The Scorpion Queen

Seeking the essence of scorpion farming: South of Bangkok

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April 9th 2011
"Scorpions don't live here except at our zoo. The weather is too hot and not moist enough. You need to go where there is forest like Isan (Northeastern Thailand) near the border of Cambodia. There are scorpion farms there," she patiently told me. "I was told there was a scorpion farm here," I said. "No," she answered with an empathetic smile. The words sunk in slowly as I kept pumping her for ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more