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Pattaya: A family destination

Here's The Plan: Tear down the country's premier sex-sin-sand and live-show centre, and remake it as the world's most friendly family beach resort - free of transgender sex workers, prostitutes and troublesome beach chair vendors. What could go wrong? (File photo by Patipat Janthong)

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Myanmar made a couple of drug busts and claimed they showed how the country was now serious about fighting drug lords. And it was nonsense.
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Sugar expansion could depress prices

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