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...Samak's political overlord. Samak has even vowed to imprison illegal immigrants who are members of a Burmese minority group on a deserted island if they insist on fleeing to Thailand because of alleged human-rights abuses back home. But this week, Samak found a new enemy: Thai fortuneteller Varin Buaviratlert, who predicted last Friday that the current government would crumble before the end of the year...
...starred chefs - Alan Soliveres, Michel Trama and Jean-Michel Lorain - were to have catered the dinner, for a fee of $8,000 each. But the trio pulled out last month after European media assailed the hotel group for not committing any of its own money to helping the indigent Thai villagers. Lebua responded by saying it hopes the rural visit will spur some of the assembled guests to donate cash of their own. And the hotel assures potential diners that it has found Michelin-starred replacement chefs - although it will not release their names, presumably for fear that they...
...there's at least one Thai gourmet who may wish he'd stayed away from street food and stuck with pricier fare. Thailand's recently elected Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej, boasts a famous palate; before he assumed the P.M. post, Samak hosted his own TV cooking show. But during a trip to neighboring Laos earlier this week, Samak sampled a chili-paste-and-fermented-fish concoction at a local market, and found to his considerable discomfort that the dish disagreed with him. On April 1 - and, no, this was no April Fool's joke - local newspapers put coverage...
...China (approximately 26%). In Thailand, Dr. Stephen Atwood of the maternal and child-health section of UNICEF's regional office, says, "I've seen statistics from Bangkok General Hospital that suggest the national rate is as high as 65% of all births." (The actual figure is unknown - the Thai Ministry of Public Health told TIME that it does not keep statistics...
...fashionable, especially among middle-class women" A third of the babies at Bangkok's private Samitivej Hospital, for instance, are delivered by C-sections, even though its birth unit was set up by Dr. Tanit Habanananda specifically to promote natural childbirth. (Those babies are also almost entirely born to Thai mothers. The foreign women who make up a large portion of Samitivej's admissions prefer to try for natural birth, says Dr Boonsaeng Wuttihpan, head of Samitivej's birth unit, who adds that the hospital remains very committed to promoting nonsurgical delivery...