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...With so many budget carriers starting up, they might be a bigger threat to each other than to the major carriers. Thailand has no fewer than seven low-cost operators. Tiny Singapore will be home to three: Valuair, Tiger Airways and an entry in which Australia's Qantas Airways is a major investor. Backed by powerhouse Singapore Airlines, Tiger plans to launch late this year on at least six routes. "We'll grow as quickly as we can and fly wherever we can," vows Stephen Johnson of Phoenix-based Indigo Partners, an investment company that owns 24% of Tiger...
...often spending more than $3,500 a day. It's a small price to pay, he argues, to keep the low-price tickets out of the hands of potential AirAsia customers and to foster ill will toward his competitor. (Fernandes contends this hasn't damaged his business in Thailand.) "I buy them and throw them away," Udom says, adding, "I didn't expect this dogfight to be so serious...
...years, international health experts have pointed to Thailand as a rare success story in the global battle to contain the AIDS epidemic. The situation looked grim for the country in the 1980s, when doctors reported that sex workers in Bangkok's famous red-light district were beginning to test HIV positive. There were dire predictions that the virus would spread rapidly through the population, infecting as many as 4 million of the country's 65 million people...
...scientists and activists from around the world gather this week in Bangkok for the 15th international AIDS conference, two new reports from the U.N. warn that Thailand's triumph may be in jeopardy. While Thai men are no longer visiting brothels in the numbers they once did, there has been an increase in extra-marital affairs and casual sex, and condom use has fallen dramatically. Meanwhile, HIV infection rates have spiked among young people, pregnant women and intravenous-drug users...
...Several factors have contributed to the worsening trends. "We have become complacent," says Mechai Viravaidya, (a.k.a. Mr. Condom), a senator and the principle architect of Thailand's successful anti-AIDS program of the 1990s. "People think because they can't see HIV anymore that we have it kicked, and they are taking risks again." Following the Asia-wide economic crash of 1997, successive Thai governments have slashed budgets for prevention programs to less than half their 1997 levels. Condom funding is down, education programs in schools have ended, and the media campaign has all but disappeared. Meanwhile, other avenues...