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Winning the battle royal
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 18/10/2015
» It was a royal battle that read like a fairy tale, with a young prince winning back his family inheritance from an evil uncle. After a nine-year legal battle, a court has granted Maharaj Devraj Singh his share of his father and grandmother’s estate.
Cracking the code to freedom
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 30/08/2015
» About three months after his arrest on lese majeste charges, Surapak Phuchaisaeng was certain the evidence against him had been doctored.
More bang for bucks, but how low can the baht go?
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 13/09/2015
» Late last month, when the baht was 35.95 against the United States dollar, Jeremy (not his real name) withdrew half a million baht from his bank account and sold them for US dollars at a foreign exchange dealer on Asok Road.
Keeping children safe from sexual predators
Spectrum, Published on 26/07/2015
» When the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency paid their first visit to Thailand’s Education Ministry earlier this year, they came with a warning: there are Brits out there who may be a risk to Thai children.
With Asia's dating apps, love by numbers or chaperone
AFP, Published on 29/07/2015
» HONG KONG - Move over Tinder -- a crop of dating apps in smartphone-addicted Asia is offering to recruit friends for group dates or send along a chaperone to steer the course of romance.
Intersex activist comes to terms with a painful secret
Spectrum, Published on 14/06/2015
» Anis Akhtar grew up with little idea of what life was like for ordinary people. Until the age of 15, he attended a school for the visually impaired due to a condition he has suffered since his birth in the northern English city of Bradford in 1987.
Britain's tied-visa rules fuel abuse of maids, nannies
Published on 28/05/2015
» LONDON — When Susi, a single mother from the Philippines, left for a job in Qatar, she convinced herself it was a sacrifice worth making for her children at home.
Where sex pests turn to talk dirty
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 14/06/2015
» As a new voice on the Samaritans of Thailand suicide prevention hotline, Manee* had been warned she would be a target for callers seeking sexual gratification. Although the job was still unfamiliar territory, she was ready and had rehearsed her response in her head. “We’re not here for that,” she would would say firmly.
Chinese banks a haven for web counterfeits
Associated Press, Published on 08/05/2015
» SHANGHAI — Kim Sbarcea knew exactly what she wanted. She typed “Tiffany Elsa Peretti mesh earrings” into Google and scrolled through impeccable photos of the delicate US$450 diamond-shaped earrings until she chanced upon a pair for -- deal of deals! -- $32.
On the trail with Bangkok's No 1 ladies' detective agency
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 15/03/2015
» When Amnuaiporn “Kung” Maneewan first graduated in 1995, her only ambition was to find a well-paid job. The answer to her dreams was just around the corner, and she managed to land a position as an accountant at the IBS law firm, near her home in the Ram Intra area of Bangkok.