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...their convict parents. "Having a child near helps the parent reform his or her actions and be more eager to rehabilitate and readapt to society," Lopez adds, noting that Bolivian legislation on this issue was based on studies reflecting that trend. (See pictures of how boxing helps prisoners in Thailand...
...received a bowl of white rice as his birthday gift every year, Kim said on the severity of the hunger crisis in North Korea. The route over which Kim trafficked refugees runs from North Korea, through China and four other countries where the refugees are not officially recognized, to Thailand, which is currently the only country of the six that has opened its borders to North Korean refugees. Now an MBA student at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Kim is also the founder of Crossing Borders Ministries, a non-governmental organization dedicated to assisting North Korean...
...Britain's present - twentysomethings with end-stage liver disease, "binge black spots," city centers carpeted with vomit - also Thailand's future? It doesn't have to be. Thailand's per capita alcohol consumption is still half that of Britain's, according to the most recent figures from the World Health Organization. But Thailand could learn at least two lessons from Britain's battle with the bottle...
...First, forget about quick-fix, feel-good bans and start enforcing the laws you already have. In Britain, drunk driving causes 16% (rather than half, as in Thailand) of road deaths, thanks to a combination of strong policing, heavy penalties and shocking public-awareness campaigns. A three-day booze ban over Songkran will change nothing. Better policing will...
...Second, think before you legislate. Curbing alcohol abuse among young people, for example, has as much (if not more) to do with parenting as with policing. If Britain has any message for Thailand, it is this: to create a nation of responsible drinkers, there's no magic elixir...