Word: bangkok
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...could have assisted in the hunt. Indeed, at the CIA, keister covering was in full swing long before the attacks of 9/11. In January 2000 the head of Alec station told his bosses he still had the two men under surveillance when in fact he had lost them in Bangkok. That bureaucratic chore completed, Alec station then dropped its chase altogether. It would be more than a year before a conscientious FBI agent assigned to the CIA re-examined the evidence and realized how badly the agency had blundered. The two names were finally given to the State Department...
...Occasionally, a naive Asian version of a Euro-theme movie gets into the festival?as this year, with Tropical Malady. This gay, but morose, love story begins in Bangkok and then heads for the jungle, where man-beasts and other cinematic metaphors lurk. Few people sat through the whole film; fewer still found much merit in it. Yet it won a prize, apparently at the urging of jury member Tsui Hark...
...Buddhists alike, to come together and unify their efforts to ensure that the social and religious harmony that we have long cherished prevails and that peace and stability are restored and enhanced for the benefit of the entire Thai nation. Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn Permanent Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bangkok...
...fancy Bangkok restaurant, a tureen of shark's fin soup will set you back as much as $250. But the real cost is to the environment, according to WildAid, a San Francisco-based environmental foundation. WildAid says the oceans' ecosystem is under threat from the annual slaughter of an estimated more than 50 million sharks, and the organization launched a print- and TV-ad campaign in mid-2001 that shows fishermen slicing fins off sharks and kicking them back into the sea to die. The ads also warn that fins might be contaminated with mercury. The campaign has been...
...Certainly not from Bangkok's Association of Shark Fin Restaurants, a group of about 30 Chinatown eateries. They're biting back with a $2.7 million lawsuit against WildAid and the local office of J. Walter Thompson, the New York City-based advertising agency that created the campaign for free. The charge: false claims by WildAid have caused their sales of shark dishes to drop by 50%. Last week in court, David Lau, secretary-general of the association, personally cross-examined Galster, alleging that the American conservationist had staged videos and faked photos of dying sharks. To TIME, he also claimed...