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A safe haven survives a storm
Spectrum, Published on 09/08/2015
» ‘Can you believe we made dolls out of talcum bottles then?” Nualnoi “Khru Noi” Timkul, 73, asks anybody who visits her shelter in the Bangkok suburb of Rat Burana. “We also made necklaces out of hanging leaves.”
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A man in full
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 09/08/2015
» About two years after first visiting a doctor, Jimmy had his breasts removed.
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Branching out in Klong Toey
Spectrum, Father Joe Maier, Published on 09/08/2015
» There’s a really big tree with roots all over the place and beautiful deep green leaves shaped like a Valentine’s Day heart. It's a nice tree, but it’s slightly unkempt. However, Auntie Gung and our children say it’s fine for a sacred tree to be unkempt. And this is a sacred tree with a sacred spirit, or angel. It's called a dhon pho tree in Thai and it’s in the back of the Klong Toey slum flats.
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Subs plan tests navy to sink or swim
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 09/08/2015
» It has been 64 years since the Royal Thai Navy decommissioned their four submarines in 1951, but when they first expressed their desire to purchase a new fleet from Sweden in 1995, they ended up empty-handed due to insufficient funds.
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Will the high end come crashing down?
Spectrum, Published on 09/08/2015
» There is clear evidence of an oversupply of low- and medium-priced condominiums, since demand has failed to keep pace with the fast growth of new units fuelled by mass-transit extensions to the outskirts of Bangkok. But is the high-end condominium segment of the market facing the same trouble?
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