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...Every hundred years there have been three or four pandemics and there's no reason to believe we will be spared." DR. KLAUS STOHR, head of the World Health Organization's Global Influenza Programme, on the possibility that the avian-flu virus, which has killed 32 people in Thailand and Vietnam so far this year, could lead to a worldwide outbreak...
...last year, in which dozens of her followers were killed. And some members of the regional bloc are increasingly apprehensive about Burma's turn to chair ASEAN in 2006. (The leadership rotates among its members.) "ASEAN is heading toward a very embarrassing situation," says Senator Kraisak Choonhavan, chairman of Thailand's Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs...
...Thailand's revered monarch rarely comments on affairs of state. But following the surge in violence in the deep south that was sparked by the deaths in October of 85 Muslim protesters in the custody of security forces, both King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his wife, Queen Sirikit, have spoken out. On Wednesday, in a speech broadcast to the nation, the King told a gathering of military and police generals in Bangkok that they must adopt softer tactics to handle the unrest?and warned that if they do not "manage the situation properly" the nation may "fall into ruin." The previous...
...putting her foot in her mouth, she's edging it toward a slippery slope--quite literally when she takes a skiing vacation with Darcy, and more figuratively when Grant's Daniel Cleaver puts his absurdly smooth and hilariously transparent moves on her. Later she finds herself in jail in Thailand, the innocent victim of a drug bust. The logic of this plotting may be--well, is--a little shaky, but who cares? Just as we are prepared to forgive Bridget the woman, so we forgive Bridget the movie its obvious flaws because of its equally inescapable charm. --By Richard Schickel
...ASIA THAILAND: A deadly crackdown on southern Muslims sparks outrage...