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| | Asia Times: Southeast Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Forcefully restraining one of his two dogs, Khao (White), from an overenthusiastic show of exuberance, Charnsnoh's Thai sense of hospitality then impels him to run to the kitchen, offering me some mangoes from his front garden as a snack as his grandmother bustles about to give me a glass of water. |
 | | Gamely forging ahead in English, Charnsnoh reminisces over his first foray in rural development work in Chainat, the "rice bowl of Thailand", as part of a development initative started by Dr Puey Ungpakorn, then rector of Thammasat University. |
 | | After the Thai military coup October 6, 1976, Puey was forced into a life of exile in London, and his rural development programs stalled. |
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