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POPSClose To Death, Casualty Of Landmine, Doctor Saves Elephant's Life Now aged three, Mosha wolfs down 200lb of food a day and has had to have a larger limb fitted to support her bulk. “She has grown in confidence and now likes to play with the others.” Landmines still pose a threat to the Thais. A recent survey estimated there are about 100 new casualties each year. The majority of the banned weapons are thought to have been placed by insurgents, most commonly in the south of the country. FAE staff member Soraida Salwala said: “Mosha should live many long, happy, elephant years.
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POPSAustralian jailed for insulting Thai monarch Nicolaides is not the first foreigner to fall foul of the so-called “lese majeste” laws, some of the harshest in the world protecting a royal family. In 2007 a Swiss man, Oliver Jufer, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for defacing pictures of the king but he was later given a royal pardon and deported from the country.
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 23rd 14 Dunkirk, France: Hugues Dubosc before the 200m breastroke of the French Swimming Championships 13 Suphan-Buri, Thailand: Workers dry rice grains at a factory 12 London, UK: Rubbish floats on the river Lea near Hackney Marsh. The disused and neglected system of canals in the east of the capital will be regenerated to transport building materials to the 2012 Olympics site 11 Sichuan province, China: Pandas play in the Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Wolong Nature Reserve 10 Beijing, China: Workers repair tiles on the roof of Cining Palace in the Forbidden City
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 08 15. Gloucestershire, UK: Some of the abandoned historic vessels in the boat graveyard between Sharpness and Purton on the banks of the river Severn. More than 80 vessels - which include schooners, lighters, barges and Severn trows - were beached from the 1900s to the 1960s 1 London, UK: Katharine Witty makes a statement on behalf of Mohamed Al Fayed after leaving the high court 5 Yala province, Thailand: Forensic experts examine a site of a roadside bomb blast in which two rangers were injured
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POPSActing Globally, Living Locally: Nurse Visits Over 60 Countries Simin Marefat, an unstoppable nurse: For almost 10 years, wherever she went, she saw enormous need and a huge deficit of resources around the globe from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. She organized a benefit in 2006 that raised $14,000: the proceeds helped Orphans of Rwanda to build a health clinic at Gisimba Memorial Center. She visited the clinic in June 2007 to see that the children all have health cards with their pictures and vaccinations and medications. They have a nurse who provides for them. She then organized a second benefit which raised $18,000: the proceeds will cover tuition for 34 Orphans of Rwanda to go to school. Fleeing Iran, her family arrived in the United States in 1986 to Hays, Kansas. It was that odyssey, beginning with escape, displacement, discrimination and eventual acceptance, Marefat says, that taught her anything was possible.
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POPS Insects from the forests of Chiang Mai John Moore's AMAZING SITE " ...over 3000 photographs of Thai insects, mostly in their natural habitat. To look for a particular insect, choose a page from the drop-down menu or follow one of these links:"
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