. [ laughter ] not just thailand, but northern thailand.llion rice fields, it's a fertile, green and gorgeous area, home of the ancient lanna people. welcome to chiang mai province. tucked up near the borders of burma, china, laos, india not too far away. all of them have left their mark on the food. >> andy: here's the local hooch. lao khao. >> anthony: and if you're eating here, chances are you're also drinking. >> andy: ugh. compared to the, uh, the stuff we had this morning, this is substantially more harsh, i would say, and less fragrant. >> anthony: the village of mae on, and this place is called him tang. how did you find this place, man? we're in the middle of nowhere. >> andy: it's a very popular place. >> anthony: a restaurant showcasing one of the distinguishing elements of northern thai cuisine -- the heavy use of animal protein. >> andy: you see the local people, they're lining up. here in northern thailand, pig reigns supreme. so most of the stuff we're eating here is made out of pig. >> anthony: okay, so what did you order? >

thailand is home to some 75,000 transgender people.le to say if there are more trans people here than in other parts of the world where many hide their identities, but there are elements of thai culture that allow a sense of tolerance and greater visibility. >> buddhism has long recognized the existence of an additional gender some where between male and female. for more than a thousand years their scriptures have included stories about people who cross gender lines but even with this awareness, discrimination and inequality are pervasive. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> hi. >> i'm lisa. >> at the sister center, a nonprofit advocacy group for transgender rights, i meet director and founder ms. doy. >> what kinds of opportunities exist for people that are transgender in thailand? [ speaking in foreign language ] >> but there is one industry where transgender women are almost guaranteed to find a job, in thailand sex is big business netting upwards of $4 billion in profits each year. the city of pattaya where the ms. international qu

in a quick and safe manner in thailand. capital. the great a metropolitan area of bangkok is home to more than fifteen million people with a population density two and a half times that of los angeles. sky train lines are no less reliable than trains in switzerland compared to the chaos on bangkok streets they feel like a parallel universe an almost clinically clean and perfectly organized world of punctuality ice cold data from conditioning units and polished granite. passages mustn't make a mess and then not allowed to eat or drink either. the problem with this system is that with its thirty six kilometers and its capacity of roughly seven hundred thousand passengers a day it's still far too small for this sprawling city. and an airplane graveyard in the middle of bangkok the shells of several retired planes . from croft to jumbo jets. it's not an official museum and not an actual destination for tourists the compound is in private hands and that's why it's possible to visit it for a fee of around five year as. the investor had or

later today, we have thailand enacting its third—quarter gdp numbers. 0n thailand enacting its third—quarterumbers. on thursday, singapore does basically the same, out with its data. and we know that thursday is also a public holiday in the us as they celebrate thanksgiving. no mention that because the very next day is the biggest shopping day of the year in america. in fact, it is called black friday, because traditionally it was the day of the year when many retailers would be in the black or profitable. nowadays, it is known as the date retailers offer specials to shoppers and start the festive season. earlier, i spoke to alex staples, and asked whether he thought the japanese are peak would last. it looks like the programme of abenomics is starting. the weaker yen has promoted exports. but there has also been resurgent maduranga well. the global economy is doing well this year. we expected to expect it to grow atjust under 396, to expect it to grow atjust under 3%, and that extra demand has been boosting exports from japan. you talk about the global economy, but what about here, close to

from north to south thailand's rivers drain into the river channel priam. mountain waters from the north flow towards bangkok and the gulf of thailand the additional volume of monsoon rain waters is a major cause of flooding in the delta. if the tree falls of water we call the three sisters here the same time same place exactly the right moment when. the first is the waterfall the north. the second sister is water from the high tide that bird sister has water from the sky the end you imagine when the high tide take the place and the water from the north coming down here it's already almost four point five opinion. at the mansion to give the rain come in the city. in two thousand and eleven the water level built up in the city and its infrastructure is well unable to accommodate it. in the past bangkok had networks of canals and natural waterways that would. serve as natural drainage for water flowing from the north through bangkok to the gulf of thailand with more people and how seeing construction infrastructure all of those networks of canals and river wa

from north to south thailand's rivers drain into the river channel priam. mountain waters from the north flow towards bangkok and the gulf of thailand the additional volume of monsoon rain waters is a major cause of flooding in the delta. if the tree falls of what we call the freeze just at. the same time same place exactly the right moment when. the first is the waterfall the north. the second system water from the high tide that this thing is water from the sky the end you imagine.

