For 30 years, Madam Khaw Seow Wah, a volunteer with Christian halfway house Breakthrough Missions, has knocked on the doors of the families of recovering drug addicts. The 89-year-old housewife has helped to reconcile more than 200 former drug addicts with their families.

The two top-performing parties in Thailand's Sunday elections were yesterday racing to cobble together coalitions to form a government after preliminary results gave neither a commanding lead.