Matichon
- October 21, 2004 * The survey from Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (CPI) poll said that perception of corruption in Thailand is improved [less than before]. * Three doctors in the South are very afraid and want to cancel autopsies done at the location of the accident.They say it is risky to do this near the mountains and forests [because of the unrest in the South]. |
* At the government house on October 20, Maew [Thaksin] and Sudarat, Minister of Public Health made a giant bowl of boiling rice for opening the vegetarian festival for health. He suggested eating vegetarian food is like cleaning the cemetery [the human stomach is the cemetery for animals that are eaten]. |
Thairath
- October 21, 2004 |
* Terrorists in
the South not only kill people, but also kill
longan trees [an important fruit-bearing tree
in the South] by cutting the stem and pouring
gas into it to make it die. |