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...liked Grinnell College,” she said, “but if I want to go back to Thailand for work, name recognition is important for getting career opportunities there...
Nantaporn Sombatsiri ’07, who hails from Thailand and transferred from Grinnell College in Iowa, looked to Harvard for its reputation...
When Somsak Laemphakwan's chickens started dying in early August, he buried the corpses deep in the ground, hoping to halt the bird flu ravaging his village in northwest Thailand. It didn't work. Later that month, his 11-year-old niece Sakuntala Premphasri developed a stomachache and a high fever. When Somsak took her to a nearby clinic on Sept. 2, nurses dismissed her illness as a common cold. Five days later Sakuntala was back in the clinic, unable to walk and vomiting blood. She was sent to the district hospital, and her mother, Pranee Thongchan, was summoned from...
...such a mutation could happen in the future?and the deaths in northwest Thailand demonstrate how unprepared Asia is for an unchecked outbreak. Most nations in the region have minimal stocks of antiviral drugs and no pandemic action plan. H5N1 vaccine, still in development, would not arrive in time to make a difference. If a pandemic occurred tomorrow, says Stohr, Asia would be "playing it by ear," politically improvising even as the death toll rose. "One of the most difficult things to explain to the public after a pandemic would be why we weren't prepared, because there have been...
...Whether dips in opium cultivation in key heroin-producing regions like the Golden Triangle - the region where Burma, Laos and Thailand meet, and traditionally Australia's main heroin source - also played a part wasn't looked at by the ANU study. But the federal government credits closer cooperation between Customs and federal police and a bigger a.f.p. presence overseas, as well as the simple size advantage Australia has over countries like the U.S. and Britain in coordinating its law-enforcement program. "In the U.S. they have 18,000 police forces; we have only nine," says Justice and Customs Minister Chris...