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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ranong avenue next to the Klong Toey slum, they meet up with hundreds of other bikers from other slums like Makasan and Suan Phloo. They have been holding these rallies for a decade, some of the kids first coming on the backs of their older brother's bikes. Ken rot is a ritual by now, as ingrained in Thai culture as the speed they smoke to get up for the night of racing. The street is effectively closed off to non-motorcyclists and pedestrians. The bikers idle along the side of the road and then take off in twos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...Luther Htoo bore neither miracles nor M-16s, just Bibles in their knapsacks. The tiny teenage twins and leaders of the mysterious rebel force known as God's Army approached a company of Thai soldiers and asked for sanctuary. Whisked to a police compound in the nearby town of Suan Phung, they soon found themselves exchanging bewildered stares with Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai and a dozen of Thailand's top generals. As Chuan inspected his prizes, he gently stroked the boys' lice-ridden locks. "He totally demystified them," says Sunai Phasuk, of Forum Asia, a human-rights group. In Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Lords Of The Jungle | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...Olsen twins video signing at Suan Phung Blockbuster b) Hunger & fatigue c) Out of smokes d) Felt two years of mayhem enough to impress colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jan. 29, 2001 | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...second-floor lock-up: according to detectives, he's ingested too much lamphong, a locally grown intoxicating flower that causes vivid hallucinations and can cause permanent psychological damage. They'll be shipping him to a psychiatric ward on the mainland, to a place called, of all things, Suan Sanarom--the Garden of Joys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Real Beach | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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