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Elephants Play Polo
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Monday 31st March, 2008 at 22:51:40| Words: 56 words | Category: News Photos
Polo players battle for the ball while sitting on elephants during the exhibition match of the seventh King's Cup Elephant Polo tournament in the Golden Triangle, some 50 kms from Chiang Rai, Thailand. Buddhist monks sprinkled holy water and draped garlands over the necks of 28 elephants at the start of the week-long polo tournament. (AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
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Bangkok Earth Hour
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Sunday 30th March, 2008 at 22:30:51| Words: 65 words | Category: News Photos
A group of Thais cheer just prior to lights out at Earth Hour ceremonies Saturday, March 29, 2008, in downtown Bangkok, Thailand. Organizers see the event as a way to encourage the world to conserve energy. While all lights in participating cities are unlikely to be cut, it is the symbolic darkening of monuments, businesses and individual homes they are most eagerly anticipating. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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Tourists Given Face Masks
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Saturday 29th March, 2008 at 22:11:43| Words: 39 words | Category: News Photos
Villagers wear mask while riding through the haze that has blanketed northern Thailand in 2007. Thailand's northern provinces are battling a haze which has blanketed parts of the region after the annual burning of wood and agricultural waste. (AFP/File)
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Samak in Indonesia
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Friday 28th March, 2008 at 22:08:58| Words: 24 words | Category: News Photos
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej (R) visits Kalibata Heroes cemetery in Jakarta March 27, 2008. Samak is in Indonesia for a two-day visit. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA)
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Siriporn in Movie Deal
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Thursday 27th March, 2008 at 21:49:57| Words: 81 words | Category: News Photos
Thai female boxing champion Samson Sor Siriporn, left, and Niramol Sriyanond, Director of Women in Focus Productions, Inc., right, join hands after signing an agreement to buy Samson's biography at a ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Siriporn Thaweesuk or Samson Sor Siriporn as she is known in the ring ,who won her release from jail by becoming a professional boxing championship while behind bars signed a contract Wednesday to have her story made into a movie. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Steam Train to Ayutthaya
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Wednesday 26th March, 2008 at 18:09:23| Words: 54 words | Category: News Photos
Passengers went on a special steam train journey today to mark the anniversary of the opening of the first public railway in Thailand in 1896. The train ride went from Hua Lamphong Station in Bangkok to Ayutthaya, in a recreation of that first journey, 112 years ago. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)
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William Douglas
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Tuesday 25th March, 2008 at 22:41:24| Words: 56 words | Category: People in the News
Australian William Douglas talks to a Thai police investigator, not seen, on how he shot an American Gary Poretsky at a police station in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand Saturday, March 22, 2008. Douglas, 65, confessed to the fatal shooting of Poretsky during a quarrel at a restaurant in this northern Thailand city, police said.
(AP Photo/Wichai Taprieu)
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Nguyen Tan Dung
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Monday 24th March, 2008 at 22:41:51| Words: 32 words | Category: People in the News
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej reviews the guard of honor with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung (L) during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi March 24, 2008. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM)
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Hot Season Arrives in Bangkok
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Sunday 23rd March, 2008 at 23:32:14| Words: 34 words | Category: News Photos
An Elephant at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok is cooled down with a spray of water. The hot season has started in Thailand with temperatures already in the high 30's Celsius. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)
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Woman Goes to Own Funeral
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Saturday 22nd March, 2008 at 20:19:00| Words: 82 words | Category: News Photos
Monks and mourners at a funeral in Nakhon Si Thammarat were shocked to see a Thai woman arrive at her own funeral. Khun Duangkae had gone missing two weeks beforehand. Her mother then mistakenly identified the body of a murdered woman as being her own daughter. When Khun Duangkae turned up at the funeral, everyone thought that she was a ghost. However, she quickly explained that she had gone to stay with a friend as she was having personal problems. (Thai Rath)
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175 Years of US-Thai Relations
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Friday 21st March, 2008 at 11:08:37| Words: 55 words | Category: News Photos
In this photo released by the Thai Spokesman Office, Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, left, and U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Eric G. John, center, join hands in a tree planting ceremony on the 175th anniversary of the Thai-U.S. diplomatic relations at a park in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, March 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Thai Spokesman Office)
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Noppadon Meets Condoleezza Rice
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Friday 21st March, 2008 at 11:06:29| Words: 42 words | Category: News Photos
Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama meets with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on March 20 in Washington, DC. Thailand pledged Thursday to help transform Myanmar into a democracy through diplomacy, but said that change has to come from within
(AFP/Tim Sloan)
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Bangkok Fashion Week 2008
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Thursday 20th March, 2008 at 22:07:47| Words: 20 words | Category: News Photos
Models display L’Oreal Professionnel fashion during the Bangkok Fashion Week 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, March 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Margaret Crane Sentenced to 3.5 years
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Thursday 20th March, 2008 at 20:49:06| Words: 72 words | Category: News Photos
Margaret Crane, center, a Canadian woman smiles as she talks with an unidentified woman upon her arrival at criminal court in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand Thursday, March 20, 2008. Crane, 48, was sentenced to serve three years and six months in the prison for a murder charge when she shot dead her boyfriend George Patrick Dubie also from Canada in this northern city in July 2006. (AP Photo/Wichai Taprieu)
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Murder Suspect Caught
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Wednesday 19th March, 2008 at 22:43:59| Words: 93 words | Category: News Photos
Akaradech Tangae arrives at a police station in Phuket March 19, 2007. Akaradech, a Thai man suspected of killing a Swedish tourist on the southern resort island of Phuket, has surrendered to police after a three-day manhunt, police said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND).
