Today – June 6, 2012
“The Paris-based firm [Sanofi] hopes for positive results in September from a key trial among children in Thailand that would set it on course to market a shot in 2015 which would prevent an estimated 100 million cases of dengue infection each year. Of 20,000 annual deaths, many are of children.” (Reuters)
2007 – 5 years ago
“Thailand’s military-backed government on Tuesday lifted a post-coup ban on political activities, paving the ay for ousted Premier Thaksin Shnawatra’s dissolved party to regroup. The cabinet’s decision to repeal an order imposed by the junta after it seized power from Thaksin last September will allow parties to begin preparations for elections tentatively set for December.” (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
2002 – 10 years ago
“Thailand is continuing a massive manhunt along the border with Burma following a gun attack on a school bus that killed three teenagers.” (BBC News)
1997 – 15 years ago
“However, investigators are looking at a pipeline of illegal exotic fruit brought to the area from New York. Already this year, federal officials have confiscated about 40 tons of exotic fruit in New York that came into the United States from Canada. The confiscate fruits, restricted for importation into the U.S because they are grown in countries with disease or pest problems, originally came from Thailand.” (Ocala Star-Banner)
1992 – 20 years ago
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1987 – 25 years ago
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1982 – 30 years ago
“A 63-year-old Shan asked when the opium Wars” bean in the hills of the Golden Triangle where Burma, Laos and Thailand meet, recalled his father saying, ‘It all goes back to the turn of the century.’ Thai forces recently battered the private army of opium warlord Khun Sa, but political insurgency is so endemic it goes almost unnoticed.” (The Bulletin)
1977 – 35 years ago
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1972 – 40 years ago
“Donn Eisele. command module pilot on Apollo 7, is training to become Peace Corps director in Thailand.” (Sarasota Journal)
1967 – 45 years ago
“But B52 bombers from Guam and Thailand bases stepped up their daily attacks and mounted four raids on enemy positions in South Vietnam Monday night and Tuesday morning.” (The Morning Record)
1962 – 50 years ago
“Thailand has now become the newest American cold war frontier with no telling what implications or for how long. The Russian reaction to U.S. troops movements into Thailand, after Nikita Khruchchev’s initial blast, is considered mild by Washington officials, and no cause for alarm. But as even President Kennedy admits, now that the troops are in Thailand it may be difficult to get them out.” (Middlesboro Daily News)
1957 – 55 years ago
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1952 – 60 years ago
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1947 – 65 years ago
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1942 – 70 years ago
“Underlining the importance of the defense stand there [Chekiang Province], high Chinese quarters said the Eastern Seaboard province had been marked by the Imperial Command at Tokio for the first blows of an intended knockout of al Southeastern China that open overland communication; with French Indo-China, Thailand and Burma.” (The Palm Beach Post)
