Women Can't Wear Pants Long black color to avoid mosquito fever

Thai health authorities asked the young women in that country not to wear white elephant made of thin pants (leggings) black color in order to avoid dengue fever from mosquito bites. According to the local Health Ministry, the dark color on the pants which are popular among women in Thailand is very attractive to mosquitoes spreading dengue fever.

“The way people dress these days is very worrying, especially young children,” says Deputy Ministry of Public Health, Pansiri Kulanartsiri, in his statement on Sunday, August 8, 2010. He warned about the threat of the spread of dengue fever and warned that dengue-carrying mosquitoes attracted to a dark color clothes.

“I recommend that people no longer wear black leggings or other dark colored clothing to avoid attracting the attention of mosquitoes,” said Pansiri. Calling the leggings as a fashion phenomenon Korea, Pansiri adding that mosquitoes can bite through the skin with thin clothing. “Wear thick clothes like jeans, especially in times like the current rainy season,” said Pansiri.In the first seven months of this year, Thailand recorded 43 deaths and more than 45 thousand cases of dengue fever. The number increased by around 40 per cent from 31 929 cases and 30 cases of death in the same period last year.

Cases of dengue fever usually occurs during the rainy season which lasts from June until September in Thailand. Of the 43 deaths, 26 of them aged 10 to 24 years. This makes Thailand’s Health Ministry has warned the public about the dangers of pants worn leggings that many adolescents and young women lately.Dengue fever is an endemic disease in South Asia to East Asia, especially during the rainy season. Water is not flowing and clean urban environment that is not a fertile ground for mosquitoes to spread disease dengue fever

explosions that rocked the business area in Bangkok on Thursday night killed three people and wounded more than 70

Bangkok – A series of explosions that rocked the business area in Bangkok on Thursday night killed three people and wounded more than 70, said Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban.”Three people were killed and more than 70 others injured,” said Thaugsuban told reporters.

Five grenades were fired in the direction of mass pro-government demonstrators, who were face to face with the masses “Red Shirt”, a group of anti-pemerntah protestors, in the heart of the Thai capital, said several officials and eyewitnesses.Meanwhile, the Red Shirt group denied responsibility for a series of deadly grenade attack on Thursday night.”Whoever is doing these attacks want people to think that the M79 was done by the Red Shirt. We never attack people who are innocent,” said a leader of anti-government protest movement, Jatuporn Prompan.

He rejected government accusations that the grenades were fired with the M79 grenade launcher from the Red Shirt area in the direction of pro-government demonstrators who gathered at nearby locations.Red Shirt launch mass anti-government rally in Bangkok in mid-March that sparked fierce clashes with security forces on 10 April, which killed 25 people and wounding more than 800. ( AFP)

Tens of thousands of protesters converged on Bangkok's shopping district on Saturday

Tens of thousands of protesters converged on Bangkok’s shopping district on Saturday, forcing major retailers to close while accusing authorities of neglecting the poor on the 21st day of a mass rally seeking snap elections.Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s embattled government deployed 50,000 soldiers, police and other security personnel in the city after caravans of the anti-government, red-shirted protesters travelled from rural areas to the Thai capital.At least half a dozen shopping malls including Central World — the second-largest shopping complex in Southeast Asia — shut their doors in response to protests and threats by the “red shirts” to stay overnight in the usually bustling area popular with tourists and Bangkok’s upper and middle classes.”We cannot let Mr. Abhisit rule the country any longer,” Jatuporn Prompan, a “red shirt” leader, told the crowd.

“It is time for the under-privileged to liberate themselves from the oppression made by the elite-backed government. It is time for the elite-supported government to dissolve parliament.

Thousands also rallied outside state-controlled broadcasters Radio Thailand and Channel 11, accusing them of bias.

Backed by Thailand’s powerful military and royalist establishment, Abhisit has said a peaceful poll now would be difficult given the tensions and has offered to dissolve parliament in December, a year early.The mostly rural and urban poor protesters are demanding immediate elections and threatening more protests in coming days, extending a mass street rally that began on March 14 when up to 150,000 “red shirts” converged on Bangkok’s old quarter.

Analysts say British-born Abhisit would likely lose an election if it were held now, raising investment risks in Southeast Asia’s second-biggest economy following a $1.6 billion surge of foreign investment in Thai stocks over the past month on expectations Abhisit will survive the showdown.Adding to the tension, more than 1,000 people who oppose the protesters held their own rally on Friday, donning pink shirts and saying the “red shirts” were unreasonable.

‘SEA CHANGE IN THAI POLITICS’

The “red shirts,” supporters of twice-elected and now fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, say Abhisit has no popular mandate and came to power illegitimately, heading a coalition the military cobbled together after courts dissolved a pro-Thaksin party that led the previous government.

