Word: thailand
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...home sales. "The independent agent is pretty much going to disappear," Silverman warns, "because the consumer is being driven to branded products." He sees that happening overseas as well. In its first venture outside North America, for example, Coldwell Banker agreed last month to start franchising offices in Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia...
...dead leaves in an eddy through the guesthouses of Southeast Asia: this month Lombok, next week or next month or in another life, Loh Liang or Zanskar. Garland writes as they travel, without emotion or opinion or allegiance. His narrator is an affectless young Englishman named Richard, who, in Thailand, comes upon a hand-drawn map that seems to locate a dimly-rumored and supposedly unreachable island beach unknown to tourists or authorities. With a young French couple, flaccid Etienne and wanly beautiful Francoise, he manages to find this Eden, whose legendary sands can be arrived at only by jumping...
This year, the conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, concentrating on the theme of "Building Nations, Building Communities: New Approaches to Asian Development." The conference will focus on sustaining development, public health, and regional security...
...Omuga, this year's good news on AIDS underscores a bitter truth: the new combination therapies are of little use to 90% of the people suffering from the disease. In Africa, India, Thailand and to a growing extent Central and Eastern Europe, the treatment's price tag of up to $20,000 a year puts it way beyond the grasp of all but the superrich. "With this discovery, the AIDS gap only becomes wider," laments Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N.'s AIDS program. To most AIDS researchers, it has become painfully obvious that drugs of any kind...
...customs duty on pharmaceuticals brought from overseas, even a two-drug treatment can run to $3,500 a month, or more than 75 times the monthly earnings of poor laborers, who are the prime victims of the disease. "The new drugs will help the yuppies of the world," says Thailand's Mechai Viravaidya, a parliament member and leading advocate of AIDS prevention in Bangkok, "but for most people with AIDS, it's like a dog looking up at an airplane: he can see it, but he can never get a seat...