Why frogs brighten Thai youths' futures
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Schools are teaching business courses, like frog-raising, to fight the widespread unemployment among Southeast Asian youth.
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American Robert Higgins was just a toddler when he first longed to be a woman. Fifty years later that dream has become a reality with the help of surgeons half a world away, in Thailand.
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Almost a third of the world&#39;s frogs, toads, salamanders and other amphibians are threatened with extinction within 100 years, according to a study.
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HOUSTON - As if a plain old thong wasn't enough to accentuate what isn't covered, a Rice University MBA student has shed some neon light on the skin with a glow-in-the-dark version.
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They are young and strong and vibrant, their hair blowing in the wind, their smiles incandescent, their eyes awash with confidence in their own specialness. We call them larger than life. We call them immortal.
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The small frogs that croaked in Diane Butler's backyard pond had been silenced and her goldfish were disappearing. She had the culprit, dead in a plastic bag inside her freezer. Butler's capture &#151; a 4 1/2-inch Cuban tree frog &#151; in coastal Savannah has caused a nervous stir among wildlife biologists in Georgia and Florida.
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During long years of war and severe poverty in Vietnam, milk and meat were true luxuries only the rich could afford. Many children went blind from lack of vitamin A. Countless others experienced stunted growth that has kept the whole population short and thin. But after 30 years of peace, the communist country has overcome many of these problems and is now boasting unprecedented economic growth that it hopes will translate into building a taller, stronger people.
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KHAO Lak was the jewel among southern Thailand&#39;s beach resorts. It has been described as a tropical paradise and a playground of the rich.
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Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of a childâs developmental milestones.
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Buddhists cry for help as Thaksin visits the volatile, mostly Muslim region of southern Thailand. As Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra visits the troubled southern region of Thailand, more than 100 Thai
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NEW DELHI: The frog that was picked up by the princess but refused to let her kiss him - this was how this newspaper had summed up PV Narasimha Raoâs affair with greatness, way back in 1996.
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BANGKOK - The future looked brighter for leaf-tailed geckos and great white sharks after a UN meeting on trade in wild plants and animals.
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TORONTO, Mar 9 (TierramÃ©rica) - Frogs and other amphibians are rapidly becoming   extinct around the world and in Latin American countries in  particular. In  the Caribbean as many as 80 percent of these  species are endangered, while  in Colombia there are 209 and in  Mexico 198 amphibians may soon disappear.
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For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Military coup leaders in Thailand - often called the &quot;Land of Smiles&quot; - apparently don't want to ruin that image. They've ordered soldiers to smile.
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Perhaps it was the cheerleaders from New Jersey who traveled to Washington to present a donation for Thai victims of last month's tsunami. Or maybe it was the little girl from Massachusetts who wrote a letter conveying her sadness about the loss of    King Bhumibol Adulyadej's  21-year-old autistic grandson, who was killed while jet-skiing at a resort.
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By Prasanna Raman  * ON the editorial floor where I sit, often a frog's croaking is heard. The first time I heard it, my colleagues and I thought a frog was moonlighting as a journalist here. But, it was just the journalist's cell phone's ringtone.