Word: bangkok
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...worried that an Asian capital may be next?particularly given that the Madrid train attack prompted the new Spanish government to pledge to withdraw its troops from Iraq. South Korea has beefed up security on its trains, planes and other public transport, while Thailand has done the same at Bangkok airport, foreign embassies and so-called soft targets such as the tourist resorts in Pattaya and Phuket...
...eight and devastated the country's chicken industry. Then, in quick succession, he was forced to back down from a controversial plan to close entertainment venues at midnight, respond to accusations that he was using his influence to muffle criticism in the local press, watch as thousands rallied in Bangkok to protest government plans to privatize state-owned industries, and defend his heavy-handed war on drugs after the U.S. State Department cited it as proof that Thailand's human-rights record had "worsened...
...unveil a $300 million economic-aid package. But whatever credit Thaksin received for this development initiative he soon lost when reporters grilled him about another issue galvanizing the south: the disappearance of prominent Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelahphaijit. Somchai, a father of five, had vanished after going to a Bangkok hotel on March 12 to meet a client. A few days later his Honda Civic?showing signs that it had been rammed by another car?was found abandoned in a parking...
...lawyer." But to Muslims in the south, Somchai, 52, is a hero and icon. He has devoted his career to defending their rights against what he felt were "gross injustices committed by the central government against Muslims," says Sittisak Kongluer, a colleague of Somchai's at their small Bangkok law firm. Somchai's high-profile and often-controversial clients include four Thai Muslims accused of involvement in regional terror network Jemaah Islamiah and five men suspected of planning a deadly raid on a Thai army base on Jan. 4. The attack sparked an upsurge of violence in the area that...
...just about every injustice on the continent, and hardly a week goes by without a high-profile visit or statement of outrage. Over the weekend, one of the original bad girls of rock, the Pretenders' lead singer and vegetarian Chrissie Hynde, was scheduled to make an appearance at a Bangkok outlet of KFC?accompanied by a protester in a giant chicken suit?to tell Thais that eating drumsticks is bad for both man and bird. Hynde, in town for a concert, is but the latest in a trail of glamorous activists...