Word: thailander
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...convinced I’ve stumbled across a never-ending cycle of inter-relatedness. This summer I’m working for the New York Daily News, and, as it turns out, the business editor three rows over had dinner with my mom in Thailand 30 years ago because my mom’s teaching colleague and traveling companion was his cousin. Sounds like a soap opera, doesn’t it? And it doesn’t stop there. I met a friend two years ago at a dinner party and lost touch. This summer, amid hundreds of picnickers...
...best players as they can find. And the fans of Liverpool F.C., whose status as a local icon may be even greater than that of the Beatles, are facing the uncomfortable reality that the club may soon be partly owned by a consortium organized by the prime minister of Thailand...
...advent of effective anti-HIV drugs has lulled folks at all levels of society into dropping their guard against HIV-just as it did in the U.S. and other countries. "This government has done a good job on treatment and care," says Dr. Praphan Phanupak of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. "But they have to get back into prevention. There needs to be a balance [between treatment and prevention] if you want to contain this virus...
...Despite recent setbacks, Thailand is still probably the most successful country in the world in checking the spread of HIV. But AIDS flourish-es where attention lags, and attention is lagging not just in Thailand but in all of Asia, where 1 of every 4 new infections now occurs. HIV infection rates have hit new peaks in China, Indonesia and Vietnam. And in India, 5.1 million people are now thought to be HIV positive-making it second only to South Africa in number of cases. AIDS is not invincible, but it is relentless...
Earlier this year, a massive epidemic of avian flu hit eight Asian countries, killed at least 23 people and led to the death or culling of more than 100 million chickens-and that could be just the prelude. Last week China, Thailand and Vietnam all announced that they had chickens infected with the virulent H5N1 virus that causes avian flu, dashing hopes that the bird culls earlier this year had eradicated it. Officials in China appear to have responded quickly, barring the export of poultry from the affected Anhui province and culling 30,000 birds within a three-kilometer radius...