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NEW<br />
LEASE<br />
OF<br />
LIFE<br />
As UNESCO decides on<br />
Thailand’s application to<br />
list historic Phuket Town as<br />
a World Heritage site, the<br />
island’s entrepreneurs are<br />
already busily embracing<br />
their rich past<br />
WORDS SIMON OSTHEIMER<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY SUKSAN SAMRANRIT<br />
Have you ever been to Junk Ceylon?<br />
No, you say? We’ll wager you have.<br />
Once marked on maps under<br />
this exotic name by 19th-century<br />
European seafarers, Phuket continues to<br />
attract hordes of visitors to this day. Where<br />
once they were lured here by the promise<br />
of trade in tin mining, these days the main<br />
draw is its attractions.<br />
Over on the west coast, the dubious<br />
charms of Patong Beach lure the single male<br />
crowd, drawn nightly like moths to the
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