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...Amount Bangkok dog catchers are paid per captured animal in a new initiative to remove inner-city strays...
...Most brides spend months agonizing over The Dress. Not so Bangkok-based expatriate Jayne Dalmer, who turned up for her first fitting five weeks before her wedding?and two weeks after giving birth to a baby girl. Her designer-dressmaker, Rachata Supasanapiwat, didn...
...Thailand's other hit radio program doesn't do much to help its listeners at all. Instead, shock jock Veera Theerapat spends most of his on-air time ridiculing callers foolish enough to try to parry with Thailand's Howard Stern. At first, Bangkok denizens took offense at Veera's brassy attitude; this is, after all, a country where reserve and politeness are practically national characteristics. Newspapers chided Veera for bringing the worst of the West to the East. But Veera's direct approach soon caught on. "He always says just what he thinks," says engineer Chartchai Kaewsung, who tunes...
...help mobilize hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, who forced the resignation of a military commander who had seized control of the country. "In many ways the voice of Thailand's so-called civil society was first heard and gained power on radio," says Sunai Phasuk, a political scientist at Bangkok's Thammasat University. "It's proven to be very powerful, and politicians clamor to get their message across on the airwaves...
...people power up and down the dial has become a self-perpetuating force. Earlier this year, tens of thousands of Bangkok citizens had their radios tuned to 96 FM, home to "Uniting to Help Each Other," when the show's usual excited chatter was replaced by the ominous notes of a military march. The army, which along with the government controls most of Thailand's radio stations, had abruptly pulled the 24-hour show off the air. Critics claim they were punishing the media group INN for barbs aimed at Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra that were made on another...