Bangkok, Thailand, has been called everything from the Venice of the East to the Capital of Sin, but only recently has it been raising eyebrows as a cosmopolitan destination. The mantra 'anything goes,' once applied only to the city's naughty nightlife,
The critics may have a point. Tesco Lotus's superstore in Bangkok's Lat Phrao district is certainly a world away from the scruffy mom-and-pop stores that used to serve the local residents here. Sitting amid an ocean of parking spaces, this vast edifice
STREET WISE By Achara Deboonme
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Published on June 4, 2008 Anywhere on earth, locals are easily impressed with visitors if they can speak some local words - particularly greetings. Expatriates in Thailand know how the trick works.
* representatives of Thai civil society participating in the UN High Level Meeting * US and international drug-user activists * others, to be determined In 2003, the Thai government escalated their drug war, and it led to the extrajudicial killing of
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military says it has carried out an airstrike in the Gaza Strip after a Palestinian rocket attack wounded five people at a farm in southern Israel. The army says the people hurt in the rocket attack were working in a chicken coop.
BANGKOK, June 3 (TNA) - The People Power Party (PPP) which forms the core of the ruling coalition government has no plan to submit a motion calling for the rewriting of the 2007 constitution, written by Thai military-appointed legal and constitutional
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