Abhisit counters that he was voted into office by the same parliament that picked his two Thaksin-allied predecessors.Thaksin was widely seen as authoritarian and corrupt before his ouster in a 2006 coup, but remains a powerful symbol as the first Thai civilian leader to reach out to the poor in his 2001 election campaign with populist policies such as cheap loans.

The “red shirts” chafe at what they say is the unelected elite preventing Thaksin’s allies from returning to power.The 60-year-old former telecommunications tycoon is believed to be a big source of funds for the protests and has harnessed new technology from social networking site Twitter to web-cams — to rally supporters from self-imposed exile, mostly in Dubai.Convicted of corruption in 2008 and sentenced in absentia to prison, his status as fugitive restricts his travel. Some countries, including Britain and Germany, have banned him.

Analysts say regardless of the outcome, the mass rallies mark a turning point in a country where the richest 20 percent of the population earn about 55 percent of the income while the poorest fifth get 4 percent, according to November World Bank study.That income disparity is among Asia’s widest, it showed.”The fact that this many people were mobilized for so long shows the sea change in Thai politics,” said Chris Baker, a political analyst who has written several books on Thai politics.The “red shirts” have tapped an under-current of frustration, added prominent Thai political historian Charnvit Kasertsiri.

“What the leaders say strikes a chord, whether it be double-standard of treatment, problems with the justice system, or lack of access and opportunities for a better life,” he said.Analysts say both sides want to be in power in October for an annual military reshuffle and the passing of the national budget.The budget gives the government room to roll out welfare policies to court rural voters whose discontent is at the heart of the protests and who now back the Thaksin-allied opposition Puea Thai Party. It also gives whoever is in power a chance to allocate money to the powerful military and ministries.The military reshuffle allows the government to promote allies in an institution that yields tremendous influence in a country that has seen 24 coups and attempted coups since 1932.(Reuters)

Fujitsu Primergy CX1000

THE cloud computing becomes mandatory requirement for companies that significant data growth. However, producers still rare server that offers device supporting high-performance, but low cost. Answering this market niche, offering the Fujitsu server to a cloud computing environment, Primergy Cloud extension (CX1000). This product offers a level of balance between performance and the optimal price, change the design, operational and economic calculations on the data center. Primergy CX1000 has claimed the highest level of scalability making it ideal for cloud computing environments.

“The server optimizes the operational cost component driving power, heat, and space, so a new milestone economic standard data center,” said Nuraini Kurnia, Regional Marketing Manager Marketing of PT Fujitsu Indonesia, recently.

According to a beautiful woman who was familiarly called Nia, Primergy design since the early CX1000 is designed to be able to provide computing power as possible per square meter, with the lowest possible price. Server, he said, to accommodate up to 38 server nodes in a rack so that the savings achieved at least 20 percent in the case and cooling costs compared to standard rack configuration.

“CX Primergy servers are a new class of complete line of Fujitsu x86: Primergy blade model (BX), Rack (RX), and the tower (TX). Along with PRIMERGY CX1000, Fujitsu introduced a new architecture, Best-Central, which could save the use of the room to eliminate hot aisle in a data center.

Hot aisle is the space behind the shelves where the hot air exhaust from the back of the server.

“CX1000 has his own hot flue channel hot air from the top shelf standard sizes. Without hot aisle, shelves can be arranged Primergy CX1000 backs to each other so that saves space by 40 percent,” said Nia.
Fujitsu is a revolutionary approach that leads to a reduction in carbon consumption central data.Fujitsu Group itself was incorporated in the Green ICT initiatives, the Green Policy Innovation which aims to help customers meet environmental commitments.

Meanwhile, the design ethos that brought back to basics in line with redundant system supports the needs, as well as components that can be dismantled without turning off the system pairs (hot pluggable). In a massive application and environment management systems tervisualisasi, service on the server that failed could be transferred to another server with the help of software. Built with standard components, simple design concepts to the CX1000 can Primergy servers to replace the individual nodes that the system failure occurred, and replace the failed components offline. Addition and subtraction nodes can be done quickly because the infrastructure is divided on Primergy CX1000.

“The need for cloud computing a trap for the operator of data centers into a vicious cycle between performance and cost,” said Head Regional Business Platform Fujitsu Motohiko Uno.

“Today is a vicious cycle that can be defeated by a balance between price and performance. CX1000 introduced the Primergy boundary solution scalability limitations, especially in the cloud computing environment,” he said.

Primergy systems using new generation CX1000 process Xeon 5600 series is capable of providing power terbesar.Director process Cloud Computing Marketing of Intel Corporation Raejeanne Skillern said, “Intel and Fujitsu already has a history of successful long partnership to provide a valuable combination of Intel-based Primergy servers. With the launch of Intel’s latest Xeon 5600 (code name Westmere-EP), welcomed the arrival of Intel’s new generation of servers from Fujitsu Primergy product line, “he said.

