I did put my foot down when the soft, two-ply, luxury toilet paper was replaced with some cheaper, cardboard-like, rough stuff.
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While the city of Chiang Mai does not let you forget that poverty exists, its hustle and bustle surely doesn't always remind you of those struggling to get by.
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On the way out of the office, they walked to the putting green. Dang stood with his back toward them a few feet away.
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That doesn't seem like an experience a naive, timid girl would've had - not until fate forced her on a fork in her life.
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"Being in the government bureaucracy, as a lecturer, you spend the latter part of your life imparting knowledge rather than gaining it. I wanted to make myself happy
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ou can look at cases around the world and it will be hard to find an all-time win-win example or situation.
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During one more recent visit, I stopped by to ask a friend, Pim Kemasingki, about the present and future. "Chiang Mai is changing and will continue to change.
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The international press in Vietnam has more freedom than the local press, as is the case in some other South East Asian countries.
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Though she did say that there are broader groups which young people inhabit, such as "nerdy" or "cute" or "the wilder kids" and those obsessively into sports.
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The baggage claim area of the airport must be expanded. We are encouraging schools to use songtaew to transport children to school so fewer private cars are on the
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At some point in the late 1960s, Shaman Bunleau ended up in Laos, just a few miles across the Mekong from where his life began.
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"I have a very big family in Thailand. I'm not rich, but maybe I'll send them more money when I get a job someday," she says.
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