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...region: terrorism, economic turmoil, SARS. So it was no surprise to hear him declare last week Thailand's poultry industry?Asia's largest chicken exporter?safe from the avian-flu outbreak sweeping the region. On TV, the Prime Minister and his Cabinet cheerfully tucked into a variety of spicy Thai chicken dishes. Even the European Union's Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, David Byrne, was convinced, asserting: "There absolutely is no evidence of the existence of bird flu in Thailand...
...Agriculture Ministry admitted that more than 6 million chickens had already been culled. As China learned after its SARS coverup last year, viruses thrive in a climate of secrecy and denial?and can cost a country dearly. The E.U., Japan and other countries immediately banned the import of Thai chickens. Thaksin's own credibility has also taken a hit. Thai officials anonymously told local newspapers they were aware of the presence of avian flu in November but were told to keep it quiet and blame the culling of poultry on an outbreak of chicken cholera and bronchitis. Away from...
...Thai lawmaker Hangthong Tumwattana was visibly upset when he turned up at his family's 12-bedroom mansion on the night of Sept. 5, 1999. A scion of one of Thailand's richest business clans, Hangthong's personal fortune had been depleted by costly political campaigns and his familial relations strained by an ugly inheritance feud. "He was nervous, hands shaking as he ate," recalls younger brother Nopdol Tumwattana, who lived at the compound in Bang Khen in northern Bangkok with Hangthong and may have been the last person to see his brother alive. Hours later, after calls from panicked...
...case would not stay closed. Four years on, Hangthong's younger sister Narumol, convinced her brother was killed over their late mother's fortune, hired a Scottish forensics specialist and enlisted the aid of a Thai medical examiner to scrutinize the evidence. Their conclusion: blood spatters at the scene, the angle of the entry wound and other factors strongly indicated murder. Last Friday, after an investigation that lasted more than two months, prosecutors charged Nopdol with murder, but he isn't the only one on trial. The sensational case has raised so many questions about the way cops handled...
...Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, himself claims to have had no success dealing with southern Thai militants. The alleged former JI operations chief told his U.S. interrogators shortly after his arrest in central Thailand last August that Thai militants refused to help him blow up tourist spots in the country, recalling, "They did not agree with the targets." Whatever the motives behind the latest violence, there is no sign it will let up: last Friday, Thai security officers found a time bomb at a police station about 40 kilometers from the military base where the four soldiers were murdered. For once...