Cambodia says the Thais started shooting four days ago, but an unnamed Thai military source said it had been "a misunderstanding".
He also bought a controlling stake in an established Thai food and bottling company, Berli Jucker, which he is now using to expand into the convenience store market.
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Make reservations early to nab one of the hottest tables in town at Bo.lan, an upscale Thai restaurant in Sukhumvit run by a Michelin-star husband and wife team.
For it's a term of esteem and appreciation, and this helps explain why in 1861, an earlier Thai monarch established the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant, consisting of six separate grades, which soon became the most frequently-awarded honour in the country, as it remains to this day.
Instead of cleaning my teeth, Roger Thai spent an hour examining my bite and jaw structure.
It is true that the King has been an extraordinary figure in Thai history and has been the source of unity for the people of Thailand.
It is hardly a controversial idea, just an uncomfortable one (for Thai officials at least).
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai party won an overwhelming electoral majority in early 2005.
But he left in place three key ingredients found in the Thai drink: an amino acid called taurine, the caffeine, and glucuronolactone, a carbohydrate.
Even if Polish gastronomy doesn't challenge cuisine like Thai food as an international phenomenon, Amaro hopes his restaurant can do for Polish food what Noma has done for Nordic cuisine.
Thai women now have an average of 1.5 children, down from more than six in the 1960s.
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State media said Naw Kham and his subordinates had collaborated with Thai soldiers in launching an attack on the ships, the Hua Ping and Yu Xing.
Surayud Chulanont, Thailand's Commander in Chief, has been fighting to rid the army of corrupt soldiers, an intelligence officer based on the Thai-Burmese border says the casinos couldn't operate without the army's tacit permission.
Last week, an eight-hour meeting between Thai and Cambodian officials ended with both sides agreeing on only one point: that troops each country has amassed at the site of the temple will not fire on each other.
Macdonald points out that all work on the island has been under the supervision of a Thai forestry worker and an environmentalist, not to mention a botanist brought from Britain to oversee replanting of the native species.
Two nights earlier, he had mixed with Thai tycoons and others at an evening event at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Dubai.
For years, foreign rice was banned in Japan, save for an annual 14, 000 tonnes of Thai rice needed by Okinawan brewers for a local tipple.
Thai Airways could desperately use an injection of money and talent from a foreign carrier, but it seems unlikely to get either under Mr Thaksin, a telecoms tycoon turned politician.
That should be enough to keep him busy, but he says his new focus is CTH, a private cable-TV operator he bought with the Vacharaphol family (No. 14), owners of the Thai Rath newspaper, for an undisclosed sum.
Duncan McCargo, an academic studying the insurgency, says the Thai security forces have proved incapable of fighting it.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva flew to China in November, and signed an agreement with Chinese government officials to promote Thai soaps and exempt them from foreign-content quotas that state regulators there sometimes slap on broadcasters.
Reuters has recently experienced fatalities among its own staff -- just one month earlier it had mourned the death of Hiro Muramoto, an agency cameraman shot dead in clashes between Thai troops and anti-government protestors on April 10th.
Addressing reporters on Nov. 3, Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan launched an indirect criticism of Kuala Lumpur, saying that while the matter was Malaysia's internal problem, it had far-reaching effects on fellow members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Hovering over this stand-off is the prospect of an election, which Mr Thaksin's Pua Thai party reckons it can win.
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My next stop was to see Jarrett Wrisley, an American-born chef whose Bangkok-based Thai restaurant, Soul Food Mahanakorn, has received many accolades.
Thai authorities identified the injured man as an Iranian national, Saeid Moradi.
But thanks to Mr Thaksin, in future no Thai political party can expect to win an election without a popular and well-promoted platform.
While street food remains the unifying passion of the city's residents, an influx of foreign chefs and restaurateurs has hauled Thai food firmly into the 21st century.
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