thailand with more people and housing construction infrastructure. networks of canals and river waste and what always pretty much blocked disappear. you have international or you have enough for a state. floodways. i think if you look at the route course. it would lead us. to accommodate its growing population new housing was built in areas which provided drainage for the city after monsoons urbanization has transformed the landscape of bangkok rendering the city more vulnerable to flooding. we realize that the flooding is actually in some area where there was a you know factory that newser groundwater bumping up. and then we start to do the morning during the day in the area of bangkok and we found that thirty years ago the grass outside in red is about ten centimeters per year which is quite a lot so then we are starting to inforce not to use underground water not to use underground water and started in red it is getting better from ten centimeters into so when there are five and up to now before it's completely we have about three centimeter per y

thailand tourism authority is already on board. with the new technology . they don't have any noise pollution. environmental lucian and also i think it's really good for the peoples around here too because they quite happy about the thing it's more peaceful more calm and will be will be very high profit for tighter it's an industry. provided the investors don't shy away from the costs of two thousand euros the retail price for this model is about ten times as much as a comparable combustion engine its peace and tranquility however is certainly priceless. that's all for this edition of see you next time or any time. by. creating. mol mol. mol. or a little bit of it. here romantics. love so much. your children like chocolate. you can't live without your smartphone. or tomatoes in the supermarket. as we go about our daily lives schuman rights are often the last thing on the minds . invisible hands of slavery in the twenty first century starting december second on d w.

more news from thailand.6% export growth through this second quarter year on year gdp growth has been revised to 3.8%. singapore final gdp data this week. expecting that to be revised up and the economy the recovery they're broadening to other industries i suppose. singapore final gdp numbers out on thursday. andearly estimate was 4.6%, economists we have surveyed are seeing gdp being revised to 5%, so that is a very strong number. the prime minister over the weekend speaking out at a party conference, saying gdp growth this year is going to exceed 3%, and that is a very strong number , a very welcome recovery it is seeing in the economy. the numbers, we are seeing a broadening out. in initial recovery came external sectors and export related industries. we are seeing the services sectors pickup strongly. recently seeing an improvement in employment, and improvement in the property market, which has been depressed for a long time, so you can expect to see some recovery as well in the retail sector and in cons

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thailand's waterways go electric. but first to southern spain migrants mostly from africa have long worked the farms and on the loose here but their hopes of a better life are often dashed by harsh conditions and scarce op. for these illegal migrants the struggle for survival begins every morning at the break of dawn at a roundabout near alma rio they gather and wait hoping to be hired working in the nearby greenhouses is their only source of income in a place where they believe they would find wealth and freedom those who are invited into one of these minivans are the lucky ones. social worker hussey got a c.e.o. wants to warn the migrants about exploitation he and his colleagues from the andalusian labor union say illegal migrants are particularly vulnerable handing out fliers he wants to inform them about their rights. for one day you're supposed to earn forty six euros and seventy two cents only eight hours of work. but. these illegal workers see i might not have any documents but they do have rights we want to le

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thailand tourism authority is already on board with the new technology. they don't have any noise pollution. environmental lucian and also i think it's really good for the peoples around here too because they quite happy about the thing is more peaceful. and will be will be very high profit for tighter it's an industry. providing the investors don't shy away from the costs of two thousand euros the retail price for this model is about . ten times as much as a comparable combustion engine its peace and tranquility however is certainly priceless. and that's all for this priceless coverage of the business headlines see you next time or whenever you want on e w dot com take care of by. entering the conflict zone fronting the powerful so far the political fallout from catalonia has independent feed shows no sign of being contained my guess this week here in brussels is sprains foreign minister alfonso das face how has his government failed to prevent the country's worst was arguably its most predictable from the trickle crisis in decades with. no detail. the w

thailand at the time the leading export of rice in the world lost a quarter of that is production. you may already know that in. this area we have the right production and this is a rice bowl of the country and we need a lot of water to make sure that in the dry season during the flood. the production of the rice has been damaged. in bangkok as elsewhere floods have many repercussions first and most heavily on the lives of inhabitants but also on the financial stability of the countries affected in washington d.c. experts from the world bank calculate the social and economic costs of such disasters. you know the problem with the link between floods and poverty is that the poor are more vulnerable and proportionately lose more than the rich it's a machine to increase inequality so if you're a little poorer than the others you live in an area which is more at risk and you'll have more chance of losing what you have during the floods so trying to improve your economic status will become even more difficult but. you feel. even with only twenty centimeters of sea level rise if you take

