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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"></span><br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">The severe flood occurring to the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Mekong </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">River during </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">the past week </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">has been </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">causing much suffering to people liv</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">ing </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">along the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">River</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">all the way </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">from </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Chiang Saen </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">and the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Chiang Khong district in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Chiang Rai province, Thailand, down to </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Vientiane municipality</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Lao PDR, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">as well as to the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Nongkhai and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Nakhonpanom province</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Thailand.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma;">Outspoken anti-coup activist has been detained in prison since July 22.<span>&nbsp; </span>Two attempts have been made to post bail for her, but have failed.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Body Fashion Thailand (BFT) is experiencing an illegal strike at its factory in Bangplee. The strike is apparently an effort to force the company to reinstate a former employee whose employment has been terminated legally.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma">Until today thousands of workers have staged protest rallies outside the factory gates to put pressure on the employer; the workers demand is for the company to recognize the basic human rights of the workers.<span>&nbsp; <br /></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma;">During <a href="http://www.thaiconference.tu.ac.th/">the 10^th International Conference on Thai Studies</a> at Thammasat University in January 2008, Fah Diew Kan interviewed Andrew Walker, an anthropologist from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australia National University, after his presentation on &lsquo;Royal Sufficiency and Elite Misrepresentation of Rural Livelihoods&rsquo; in one of the panels.</span></p>

<p align="left"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Speakers at the XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008) today underscored the importance of simultaneously scaling up AIDS programmes and strengthening health systems in poor countries, emphasizing that the two goals should be viewed as allies, not adversaries.</font></p>

<p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Afflictions, fearfulness and dispirited living under political suppression which have been continued for 20 years or more in Myanmar are the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">manifestation</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">of the fact that we are hopeless for human rights development in Myanmar </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">as</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial"> SPDC has tried to present to international community.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Members of Reporters Without Borders today broadcast &quot;Radio Without Borders,&quot; China&#39;s only independent FM radio station, in Beijing just hours before the start of the Olympic Games opening ceremony.</font></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Painters, poets, singers, photographers, dramatists, authors, film-makers, musicians, and other artists are targeted because of their art and creation: they are silenced and censored through imprisonment, harassment, intimidation, and in the worse cases, killed.</font> </p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Today, George W. Bush the President of United States of America speaks at Queen Sirikit Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand. Find the transcript of his speech as following.</font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma;">A web-board user has been accused of l&egrave;se majest&eacute; by another user in a popular Thai internet forum, <a href="http://www.pantip.com/">www.pantip.com</a>, after they had a petty argument about the latter&rsquo;s published works that are on sale at Princess Sirindhorn&rsquo;s Phufa shops.</span></p>