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...father and daughter put a radio packed with plastic explosives and a whisky bottle full of liquid explosives in a bag in the overhead bin of a South Korean airliner. Then they got off on a layover. The subsequent explosion sent the plane spinning into the jungle near the Thailand-Burma border, killing all 115 people onboard...
...SENTENCED. Vasana Puemlarp, 65, Prinya Nakchudtree, 65, and Virachai Naewboonnien, 65, Thai election officials; to four years in prison, for abuse of power and misconduct related to ill-fated parliamentary elections in April; by Thailand's Criminal Court; in Bangkok. The three were found guilty of mismanaging the poll?which was boycotted by the country's opposition parties and later invalidated by the Constitutional Court?and allowing unqualified candidates to run illegally, giving a boost to the ruling Thai Rak Thai party. The men, who subsequently resigned their posts, were released on bail Friday and will appeal the verdict, which...
Researchers in Thailand have taken stem cells from the blood of cardiac patients, grown the cells in a lab and reinjected them into patients' hearts, where they set about repairing damage. Two UCLA researchers last week published a study demonstrating that they could transform adult stem cells from fat tissue into smooth-muscle cells, which assist in the function of numerous organs. Welcome as the advances are, the subject of adult stem cells is highly political and invites a conflation of real hopes and false ones. "There are papers that have claimed broad uses for certain adult stem cells...
...level of readiness also varies among other nations around the Indian Ocean. Thailand, which lost 8,000 people in the 2004 tsunami, has worked hard to improve local warnings, erecting 62 sirens on towers along beaches in six provinces, each capable of alerting people as far as 2 km inland. Those alerts are issued by the government's National Disaster Warning Center, the first such command post opened in the region after the 2004 tsunami. Sri Lanka, too, has earned plaudits for coordinating with UNESCO's regional efforts, and developing a strong system for disseminating warnings from the capital, utilizing...
...faster, there has been no increase in the number of referees. I agree with retired ref Gilles Veissière, whom you quoted suggesting that football needs another referee so that there would be one ref to cover play on each side of the field. Dennis Gillman Chiang Mai, Thailand...