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Even cowgirls get the blues
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 12/10/2014
» Self-proclaimed "cowgirl" Wanphen Phromrangsan found herself in the media spotlight this year following her anti-gold mining campaigns in her home province of Saraburi.
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Blood ran thick in long family feud
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 03/08/2014
» In July 1966, Arkom Chatchaianand, the man who helped found the Thammawattana family fortune, was shot in broad daylight after a group of gunmen burst into his office at Ying Charoen market near Don Mueang airport.
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The isan 'Problem'
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 10/08/2014
» Throughout history, Isan has seen "revolts", "mad people's movements", "segregation bids" and "communist domination". Anthropologist Charles Keyes writes in his book Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State that the 1901 Phu Mi Bun uprising in Isan, which followed economic restrictions and tax burdens, foreshadowed the subsequent challenges by rural northeasterners to the Thai state's authority.
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Thailand's fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 17/08/2014
» Thanawat Noointara was diagnosed with tuberculosis in early March at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. Chest X-rays and mucus test results were all positive, and he was given first-line, or standard, anti-TB drugs.
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Is Khon Kaen the new model of justice?
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 24/08/2014
» At the Khon Kaen Central Prison at 3.30pm on Thursday, seven inmates gathered in a 2m-wide room behind a thick glass window to have half an hour with their lawyers. Wearing light brown prison uniforms, the inmates are among the 26 suspects allegedly involved in the so-called "Khon Kaen model" of red-shirt resistance.
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Bringing the fraudsters to book
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 13/07/2014
» A car parts manufacturer in Thailand was puzzled when it found that despite turnover increasing substantially, there was a mysterious decline in profits.
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THG to splash out B20bn
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 26/05/2014
» Thonburi Hospital Group (THG), owned and chaired by property tycoon Boon Vanasin, plans to spend 20 billion baht over two years to expand its domestic and international presence.
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Online gambling explosion is just waiting to kick off
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 01/06/2014
» Each with a pen in their hand, the two men with grey hair sitting on stools at an old billiards table, now fitted with a marble top, flip through the Sport Pool and Talad Look Nang (leather ball market) tabloids while studying football teams' form. For 20 baht, these daily sports papers offer results and analyses of previous matches.
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Out of step with the junta
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 08/06/2014
» A few days after the overthrow of the caretaker government by a military coup, 44-year-old Amnart took down a 16m banner that he erected in front of his house in Khon Kaen’s Muang district.
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Meeting resistance: the hard road of opposition in exile
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 15/06/2014
» After waiting for 90 minutes at the hotel for the man who many in the Thai establishment consider the “most dangerous mind” in politics, a white Toyota Fortuner rumbles to the entrance.
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