" TV and mobile phone services package targeted to increase the number of True's pay-TV subscribers by one million by next year By Srisamorn Phoosuphanusorn True Corp yesterday introduced a prepaid package for its television and mobile phone services, aiming to raise the...
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"Aiming to be among the top five companies in the personal computer and laptop market in India by 2010, Japanese IT major Fujitsu says it had plans to capture about 20% of the market in another four years time. "
"AP - Thailand's Constitutional Court invalidated last month's parliamentary elections on Monday and ordered fresh polls in a bid to end a political impasse that has left the country unable to form a new...
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"The well being and life of 600.000 Thais living with HIV, including 200,000 women and 12,000 children, depends on readily available and affordable antiretroviral therapies. Currently, only 80.000 people have...
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"Reuters - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
said on Tuesday he would step down to defuse a long-running
political crisis, although it remained unclear exactly when."
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Turks.US - In yesterday’s early elections in Thailand, more than half of the voters cast empty votes in protest against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. A Thai Election Commission announcement confirmed the protest and said 50.13 percent of registered voters cast...
created by Troy | 7 years ago 390 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"The military has scrapped its 52-year-old practice of describing
transvestites undergoing the annual military conscription as having a
''mental disorder''. The offending label, used since the...
created by Roger_jg | 7 years ago | updated 7 years ago 2570 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
"As many as 50 000 people joined a campaign to oust Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at Bangkok's main shopping district on Wednesday, despite polls suggesting a growing public weary of weeks of street...
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Interesting comparision between photos taken in Thailand just after the 2004 tsunami and photos from the exact position a year later - via warshooter (blog for war photographers)
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"One of Thailand's most revered shrines destroyed. Bangkok's most popular religious site -- the shrine to the four-headed Hindu god Brahma at the Erawan corner (??????????) -- was smashed to pieces early Tuesday by a hammer-wielding mentally-ill Thai Muslim man. In the...
created by Populux | 7 years ago 277 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
As they say, Bangkok is the transgender Mecca for male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery. In Thailand it costs just $1600 USD for the procedure, compared to $25,000 in the West.
created by Populux | 7 years ago | updated 7 years ago 3534 views | 3 recommendations | 1 comment
CAR NICOBAR, India (AFP) - India offered tearful tributes to the thousands killed in last year's tsunami with countrywide memorial services, silent marches and beachside ceremonies.
On the palm-fringed island of...
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His last patient was 62 years old, married with two kids. He showed up wearing his wife's underwear, having come from the United States to Thailand to make his life-long dream come true.
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