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Hatching Again Earlier this year, a massive epidemic of avian flu hit eight Asian countries, killing at least 23 people and leading to the death or culling of more than 100 million chickens - and that could be just the prelude. Last week China , Thailand and Vietnam all announced that they had chickens infected with the virulent H5N1 virus that causes avian flu, dashing hopes that the widespread bird culls had eradicated it. Officials in China quickly barred the export of poultry from the affected Anhui province and culled 30,000 birds within a three-kilometer radius of the original infection...
...SENTENCED. SOMCHAI KHUNPLEUM, also known as Kamnan Poh, reputedly Thailand's most powerful crime boss; to 25 years in prison for ordering the murder of a rival; in Bangkok. A former mayor who was courted by politicians and feared by criminals and cops alike, Somchai was long thought to be beyond the reach of the law. "I used to have rivals," he once told an interviewer, "but they all died." Freed on $250,000 bail, Somchai plans to appeal the decision in the Supreme Court...
...KILLED. CHAROEN WATTAKSORN, 37, Thai environmental activist; by an unknown assailant; in Thailand's Prachuab Khiri Khan province. The leader of massive demonstrations that successfully pressured the government into scrapping plans for a power plant in Prachuab Khiri Khan in May 2002, Charoen was shot hours after testifying at an anticorruption hearing in Bangkok. Supporters claim that his testimony, in which he accused local businessmen of corruption in a land deal, was a motive in the murder...
...DIED. THANOM KITTIKACHORN, 92, former Thai strongman whose military regime was overthrown in a bloody student-led uprising in 1973; in Bangkok. Thanom ruled Thailand in the '60s and early '70s as part of a triumvirate of dictators known as the "Three Tyrants," and allowed tens of thousands of U.S. troops to be stationed there during the Vietnam War. He fled into exile after being overthrown but returned in 1976, became a Buddhist monk, and never entered politics again...
...Lessons are held at a nearby camp run in conjunction with the Thailand Elephant Conservation Center. Here, mahout wannabes are put through their paces on the backs of the resort's quartet of female elephants?Champen, Lawann, Tantawan and Yom. Riding one of them is as fun as it looks: nudge both her ears to move forward, squeeze your knees together to stop, rock backwards to reverse, be patient when she pauses to relieve herself or yank the shoots off a tree (which happens about every 30 seconds...