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Rehab or punishment?
07/03/2010 : Three years ago Nung, a 34-year-old who has used heroin, marijuana, ice, ya ba and glue, and was then undergoing treatment at the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority clinic for methadone (an opiate substitute) use, was stopped by the police.
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Better than nothing?
07/03/2010 : A local police officer stationed at Ban Sala Mai school in Tak Bai district of Narathiwat province expressed surprise recently upon learning that bomb detectors similar to the GT200 device were banned by the United Kingdom for use in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Too young to choose
07/03/2010 : Wimon (not her real name) still remembers the date: Jan 18, 2007. A normal working day, with the usual rush for meetings at the Udon Thani City Hall. On her desk, she found a sealed white envelope with her name on it. In the package was a .357 bullet and a sheet of paper with the message: "The next time it will be delivered at your home."
Global winds determine Thai Direction
07/03/2010 : Thailand's economic growth this year may not be as robust as some analysts predict if the country loses export market share to South Korea, which stands to gain under new free trade area (FTA) agreements with the European Union and the United States, says economist Anusorn Tamajai.
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Criminal law in Thailand Part I: A start
07/03/2010 : As lawyers, we are constantly presented with problems involving Thailand's criminal law and procedures. This week we will start a series on these. Before we can start, however, it is necessary to place the criminal law in the context of contemporary Thai society.
Following the drug trail
28/02/2010 : The production and smuggling of ya ba from Burma into Chiang Rai Province had doubled in the past three months, with Shan militias playing an increasing role in the trafficking, according to a businessman close to local drug cartels.
Land concentrated in the hands of a few
28/02/2010 : 'Are you comfortable with your wealth despite the fact that your countrymen are still mired in poverty?" a BBC journalist asked the wife of a politician in an African country after she had shown the journalist how many cars her family owns.
Leave us alone
28/02/2010 : It's hot. Brown dust sticks to sweat. Choking smoke from forest fires blurs the distant Burmese mountains. Overhead, giant hardwood trees soar 24 metres and more. Saw Naw Tu, an animist, stops walking, wipes his glasses, kneels and prays to the forest gods for their help to get us safely to where his family is hiding from the Burmese army.
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Thaksin: a pictorial history
22/02/2010 : In the year 2000, Thaksin Shinawatra and his fledgling Thai Rak Thai Party embark on their historic journey. He was the first elected prime minister to serve a full four-year term, the first to be re-elected at the polls, and the first to form a single-party government.
A star in the making
21/02/2010 : Our almost eight-year-old Klong Toey Miss Nong Ming made the Bangkok 10 o'clock night TV news a couple of nights ago. She shouldn't have though. In fact, it was "bad form".
Lao girls lured into child-sex trade in Udon
21/02/2010 : Ambling down a quiet, dimly-lit street lined with wooden houses, Peerawit Kampira tells his guests from Bangkok not to be afraid. "It's safe here ... because you are with me," he said half-jokingly.
Youth camp sows the seeds of peace
21/02/2010 : When Sunirun Ratanawilailuck asked permission from his teacher at a Chiang Mai school to attend a muliticultural youth camp in Pattani, the teacher teased him, saying he would measure his body for a coffin.
