It looks like a dive, because it is: 10 not-very-comfy tables in an almost décorless room (well, there are some Turkish travel posters on the wall). You order at the counter and get your own drinks from a huge refrigerator and your silverware from a ...
4 Dec 2008
The King's absence - the first in six decades - served as a reminder of the 80-year-old monarch's fragile health, and is likely to deepen the political paralysis gripping the country. -- PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK - IN SIX decades on the ...
4 Dec 2008
BANGKOK (AP) -In six decades on the throne, Thailand's king has stepped in to defuse political crises and halt bloodshed. But not now: The revered 81-year-old monarch was too ill to deliver his annual birthday speech this year. King Bhumibol ...
4 Dec 2008
Thailand's political crisis took an unexpected turn yesterday, when King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a man who inspires fanatical devotion among Thais, failed to deliver a keenly anticipated speech because of ill-health. His son and daughter appeared in his ...
4 Dec 2008
BANGKOK -- Thailand’s revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej has a throat infection and is on a drip, his daughter said on Thursday after he failed to make his traditional birthday eve address amid a crippling political crisis. Many Thais had been looking ...
4 Dec 2008
Canon, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Electronics are among the largest patent holders in solar photovoltaic panels, although they have no products in the field today. By contrast, many of the world's biggest producers of solar ...
4 Dec 2008
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 81, is the world's longest-serving head of state.
4 Dec 2008
Thailand's revered king failed Thursday to make a traditional birthday-eve speech because he is ill, his children said, ending hopes that he might offer guidance amid a long-running political crisis.
4 Dec 2008
In six decades on the throne, Thailand's king has stepped in to defuse political crises and halt bloodshed. But not now: The revered 81-year-old monarch was too ill to deliver his annual birthday speech Thursday.
4 Dec 2008
Thailand's revered and influential king missed his traditional birthday eve address due to illness on Thursday, a speech many Thais had hoped would provide short-term relief to the country's intractable political crisis.
4 Dec 2008
King Bhumibol Adulyadej did not appear on Thursday to deliver his traditional birthday address at a highly charged political moment.
4 Dec 2008
Thailand's revered king on Thursday failed to deliver his traditional birthday speech, dashing Thai hopes that the address would help resolve the country's political paralysis and unify a divided nation.
4 Dec 2008
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4 Dec 2008
Unless you're a reasonably hardcore gamer, if there's any chance you remember the King of Fighters games, it's as 1) a much less popular Street Fighter or 2) because of Mai Shiranui, the character who was fighting people with her...
4 Dec 2008
--King Bhumibol is hurt in a car accident in Switzerland, losing his right eye. Sirikit Kitiyakara, the daughter of the Thai ambassador to France, helps nurse him back to health. They are engaged the next year and married in 1950. ...
4 Dec 2008
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4 Dec 2008
Last night, the 44-year-old appeared on Larry King Live and — much like he did with Ann Curry a few days before — updated the host on what’s been happening the last 12 months. Here are some highlights:. On the new green homes already up ...
4 Dec 2008
Cashing in on America's love of both active video gaming and passive waist expansion, Burger King have begun offering cheap, Nintendo Wii-inspired toys as part of their Club BK kid's meals. There are ten to collect, ranging from a Paper ...
4 Dec 2008