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...live donor is $1,500; for a cornea, $4,000; for a patch of skin, $50. Two centers of the thriving kidney trade are Bombay, where private clinics cater to Indians and a foreign clientele dominated by wealthy Arabs, and Madras, a center for patients from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Renal patients in India and Pakistan who cannot find a relative to donate a kidney are permitted to buy newspaper advertisements offering living donors up to $4,300 for the organ. Mohammad Aqeel, a poor Karachi tailor who recently sold one of his kidneys for $2,600, said he needed...
Countries that don't get with the program are asking for trouble. The Bush Administration in April placed India and Thailand on the Commerce Department watch list for possible retaliation because of those countries' casual treatment of property rights. In Thailand, cited as the most flagrant violator, copycat versions of Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software sell for the equivalent of $50 instead of the $500 U.S. price. New movies like David Lynch's Wild at Heart, not yet available on video in the U.S., go for $4 a tape...
...Kurds, the dearth of support for their cause is nothing new. They first began to seek independence for Kurdistan, which encompasses 28 million people in an area roughly the size of Thailand, when the Ottoman Empire collapsed after World War I. The Treaty of Sevres in 1920 promised them an independent state, but it was never ratified. Later that year, Britain annexed the oil-rich Kurdish region of Mosul to Iraq, then a British mandate. Intermittent insurgencies against Baghdad have followed ever since, and Kurds in Turkey, Iran and Syria have also remained restive...
According to Yu, the proposed tour would take the HRO through Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. "It looks quite hopeful and we're definitely very excited. We're really lucky that something like this came up in light of everything that has happened, but it all depends on the bank," he said...
...including the Prime Minister; imposed martial law; and suspended the 1978 constitution. The leader of the junta, General Sunthorn Kongsompong, 59, announced the takeover on state television and radio, proclaiming, "We are in control of everything." It was the 19th coup attempt -- of which 10 have been successful -- since Thailand's absolute monarchy was overthrown...