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Looking For Lucky Lottery Numbers
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Tuesday 30th June, 2009 at 21:49:43| Words: 66 words | Category: News Photos
Thai people pray at Grandma Nak Shrine in Bangkok June 30, 2009. The shrine of a legendary 19th-century female ghost have seen increased numbers of visitors looking for luck through prayers since the economic crisis began in early 2009. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)
People search for 'signs' of winning lottery numbers at Grandma Nak Shrine in Bangkok June 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)
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One Month Old Panda
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Monday 29th June, 2009 at 22:16:28| Words: 51 words | Category: News Photos
A veterinarian carries the offspring of female panda Lin Hui at Chiang Mai Zoo, north of Bangkok. Lin Hui, a female panda on loan from China, gave birth to the baby panda in Thailand on May 27 after being artificially inseminated with her partner's sperm for a second time. (REUTERS/Phichaiyong Mayerku)
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Thousands of Red Shirts Rally Again
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Sunday 28th June, 2009 at 19:44:56| Words: 45 words | Category: News Photos
Supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra shout slogans during a rally in Bangkok June 27, 2009. Thousands of "red shirt" supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra rallied in Bangkok on Saturday in their biggest protest since violent street clashes two months ago. (Reuters)
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Elephants Dress Up as Panda
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Saturday 27th June, 2009 at 17:17:29| Words: 79 words | Category: News Photos
A staff member at the Ayutthaya, Thailand Elephant Kraal look at three elephants painted to resemble Pandas. Thailand is experiencing a panda craze with the recent birth of a baby at the Chiang Mai, Thailand Zoo. The elephants were painted to remind Thais that elephants, the nations national symbol, need attention too. (AP Photo)
Staff members along with others cheer at the Ayutthaya, Thailand Elephant Kraal as they are presented with three elephants painted to resemble Pandas. (AP Photo)
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UN Annual Day Against Drugs
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Friday 26th June, 2009 at 21:16:06| Words: 78 words | Category: News Photos
Packets of drugs are seen during the 37th Destruction of Confiscated Narcotics in Ayuthaya province on June 26, 2009. Thailand destroyed six tonnes of narcotics worth 276 million USD to mark the UN's annual day against drugs as the government vowed to step up its campaign against illegal substances. (Getty Images)
A Thai commando (L) stands guard next to officials filling packs of drugs in a containner during the 37th Destruction of Confiscated Narcotics in Ayuthaya province on June 26, 2009. (Getty Images)
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The Fashion Chessboard Contest 2009
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Thursday 25th June, 2009 at 21:10:18| Words: 65 words | Category: News Photos
Thai models dress as chess pieces as they parade on a giant chessboard at a shopping mall in Bangkok on June 25, 2009. More than thirty participating brands showed off their fashion on the 12x12 meter chessboard for the Fashion Chessboard Contest 2009. (Getty Images)
Thai models dress as chess pieces as they parade on a giant chessboard at a shopping mall in Bangkok on June 25, 2009. (Getty Images)
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PM Abhisit Visits China
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Wednesday 24th June, 2009 at 21:05:54| Words: 72 words | Category: News Photos
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, and Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, left toast each other after a signing ceremony held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, June 24 , 2009. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)
China's Premier Wen Jiabao (L) and Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva walk past the honour guard during an official welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing June 24, 2009. (REUTERS/Jason Lee)
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Tamarine Out of Wimbledon
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Tuesday 23rd June, 2009 at 21:45:07| Words: 60 words | Category: News Photos
Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn returns a ball to Spain's Arantxa Parra Santonja during their first round match of the 2009 Wimbledon tennis championships at the All England Club. Tamarine lost 6-4, 6-4. (AFP/Glyn Kirk)
Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand returns the ball to Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain during their match at the Wimbledon tennis championships, in London June 22, 2009. (REUTERS/Eddie Keogh)
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Strike Stops All Thai Trains
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Monday 22nd June, 2009 at 21:36:49| Words: 97 words | Category: News Photos
Porters sit on a platform of Hua Lampong railway station during a strike by railway workers in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, June 22, 2009. The Thai train stopped their operation Monday on routes throughout the country to oppose the cabinet's resolution last week to reform the State Railway of Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thai Buddhist monks and passengers sit on the benches after train workers went on strike at Hua Lampong train station in Bangkok on June 22, 2009. State Railway of Thailand (SRT) labour union members went on strike to protest the proposed restructuring of the railway organisation. (Getty Images)
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Thaworn Wiratchant Wins Dongfeng Open
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Sunday 21st June, 2009 at 15:01:01| Words: 43 words | Category: News Photos
This handout photo provided by World Sport Group shows Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand holding the winners trophy at the Dongfeng Nissan Teana Open at the Anji King Valley Country Club on June 21, 2009. Wiratchant hit a 20 under par 268 to win the event. (Getty Images)
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Brittany Daniel's Thai Tattoo
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Saturday 20th June, 2009 at 17:27:24| Words: 62 words | Category: News Photos
