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...outbreak began in a single chicken in November 2004, and within hours a team from the Ministry of Agriculture had descended upon the tiny village of Chart Charoen in northeast Thailand. Dressed in spacesuit-style protective gear, team members hunted out every bird in the village, slaughtered them all and buried the carcasses in a huge pit. That scene has been repeated countless times throughout Southeast Asia, where bird flu has become entrenched, but in Chart Charoen there was a critical difference. Instead of protesting the destruction of their flocks or hiding their poultry, as owners often do in other...
...KILLED. CHAROEN WATTAKSORN, 37, Thai environmental activist; by an unknown assailant; in Thailand's Prachuab Khiri Khan province. The leader of massive demonstrations that successfully pressured the government into scrapping plans for a power plant in Prachuab Khiri Khan in May 2002, Charoen was shot hours after testifying at an anticorruption hearing in Bangkok. Supporters claim that his testimony, in which he accused local businessmen of corruption in a land deal, was a motive in the murder...
Dhanin Chearavanont isn't ashamed to say he wants to retire. Still putting in 14-hour workdays at age 65, the chairman and CEO of Charoen Pokphand Group (CP)--Thailand's one truly multinational corporation--says he has found time to meditate on the possibilities of voluntary idleness (he's worth about $1.3 billion, according to Forbes). Maybe he would unmoor his yacht and sail off into the South China Sea. Or maybe he'd head to his farm and tend to his prized fighting cocks. Maybe. It's just that things keep cropping up at work, he explains...
...Here are three reputable Bangkok shops where antique opium paraphernalia can be purchased: Lampion and Cheng's Collection, both in the River City shopping complex next to the Royal Orchid Sheraton, and Kilin, at the Oriental Place on Charoen Krung Road...
...Phra Charoen Atipalow has experienced this firsthand. Collared near Bangkok's Chatuchak market on suspicion of being a bogus monk, he is interrogated at a nearby temple by its abbot, Phra Thai Thammarat, and Phra Khrusri Pattanakhun, chief of the monk police. He insists he's a real monk from Chaiyaphum. But when Phra Khrusri calls a few of Charoen's supposed temples, no one will vouch for him. Rather than turn him over to the two waiting policemen, the abbot decides Charoen should be disrobed and expelled for improper begging. The legal penalty is only $4.50 for the first...