Policemen escort murder suspect Akaradech Tangae to the crime scene on Mai Khao beach in Phuket, south of Bangkok, March 19, 2008. Akaradech, a Thai man suspected of killing a Swedish tourist on the southern resort island of Phuket, has surrendered to police after a three-day manhunt, police said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Stringer
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Thai Toddlers Get Married
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Tuesday 18th March, 2008 at 22:01:28| Words: 64 words | Category: News Photos
Relatives pour rose scented water over the hands of a young wedding couple in a blessing ceremony. Pictured are three year old Thai twins Pagorn and Atcharaa who recently got married despite their young age. Thai people believe that young twins should get married in a symbolic ceremony in order to ward off bad luck and to keep them out of danger. (Thai Rath)
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Hailstorm Damages Houses in Thai Village
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Monday 17th March, 2008 at 23:13:57| Words: 26 words | Category: News Photos
Children from a village in Phrae Province excitedly collected hail stones after a devastating hailstorm that damaged 200 houses and crops in the local farmland. (Thai Rath)
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Car Bomb Outside Thai Hotel
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Sunday 16th March, 2008 at 09:15:38| Words: 50 words | Category: News Photos
Thai forensic experts examine a car bomb blast site outside a hotel in Thailand's restive southern Pattani province. A powerful car bomb exploded at a hotel car park March 15, 2008, killing two people and injuring 13 others in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, an army spokesman and hospital official said. (AFP/Muhammad Sabri)
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General Thein Sein
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Saturday 15th March, 2008 at 20:48:04| Words: 78 words | Category: People in the News
In this photo released by the Thai Spokesman Office, Thailand's prime minister Samak Sundaravej, left, is accompanied by his Myanmar counterpart Gen. Thein Sein, right, shortly after Samak arrives at the airport in Naypyitaw, Myanmar Friday, March 14, 2008. Samak was in Myanmar for a one-day visit in a bid to shore up economic ties between the two countries as Thailand is one of the biggest foreign investors and trading partners of military-ruled Myanmar.(AP Photo/Thai Spokesman Office, HO)
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Gold Prices Rises
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Friday 14th March, 2008 at 23:32:44| Words: 62 words | Category: News Photos
A Thai shopkeeper, right, shows gold necklaces to a customer at a gold shop in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday March 14, 2008. After soaring to record levels in the past year gold reached a new milestone Thursday, rising to $1,000 an ounce for the first time in futures trading, a boon for investors, but a deterrent to consumers shopping for jewelry. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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National Elephant Day
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Thursday 13th March, 2008 at 22:06:05| Words: 52 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Elephants enjoy a "buffet" of fruit and vegetables during Thailand's National Elephant Day in the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya, 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, March 13, 2008. Thais honoured the elephant on Wednesday with special fruit and Buddhist ceremonies across the country to pay homage to their national animal. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND)
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Muslims Protest Danish
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Wednesday 12th March, 2008 at 23:42:09| Words: 91 words | Category: News Photos
Thai-Muslim protesters chant slogans next to a photo of a Danish cartoonist during a protest outside the Danish embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Some 800 Thai Muslims took part in the protest against the reprinting of a cartoon in Danish newspapers perceived as insulting to Islam.(AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Michael Sternberg , Danish ambassador to Thailand, 2nd left facing camera, talks with a Thai Muslim protester, foreground, next to a line of Thai police officers during a protest outside the Denmark embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, March 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Thai Supreme Court
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Wednesday 12th March, 2008 at 23:37:19| Words: 44 words | Category: News Photos
Thai judges sit during the trial of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra at the Supreme Court in Bangkok on March 12. Thaksin pleaded not guilty to corruption charges, in the first case to reach court over accusations against him by military-backed investigators. (AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
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Margaret Crane
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Tuesday 11th March, 2008 at 22:23:19| Words: 62 words | Category: People in the News
Sentencing in a Thai court in Chiang Mai, in the bizarre murder of a con man with cult-like appeal, killed by his lover of nearly 30 years, was inexplicably delayed Monday. Crane was convicted Feb. 29, but details about the proceedings are sketchy, including what plea she entered. Crane's sentencing has now been postponed to March 20. (Canwest News Service)
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A Farang Monk in Thailand
