Thai PM seeks to ease fears of economic fallout from bird flu
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinwatra has insisted that the government could control the latest outbreak of bird flu, amid mounting concerns for critical industries like tourism and poultry exports.
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Thailand's economic growth forecast for 2004 was cut by half a percentage point to 6.0-6.5 percent after expansion slowed to 6.3 percent in the second quarter due to bird flu and high oil prices, officials said.
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A massive army of volunteers wearing protective plastic bags over their flip flops is taking the Thai Prime Minister&#39;s battle against bird flu to its source: Thailand&#39;s chicken coops and live markets.
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Thailand said today its declaration that a dog had caught the deadly bird flu which has killed 31 people in southeast Asia was an error probably caused by a mislabelled sample.
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Malaysia will send a team of senior agriculture officials to Thailand next week for urgent talks on tightening border controls against the spread of bird flu, which has forced a quarantine of Malaysia's northern Kelantan state.
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Environment Secretary David Miliband says the government is determined to eradicate the bird flu outbreak.
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Plans for a major Asian summit to discuss terrorism and European-style integration have been jolted by Thailand&#39;s prime minister who has threatened to walk out if neighbors raised concerns about a Muslim insurgency in his country&#39;s
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Malaysia gassed hundreds of screeching birds in a village near the Thai border on Thursday, seeking a quick end to its first outbreak of bird flu, a scourge that has killed 27 people in Southeast Asia this year.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra shakes up cabinet in a bid to beat bird flu and unrest in the south.
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Thai officials yesterday confirmed that another woman had caught bird flu, but played down fears of the first case of human-to-human transmission of the deadly virus following the deaths of two of her relatives.
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Thailand confirmed on Tuesday a 26-year-old woman at the center of fears bird flu might have been passed between people had died of the disease.
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Bangkok (VNA) - In an address broadcast on television on Friday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said that tension in southern Thailand has caused great losses in human lives and the socio-economic situation of the country for months.
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BANGKOK - Thailand acknowledged on Wednesday that it had major flaws in its measures to control the bird flu epidemic, a day after reporting its first probable case of one human infecting another with the disease.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Sept. 30, 2004 - Millions of volunteers led by emergency teams fanned out across Thailand on Thursday in a new drive to fight bird flu after the prime minister gave officials 30 days to eradicate the epidemic.
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BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fired ministers responsible for dealing with a bird flu crisis and violence in the largely Muslim south yesterday, just months ahead of a general election.
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Hard-hit Thailand plans a campaign to change poultry farming methods as it seeks to stamp out the deadly bird flu virus before migrating wildfowl return during the northern winter, a senior minister said on Thursday.
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Thai business leaders and investors have welcomed their new premier amid hopes the military-backed leader will shore up confidence in an economy rocked by months of political crisis.