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During his two months in power, Thailand's new Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has declared war on various fronts. The feisty former governor of Bangkok has promised to rip up the country's current constitution, which was unveiled by the military junta that preceded Samak's ruling coalition. He has declared a no-holds-barred battle against Thailand's drug dealers, a fight that echoes a previous campaign by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the man widely considered to be Samak's political overlord. Samak has even vowed to imprison illegal immigrants who are members of a Burmese minority group...
...predicts political trouble will heighten in late April or May. But it hardly takes a professional soothsayer to come to the conclusion that the current government is on shaky ground. Although Samak's party is popular in the rural northeast, the right-wing politician counts far fewer supporters among Bangkok's middle class and political elite. Even Samak himself indicated last month that he had been warned of a possible coup attempt?although the Prime Minister did not elaborate details of the purported plot...
...manage to pull together a global effort to reduce carbon emissions, which seems less likely and more difficult every day. (A commentary in the April 3 edition of Nature argued that the technological changes needed to decarbonize energy could be much harder than we thought; meanwhile, over in Bangkok, diplomats at the U.N. climate conference last week made little progress on hammering out the successor to Kyoto.) If there is money to be spent on preparing the world for the health impacts of climate change, the priority should be adapting our public health system to a warmer world, versus spending...
...course feast is being touted as a "once-in-a-lifetime inspirational dinner." On April 5, Bangkok's five-star Lebua hotel will treat 50 favored guests to a repast prepared by a glittering array of Michelin-starred chefs. To thank the guests for their loyalty to the hotel, Lebua plans to spend $300,000 for the meal. Accustomed though they may be to showy p.r. stunts, social activists are nonetheless up in arms over this particular act of epic extravagance. The reason? The banquet comes with a pre-dinner commitment to what the Lebua's p.r. mavens have dubbed...
...spouse, Dr. Melanie Habanananda, adds: "If you use the term 'natural birth' here, people think it means you have to go sit in a paddy field to have your baby." Cesareans, she says, "have become very fashionable, especially among middle-class women" A third of the babies at Bangkok's private Samitivej Hospital, for instance, are delivered by C-sections, even though its birth unit was set up by Dr. Tanit Habanananda specifically to promote natural childbirth. (Those babies are also almost entirely born to Thai mothers. The foreign women who make up a large portion of Samitivej's admissions...