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How to move floodwater through Bangkok
19 June 2012
(IRIN
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As flood season revisits Thailand, experts and policymakers look to 2011, which brought the worst floods in half a century, to glean lessons about how they might safely move floodwater through Bangkok, the Thai capital, should they need to.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95680/How-to-move-floodwater-through-Bangkok
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THAILAND: Children trafficked to sell flowers and beg
4 June 2012
(IRIN
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In an impoverished town in Thailand, a trafficker offered a desperate woman living near the Burmese border US$160 on the spot, followed by an additional $120 per month for two of her 10 children to sell flowers in the Thai capital, Bangkok. The rent-a-child deal was to last three months, after which the boys would return home to their widowed Burmese mother.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95566/THAILAND-Children-trafficked-to-sell-flowers-and-beg
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MYANMAR-THAILAND: “The Lady” brings hope to Burmese refugees
4 June 2012
(IRIN
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Spirits were high among the select group of Burmese refugees waiting in the stifling midday heat to catch a brief glimpse of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, affectionately known simply as “The Lady”, during her historic visit to Thailand's largest refugee camp on the Thai-Burmese border.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95579/MYANMAR-THAILAND-The-Lady-brings-hope-to-Burmese-refugees
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THAILAND: Mapping urban farming
16 May 2012
(IRIN
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A Geographical Information System (GIS) is being used to map vegetable production in the greater Bangkok region, seat of Thailand’s capital, to analyse how urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) contribute to food security in the city of more than 14 million.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95461/THAILAND-Mapping-urban-farming
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MYANMAR-THAILAND: Struggling against malaria in conflict areas
4 May 2012
(IRIN
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Health workers carrying out malaria control activities - sometimes covertly - in conflict zones along the Thai-Myanmar border hope additional donor funding will help reduce infection rates that have remained almost impervious to health services.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95402/MYANMAR-THAILAND-Struggling-against-malaria-in-conflict-areas
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ASIA: Containing anti-malarial drug resistance in Mekong
26 April 2012
(IRIN
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Resistance to an anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, is suspected along the Thailand-Myanmar border and in southern Vietnam, but scientists are hoping that it can be contained. Artemisinin resistance emerged on the Thailand-Cambodia border around eight years ago.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95358/ASIA-Containing-anti-malarial-drug-resistance-in-Mekong
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ASIA: Asbestos - deadly but not yet banned
21 March 2012
(IRIN
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Even though public health experts recognize how deadly asbestos can be, its use is on the rise in the construction industry throughout Asia, according to the US Geological Survey.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95121/ASIA-Asbestos-deadly-but-not-yet-banned
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ASIA: Parliamentarians mull how to boost health
20 March 2012
(IRIN
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is bringing together on 19-21 March in Bangkok lawmakers from across Southeast Asia to discuss how to bolster their health systems back home.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95110/ASIA-Parliamentarians-mull-how-to-boost-health
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THAILAND: Rice pests multiply post-floods
12 March 2012
(IRIN
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Heavy flooding across parts of Thailand in 2011 has fuelled outbreaks of a rice pest that can decimate harvests, experts say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95058/THAILAND-Rice-pests-multiply-post-floods
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HEALTH: Malaria stunts foetal growth
6 March 2012
(IRIN
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Malaria infection during the earliest months of pregnancy stunts foetal growth even when the mothers do not have any malarial symptoms, according to a large-scale study conducted along the Thai-Burmese border.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95009/HEALTH-Malaria-stunts-foetal-growth
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