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Thailand offers elephants for adoption
Canoe
By Michael Casey, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | A Thai mahout and his infant elephant look for foreign tourist, along Sukhumvit Road in downtown Bangkok. After failing repeatedly to clear elephants from Bangkok streets, Thai authorities have come up with an innovative solution: offering them up for adoptio...
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Thailand Offers Bangkok Elephants For Adoption
CBS News
To Get Elephants Off Bangkok Streets, Authorities In Thailand Offer Them For Adoption | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments Photo | () (AP) Elephants idling outside discos or lumbering through traffic have been part of Bangkok's colorful nightlife for nearly two decades. Now authorities want to ...
Thousands turn out to see baby panda's 1st public viewing at Thailand zoo
Newsday
| CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) — Thousands of excited visitors flocked Saturday to a zoo in northern Thailand for the first public viewing of a baby panda, which has been featured on Thai front pages almost every day since her birth six weeks ago....
Seventh H1N1 death reported in Thailand
Gulf News
| Bagnkok: Thailand's Public Health Ministry has reported the country's seventh swine flu death and 134 new cases, bringing the country's total to 1,845. | The ministry's permanent secretary, Prat Boonyavongvirot, announced the new tally on Saturday....
Escorted tour in Thailand
The Times
| Q I am planning to visit a friend in Singapore during the first two weeks of April next year and want to add on an escorted tour for about five days in Thailand that will begin and end in Bangkok. I have looked on the internet and have been overwhe...
The first commercial airliner in a week of Thai Airways lands at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok, Thailand
AP / Vincent Thian
Discounts abound as tourism to Thailand drops
Syracuse
| (AP) - BANGKOK-Thai Airways is trying to lure passengers from outside Asia with free domestic flights. Hotels on the resort island of Phuket are offering a fourth night free. And...
Former Thailand's Prime Minister and owner of Manchester City football club Thaksin Shinawatra makes a speech during the opening ceremony of the club store in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, May 16, 2008.
AP / Apichart Weerawong
ANALYSIS - Thaksin fightback may spell trouble for Thailand
The Star
| BANGKOK (Reuters) - With a big turnout at a rally of his supporters and another landslide by-election win for his party at the weekend, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra h...
Thailand extends royal invitation to golfers worldwide
WN
Thailand extends royal invitation to golfers worldwide
TravelDailyNews
In an bid to tell world golfers what Asian golfers already know, the golf establishment in Thailand has launched 'Golf in a Kingdom: The Thai Golf Experience', a cooperative itiner...
Thailand offers Bangkok elephants for adoption
The News Tribune
| Elephants idling outside discos or lumbering through traffic have been part of Bangkok's colorful nightlife for nearly two decades. Now authorities want to send them back to the jungle. | Thai officials say they have come up with an innovative solu...
Thailand offers Bangkok elephants for adoption
Wtop
By MICHAEL CASEY | AP Environmental Writer | BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Elephants idling outside discos or lumbering through traffic have been part of Bangkok's colorful nightlife for nearly two decades. Now authorities want to send them back to the ju...
To get elephants off Bangkok streets, authorities in Thailand offer them for adoption
Newsday
| FILE - In this May 20, 2002 file photo, a Thai mahout and his infant elephant look for foreign tourist, along Sukhumvit Road in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, After failing repeatedly to clear elephants from Bangkok streets, Thai authorities have come...
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Elephant - Wildlife
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 Bangkok elephants up for adoption
Independent online
| Bangkok, Thailand - Elephants idling outside discos or lumbering through traffic have been part of Bangkok's colorful nightlife for nearly two decades. Now authorities want to send them back to the jungle. | Thai officials say they have come up with an innovative solution: offering the pachyderms for adoption. | Several groups have already paid t...
Tourism
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Air France and Bangkok Airways sign a code-share agreement
TravelDailyNews
Air France has just signed a code-share agreement with Bangkok Airways, to offer its customers 6 new destinations in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, on flights with AF flight numbers. The destinations concerned are Phuket, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui and Trat (Thailand), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Luang Prabang (Laos). | These destinations will be offered to Ai...



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