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...year-old twin terrorists toking on stogies as they order up a hospital siege? That may sound a little far-fetched even in the fevered imagination of the action-movie genre, but it was probably the most compelling detail of the hostage drama that ended in a bloodbath in Thailand Monday. In a surprise attack the Thai army freed 500 hostages and killed 10 members of the self-styled "God's Army," but the more shocking image for Western audiences may have been the photographs of the organization's leaders, Luther and Johnny Htoo. The boys are fundamentalist Christians...
...Rayong, Thailand, a street vendor was so worried about bank computers' erasing her life savings that she withdrew $2,700. The next day her home burned down and her savings went up in flames...
Before accepting the Nieman fellowship, Harsono was writing for The Nation, a Bangkok, Thailand paper...
Charumilind plans on traveling to Lusaka, Zambia, in an effort to learn more about the AIDS epidemic, continuing the line of research of his thesis, which is about AIDS in Thailand. He said adjusting to the culture will be difficult, but that it is his main goal...
...word sanctions sent delegates from developing nations up the wall. Thailand's Minister of Commerce, Supachai Panitchpakdi, who takes over as WTO chief in 2002, warned that if Clinton insisted on the issue, developing countries could "walk away from any agreement on a new round" of talks. To them, Clinton's words were nothing but protectionism wrapped in progressivism. But that position happens to be the one taken by the AFL-CIO. Unhappy about the White House trade deal to admit China to the WTO--an agreement that labor is now better armed to fight in Congress--the unions...