were freed. Pyone Cho, a leading member of the 88 Generation Students Group detained in the remote Kawthaung Prison in southern Myanmar's Tenasserim Division, was immersed in a weekly journal when a prison guard he hadn't noticed standing in front of his cell asked him what he was reading.

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