A picture paints a thousand words. This certainly applies to Thailand, a special country with an interesting culture and many cheerful people, but also a dark dark side of coups, poverty, exploitation, animal suffering, violence and many road deaths. In each episode we choose a theme that gives an insight into Thai society. In this series no slick pictures of swaying palms and white beaches, but of people. Today a photo series about the small self-employed person.

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Street Vendors in Pattaya (Part 2)

By Lodewijk Lagemaat
Posted in Background
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February 27 2018

Last week, a posting described the approach to street vendors in the Pattaya municipality. Although the officials proudly claimed that their approach was successful, the reality turns out to be the opposite.

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Street vendors in Pattaya tackled again

By Lodewijk Lagemaat
Posted in Pattaya, Cities
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February 25 2018

At the beginning of this month, street vendors came home with a rude awakening. Last year there was already a long battle between the municipality, the police and the military and the hawkers, but from July 2017 peace seemed to return between the two parties. The street vendors were no longer visible.

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