Since the mill produced more flour than the biscuit factory needed, they moved into instant noodles, a popular fast-food item in Nepal, procuring know-how from a Thai firm (hence the name Wai Wai).

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Government spokesman Akapol Sorasuchart points out that Tarrin did not name Sirin to Krung Thai.

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Unlike the many airlines that have since followed suit (Qantas, Thai Airways, Aeromexico and Jetstar, to name a few), Air Baltic ultimately dropped the program.

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With a string of victories to his name, the 18-year-old Thai transvestite had shown his taunters that you can have a fondness for lipstick and nail varnish and still survive in the brutal wor ld of kickboxing.

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Mae, whose full name is Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson was born in Singapore to a Chinese mother and a Thai father but was brought up in the UK when her mother remarried a Briton.

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