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January 18, 2009 Sunday
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BANGKOK - THAIS are donning scarves, farmers are scrambling to save their rice crops and snakes are freezing to death.

That is all because temperatures in this normally balmy country have dipped to their coldest in a decade.

The country has been gripped in a cold spell that blew down from China earlier this month and is likely to last until February, the Thai Meteorological Department said on Saturday.

 
Refugees to be repatriated

BANGKOK - THAILAND has agreed to repatriate 5,000 members of the Hmong ethnic minority to Laos from Thai refugee camps, a foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday.

Rights abuses do occur: Abhisit

YALA (Thailand) - THAILAND'S Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, on his first visit to the country's restive south, said that rights abuses against insurgents do occur but he said anyone committing such acts will be punished.

Mr Abhisit, however, rejected allegations in a report released this week by Amnesty International that Thailand's security forces engage in systematic torture as part of a campaign to defeat Islamic insurgents in the country's southernmost provinces.

Kidnapped Red Cross staff alive

MANILA (Philippines) - THE Red Cross said on Saturday that three workers who were kidnapped on a restive southern Philippine island were still alive.

   
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