not too many people here are from thailand. [laughter] [applause] pres.rump: malaysia has rapidly developed through recent decades, and it is now ranked as one of the best places in the world to do business. in singapore, citizens born to parents who survived on $500 a day are now among the highest earners in the world -- a transformation made possible by the vision of lee kwan yew's vision of honest governance and the rule of law. [applause] pres. trump: and his great son is now doing an amazing job. as i recently observed in south korea, the people of that republic took a poor country ravaged by war, and in just a few decades turned it into one of the wealthiest democracies on earth. today, south koreans enjoy higher incomes than the citizens of many european union countries. it was great spending time with president moon. everyone knows of china's impressive achievements over the past several decades. during this period -- and it was a period of great market reforms -- large parts of china experienced rapid economic growth, jobs boomed, and more than 8

not too many people here are from thailand. malaysia has rapidly developed through recent decades, and it is now ranked as one of the best places in the world to do business. in singapore, citizens born to parents who survived on $500 dollars a day are now among the highest earners in the world -- a transformation made possible by the vision of lee kwan yew's vision of honest governance and the rule of law. and his great son is now doing an amazing job. as i recently observed in south korea, the people of that republic took a poor country ravaged by war, and in just a few decades turned it into one of the wealthiest democracies on earth. today, south koreans enjoy higher incomes than the citizens of many european union countries. it was great spending time with president moon. everyone knows of china's impressive achievements over the past several decades. during this period -- and it was a period of great market reforms -- large parts of china experienced rapid economic growth, jobs boomed, and more than 800 million citizens r

having a website in thailand in asia, orany peer.land in asia, or any country where you can receive from all over the world, for your goods and services, bitcoin, that is phenomenal. but in china, they basically cancelled the trading of bitcoin ‘s. they wanted a more regulated. —— bitcoins. is that why bitcoin has now surged to heights we have not seen before? because it is being regulated and is 110w because it is being regulated and is now legal? yes. i think the reggie leachis now legal? yes. i think the reggie leach is a good thing. we saw now legal? yes. i think the reggie leach is a good thing. we sanapan recently in june leach is a good thing. we sanapan recently injune introduce a legal bill legalising the payment, or rather it as a meanss of payment. he can now bid used anywhere injapan to pay for goods and services. but now, apart from bitcoin, there are other derivatives. could there be a downside here with more types of crypto currencies in the market?” think we are now seeing the interest in the bitcoin blockchain to inc

thailand's tourism authority is already on board. with the new technology. they don't have any noise pollution. environment pollution and also i think it's really good for the peoples around good to because they quite happy about how the thing is more peaceful more calm and will be will be very high profit for thai tourism industry. provided the investors don't shy away from the costs of two thousand euros the retail price for this model is about ten times as much as a comparable combustion engine its peace and tranquility however is certainly priceless. that's all for. next time or any time. to buy. my first boss was a sewing machine. where i come from women are balanced by this notion for. something as simple as learning how to ride a bicycle isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have a buy cycle of my home and it took me as the bike. finally gave up and went to buy me and my cycles but returned with the sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for girls than riding a bike as now i want to meet south of those women back home who are boun

an organization to learn what women like my cousin were going through and i moved ira i lived in thailand for about three months and i disguised myself and lived in a few brothels to understand what women like my cousin were going through what the whole business is like how much money it brings in what these women are forced to do what age it starts out and that's when it opened up this whole new path that i've now stepped into and i'm not ending until i see changes starting to be made with the. it's like south the traffic the felt. the glorification of poverty as a lifestyle brand is well nothing new when urban outfitters opens its doors in one thousand nine hundred eighty. referred to their demographic as upscale homeless after the two thousand and eight financial crisis struggling fashionistas were rebranded as recession mi estus and they made looking porson posh but only if you did it in the right way and something tells me that the folks behind it wish recession chic in upscale homeless with love the new every day collection from jewelry giant tiffany's think when the kiddos come hom

about underage sex industry that could be seen in southeast asian countries such as vietnam and thailand or the underground noticeable pattern of young eastern european women ending up in slave light conditions in the middle east and other parts of europe or even the constant swirl of rumors about sex and labor trafficking with them united states itself and across its southern border but some of endeavor to shed light on the stories such as t.v. personality jeannie my executive producer behind stopping traffic at recent documentary exposing the wide reach of human trafficking jeannie joined sean stone to discuss what inspired the film here's a preview of their conversation we covered where trafficking takes place in mexico thailand just to name a couple countries we actually hosted some of the women that are helping some of the survivors that have come from all over the world to just help rebuild and therapeutically empower these women to be back in normal in their lives so we had also victims that have been trafficked before we also had a traffic agent kind of come to country about what

