A Girl’s Life in Moon River Village, Thailand

A Girl’s Life in Moon River Village, Thailand
Title A Girl’s Life in Moon River Village, Thailand PDF eBook
Author Ted Gugelyk
Publisher First Edition Design Pub.
Pages 19
Release 2013-10-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1622874250

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Village girls torn between two worlds indulge in sex at a very early age. Teen age pregnancy, drug use, dropping out of school and running away from home have become common. Extended families once dependent on young people for labor are left on their own. Young people escape from the villages. Some will return, to die of HIV, privately, hiding their illness silently, adding more shame to their family’s lives. Fathers and mothers and grandparents, illiterate but hard working and honest, are left wondering - How did all this come about so quickly? Why did village life centuries old break apart? This is a story about “Happy”, a young girl from a rural Thai farming village. She is a happy girl because she escaped the confines of her parent’s rice fields and the restrictions of village life, where everyone knows everyone and everyone contributes to village labor. She is happy because she is liberated from all that is loved by her farmer parents and traditional village people. She is free of farm labor and free from helping her extended family harvest rice. “Happy” is free because she entered the “entertainment industry” of Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket, free to dance naked to the intoxicating sounds of rap music, free and happy to sell her sex. Poverty and lack of education is the sex trafficker. It is more anonymous, but its face is everywhere. It is the mother of ignorance and the father of futility. This is a story written by the only Western man living in a remote Thai village. He writes what he observes. He writes about the characters in his small village: “Happy”, “The Solder Man” and his wife, “The Pumpui Fat Lady”, “Buddhist Monks” who come to rid a place from bad spirits manifesting themselves as pests; bed bugs, cock roaches and fleas. And he writes about “Kitty” a seven year-old girl infected by HIV, brought to the village by her prostitute mother who hopes to find someone to care for “Kitty” before mama dies. It is a story of dramatic social change and the breakup of traditional Thai village life. Keywords - Thailand, Rural Thai Village Life, Prostitution, Social Change, Issan, Teen Pregnancy

The Girl Who Threw Stars

The Girl Who Threw Stars
Title The Girl Who Threw Stars PDF eBook
Author Peter Alexander
Publisher Partridge Publishing Singapore
Pages 279
Release 2014-07-22
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1482823934

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Khantida, a spirited young Thai courtesan, once married to a handsome but ruthless police major, finds herself desperately seeking sanctuary in her rural childhood village, Phayu. Wrathful ghosts and angels are drawn to the battle between the former lovers as the village suffers. The fates of Khantida, her 6-year-old daughter, Noi, her sister, Som, and numerous other citizens of northeast Thailand are all played out in one shocking, often horrifying, week. Much of the world undergoes terrifying changes attracting the spirits of the dead as well as angels from Nirvana to a tiny Thai town that nobody ever heard of.

A Collection of Articles on Women in the Thai Environmental Movement

A Collection of Articles on Women in the Thai Environmental Movement
Title A Collection of Articles on Women in the Thai Environmental Movement PDF eBook
Author Wiradā Somsawat
Publisher
Pages 158
Release 2005
Genre Nature
ISBN

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Boys' Life

Boys' Life
Title Boys' Life PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 62
Release 1965-01
Genre
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Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Thai Development Newsletter

Thai Development Newsletter
Title Thai Development Newsletter PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 688
Release 1993
Genre Civil rights
ISBN

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Village Communities in North East Thailand

Village Communities in North East Thailand
Title Village Communities in North East Thailand PDF eBook
Author Charles Madge
Publisher
Pages 112
Release 1958
Genre Thailand
ISBN

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The Face

The Face
Title The Face PDF eBook
Author Tash Aw
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 80
Release 2016-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1632060450

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A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage