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...what I find interesting is that fast food is not new at all. It simply acquired a name in recent history. But people have been able to buy gyros outside the Sorbonne in Paris for many years, and satay sticks have been served from mopeds and in markets in Thailand forever...
...KING AND THAI Thailand recently cut off access to the site after someone posted a 44-sec. video depicting King Bhumibol Adulyadej with clown features and feet pasted over his head...
...could be easily prevented with a vaccine. For most of us, those needless deaths prick our consciences and motivate us to open our wallets, but they don't threaten our own health. Avian influenza is different. Though the H5N1 virus is spreading and killing mainly in Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, the possibility that bird flu could mutate and become a pandemic is a serious threat to us all. That's why Jakarta's fight with the World Health Organization (WHO) over how an avian-flu vaccine should be developed and distributed is so important...
...BELLE AND DEAN: Started by two British expatriates, this Singapore-based label creates organic-cotton T shirts, tank tops and baby onesies. The pesticide-free cotton is sourced from Turkey, and then shipped to a child labor-free factory in Thailand. There's also an inherent message in the garments' zoological motifs, says co-founder Issy Richardson. "Our designs are of endangered animals," she says. "That reminds people of our fragile world today." Buy from the website, belleanddean.com...
...humans, we all want revenge. But I ask myself, 'If I do it, how will that help me?'" LA-ONG LAIJIAN village leader in Lampaya, southern Thailand, where the escalating conflict with Muslim insurgents has prompted civilians to take up arms. In recent days suspected insurgents stopped a commuter van in Yala province and killed eight passengers, while three students died in an attack on an Islamic school in Songkhla province