mid-field two and i think if you drop away from china go to down towards malaysia indonesia and thailand this is where the biggest showers that we found the moment and they have been particular to put around java bits of bone near the far south of the philippines little less so in southern thailand recently but sumatra and singapore how they fare share and that's still where they like to be with the reformation of the potential bangkok could be a wet time in the next couple of days in central and southern thailand and of course still the southern philippines dancer ways into towards job the less so you notice for suburbs and sort of work there is activity there in the bay of bengal this thing has been throwing a lot of right into a dish it's wearing it was west bengal and beyond that example for you in addition to millimeters that substantial this time of the year and there's the forecast for thursday good news the new delhi is not quite as polluted as it was. the weather sponsored by cats on these. sun blessed beaches breathtaking scenery but there's another reason the drews people. it'

not too many people here are from thailand. [laughter] malaysia has rapidly developed through recent decades, and it is now ranked as one of the best places in the world to do business. in singapore, citizens born to parents who survived on $500 a day are now among the highest earners in the world. a transformation made possible by the vision of the vision of honest governance and to the of law. [applause] and his greatest son is now doing an amazing job. as i recently observed in south korea, the people of that republic took a poor country, ravaged by war and in just a few decades turned it into one of the wealthiest democracies on earth. today south koreans enjoy higher incomes than the citizens of many european union countries. it was great spending time with president moon. everybody knows of china's impressive achievements over the past several decades. during this period, and it was a period of great market reform. large parts of china experienced rapid economic growth, jobs boomed and more than 800 million citizens grows

yvonne: you mentioned thailand forecasting moderate growth in the future.been improving the economic situation at home. what is the financial performance outlook that you foresee in the next year and for 2019? growth if be moderate the developers and other key players -- domestic play. we have a large fortune that caters to buyers buying property in thailand. at present, it is about 20%. we want to grow that. investing in global brands will help us in terms of brand building in the region. china i am curious about and the chinese market. you are forecasting the growth double from the china market. why is the strength continuing. there are still concerns about money coming out of china and slowing down. >> we're also concerned with that. >> the foreign buyers market. china and the hong kong market has grown since then. slowdown. seen any we can expand the market. us, the you for joining sansiri cfo from bangkok. toyota and honda raised their butal profit forecasts, that wasn't the case for millions. we will be live with a damage assessment next. betty: this

the dam operator which is be allowed to the electrical generating corporate of thailand. where the it will be a drought or not so they kept the water for so long in to about sixty seventy eighty percent capacity of the dam to make sure that they have without water for the every game should. but somehow there is too much water so they have to leave needs their water and in order to listen about their daily needs to fall fast at some short time so that's why we have the situation in two thousand and eleven that he and water fall into the city of bangkok where there is no way to accord near between them beforehand. as a result huge quantities of water were released into the rivers and before reaching the sea the waters poured into bangkok. built in the one thousand eight is the king's dike one hundred seventy kilometers long is normally able to protect the center of town from floodwaters in two thousand and eleven the damage south was submerged. the government then decided to raise the height of the dam by two meters. and six hundred thousand sandbags were deployed to save t

and this woman in thailand is about to shed tears because she doesn't recognize her son. man walks up to her. she just starts shedding tears. she cannot control her emotions. >> i was expecting something different considering thailand. i figured maybe he'd transition or something. >> well, he didn't transition, but he has transformed himself. she's not seen him for a long time. he participated in a thai show called "let me in" and in that show he went through a transformation. let me rewind and show you what he looked like before. >> oh, wow. >> wow. >> he had a really severe under bite. some reports say that his jaw was twisted somehow. in the show he underwent a jaw reconstruction. he even had a salivary gland botox to help him because apparently he had an issue with drooling. >> so this show is kind of a swan kind of make over show. >> yes, it appears as though that's what they do on the show. there is a big reveal. you can see everybody is shocked at his transformation. [cheering and applauding] >> he has a new face. >> he looks like a kid rock star, doesn't he? >> th

exposing the wide reach gina join sean stone to discuss what inspired the filled with covered go thailand just to name a couple of years that have come from all over the world the power of these women to be back also victims that have been trafficked agent kind of come to country about what it was like to try part of it while he was actually trafficked a story that is really rare that you hear today is dr john king who is a trafficked victim himself as a kid by realizing at the age of forty what he went through and now the a male rape trial story was really rare just here in public as you don't hear men talking about being so locally and very of changes that need to happen with human trafficking so the film yeah it does really cover some really in-depth interviews with people with either the trafficking themselves or with the victims that are that are still trying to process the experience with sex slavery in the scope of this whole most eight years ago and every time somebody brings it up it's just so it gives me chills because i'm healing myself just learning that this happened in my ow

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