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Rare Irrawaddy Dolphins Facing Extinction in Mekong River
The environmental organization, The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) has announced a study finding that only 64 to possibly 76 Irrawaddy Dolphins remain in the Mekong river. The explanation given for the declining numbers is that toxic pesticides as well as industrial waste are so polluting [...]

Swine Flu Stampedes Through Thailand
Official reported cases of H1N1 flu virus have reached 310, doubling in the last 24 hours. The Public Health Ministry has asked provincial health and hospital officials not to speak to the media about swine flu cases in an effort to calm public concern about the spread of the virus. Suphan [...]

Burma Continues Preparing for Aung San Suu Kyi Trial
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winner, who will turn 64 this Friday, is currently being held at Rangoon’s infamous Insein prison on charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest after an incident where an American man swam to her lakeside house in May [...]

Thai Community Radio to Come Under Government Supervision
About 1,200 owners and operators of small community radio stations have hurried to submit an application for advance registration so they will be at the top of the line up when the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issues licenses and frequencies designations
The NTC has informed more than 5,000 neighborhood [...]

Thai Government Vows to End Violence in Southern Thailand in Three Years
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva spoke today about the violence in southern Thailand related to the Muslim insurgency which continues to take innocent lives. The government is setting a deadline of three years to end the violence which has recently included a shooting spree [...]

Cambodia and Laos Removed from U.S. Trade Blacklist
Companies doing business in Laos and Cambodia will be eligible for loans from the U.S. government with the removal of Laos and Cambodia from a trade blacklist meant to prevent loans going to “Marxist-Leninist” governments by the U.S. export-Import Bank.
* President Obama [...]

Swine Flu Toll in Thailand Now at 150 Confirmed Cases.
44 new cases of H1N1 flu have been reported by Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. This brings the official total to 150. According to the Permanent Secretary for Public Health, Dr. Prat Boonyawongvirot, most of the new cases are students who contracted the virus at school. [...]

Attn: Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts of Thailand
If we divide into two camps, even into violent and the nonviolent, and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of [...]

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