Thai students at rival colleges turn to gang violence

Don Muang Technical College director Pichet Sukhon speaking to a current student who was a victim of bullying by a rival school gang, at Don Muang Technical College in Bangkok. Students regularly meet up to clash with guns, knives or just their bare hands, fired up by a culture of macho pride and longstanding rivalries between different colleges. - AFP

BANGKOK (AFP): Pae was getting off the bus when a student from a rival Bangkok college shot him simply for wearing his uniform.

He survived but carries a deep scar as a permanent reminder of the attack -- just one episode in a wave of violent feuding blighting vocational colleges in Thailand.