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...billion Amount generated annually by the Thai sex industry-an estimated 3% of the country's economy. Last week, the justice ministry debated legalizing prostitution...
...resort to privatization. (Syed Mokhtar's GIIG Capital signed an agreement last August to buy 60% of the dam operator from the government.) Just 10 days before Mahathir resigned in October, a consortium led by Syed Mokhtar was awarded a $3.8 billion contract to build a railroad from the Thai border to Singapore. Abdullah now says negotiations were not completed. Edmund Terence Gomez, a political scientist at Kuala Lumpur's University of Malaya, says that with a general election probably only months away, Abdullah "will look good in showing that he is against the appearances of cronyism...
...murky waters of one of the capital's klongs, or canals, to untangle debris from the propellers of riverboat taxis. The service takes no more than 10 minutes and nets him $2.50 for each dive. Luk Koong, 33, who was raised on the klongs and whose nickname in Thai means "shrimp baby," considered it easy money...
...Until Big got sick. Big is Thai pop star Apichet Kittikorncharoen, the 21-year-old lead singer of the successful boy band D2B. On his way home from a rehearsal session in late July, Big accidentally drove his car into a klong. A passerby jumped into the water, pulled him from the car and performed CPR. And Big?to the relief of hordes of Thai teens?breathed again. Though badly shaken, he was expected to make a quick recovery...
...Until Big got sick. Now, klong coliform levels are printed in newspapers. Radio stations have been swamped with callers complaining about skin diseases they suspect they have contracted from riverboat taxi rides. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is demanding answers from bureaucrats. Pornpot has none. "The problem should have been dealt with 20 years ago when Bangkok's population began to boom," he says. "But it wasn't and now we are in serious trouble...