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...penalty for an S.S.A. soldier caught dealing is execution, and a senior rebel source claims credibly that the S.S.A. now collaborates with Thai border authorities on some drug busts...
...million Total cost of the six-hour "anti-Thai" riot in Phnom Penh last January, when mobs set fire to the Thai embassy. Thailand reopened the embassy last week...
...most appropriate word is 'screwup.'" Jakrapob Penkair, spokesman for Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, blaming bureaucratic incompetence for the government's slow response to avian...
...Thailand, business disputes are often settled out of court, sometimes murderously. Economist Chris Baker, who helped conduct a survey for the World Bank, said most Thai businessmen don't trust the legal system, because they believe courts and cops can be bought. "Violence was quite a big option," says Baker. The country has an estimated thousand or so professional gunmen who earn their livings mainly by "solving" business conflicts. Few are ever caught. Shortly after Nopdol's arrest, Thaksin told the press that fingerprint evidence showed that more than one person was involved in Hangthong's death. Instructing police...
...TIME reporter bought Samurai from a stall along Taweewong Road in Phuket, Thailand. "We've had Last Samurai for three days already," said vendor Nook (not his real name). At his booth, just 50 yards from an official Warner Bros. store, Samurai was available with Thai, Chinese or Bahasa Indonesia subtitles. Business has improved, Nook says, since police stopped shaking him down for a monthly $60 payoff. Now he pays just $150 a year for an official ID card. Piracy has become so normalized that it has its own bureaucracy. Two days later, a reporter bought Samurai in Shanghai...