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End of Telegrams in Thailand
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Wednesday 30th April, 2008 at 15:57:13| Words: 40 words | Category: News Photos
Thai people line up to send telegrams at General Post Office in Bangkok Wednesday April 30,2008. Thailand's telegram service shut down its operation later on Wednesday after 133 years of service due to advancing in the world communications.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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The Rose Garden Riverside, Thailand
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Tuesday 29th April, 2008 at 23:39:31| Words: 93 words | Category: Travel Photos
The Rose Garden Riverside, just outside of Bangkok, Thailand, is a popular tourist attraction for foreign visitors. It boasts large, beautiful and well maintained gardens with Thai-style houses on the bank of the Tha Chin River. An attractive Thai cultural show includes Thai folk dance, Thai boxing, sword fighting and an elephant show. Visitors can also stay the night in traditional Thai style houses or even have a wedding reception in this exceptional beautiful garden. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)
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Counterfeit Passports and Visas
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Monday 28th April, 2008 at 22:29:03| Words: 54 words | Category: News Photos
Mohammed Karim, 56, is seen handcuffed at a police station in Bangkok. Mohammed was arrested in a rented house in Bangkok on April 26 after police investigated a gang of foreigner who did counterfeit passports and visa for foreigners.The Bangladesh man was arrested and charged for counterfeit passports and fake visa, senior police said. (AFP)
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Siriporn wins Fight
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Sunday 27th April, 2008 at 10:27:37| Words: 82 words | Category: News Photos
Siriporn Thaweesuk, left, from Thailand, beats onto the face of Kayoko Ebata, right, from Japan, during a WBC light flyweight title in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, April 26, 2008. Siriporn Thaweesuk, the former female drug dealer from Thailand retained her World Boxing Council crown Saturday in a 10-round bout against the Japanese challenger. In a 2-1 decision, Thailand's Siriporn Thaweesuk bested Ebata in the third defense of her light-flyweight belt, which she won while serving a prison term for selling amphetamines. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Chotisak Onsoong
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Saturday 26th April, 2008 at 12:14:21| Words: 131 words | Category: People in the News
Chotisak Onsoong, right, a Thai activist holding flowers given to him by supporters, as he stages a protest while hearing a charge at a police station in Bangkok, Thailand on April 22, 2008. Movies in Thailand are always preceded by a patriotic anthem honoring King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a ritual that makes the audience spring to their feet. It's a gesture most Thais don't think twice about, but Chotisak says it violates his freedom of choice, and is willing to risk a 15-year jail term to make his point. Police said they would forward charges of lese majeste _insulting the monarchy_ to the public prosecutor in connection with Chotisak's failure to stand during the King's Anthem at a movie last September. The Thai placard reads 'Not standing, different thinking is no crime.'(AP Photo)
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ANZAC Day in Thailand
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Friday 25th April, 2008 at 12:02:15| Words: 73 words | Category: News Photos
Relatives of Australians and New Zealanders look at crosses laid during an ANZAC day ceremony at the site of the 'Hellfire Pass' of the Burma-Thailand Railway in Thailand's Kanchanaburi province April 25, 2008. Nearly 12,400 of the 60,000 Allied POWs forced to build the railway died during its construction in World War II. ANZAC Day, which stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, commemorates those who have lost their lives in war. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
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Black Knights Airshow in Bangkok
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Wednesday 23rd April, 2008 at 10:18:00| Words: 29 words | Category: News Photos
Pilots of the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Black Knights aerobatic team perform during a media preview at a military airport in Bangkok April 22, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
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Thai Policeman Delivers Baby
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Tuesday 22nd April, 2008 at 09:38:23| Words: 46 words | Category: News Photos
A Bangkok traffic policeman helps delivers a baby. When Sergeant Pichet Visetchote transferred into a special division of Thailand's traffic police, he assumed his job would involve handing out tickets -- not, as it's turned out, delivering babies(AFP/HO/File/AFP)
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Campaign Against Plastic Bags
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Monday 21st April, 2008 at 10:11:56| Words: 20 words | Category: News Photos
An employee fills a fabric bag during a campaign against plastic bags at supermarket in Bangkok (AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
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Songkran at Phra Pradaeng 2008
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Sunday 20th April, 2008 at 21:58:57| Words: 81 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Descendants of Mon people release birds and fish as part of the merit making ceremony for Songkran at Wat Protket Chettharam on 20th April 2008. People in the Phra Pradaeng District of Samut Prakan celebrate Songkran a week later than the rest of the country. In the photograph below, the winner of the Nang Songkran beauty contest, second from right wearing red sash, is releasing fish into the pond at the temple. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)
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Olympic Torch Relay in Bangkok
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Saturday 19th April, 2008 at 20:41:51| Words: 65 words | Category: News Photos
The Olympic Torch is carried by Yunyong Pathomsak in Bangkoki, Thailand, Saturday, April 19, 2008. Thailand's leg of the Olympic torch run got off to a peaceful start Saturday, as thousands of flag-waving supporters in Bangkok's Chinatown celebrated.(AP photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Rodger Gdnanson, 30, a Tibetan activist, yells 'free Tibet' as the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay passes the United Nations building in Bangkok April 19, 2008.(Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
