In CNN's ongoing series on Human Trafficking and Human Slaves is the episode where the question: Was your fish dinner caught by slaves? was asked. "In this video report above, CNN's Dan Rivers explores the story...
Diabetes control in Thailand is improving, but better awareness and patients’ treatment compliance is needed to fully tackle the health issues. So says Professor Wannee Nitiyanant, vice president of the Diabetes Association of Thailand under the Patronage of Her Royal...
Pattaya: Thai couple Echarai and Lakshnatiranarat locked themselves together and kissed for 46 hours, 24 minutes and 9 seconds to establish a new Guinness world record in kissing. The ‘kissathon’ was organized...
That Thai name was given (along with some land) to a Chinese man that helped in 'some war' (do you think i really care what war?;) .. That man is 'my' grandfather here in the village. (It's not through blood but via marriage.) But if you watch the attached video, you...
Indian Air Force Brass and Jazz Band with thirty musician played live for the general public at India Gate, New Delhi today. Gathered people received treat to the soulful tunes ranging from an overture to...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives in New Delhi tomorrow, China on Monday said Sino-India relations were "very fragile" requiring special care, to which India responded by affirming that its approach was "very...
In late October 2010, a large group of people living in and around Mae Sot, Tak province were closing in on a terrible 'milestone' of sorts: all of them – over 60 migrant children, women and men – were living with HIV and taking antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, which...
Nksagar Sagar Media Inc New Delhi: Dec 6, 12:19 PMIndia and France will sign five pacts at the end of summit level talks with a focus to give a big push to the bilateral civil nuclear cooperation....
Renewed fighting between Myanmar’s army and ethnic Karen rebels drove more than 1, 000 villagers into neighbouring Thailand Sunday.
They will join the 200 who fled late Saturday when clashes erupted between Myanmar’s troops and militias from the Democratic...
Reports trickling from Egypt the National Democratic Party (NDP) to keep its two-thirds majority; the banned Muslim Brotherhood to lose its base strong opposition bloc; still humble performance...
" A drug used to treat HIV-positive patients may offer gay and bisexual men some protection against contracting the virus, the authors of a new study say. Trials of the combination drug Truvada among nearly 2,500 men suggested it could reduce the chances of male-to-male HIV...
Ho, Ho, Ho$ed as 200 illegal Tamil migrants are preferring to stay inVancouver, versus Toronto. Hey, what's not to like? Free housing, welfare, medical care, schooling, generous Canadian old age pension for life when they reach 65 years old. Great...
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Poverty not only makes poor people more vulnerable to tuberculosis (TB) but also makes them less likely to access the existing TB-related prevention, treatment and care services. There is substantial number of active TB patients that are still not reached by existing TB...
Addressing poverty in TB control: The Thailand experienceAt the tuberculosis (TB) and poverty sub-working group meeting which was held recently in India (29-30 October 2010), the experience of Thailand in responding to TB particularly among those who were poor (or...
World Diabetes Day is on 14th November. Diabetes, one the four priority non-communicable diseases (NCDs) identified by the World Health Organization (WHO), remains a misunderstood and neglected epidemic with numbers increasing alarmingly in every region of the world....