American actress Brittany Daniel gets a tattoo by famous Thai tattoo artist Ajarn Nu in Pathum Thani province, Thailand. (AP Photo)
Actress Brittany Daniel of the U.S. and the star of the comedy series "The Game" displays her tattoos for the photographers at the Tattoo Master Noo Kanpai parlour in Pathum Thani province on the outskirts of Bangkok. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)
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Sea Turtle Conservation Center
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Friday 19th June, 2009 at 20:26:54| Words: 112 words | Category: News Photos
An albino baby turtle swims with green sea babies turtle in a pond at Khram island, about 30 km (19 miles) from Pattaya, east of Bangkok. Special care is given to around 15,000 green and hawksbill baby turtles hatched and housed at the navy's conservation center each year. Once the baby turtles' shells are big and strong enough to protect them from various predators at about six-months-old the young turtles are released to the sea. Picture taken June 17, 2009. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)
Thai navy sailors take green turtle hatchlings out of their hatching hole in a beach of Khram island, 30 km (18 miles) from the busy tourist beach town of Pattaya, east of Bangkok. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)
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Govt Distributes Flu Virus Booklets
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Thursday 18th June, 2009 at 21:57:59| Words: 63 words | Category: News Photos
Thai Public Health Minister Witthaya Keawparadai (R) gives booklets about swine flu to vendors at a shopping market in Bangkok on June 18, 2009. Thailand's overall influenza A (H1N1) patient count reached 518 with 113 additional patients were diagnosed, even as several Bangkok schools resumed classes after being closed earlier this week to prevent the potential spread of the new virus strain among students. (Getty Images)
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Movie Pirates Arrested
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Wednesday 17th June, 2009 at 22:13:37| Words: 23 words | Category: News Photos
Nonthaburi police have arrested counterfeit pirates at a condo and confiscated 40,000 movie CDs with a street value of 4 million baht. (manager.co.th)
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Another Thai Teacher Shot Dead
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Tuesday 16th June, 2009 at 19:20:09| Words: 111 words | Category: News Photos
Members of the Thai security forces inspect as a body lies under a blanket on the ground next to an overturned motorcycle at the scene of a drive-by attack in Thailand's restive southern province of Yala on June 16, 2009. Suspected Islamic militants shot dead a female Buddhist teacher in Thailand's troubled south in a spiralling uprising against central government authority, police said. (Getty Images)
Police officers inspect the site where a teacher was shot dead in Thailand's Yala province, about 1,084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok, June 16, 2009. A bomb killed two policemen and a Buddhist teacher was shot dead on Tuesday in the latest surge of violence in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south. (Reuters)
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Thais Told To Wear Masks
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Monday 15th June, 2009 at 16:17:22| Words: 67 words | Category: News Photos
Thai students wear face masks at a school in Bangkok. Thai health authorities said they would step up the monitoring of workplaces and schools after the number of swine flu cases soared twelvefold in less than a week. The health ministry confirmed a further 51 cases of the A(H1N1) virus overnight, taking the number in the kingdom, a key hub for international tourism, to 201. (Getty Images)
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Health Workers Disinfectant Patong
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Sunday 14th June, 2009 at 15:36:30| Words: 48 words | Category: News Photos
Thai health workers disinfectant a road along Patong beach in Phuket province, about 862 km (536 miles) south of Bangkok June 14, 2009. Thailand's Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday 44 new H1N1 flu cases, bringing the country's tally to 150, according to local media. REUTERS/Boonrat Apiwantanakorn (THAILAND SOCIETY HEALTH POLITICS)
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Artifacts Return to Cambodia
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Sunday 14th June, 2009 at 15:29:59| Words: 115 words | Category: News Photos
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (L) shakes hands with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during the handover ceremony of seven Cambodian artifacts which were stolen by smugglers, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh. Abhisit is in Cambodia for a one-day official visit to discuss border issues. (REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea)
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, second right, and Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, left, stand by a piece from Cambodian artifacts of the Angkorian era during a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday. Thailand Friday returned seven treasures from the 12th century Angkorian era -- Cambodia's Golden Age -- which had been illegally smuggled from the country years ago. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Grenade Attack on Southern Bus
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Saturday 13th June, 2009 at 16:18:02| Words: 91 words | Category: News Photos
Villagers transport people injured in a grenade attack on a bus to a hospital in southern Thailand's Yala province June 13, 2009. Three Buddhist villagers were killed and a dozen wounded in a grenade attack on a bus and a separate drive-by shooting in Thailand's Muslim deep south, police said on Saturday. The attacks came as Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thuagsuban flew to the Muslim-majority region bordering Malaysia on Saturday, nearly a week after unknown gunmen killed 10 Muslims praying at a mosque. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom (THAILAND SOCIETY CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Monk Shot Dead in the South
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Friday 12th June, 2009 at 13:10:59| Words: 90 words | Category: News Photos