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Monday 10th March, 2008 at 23:23:23| Words: 85 words | Category: People in the News
A solemn moment in Samut Prakan as monks pray after receiving alms from a local family. The American seen on the left is a young backpacker who was caught up in the enthusiasm of people joining the monkhood late last year to make merit for the King's 80th birthday. Johan Folkinga, from Seattle, did a "half ordination" at Wat Chaimongkol while here on his gap year. His bare shoulders signify his status as a novice. He's now back in the US. (Richard Barrow/Daily Xpress)
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Thai Balloon Wedding
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Sunday 9th March, 2008 at 22:39:38| Words: 61 words | Category: News Photos
Colourful hot air balloons wow locals and tourists in Chiang Mai. The show was part of a mass wedding ceremony for 14 couples in 14 hot air balloons, which also carried official marriage registrars. The event involved couples who had won competitions around the world. It was also aimed at advancing Thailand’s popularity as a theme wedding destination. (Bangkok Post/Thai Rath)
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Thai International Kite Festival
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Saturday 8th March, 2008 at 20:39:25| Words: 46 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Chinese kite flyers prepare they kite at the 10th Thailand International Kite festival in the Thai resort beach town of Cha-Am, 160 km (99 miles) southwest of Bangkok, March 8, 2008. The Chinese team has the Olympic mascots on their kite to promote the Olympic Games. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND)
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Viktor Bout
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Friday 7th March, 2008 at 10:37:52| Words: 53 words | Category: People in the News
Thai police escort Russian Viktor Bout as he arrives at the head of the Crime Suppression Bureau in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday March 6, 2008. Bout, one of the world's most notorious arms dealers was arrested Thursday in Bangkok on allegations that he supplied Colombian rebels with arms and explosives, Thai police said. (AP Photo)
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Boonsak Ponsana
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Thursday 6th March, 2008 at 20:41:22| Words: 28 words | Category: People in the News
Thailand's Boonsak Ponsana plays a shot during his singles match against Hong Kong at the Sudirman Cup World Team Badminton Championships in Glasgow, Scotland June 15, 2007. REUTERS/David Moir
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Elephant injured in Snare
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Wednesday 5th March, 2008 at 10:59:23| Words: 52 words | Category: News Photos
Sampran, 6, who has an infected and swollen right foot, was moved from, Khao Ang Rue Nai wildlife sanctuary in Chachoengsao to the National Elephant Institute today for treatment. The young wild bull was injured by a poacher's snare two years ago, and his left leg failed to hear. (Thai Rath/Bangkok post)
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Manchester City in Bangkok
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Tuesday 4th March, 2008 at 18:59:24| Words: 88 words | Category: News Photos
Kasper Schmeichel, center, a player for Manchester City football club throws the ball to young Thai boys during a soccer clinic at Rajamangala national stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. The football club is owned by former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and Schmeichel accompanied him on his return from exile to Thailand, 17 months after he was ousted from power in a September 2006 coup. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Manchester City midfielder Kelvin Etuhu (R) kicks a ball during a soccer clinic at Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND)
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Prime Minister Hun Sen
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Monday 3rd March, 2008 at 21:51:49| Words: 67 words | Category: People in the News
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej (R) greets Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) during a meeting in Phnom Penh on March 3, 2008 . Samak Sundaravej began a series of visits to introduce himself and his government's policies to ASEAN member countries with a trip to the neighbouring countries of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the Kingdom of Cambodia from February 29 through March 4. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea (CAMBODIA)
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Senate Elections
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Sunday 2nd March, 2008 at 09:00:10| Words: 34 words | Category: News Photos
A Thai Muslim woman casts her ballot during an election for members of the Senate at a polling station in Thailand's Yala province, around 1084 km (672 miles) south of Bangkok, March 2, 2008. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom (THAILAND)
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Choummaly Sayasone
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Saturday 1st March, 2008 at 19:37:29| Words: 55 words | Category: People in the News
Visiting Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej(R) meets with Lao President and People's Revolutionary Party Chief Choummaly Sayasone at the presidential palace in Vientiane. Samak said Friday his newly elected government would press ahead with energy and transport deals with neighbouring Laos in his first overseas visit as head of government.
(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam)
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