Science news articles about 'thailand'

  • Temple spat rages in Thailand after UNESCO listing

    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's top court questioned on Tuesday the legality of Bangkok's support for a Cambodian bid to list a disputed Hindu temple as a World Heritage site, giving the opposition ...
  • Uncertain future for elephants of Thailand

    ... industry than in tourism. According to Professor Duffy and Dr Moore, many of the elephant camps in Thailand treat their animals well. And the 2000 elephants employed in today' s Thai tourism ...
  • Thailand puts big money into nanoscience

    Thailand is pumping money into nanotechnology but a dearth of scientists and engineers could be a barrier to success.
  • Thailand confirms fresh bird flu outbreak

    Thailand's agriculture ministry said Monday that it had confirmed an outbreak of bird flu on a backyard farm in the north, six months after the kingdom was declared free of the deadly virus.
  • Thailand confirms second bird flu case

    Thailand has confirmed a second case of bird flu in less than a week, a senior agriculture official said Thursday.
  • Major shift in HIV prevention priorities needed

    ... , condom use is widely promoted as an HIV prevention measure and is effective in countries such as Thailand, where the epidemic is spread primarily through sex work. However, studies have found no ...
  • Raising a stop sign to human traffic

    ... ethics. They cite the example of young Laotians looking West across the Mekong River to Thailand and dreaming of an escape that will give them and their loved ones a new life outside the poverty trap. ...
  • Globalization exposes food supply to unsanitary practices

    ... Raw domestic sewage and/or livestock manure are frequently used in fish farming in many Asian countries. In Thailand chicken coops (as many as 20,000 birds per farm) sit in rows suspended over ponds ...
  • Endangered bird in Australia making comeback

    BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Australian officials say they are having success with a captive breeding program aimed at saving an endangered native bird, the regent honeyeater....
  • Arsenic and new rice

    ... water in Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Hungary, India, Mexico, Peru, Thailand, and the US. Until now, scientists have been unable to identify which proteins are responsible for ...
  • Rare behavior shows species adaptability

    BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food - whether it be grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist....
  • Young children in mostly Caucasian countries obtain more sleep than those in Asian countries

    ... were found. Room-sharing ranged from 15.1 percent in Canada to 94.5 percent in Thailand. There was also a wide-range in the percentage of parents who perceived that their child had a small or severe ...
  • The Contrarian View - An Argument For Selling Kidneys

    It's an urban legend we've all read - you meet some nice girl in Thailand and you black out and wake up in a bathtub without a kidney. Kidneys, and other replaceable organs, have value because the ...
  • Better treatments for malaria in pregnancy are needed

    ... Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand) and colleagues describe a dangerous "catch-22" situation that prevents the health community from ...
  • World's only captive hairy-nosed otter gets new home

    ... the 1990s, the hairy-nosed otter is known to survive only in a few regions of Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Sumatra. Otters in Asia are increasingly threatened by the illegal international fur trade ...

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