Word: thai
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...Thailand's arrest of three Thai nationals in June and a Singaporean in May sent a chill through the country's balmy resort towns?police alleged the men were part of a Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist cell planning to commit Bali-style bombings in the tourist resorts of Pattaya and Phuket. Although the accused are in jail awaiting trial, a senior Thai intelligence source says the danger has not passed. An unidentified Thai believed to have planned the attacks remains at large and may still be able to carry them out. "We busted one cell but we know there...
...Beckham's name that's on the title of one of the sleeper movie hits of the year, Beckham's face that sells everything from motor oil to cell phones to Japanese chocolates, and a likeness of Beckham's body to which monks in a Thai temple bow in veneration. In Britain, Beckham and his wife Victoria, the former Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, have replaced Princess Diana as the staple of celebrity culture, adored by young and old, men and women, straight and gay. Last week ace trend spotter Marian Salzman of the advertising agency Euro RCSG Worldwide...
...Amount paid for six Thai spirit houses by English footballer David Beckham and his wife, Victoria...
...Beckham's name that's on the title of one of the sleeper movie hits of the year, Beckham's face that sells everything from motor oil to cell phones to Japanese chocolates, and a likeness of Beckham's body to which monks in a Thai temple bow in veneration. In Britain, Beckham and his wife Victoria, the former Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, have replaced Princess Diana as the staple of celebrity culture, adored by young and old, men and women, straight and gay. Last week ace trend spotter Marian Salzman of the advertising agency Euro RCSG Worldwide...
...haul of suspected terrorists in several Southeast Asian countries shows that authorities region-wide are getting serious about combating terror. But the arrests also indicate that extremists are adopting new tactics for causing fresh havoc?perhaps in response to the pressure being put on them. On June 13 a Thai national was busted in Bangkok not with conventional explosives but with a potential dirty-bomb ingredient, cesium 137. This followed a seizure in Bangladesh on May 30 of a stash of radioactive uranium. Now, an unheralded arrest reveals that terrorists may be experimenting with yet another deadly agent: poison...