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...group of Harvard students travelled to the Abbott Laboratories facility in Worcester, Mass., yesterday afternoon to protest the pharmaceutical company’s recent decision not to allow Thailand??s government to produce generic versions of its Kaletra AIDS drug. The protest, organized by the Harvard chapter of the National Student AIDS Coalition, was timed to coincide with the Illinois-based pharmaceutical company’s shareholder meeting today. In January, Thailand issued a “compulsory license” that would have allowed companies to produce generic versions of Kaletra and Aluvia, another AIDS drug...
...civilian government by next week—following a coup there last Tuesday—undergraduates from Thailand and student organizations planning trips there are tracking the ongoing political developments. General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the leader of a new party calling itself the Democratic Reform Council, last week overthrew Thailand??s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, leader of the populist Thai Rak Thai party. Thaksin, who at the time was in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, declared a state of emergency and has not yet returned to Thailand. Thailand is currently under martial law but Sonthi...
Rising to become an active member of the Thai government, Sathirathai served as Minister of Finance from 1995 to 1996. After taking on various roles ranging from academia to government, he became the country’s foreign minister in 2001, and in March became Thailand??s deputy prime minister...
...helping hand to the massive relief effort. Their senseless indifference to this terrible loss and to the plight—ongoing and forthcoming—of those whose cheap labor made their vacationing possible in the first place, to say nothing of the 2,400 foreign visitors counted among Thailand??s dead, is staggering...
...Siam—his preferred name for his homeland—Sulak graduated from the University of Wales. Upon returning home, he founded the Social Science Review as part of his own attempt to understand the issues facing his country and its poor. The publication became Thailand??s leading intellectual journal in the 1960s and 1970s...