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Nang Songkran Beauty Contest
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Friday 18th April, 2008 at 23:50:26| Words: 44 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Young Thai ladies take part in a beauty contest for the title of Nang Songkran on 18th April 2008. Mon descendents in Phra Pradaeng district of Samut Prakan in Thailand celebrate Songkran a week later than the rest of the country. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)
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Olympic Torch Arrives in Bangkok
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Friday 18th April, 2008 at 09:01:58| Words: 70 words | Category: News Photos
Jiang Xiao-Yu Vice-President of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games, center, holds the Olympic flame as he disembarks from a plane after arriving from India at military airport in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, April 18, 2008. Thai authorities said Thursday that any foreigner involved in efforts to disrupt the relay of the Olympic torch in Bangkok scheduled on Saturday would be subject to expulsion from the country.(AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Too Sexy for Songkran
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Thursday 17th April, 2008 at 09:08:13| Words: 47 words | Category: News Photos
A model wearing buttock-skimming hot-pants and a tank-top. A Thai girl band that took part in a government push for women to avoid skimpy outfits during Buddhist New Year was Thursday berated by the culture ministry for subsequently stripping off. (AFP/File)
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Suchon Boonplong
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Wednesday 16th April, 2008 at 22:43:19| Words: 65 words | Category: People in the News
Suchon Boonplong, driver of the 20-ft truck in which 120 migrants were crammed in the container, surrenders to the police in Thailand's Ranong province, south of Bangkok, April 15, 2008. Boonplong, the driver of a container truck in which 54 illegal migrants suffocated to death on their way from army-ruled Myanmar to Thailand has surrendered to police after a seven-day manhunt, police said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Daily Newspaper (THAILAND).
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Songkran Pictures 2008
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Tuesday 15th April, 2008 at 20:59:09| Words: 145 words | Category: Thai Festivals
A group of young Thai boys engage in a water gun fight on Rama IV Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, while celebrating the New Year. The three day event while religious in nature has become more secular over the past years with massive water fights being staged along with other forms of merry making.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Thai teenagers, their faces covered with talcum powder, gather on Rama IV Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, during New Year celebrations. The three day event while religious in nature has become more secular recently with massive water fights being staged along most avenues in Bangkok and around the southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
A group of young Thai boys engage in a water gun fight on Rama IV Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, while celebrating the New Year.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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Cobra Snake Festival
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Monday 14th April, 2008 at 21:16:56| Words: 30 words | Category: News Photos
Locals and tourists join a festival for cobra snakes and pythons in Khon Kaen in northeast Thailand. In this picture the snakes are being given a drink offering. (Thai Rath)
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Songkran in America
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Sunday 13th April, 2008 at 23:50:43| Words: 127 words | Category: News Photos
Slkavas Nalampang pours water on one of the Buddha statues at the Homestead, Fla. Thai temple, on Sunday, April 13, 2008, during celebrations for Songkran, the Thai New Year. Songkran ('The Water Festival') holiday, goes back to pre-Buddhist rituals during spring festival where water was thrown, as a symbol of luck, as people tried to bring rain to the spring crops. Then it became a religious custom to wash the Buddha statues once a year. Many Thais see the holiday as a time to wash away their sins from the past year. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
Ryan Sheurpukei, 8, is caught in the crossfire of water guns on Sunday, April 13, 2008, during celebrations for Songkran, the Thai New Year, at the temple in Homestead, Fla.(AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
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Songkran on Khao San Road
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Saturday 12th April, 2008 at 21:37:04| Words: 76 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Tourists participate in a water gun fight during the Songkran Festival celebration at Khaosan road in Bangkok April 12, 2008. The Songkran festival, also known as the water festival, marks the start of Thailand's traditional New Year and is believed to wash away bad luck. REUTERS/Kerek Wongsa (THAILAND)
Western tourists and Thais spray water as the celebrate on the eve of Thailand's New Year on Khao San Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, April 12, 2008.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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Exodus for Songkran Holiday
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Friday 11th April, 2008 at 12:02:21| Words: 39 words | Category: News Photos
Thais wait to board buses to leave the capital to celebrate Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year, at a bus terminal in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, April 11, 2008. The annual Songkran festival is held from April 13 through 15. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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54 Foreigners Die in Thailand
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Thursday 10th April, 2008 at 20:37:16| Words: 123 words | Category: News Photos
Rescue team members remove the body of a Myanmar immigrant from the truck that was carrying immigrants into Thailand at Ranong province, south of Bangkok April 10, 2008. Fifty-four illegal Myanmar immigrants died of suffocation while being smuggled into Thailand in a refrigerated container near the Thai-Myanmar border, a police officer said on Thursday. REUTERS/Daily Newspaper (THAILAND).
