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...Bangkok has its attractions, but if you're a frequent visitor to Thailand and have had your fill of the capital's shopping and traffic, chances are you'll be arriving at Don Muang airport with but one desire: to get to the coast as fast as possible. There's good news if your chosen resort is Hua Hin. After a three-year hiatus, commercial flights have resumed between Bangkok and the seaside sanctuary most favored by Thailand's royal family. With the train taking more than four hours-and the tiresome 200-km road trip lasting almost as long...
...World Cup finals-the first time women were allowed at a professional soccer match in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution 0 Number of fans at Japan's World Cup finals-qualifying 2-0 defeat of North Korea; the match was played in a closed stadium in Bangkok following riots during March's North Korea-Iran game in Pyongyang
...CLOSED. THAM KRABOK CAMP, home to ethnic Hmong refugees from neighboring Laos since 1992; following an agreement by the U.S. to accept most of its remaining 5,000 residents under a refugee resettlement deal; in Tham Krabok, Thailand. Located 130 km north of Bangkok on the grounds of a Buddhist temple, the camp once housed as many as 20,000 people. Its closure marks the end of a nearly three-decade-long project to resettle more than 300,000 Hmong, who were enlisted by the U.S. to fight communists in Laos and were consequently persecuted by the ruling regime...
...country, I headed back to Saigon to try to bring out Nga's parents, five sisters and her brother. We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed help getting on an evacuation flight. On April 29, I boarded an Air Vietnam 707 in Bangkok bound for Saigon. But Tan Son Nhut airport had fallen overnight, and after circling over the Mekong Delta, the flight was diverted to Hong Kong. For me, Vietnam would have to wait. For Nga's family, it was six dreary years of privation before they were allowed to leave...
...aptly illustrates Executive Producer Andrew Lack's desire to look at much reported stories from a different, even idiosyncratic, angle. Instead of running a segment about Viet Nam veterans in the U.S., for example, Lack plans to focus on the some 1,000 former soldiers who now live in Bangkok. "My mandate is to be new," says Lack. "I want people to watch this and say, 'Jesus Christ, I didn't know that...