
Thailand's chemists get a poor GPP rating

Of more than 10,000 pharmacies in Thailand, just 136 meet the World Health Organi-sation's Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) standard.
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'Social laws vital for Aids'

Laws on social issues and gender equality are now
primary solutions for Aids problems to be employed
by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAids), said Public Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla.
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Software firm may sue SSO for Bt1 bn

A software company said yesterday it was considering filing a civil lawsuit to demand Bt1 billion in compensation from the Social Security Office (SSO) for having a legal dispute reinterpreted - and then revoked by the Council of State.
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Student killed as truck hits bus

A 14-year-old student was killed and 29 pupils injured when a 10-wheel truck rammed into their school bus in heavy rain in Rayong's Wang Chan district yesterday.
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Bikers will ride for peace in Hat Yai

More than 1,000 bikers from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia are expected to converge on Hat Yai for three days next week under the banner "Ride for Peace", a regional effort to revive tourism in the country's main commercial centre in the South.
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Big Lao dam 'on track'

Construction of the controversial Nam Theun II dam in central Laos is moving ahead with the structure slowly taking shape, and government officials and local people confident it will create a boom for them.
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Bid to help southern widows

The ongoing violence in the deep South has seen the number of widows and orphans rise to 919 and 1,740 respectively in Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla provinces, the Social Development and Human Security Ministry said yesterday.
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Two dead in market blast

A powerful bomb ripped through a crowded evening food market in Yala's Muang district, killing two people and wounding at least 20.
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