Word: klong
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...Supporters of Siriporn's beaten Japanese opponent, Ayaka Miyano, have complained that the Thai fighter profited from a home-ring advantage. Certainly, the crowd assembled at the Klong Prem Prison, affectionately known as the "Bangkok Hilton," was on Siriporn's side. Between rounds, transvestite inmates performed a saucy fashion show, while a prison band serenaded the audience with Thai folk songs. But the claim of home-crowd advantage will soon be tested when the Black Rose, now a free woman, defends her title against the winner of an upcoming matchup between a Mexican and a German...
...Keeping those memories alive is increasingly difficult. When the wind blows hard enough, her potted plants topple into the klong. She used to pay kids to jump in and retrieve them. Now, no amount of money can entice them into the water. Why? "Because Big got sick," she says...
...fetid canals. "I guess I'd grown used to the smell," he says. "But after Big's accident, I started smelling it again, and I had second thoughts about jumping into the water every day." Other residents are also taking a newly wary whiff of the centuries-old klong network, which had inspired 17th century European missionaries to dub Bangkok the "Venice of the East." The city's 10 million residents produce 2.4 million cubic meters of wastewater per day but just 500,000 cubic meters are subsequently treated. The rest is simply poured into the klongs. As only...
...Until Big got sick. Now, klong coliform levels are printed in newspapers. Radio stations have been swamped with callers complaining about skin diseases they suspect they have contracted from riverboat taxi rides. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is demanding answers from bureaucrats. Pornpot has none. "The problem should have been dealt with 20 years ago when Bangkok's population began to boom," he says. "But it wasn't and now we are in serious trouble...
...idea dismissed by the city government as too expensive?it seems the capital will have to live with the odor and the sight of black sludge beside homes and offices. Walee, 54, a shopkeeper in downtown Bangkok, installed a row of plants on the cement arches that span the klong next to her store. In bloom, she says, the flowers mask the toxic mess. "When I look at the flowers, I see the klong of my youth," she says, "when it was clear and filled with fish and when my mother scolded me for spending too much time swimming...