THAILAND: True launches cable and mobile package (AsiaMedia)

" 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...

Asia Times Online

"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. "

Soccer-mad Thai monks too tired to take alms - Yahoo! News

Buddhist monks in Thailand are too tired to receive early morning alms because they are staying up late to watch the World Cup.

A post about drivers, blogging, comments or how to maintain a reader base

In this post, friends with tattoos, bad drivers, Big Brother Uk and Australia and how to maintain a blog reader base.

Thai Court Nullifies April Elections

"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...

US-Thai Free Trade Agreement: Unhealthy deal for Public Health

"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...

Thai PM to step down

"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."

50% + Voters in Thailand Cast Empty Ballots

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...

Thai Military scraps offending label against gays

"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...

Thai protest draws thousands

"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...

Thailand Tsunami Then and Now Gallery

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)

One of Thailand's most revered shrines destroyed.

"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...

Thailand and transexuality - Thai Ladyboys

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.

India mourns tsunami victims, vows to rebuild Indian Ocean base - Yahoo! News

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...

Thailand: land of dreams for hes wanting to be shes (AFP via Yahoo! News)

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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