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Asia Feels The Heat: A Straits Times Special on Climate Change - Thailand
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June 24, 2007
DEFENDING AGAINST THE SEA
The throbbing heart of downtown Bangkok is only about 20km north-east of this lost land, where the Abbott Phra Atikan Somnuk stands looking at the hungry sea from behind double barriers of concrete slabs and a rock-pile embankment. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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June 24, 2007
STRANDED
Telephone poles stand in neat rows out at sea, the brown waters of the Gulf of Thailand roiling about them. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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June 24, 2007
CONK OUT
Bangkok's tired commuters have better public transport coming soon under Governor Apirak Kosayothin's global warming reduction initiatives. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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June 24, 2007
BRAND-NEW
The ground floors of most of the buildings in the Wat Khun Samut's compound have been abandoned, and new wooden floors (above) constructed a few feet above them. The old carved wooden shutters of the main temple lie in a useless pile on the new floor. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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June 24, 2007
ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
In many areas, the coastline is eroding at a rate of more that one to five metres a year. This results in a loss each year of an area equivalent to 2 sq km. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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June 24, 2007
MAKE-OVER
A few new buildings are under construction in the Wat Khun Samut's compound , resting on wooden and concrete pillars grouted into concrete slabs sunk into the mud beneath, which is under inches of water on a normal high tide. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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June 24, 2007
SCENIC VIEW
Efforts have been put into saving Wat Khun Samut with the idea of promoting it for both local or foreign tourism, to show people what global warming has in store for the low-lying region. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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June 24, 2007
Local official Suchat Chantad points to where his house had been when he was forced to abandon it 20 years ago. Today it is under 2-3 metres of sea water. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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June 24, 2007
Marine biologist and climate change expert Dr Anond Snidvongs is toying with the idea of promoting the Bang Khun Tien district as a tourist attraction, to show peolpe what global warming has in store for the low-lying region. ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH
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