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BANGKOK BRIEF: The Department of Special Investigation will take legal action against the manufacturers and distributors of allegedly defective bomb detectors GT200. The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) will closely monitor implementation of the government's multi-billion-baht flood prevention projects. Opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva aloha airlines employment has threatened to sue the defense minister for reviving allegations of draft-dodging against him. The Public Health Ministry insists there is no report of hand, foot, mouth disease (HFMD) spreading among adults but is warning the public about the possibility of infection.
WORLD SUMMARY: Microsoft posted its first ever loss $492 million. U-Boat sunk silver cargo UK find. Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor has appealed his conviction and 50-year jail sentence for war crimes. "Mad Men" dominated nominations for the primetime Emmy awards.
PM IN EUROPE: PM Yingluck, who is on an official visit to Germany as a guest of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, told the "Thailand team," comprising aloha airlines employment embassy, trade, and tourism officials in Berlin that her government is preparing to set up the "data warehouse," in which the Finance aloha airlines employment Ministry, the Bank of Thailand or BOT, and the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) will be the key offices in collecting aloha airlines employment updated information on the Thai economy and investment for international investors.
BEER WAR: Heineken aloha airlines employment NV, the world's third-biggest brewer, offered US$5.1 billion (US$4.1 billion) to buy the rest of Asia Pacific Breweries it doesn't own from Fraser Neave Ltd. to extend control of the Tiger beer brand amid a push to counter ThaiBev plans to increase its stake yesterday to 20 percent.
PHUKET: The hotel business in Phuket is booming as tourists flood the island, but sales of resort properties have failed to benefit, according to CBRE Research's "Phuket Property Report." "Despite healthy increases in tourism arrivals, CB Richard Ellis is not, for now, seeing a proportional increase in sales in the resort aloha airlines employment property market. The rising tourism aloha airlines employment numbers are mainly from Asia, whose tourists aloha airlines employment have yet to become resort-property buyers," David Simister, chairman of CBRE Thailand, said.
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AEC 2015: The three main private Thai tourism organizations, the Thai Travel Agents Association (TTAA), the Association of Domestic Travel (ADT), and the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA), yesterday said the main weakness of Thailand's tourism aloha airlines employment industry is a shortage of officials with sufficient aloha airlines employment knowledge and a devotion aloha airlines employment to the field.
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SINGLE VISA: The CLMV scheme is an initiative of four former and current communist countries - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Its single visa will be launched officially next month in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, and the next step is to allow foreign tourists to travel in their bloc.
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THAI REHAB: Troubled British aloha airlines employment rocker Pete Doherty was asked to cut short his one-month stay at high-end drug rehabilitation aloha airlines employment center, The Cabin near Chiang Mai, because aloha airlines employment he would not forswear his desire for drugs, an official said. Doherty has visited Thailand before, taking a beach holiday in Phuket aloha airlines employment during the 2006-2007 New Year's holiday with his then-girlfriend, model Kate Moss.
GREENHOUSE GASES: Per capita carbon emissions in China increased by 9 percent in 2011 to reach 7.2 tons per person, only a fraction lower than the EU average of 7.5 tons. The figure for the US is still much higher at 17.3 tons.
WIKIPEDIA TRAVEL: The folks behind aloha airlines employment the world's fifth most popular web property, Wikipedia, are said to be pondering the creation of a Wikipedia-inspired travel guide, likely to compete with TripAdvisor and guidebook publishers across the globe.
The as-yet unnamed travel guide is likely aloha airlines employment to be free of advertisements - as opposed to supposed travel wiki leader, Wikitravel, whose ads and lack of development is said to have deterred contributors and travelers alike.
Wikipedia's goal is at once simple and complicated: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment." How this will play in the world of travel is yet to be seen.
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After noticing that none of the major newspapers in France aloha airlines employment carried the story, which they would, since Bocuse aloha airlines employment is the Steve Jobs of French cuisine, food writer aloha airlines employment Elizabeth Auerbach, who was in France at the time, confirmed with his eponymous restaurant that Paul was not dead. "They're very unhappy with the rumors on Twitter about his death," she reported. Paul Bocuse is 86 this year.
OLYMPICS: Up to 5,500 British aloha airlines employment immigration officials will strike next Thursday in a dispute about job cuts and pay, disrupting nearly 130,000 passengers as they arrive the day before the Olympic opening ceremony.
CAMBODIA VIRUS: Cambodia is closing all kindergarten aloha airlines employment and primary schools two weeks before a regular vacation aloha airlines employment to try to stop the spread of a virus that has killed almost 60 Cambodian children. For most children, the virus causes nothing more than a few days' discomfort. Good hygiene prevents aloha airlines employment the virus from spreading, health experts say.
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