Long-neck refugees get Thai "human zoo" treatment
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MAE HONG SON, Thailand  - For the past two   decades, hundreds of ethnic Padaung "long-neck" people from   military-ruled Myanmar have enjoyed relative peace and security   as refugees in the hills of northern Thailand.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- There are pictures of young couples, like Canadians Michael Lang and Rubina Wong, and of small children, like a 4-year-old named Solitaire.
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Dr. Gao Yaojieâs detention sheds light on Chinaâs intolerance for grass-roots AIDS activists.
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Soldiers order about 1,500 ethnic Hmong people to leave a refugee camp in central Thailand.
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BANGKOK -- On Jan. 3, when Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was making one of his many visits to the tsunami-devastated south, he stopped by a Buddhist temple in Takua Pa that had been turned into a morgue. He put on a powder-blue surgical mask and rubber gloves to tour the grounds. He gave a spirited pep talk to volunteers who ...
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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Some Italians want African illegal  immigrants deported, others want them arrested, but theater  director Marco Baliani believes one way to ease Italy's refugee  crisis is with a long-nosed wooden puppet.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - Simmering civil war, fake drugs and a non-existent health service in Myanmar are creating the perfect breeding ground for new, drug-resistant strains of killer diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Feared by their relatives  and locked away for hours every day, life was never easy for  patients at the only mental hospital in Indonesia's  tsunami-devastated Aceh province.
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Theresa Torres, Reporter. Sharing its neighborsâ fears of a bird-flu pandeÂ­mic after the first probable case of human-to-human infection was reported in Thailand, the Philippine government on Wednes
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ABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan  - Two rows of well-spaced  mattresses with brightly colored covers are laid out in a straw  hut, and the smiling nurse in surgical gloves gives an  injection to a crying baby held by his mother.
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One school of thought would provide alternative development aid locally. The other focuses on prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment.
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A 14-month-old Iraqi girl who received free treatment in the United States for a possibly fatal growth in her neck began the trip home Tuesday, about six months after her parents brought her to a U.S. military ...
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BEIJING, Dec. 13 -- A herbal anti-HIV remedy jointly developed by Chinese and Thai scientists has been proved effective in 89 percent of clinical trials.
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BANG NIENG, Thailand -- A year ago, they were filming battle scenes for the movie &quot;Alexander.&quot; Now six elephants are pitching in to help with the massive cleanup from the tsunami that devastated many of Thailand's prime tourist destinations.
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More than 200 survivors filled the hospitals in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia, many with harrowing tales of how they survived.
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Clothes, infant food and  permanent shelters are among the most pressing needs for  refugees in a camp in the hills above this tsunami-hit  Indonesian beach town, survivors said.