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...woman had abandoned the boy, leaving him with her parents in a remote village in Thailand--until she needed money. Then, her mother said, "she came out of the blue and told me that she would give him away." For a price: $260. And that was how two-year-old Phanupong Khaisri ended up in the U.S. He was a prop in the arms of a couple who had to look like a family: the man was part of an international prostitution ring, the woman an indentured servant he was smuggling into the U.S. Caught by the Immigration and Naturalization...
...hand. "No investigation had been made as to who was the rightful custodian," says Chanchanit Martorell of the Thai Community Development Center. "What was the rush?" Meanwhile, the boy's paternal grandparents have applied for U.S. visas to claim him. His mother is now the most scorned woman in Thailand. After saying she knew nothing of the smuggling, Tabtim Kaewtaengjan tearily confessed to reporters that she was an unfit mother. Her son, it turns out, had been used twice before on smuggling trips. In L.A., at first, "he was sick and scared. He would sleep 45 minutes at a time...
...appalled, however, by the choice of Leonardo DiCaprio to write about global warming. DiCaprio has adopted a facade of "caring" about the environment, but ethically he had no problem starring in a movie like The Beach, for which the production team altered the beach in one of Thailand's most cherished natural parks. Do I smell free publicity here or what? HAYDEN DE GRAAF Phuket, Thailand...
...degraded huge areas without suffering dire consequences. In the U.S., pioneers plowed up almost the entire prairie on the nation's way to becoming an agricultural and economic colossus, but America lost what may have been the greatest concentration of animal life on the planet. Britain, Japan, Korea and Thailand are among the societies that prospered even as they converted their original natural systems into farms and industrial parks, diverted and despoiled their rivers and re-engineered their coasts...
...more lucrative varieties. And industrial-scale fish- and shrimp-aquaculture operations sometimes damage the coastlines where the facilities are located. The farms can foul the water, destroy mangroves and marshes, drive local fishers out of business and serve as breeding grounds for fish diseases. In places such as Bangladesh, Thailand and India, which grow shrimp mainly for export to richer countries, diseases and pollution usually limit a farm's life to 10 years. The companies then move and start again...