To keep protesters at bay, the annual meeting, originally to have taken place in Bangkok in December, has been shifted to the seaside resort of Hua Hin.

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Lee Thorn, the head of the Jhai Foundation, an American-Lao organisation, has been working for nearly five years in the Hin Heup district.

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America took its first batch, from the crowded Tham Hin camp, last month.

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"I don't have any words to express the sorrow and suffering I feel when knowing his body will soon disappear, " Hin Mal, 79, told the Associated Press news agency.

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Plearn Warn is designed to emulate the Hua Hin of old, and it includes reproductions of traditional Thai wooden houses.

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The Links Island and Leong Hin cases were both referred to the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) by SGX.

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They tend to prefer the high-rise glamour of the Melia Hua Hin Hotel next door, though Thai families do enjoy the bungalows on the Sofitel's adjacent property, called Central Hua Hin Village (Central comes from the hotel's management by the Central Group).

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Leong Hin admits the government probe but says that it can't explain the share-price movement.

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But Hua Hin's best hotel may even yet reassert itself as a prime destination for stressed-out Bangkokians.

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