Is Thailand’s conflict-hit economy running out of luck?

For days, the piercing whistle of Cambodian rockets sent 69-year-old Kantapong Prakaew scrambling for cover in his makeshift bunker – a frail fortification against the conflict in Thailand’s Surin province.
He is one of the few elderly residents who refused to flee, holding out as artillery fire ravaged the fields and wrecked the livelihoods of a long underdeveloped region.
Across the borderlands, the recent flare-up of violence between Thailand and Cambodia has claimed dozens of lives and…