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...greatest success so far may be reviving the debt-laden rural economies. In the farming town of Bahn Rong Kong Khao, near the city of Chiang Mai in the country's north, the government's $2.3 billion Village Fund program, a microlending scheme, is a mini miracle, say residents. Narong Fongkraew, 50, who grows rice and chilies on his small farm, credits the Village Fund with saving not just his farm but the whole community. "After 1997, banks stopped lending to us and some people were forced to borrow from moneylenders who charged high rates of interest," he says. Recently...
...British, Israeli and Singaporean?in Bangkok. According to police, the group also intended to hit soft targets in the city's backpacker quarter and in the popular tourist resorts of Pattaya and Phuket. Even more worrying was the June 13 nabbing of a 47-year-old Thai national named Narong Penanam in a Bangkok parking lot after he allegedly tried to sell 30 kilograms of cesium 137 to Thai undercover agents. Cesium 137, a highly radioactive isotope, could be used to make a dirty bomb?a conventional explosive packed with radioactive material...
...deeply so. Details of the Thai national Narong, who was caught selling radioactive material, are still emerging...
...claimed to be a mere middleman with no clear idea of what he was peddling. But a U.S. embassy official present during an interview with the suspect said Narong admitted that he intended to sell the material to an unspecified terror group in Thailand, according to the Bangkok Post. Narong was hawking, for $240,000, an alarmingly large amount of cesium 137, experts said. His arrest marked the second such incident in Asia recently. On May 30, Bangladeshi police busted four suspected members of a militant Islamic group with a package of radioactive uranium suitable for use in a dirty...
Thai police said they had no evidence to support the U.S. allegations, which Narong denied. But his military patrons showed signs of backing away from Narong, leaving his appointment in doubt...