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  • Traffickers 'recruiting children' in cyclone-hit Burma 13 May 2008 22:10 GMT
    ... worst offenders, along with North Korea and Laos. Many of those involved in the trade are ... thousands more could die of hunger and disease if restrictions on aid are not lifted. ...

  • Deadly struggle for migrants in Thailand 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... while the rest came from Cambodia and Laos. But only 500,000 of them registered last year ... the migrants documents to work and enjoy health benefits. The sectors across Thailand in which ...

  • ASEAN to deploy assessment team to Myanmar within 2 days+ 13 May 2008 10:31 GMT
    ... in coordination and liaison, water and sanitation, health, logistics and food. "ERAT will be deployed ... Pitsuwan said. ASEAN comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. ...

  • Wrong-way traffic reflects Burma's woe 13 May 2008 10:15 GMT
    ... than 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease in its wake. Myint, a former journalist ... roads from Thailand deep into Cambodia and Laos. Instead, drivers say the highway here is a ...

  • U.S. planeload aid supplies arrive in Yangon for cyclone victims 13 May 2008 06:15 GMT
    ... China, Singapore, India, Russia, Italy, Bangladesh, Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Ukraine, Greece and Pakistan and regions like ... organizations comprise the World Food Program, World Health Organization, Red Cross Society International Committee for the ... Yangon contain tent, plastics, blanket, water purifier, medicine, mosquito net, power generator, dry potato and ...

  • Global Poultry Industry is the Root of the Bird Flu Crisis 13 May 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... for the development and spread of the disease has been quietly ignored. The GRAIN report ... small scale chicken flocks. H5N1 outbreaks in Laos, which is surrounded by infected countries, have only ... Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, and Vietnam. The World Health Organization (WHO) said as early as March ...

  • 10 Million Children Worldwide Die From Lack of Health Care - May 06, 2008 13 May 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... Million Children Worldwide Die From Lack of Health Care MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- More than ... annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia, a U.S.-based charity said Wednesday. Nearly all ... time. Indonesia and Turkmenistan tied for fourth. Laos, Yemen, Chad, Somalia and Ethiopia were found doing ...

  • International narcotics agenda behind Myanmar instability 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... For the past month, the military government of Myanmar ... under control of the US and its drug-intelligence proxies, is by far and away the ... pressing opium growers to eradicate. 4. The Laotian government has led its own opium eradication ...

  • US War Crimes in Indochina in the 1960s: Truth as Casualty 13 May 2008 04:48 GMT
    ... to obtain information about Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian logistics on the ground. Visas for members ... South Vietnam and their effect upon the health of human beings, animals and crops." It ... the massacres, as they try to bring Laos under their control, as they plan the ...

  • An evening of book releases 13 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... leader. He commended the author – a medical practitioner – for touching upon ecological and ... writers from distant and unheard-of lands like Laos and Brunei also, apart from places like Thailand ...

  • Vital Lessons from Nam Theun 2 13 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project in Laos begins to fill, it will come under increasing ... will be available for spending on schools, health centers, roads, power lines, water supplies, and ...

  • HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: Keeping the Disease From Spreading into the General Population 13 May 2008 04:37 GMT
    ... he is lucky to have escaped getting HIV from the needles he used. He lives ... a relatively low rate of HIV infection, health officials in the country say the next few ... Quan Hoa district, in the mountains near Laos, peer educators provide clean needles to drug users ...

  • More int'l relief supplies flow in Myanmar 13 May 2008 03:35 GMT
    ... comprise bags of first aid kit, tent, medicine, water purifier, plastics and blanket. International humanitarian ... countries also include World Food Program, World Health Organization, Red Cross Society, Prince of Thailand, China, ... Singapore, Thailand, India, Russia, Italy, Bangladesh, Japan, Laos and Ukraine. The items comprise mosquito net, power ...

  • James Frey's terrible new book 13 May 2008 03:35 GMT
    ... Ultimately, though, it is still what's on the ... on $20,000 they've stolen from a vicious drug-dealing motorcycle gang, Maddie turns to Dylan and ... twenty-five thousand Armenians escaping Turkish genocide. Forty-thousand Laotians avoiding minefields. Seventy-five thousand Thais none in ...

