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Can the Phoenix rise from the ashes?

'The problem with capitalism is shared inequality, and the problem with communism is shared poverty, I read once," says Lino Geretto, president of Thai-Italian Chamber of Commerce (TICC).

The problem is no problem when you look around to notice two squatting labourers working on another skyscraper or warming themselves around a fire.

Then you turn around and away, there's a skytrain to catch.

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Writer: Lucia Pivetta
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