In Thailand, tourism’s decline keeps ‘sea gypsies’ afloat amid coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus has wreaked havoc across the world, but for Thailand’s “sea gypsies” it brought a welcome respite from the threat of mass tourism.Since the pandemic began, life has been easier for Sanan Changnam and his people – there’s an abundance of fish to eat and real estate projects on their ancestral land in the tourist hotspot of Phuket have come to a standstill.Thailand economy: has hope come too late for its crippling debt crisis?In the turquoise waters of the Andaman Sea, connected to…

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