Real life stories
New survey revealing stark disparities in living standards in Thailand
RATCHABURI, 10 MARCH 2007 – Three-year-old Gongsak, an ethnic Kalieng boy, lives with his mother in a flimsy wooden shack off a minor road in rural Ratchaburi. Here, some 30 kilometres from the border with Burma, Gongsak and his mother, Noy Meer, subsist in poverty, without access to adequate health care, sanitation or other services many Thai families take for granted...
