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CHIANG MAI`S ORIGINAL MONKEY SCHOOL ,THAILAND

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CHIANG MAI`S ORIGINAL  MONKEY SCHOOL ,THAILAND Chiang Mai’s original monkey school was established in the Mae Rim district by former army sergeant, Tawee Pantachang. This small, friendly man, who left his home in Sukhothai some thirty years ago to settle in Chiang Mai, bought land in Mae Rim with a view to growing fruit and vegetables. However, the economic crisis of the late nineties created serious labor problems for Khun Tawee, and he faced the possibility of financial ruin. Never one to run from a problem, he went South and bought his first two monkeys, which he brought back to Chiang Mai and trained to help him pick tamarinds. The success of this venture led Khun Tawee to buy more animals from Southern Thailand, Laos and Vietnam; he now has a troupe of more than thirty monkeys and four gibbons at his school in Mae Rim Before anything else, you would have to buy a baby macaque. This will cost you something between 1,000 and 10,000 baht. Once you have your own l...

AI FUKUHARA , JAPAN TABLE TENNIS PLAYER GOT ENGAGED IN RIO OLYMPICS, BORN 1988 ,NOVEMBER 1

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AI FUKUHARA , JAPAN TABLE TENNIS PLAYER GOT  ENGAGED IN   RIO OLYMPICS, BORN 1988 ,NOVEMBER 1 Ai Fukuhara (福原 愛 Fukuhara Ai, born 1 November 1988) is a Japanese table tennis player and Olympic medallist, winning silver at the 2012 Summer Olympics and bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics with the Japanese women's team. She is sponsored by All Nippon Airways.[3][4][5] Table tennis career[edit source] Fukuhara began playing at the age of 3 and became a professional at age 10. The following year, she became the youngest player ever to become a member of the Japanese national team. Because of her age, she has been regarded as a "child prodigy" in table tennis.[6] At age 13, in 2002, she became the youngest-ever Japanese representative for the Asian Games.[7] In 2003, she reached the quarter-final, losing to top-seeded Zhang Yining, in her World Championships debut in Paris.[8] In 2004, she took part in the World Team Championships and helped Team Japan f...