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...countries. The cause is the same everywhere: increased consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor food high in saturated fats and sugar, combined with a decrease in physical exercise. The rise in childhood obesity is especially troubling. The WHO estimated that 22 million children are overweight worldwide, including places like Thailand, where rates of obesity in children ages 5 to 12 rose from 12.2% to 15.6% in the space of two years. Meanwhile, a large U.S. study of the long-term risks of developing obesity suggested that there is more bad news to come. The 30-year study tracked...
...facing currency headwinds. That's because the region continues to tie its fate to the U.S. dollar. After nearly three years of declines from early 2002 to late 2004, the greenback rebounded in 2005. Many of Asia's dollar-linked currencies have followed suit?especially those of China, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and India. The Japanese yen has been a striking exception, having weakened 14% against the dollar since early...
Kitti Manoonphol, the dashing 31-year-old Thai jewelry designer whose outrageous creations appear on the necks and wrists of Thai princesses and reigning beauty queens (Miss Thailand and Miss World among them), is setting his sights on the wider world. And his latest collection (which can be viewed at kittijewelry.com) might just help him get there. "Contemporary ethnic arts," the phrase adopted by Kitti to describe his latest work, barely does justice to his audacious combination of ancient bead-working techniques and modern junk. Visitors to his "art space" (read: store), on Bangkok's rapidly gentrifying Silom Road...
...Though there are no known cases of avian flu being transmitted by eating infected birds, chicken is off the menu for many in Southeast Asia. At least 130 people in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam have contracted the virus-and 67 of them have died-this year. While human fatalities in Indonesia have been relatively few (13 known infections and eight dead), the number of infected birds in the country is thought to be significant. "Based on our research, the virus has spread all over the city," Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono told reporters last week in Jakarta...
...jump into the human population. On Friday, Health Minister Siti Fadila Supari announced that Indonesia had been granted a license to produce Tamiflu, the best-known treatment for bird flu. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche approved requests to domestically produce and distribute the medication in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, where the anti-viral drug is not patent protected...