  • 2008 Sundance Film Festival Announces Feature Competition 13 May 2008 03:34 GMT
    ... Levine, is a comedy about a teen drug dealer (Josh Peck) who falls for the ... the impact of U.S. foreign policy in Laos and to understand his father's involvement in the ...

  • Land Rover G4 Challenge Nevada Passage Adventure Competition - Finale 13 May 2008 01:45 GMT
    ... GREEN Phil Glenn 31 Reno, Nev. Emergency Medical Technician Laura Home 34 Santa Cruz, Middle ... Sales Brandyn Roark-Gray 29 Sandpoint, Idaho Mental Health Counselor TEAM YELLOW Garrett Wheeler 27 Waitsfield, ... deep into rugged, remote locations in Thailand, Laos, Brazil and Bolivia, coming to an end at ...

  • James Frey's new book is a poorly written novel set in an L.A. populated by shallow characters. 13 May 2008 00:08 GMT
    ... Ultimately, though, it is still what's on the ... on $20,000 they've stolen from a vicious drug-dealing motorcycle gang, Maddie turns to Dylan and ... twenty-five thousand Armenians escaping Turkish genocide. Forty-thousand Laotians avoiding minefields. Seventy-five thousand Thais none in ...

  • 10 million children die from lack of health care every year, charity group report says 13 May 2008 00:07 GMT
    ... 10 million children die from lack of health care every year, charity group report says ... annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia, a U.S.-based charity said Wednesday. Nearly all ... time. Indonesia and Turkmenistan tied for fourth. Laos, Yemen, Chad, Somalia and Ethiopia were found doing ...

  • 10M Children Worldwide Die from Lack of Health Care 12 May 2008 23:51 GMT
    ... 10M children worldwide die from lack of health care MANILA, Philippines - More than 200 ... annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia, a U.S.-based charity said Wednesday. Nearly all ... time. Indonesia and Turkmenistan tied for fourth. Laos, Yemen, Chad, Somalia and Ethiopia were found doing ...

  • Awards show art's power to teach, heal: Among Bethlehem group's honorees is local icon 'Mr. I.' 12 May 2008 23:19 GMT
    ... May 10, 2008 (The Morning Call - McClatchy-Tribune Information ... held Friday at the Hotel Bethlehem, rewarded health, education and wellness. The Mayor's Award, given ... accepted Gene Pembroke's color photograph of a Laotian infant in a bathtub and a pot ...

  • Christians Without Bibles 12 May 2008 23:09 GMT
    ... constant reference requirements. Each one of our health professionals should possess a classical textbook covering ... the specialists who generally make up the medical teams. In medicine, many problems are urgent, ... name in honor of a region of Laos where they had been representing Cuba. There are ...

  • Rudd's grand ambition 12 May 2008 23:07 GMT
    ... that GW Bush (with his war on Drugs) and the British and French leaders have ... its “dirty illegal war” in Cambodia and Laos. Is this another repeat performance? Which ever way ... left us with the legacy of inflation,slashed education/health expenditure, ignored the environment until it bit ...

  • Fear Trumps Freedom In A Perpetual War 12 May 2008 22:59 GMT
    ... (1958), Cuba (1959), Vietnam (1961), Congo (1964), Laos (1964), Peru (1965), Cambodia (1969), Lebanon (1983), Grenada ... so we've declared war on crime, poverty, drugs -- just about anything we consider undesirable. ...

  • Statement of Samuel L. Maury, President of The Business Roundtable before the Subcommitee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means 12 May 2008 22:45 GMT
    ... both immediate and long-term implications for the health of the U.S. economy. Not only do ... in 1992. (ASEAN comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.) In November ...

  • Zoo Day: Chinese Box Turtle 12 May 2008 22:37 GMT
    ... box turtles are native to places like Laos and Vietnam, but it's an animal on ... is thought to have curing properties for diseases like cancer. Erika Di Venti from the San Diego ...


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