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After Tesco entered the Thai market in 1998 with its brand of colorful, well-stocked superstores, angry local competitors tried to impede the powerhouse U.K.-based retailer's progress with a wall of lawsuits?including one that would have forced Tesco Lotus, the company's regional subsidiary, to shut off air conditioning because chilly stores posed a public health hazard to the equatorial Thai people. Frivolous legal actions were a minor nuisance compared with what came next. Over a five-month period last year, two Tesco Lotus outlets were bombed, another peppered with automatic weapons fire and yet another...
...long can Luang Prabang's slumber last? There are ominous signs of a rude awakening. In the old quarter's main street, Sisavangvong Road, tourists now outnumber locals. Satellite dishes bristle from roofs and backyards, sucking from the ether a steady stream of inane Thai game shows. Internet shops spring up daily, each filled with earnest backpackers clicking away. Highway 13 from Vientiane is now paved, putting the capital just a day's drive away...
...Omen Armed Thai police have been told not to carry water pistols during Thailand's New Year festival?in case they go for the wrong weapon during water fights...
...Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra has never been shy about taking on his critics. But that's hard to do when they are an invisible band of roving black propaganda-meisters. On March 23 the PM used his weekly national radio address to warn the kingdom about a plot to undermine his government. Thaksin said "devilish" forces have been paying an army of henchmen to ride in cabs and say terrible things about him-in the nefarious hope that the cabbies would pass the criticism on to other fares. "They're damaging the country, but I won't waver," a resolute...
...toxic chemicals in Pol Pot's internal organs. His remains were never subjected to a formal autopsy-Khmer Rouge guerrillas cremated Pol Pot's body shortly after he expired. But, to establish conclusively that the corpse was in fact the man responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians, Thai army officers took hair, finger nail and other samples from the body before it was cast onto a burning heap of tires and old furniture. "Those who poisoned Pol Pot were close to him," Surayud said. "They thought he was useless and would cause trouble." Still hiding in the jungle...