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A red opium poppy flower used for ornamental purposes.Once known as the "common garden poppy", live plants and seeds of the opium poppy are widely sold by seed companies and nurseries in most of the western world, including the United States.
Bangkok   Myanmar   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Opium		  The Washington Post 
UN report says Myanmar opium production increases for 6th successive year
Wed 31 Oct 2012
BANGKOK — The cultivation of illegal opium has increased in Myanmar for a sixth successive year, fueled in part by rising demand for heroin across Asia, the United Nations said Wednesday. The... (photo: Creative Commons / Jolly Janner)
Indian Bollywood film actor Shah Rukh Khan speak a press conference in Srinagar on September 6, 2012. Shah Rukh, who completed his nine-day shooting schedule in the Valley for Indian filmmaker Yash Chopra's untitled project, is confident that people from South Asia and South East Asia will visit the valley when they watch the movie, which has been extensively shot in Kashmir.
Bollywood   Film   India   Photos   Wikipedia: Yash Chopra		  Digital Spy 
Shah Rukh Khan: 'Yash Chopra was not just a colleague'
Wed 31 Oct 2012
Shah Rukh Khan has revealed that Yash Chopra and he were close friends outside the film industry. The late producer collaborated with Khan on his last film Jab... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Thailand hopes to bring back tourists after terrible floods  Taipei Times  Thu 25 Oct 2012
Thailand hopes to bring back tourists after terrible floods
Thai tourism officials said yesterday they were hoping to help revive their tourism industry after last year’s devastating floods by giving a discount on visa application fees and offering bargains... (photo: US Navy / Armando Gonzales)
Floods   Photos   Thailand   Tourists   Wikipedia: Thailand
Ms. Saina Nehwal, the London Olympic Bronze Medal winner in Badminton.  Newstrack India  Thu 25 Oct 2012
Saina enters French Open quarters
Tweet Paris, Oct 25 (IANS) India's top seed Saina Nehwal advanced to the women's singles quarterfinals of the French Open Super Series here Thursday, easing past Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand in... (photo: PIB of India)
Badminton   Photos   Sport Star   Sports   Wikipedia: Saina Nehwal
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Jakarta’s Architects Build Awareness Jakarta Globe Tue 23 Oct 2012
Jakarta’s Architects Build Awareness
Jakarta’s property market is booming. Everywhere you go, new construction sites are popping up like mushrooms sprouting in the rain. Behind many of these buildings are... (photo: US Navy / Armando Gonzales)
Jakarta   Market   Photos   Property   Wikipedia: Jakarta
Rubber prices drop on subdued demand The Hindu Sat 20 Oct 2012
Rubber prices drop on subdued demand
The recovery waves witnessed in rubber prices subsequent to the global economic recuperation were undoubtedly short-lived and prices have relentlessly trimmed some of... (photo: US Navy / Charlotte C. Oliver)
Photos   Prices   Recovery   Thailand
Myanmar soldiers salute during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the 1947 assassination of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's father, Gen. Aung San, at the Martyrs' Mausoleum in Yangon, Myanmar on Thursday, July 19, 2012. For the first time in decades, Myanmar state television broadcast the memorial ceremony for the country's independence hero, the latest sign of change in the former pariah nation. Al Jazeera Fri 19 Oct 2012
US invites Myanmar to joint military drills
The United States has invited Myanmar to the world's largest multi-national military field exercise, a powerful symbolic gesture toward a military with a grim human... (photo: AP / Khin Maung Win)
Defence   Myanmar   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Foreign relations of Burma
Ivory Coast football team manager Sven Goran Eriksson during an interview in London, Friday, April 30, 2010. Eriksson unveiled The Castrol Edge Ultimate Performing Player, a carbon fibre and waxwork model that amalgamates the attributes of 10 of the world's finest footballers. New Straits/Business Times Wed 17 Oct 2012
Eriksson weaves his magic
BRIGHT SPARK: Brings smiles amid the gloom in Thailand Sven-Goran Eriksson 1 / 1 BANGKOK: A trip to Thailand may have given Sven Goran Eriksson's career a fillip but it... (photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Football   Photos   Sports   Star   Wikipedia: Sven-Göran Eriksson
Myanmar President U Thein Sein, right, greets Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), party members during the first conference of their USDP party at the party's headquarters Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The Daily Telegraph Tue 16 Oct 2012
President Thein Sein under pressure as Burma's ruling party contemplates bleak future
With young Burmese flocking to leave the country and support for the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) at an all-time low, President Thein Sein appears... (photo: AP)
Business   Myanmar   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Union Solidarity and Development Party
US increases military drills in Asia Al Jazeera Tue 16 Oct 2012
US increases military drills in Asia
The US navy has increased its training exercises off the coast of Thailand. The new drills are part of a strategic campaign which the White House calls its "pivot to... (photo: US Navy / Charlotte C. Oliver)
Military   Navy   Photos   Thailand   Wikipedia: Thailand


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