Rescue worker and villagers look at the dead body of a Buddhist monk who was killed by suspected Muslim militants on a roadside in southern Thailand's Yala province June 12, 2009. A Buddhist monk was killed and another seriously injured when they were gunned down while collecting alms as more violence erupted in Thailand's restive south, police said on Friday. (REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom)
A soldier carries the alms bowl of a Buddhist monk who was killed by suspected Muslim militants on a roadside in southern Thailand's Yala province June 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom)
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Flu Closes 2 Thai Schools
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Thursday 11th June, 2009 at 19:11:24| Words: 88 words | Category: News Photos
Thai school boys look out from a building at St.Gabriel's school Thursday, June 11, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. St. Gabriel's School on Thursday suspended all classes for a week after five of their students were tested positive to the new strain of the influenza. The school's first patient of the flu was a student who had no record of traveling to a foreign country. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
A mother and her son walk out of St.Gabriel's school gate Thursday, June 11, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Thai Food Market
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Wednesday 10th June, 2009 at 19:34:42| Words: 34 words | Category: News Photos
A blind man begs for money as he walks singing Thai songs at a market in Bangkok on 10 June 2009. (Getty Images)
Thai people eat noodles at a market in Bangkok on 10 June 2009. (Getty Images)
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Massacre at Thai Mosque
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Tuesday 9th June, 2009 at 15:11:57| Words: 113 words | Category: News Photos
Relatives look at the bodies of villagers after Monday's mosque attack by unknown gunmen at a mosque in southern Thailand's Narathiwat province, June 9, 2009. Thailand's army chief flew to the country's Muslim deep south a day after unknown gunmen killed 11 people and wounded 12 others when they opened fire with automatic weapons at a mosque during evening prayers in Thailand's restive Muslim south. (REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom)
Thai Muslim villagers look as victims of a mosque attack are buried in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province June 9, 2009. Gunmen killed 11 people and wounded 12 others when they opened fire with automatic weapons at a mosque during evening prayers in Thailand's restive Muslim south, police said on Monday. (REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom)
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Thai Muslims Protest Car Bomb
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Monday 8th June, 2009 at 18:42:31| Words: 106 words | Category: News Photos
Thai school children wave national flags as they take part in a protest organised to condemn a car bomb attack by suspected Muslim separatists a day before, in the Yi-ngo distrist of Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat on June 8, 2009. An insurgency in the southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat erupted in January 2004, and since then more than 3,700 people have been killed and thousands more wounded. (Getty Images)
Thai Muslim villagers take part in a protest organised to condemn a car bomb attack by suspected Muslim separatists a day before, in the Yi-ngo distrist of Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat on June 8, 2009. (Getty Images)
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Two Dead in Southern Car Bomb
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Sunday 7th June, 2009 at 19:20:49| Words: 81 words | Category: News Photos
Thai policemen inspect the site of a car bomb blast in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat on June 7, 2009. Police said two persons were killed and 19 injured when 50 kilograms of explosive packed in a car were detonated through a mobile phone. More than 3,600 people have been killed and thousands more injured in five years of separatist violence across the three restive provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. Buddhist-majority Thailand annexed the ethnic Malay area in 1902, sparking decades of tension. (Getty Images)
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Snow Town for Thai Panda
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Friday 5th June, 2009 at 18:46:08| Words: 61 words | Category: News Photos
Chiang Mai Zoo's Bt60-million snow dome will be open by the middle of this month, giving giant pandas Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui and their cub a new winter home. Before they move in though, the public is being invited to explore every square inch of the dome, where the temperature is a chilly minus-5 degrees Celcius. (manager.co.th)
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David Carradine Dead in Bangkok
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Thursday 4th June, 2009 at 17:56:31| Words: 28 words | Category: News Photos
Kung Fu and Kill Bill star David Carradine was found hung in a hotel room in Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police said.
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New Panda License Plate
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Wednesday 3rd June, 2009 at 19:05:56| Words: 37 words | Category: News Photos
A senior transportation official of Chiang Mai, shows a license plate decorted with photos of panda cub which was born in Chaing Mai zoo last month. It was part of a campaign to celebrate the birth. (dailyxpress)
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Yellow Shirts Form New Party
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Tuesday 2nd June, 2009 at 19:32:10| Words: 44 words | Category: News Photos
Senior members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) movement agreed Tuesday to name their new party as "Karn Muang Mai" or "New Politics", in an attempt to finalize the preparations for the party registration process, which is beginning this week. (manager.co.th)
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Robot Competition in Bangkok
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Monday 1st June, 2009 at 19:22:59| Words: 18 words | Category: News Photos
"iRAP RIDER" from King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok wins The TPA Robot competition. (manager.co.th)
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