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River spirits not amused

TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2018
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Thursday’s front page had a picture of boats lined up across the Petchaburi River, supposedly to speed up the water flow.

Isn’t this the same “solution” that the Minister of Silly Solutions came up with in 2011, which was shown to be complete nonsense?
Chris 
Khon Kaen

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