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World Briefing | Asia: War on Drugs Restarted in Thailand

Thailand renewed a war on drugs, reviving a controversial project of the ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. ...full story at New York Times

from New York Times on Thu, Apr 03 2008

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