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...Other medical professionals, however, were happy to help. "We volunteered to help take the blood because the people don't want this Prime Minister," said Tip Daosakhun, a nurse from Siriraj Hospital, where Thailand's constitutional monarch is recovering from a lung infection, as she worked in one of the medical tents...
...other pomp and pageantry that usually accompanies the celebrations. The Dec. 5 outing will be only his second public appearance since being admitted to the hospital for what doctors said was a respiratory infection on September 19. The first was in mid-November for a religious ceremony at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, where he has been receiving treatment, during which he was confined to a wheelchair...
...Meanwhile, thousands of well wishers turn up at Siriraj Hospital each day to pray for the king's health. Doctors have insisted that the king has improved and he is not in anything approaching a serious condition. But his long stay at the hospital and continued absence from public view has fueled unease, speculation and rumors. Recently, the government arrested four people for allegedly spreading rumors about the king's health on the internet, which, it claims, caused a stock market sell-off in October. Reporters Without Borders, an international media watchdog group, has said those arrested are scapegoats...
...outskirts of Ho Chi Minh? Ballpoint pens? Staples? For a moment the guilt dissipates and I wonder why I've sacrificed an afternoon to a museum showcasing the most basic wares to be found in any stationery store. (I could, after all, be at Bangkok's Siriraj Medical Museum, where stands on display the preserved corpse of Thailand's most notorious serial killer and cannibal, as well as a deformed human testicle 18 in., or 45 cm, in diameter...
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