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Bangkok ‘taxi graveyard’ comes to life with mini-gardens

By AFP
21 September 2021   |   11:54 am
From a mass graveyard for Bangkok's cabs left idle by coronavirus restrictions, a new business is growing: mini vegetable gardens and frog ponds set up to help feed out-of-work drivers.

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