Thailand volunteer rescue workers collect the bodies of dead Myanmar migrant workers Thursday, April 10, 2008, from the back of a seafood van in Ranong, Thailand. Fifty-four migrant workers from Myanmar, most of them women, suffocated in the back of an unventilated seafood truck in southern Thailand while being smuggled to the popular resort island of Phuket, police said Thursday. (AP Photo/Daily News)
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Songkran Starts Early
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Thursday 10th April, 2008 at 11:03:47| Words: 60 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Children in Chiang Mai Province, in the north of Thailand, throw a bucket of water over passing motorcyclists as part of the traditional Songkran Festival. The annual festival isn't supposed to start until Sunday 13th April, but due to the hot weather and long summer holidays, some children have started the festivities early. (Thai Rath)
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Thai Farmers Guard Rice
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Wednesday 9th April, 2008 at 21:02:42| Words: 43 words | Category: News Photos
Thai farmers harvest rice in Roi Et province in north east Thailand in late November, 2007. Rice growers are facing the threat of theft as rice, the staple food for more than half the world's population, increases dramatically in price. (AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
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Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Bangkok
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Tuesday 8th April, 2008 at 21:42:18| Words: 72 words | Category: News Photos
A GMG Airlines passenger plane taxies on the runway of Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The Bangladeshi plane made an emergency landing Tuesday in Bangkok after a fight broke out between two passengers during the flight, airport officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries aboard the aircraft, which was carrying about 70 passengers from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Thai Girls Win Beach Volleyball
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Monday 7th April, 2008 at 21:33:33| Words: 38 words | Category: News Photos
Kamoltip Kulna (L) and Yupa Phukrong of Thailand celebrate after beating Minaochenchen and Jilin Jun of China during their final match at the Asian Beach Volleyball Tournament in the southern city of Hyderabad April 6, 2008. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder (INDIA)
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Thaksin Plays Golf in Cambodia
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Sunday 6th April, 2008 at 21:36:21| Words: 41 words | Category: News Photos
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (2nd L) is seen with ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (2nd R) during a round of golf at Angkor Golf Resort in Siem Reap province, 320 km (199 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh, April 6, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer (CAMBODIA)
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Chakri Day in Thailand
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Saturday 5th April, 2008 at 22:03:42| Words: 58 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Buddhist monks and others gather in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, April 5, 2008, to observe Chakri Day which commemorates the founding of the current ruling royal dynasty of Rama I. The occasion was also held to honor the late Princess Galyani Vadhana, the elder sister of King Bumibol Adulyadej, who passed away earlier in the year. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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Ratanachai Sor Vorapin
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Saturday 5th April, 2008 at 21:59:15| Words: 38 words | Category: People in the News
Thai boxer Ratanachai Sor Vorapin is weighed at a mall in Manila April 5, 2008. Vorapin will face World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight champion Gerry Penalosa of the Philippines at Araneta Coliseum in Manila on Sunday. REUTERS/John Javellana (PHILIPPINES)
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JiJa Yanin
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Friday 4th April, 2008 at 22:07:36| Words: 59 words | Category: People in the News
Thai action actress JiJa Yanin (C), together with fellow cast members, performs a mixture of Thai boxing and taekwondo during a news conference introducing her movie "Chocolate" in Hong Kong April 4, 2008. The movie, about an autistic woman who develops fighting skills to take on thugs who did her family wrong, is directed by Prachya Pinkaew. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA)
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One Billion Trees Campaign
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Friday 4th April, 2008 at 21:49:59| Words: 89 words | Category: News Photos
Scouts from the Thai Scouts Promotion Foundation fire sling shots with tamarine seeds in an attempt to grow trees in a forest in Sang Khla buri in Kanchanaburi province, western Thailand Friday, April 4, 2008. The special tree planting project, which combines natural means with modern technologies by using elephants and other animals as helpers, is working to grow 100,000 new trees in Thailand. The project is also a response to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) campaign called the 'One Billion Trees Campaign' to combat global warming. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Slash and Burn
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Thursday 3rd April, 2008 at 22:15:43| Words: 28 words | Category: News Photos
A farmer clears his rice field by using a motorized plough instead of the traditional slash-and-burn method in Nakhonsawan province, north of Bangkok, April 3, 2008. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND)
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Thai Boys Banned to do Castrations
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Wednesday 2nd April, 2008 at 22:17:19| Words: 32 words | Category: News Photos
Thai health officials have banned doctors from performing castrations, pending an ethics review of complaints about minors undergoing the operation as the first step toward a sex change. (AFP/File/Saeed Khan)
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Bangkok Climate Change
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Tuesday 1st April, 2008 at 22:47:01| Words: 54 words | Category: News Photos
Thai Greenpeace activists hold protest banners during the Bangkok Climate Change conference in Bangkok March 31, 2008. The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human purpose to defeat global warming. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
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