Further said, Primergy CX1000 available in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam from the end of March 2010.

grenade exploded in front of a Bangkok Bank branch in central Bangkok Saturday night, leaving one person slightly injured

BANGKOK, Feb. 27  grenade exploded in front of a Bangkok Bank branch in central Bangkok Saturday night, leaving one person slightly injured.According to an anonymous policeman at the scene, a man on a motorcycle passed by and threw a hand grenade toward the branch bank at Silom road, Bangrak district, at about 9:30 p.m., but only hit the tree in front of the bank and exploded.

One man got minor injury and has been sent to the nearby Leart Sin Hospital, the policeman said. The glass doors and windows of the bank were shattered by the wave of the explosion.Dozens of policeman at the scene are carrying out investigation.According to Bangkok Post online, another grenade was also found at the Bangkok Bank’s Rama II branch at about 10 p.m. and police disposed of the grenade before it exploded.(Xinhua)

Five years after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami

Five years after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, which left a devastating trail of death and destruction, millions of people have benefited from the influx of aid by rebuilding stronger infrastructure, social services and disaster warning systems than existed before the catastrophe, according to the United Nations agencies at the core of the recovery effort.The largest emergency relief response in history was prompted by the earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on 26 December 2004, which sent waves as high as 30 metres crashing into 14 countries, claiming nearly 230,000 lives and leaving around 2 million people homeless.The international community pledged over $14 billion in aid for the overall emergency relief and recovery operations, according to a recent UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report summarizing the results of its programmes, which have received almost $700 million to date.

The report noted that communities whose livelihoods, homes, schools and heath facilities were destroyed have had opportunities to build back better health, education, water and sanitation services, as well as improve the security of areas vulnerable to natural disaster or violent conflict, and provide safer environments for vulnerable children.

For example, the UNICEF-supported Darusada Children’s Centre in Aceh – a region on the northern tip of Sumatra with the closest major population to the epicentre of the 2004 earthquake – opened in 2007 and currently serves around 120 children who have been orphaned, abandoned or sexually assaulted.In addition, the court house in the regional capital Banda Aceh has added a juvenile court which is presided over by a judge who has been given special training by UNICEF. Changes in the juvenile justice system in Indonesia were also adopted after the tsunami to strengthen child protection provisions.

The UNICEF report noted that the unparalleled international response to the tsunami created a unique opportunity to bolster the peace process between the Government of Indonesia and the separatist Free Aceh Movement which resulted in the signing of a peace agreement in 2005 after 70 years of conflict.

Recovery efforts in Thailand have been instrumental in building a model Child Protection Monitoring System, which was initially established in 2007 to identify and monitor children orphaned by the tsunami, as well as other at-risk children.The report also underscored some of the lessons learned from the relief and recovery operations, with efforts in Myanmar positively influencing preparedness and response to other emergency situations. Following Cyclone Mala and other emergencies in 2006, as well as Cyclone Nargis in 2008, for example, UNICEF was able to swiftly mobilize and deliver emergency relief supplies, including family and child survival kits, insecticide treated bednets, and essential drugs for local health centres, in the affected areas.

In the Maldives, all the houses on the island of Dhuvaafaru are newly built, and construction to defend against rising sea-levels is ongoing. After years spent in temporary settlements on other islands, Dhuvaafaru has been transformed into a new home for an entire community displaced from nearby Kandholhudhoo by the tsunami, but with 4,060 people living in 600 homes, around 80 more houses need to be built.Expanded social services are also helping to protect and promote children’s right in the Maldives, and a UNICEF-backed non-governmental organization (NGO) is at the heart of the fight against the growing problem of intravenous drug use among adolescents since the tsunami.

UNICEF noted that recovery programmes in some countries have now drawn to a close, with continuing projects handed over to the national authorities or integrated into existing programmes carried out by the UNICEF country offices. Due to the scale of the recovery required in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the agency said it will continue to support reconstruction activities through the end of 2010.

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has highlighted the power of community involvement in the reconstruction process, with shopkeepers, fishermen and women getting together to plan and build their new homes.“There was a great rush to get people back into permanent housing, but that rush could create problems, preventing a meaningful discussion with people and with the communities,” said UNDP Deputy Resident Representative for Thailand Hakan Bjorkman.“It took a little bit longer but the results were much better, and this is the essence of the ‘build back better’ concept – to have people involved in their reconstruction,” said Mr. Bjorkman.

UNDP noted that since the tsunami governments, international agencies and civil society organizations have banded together to construct 250,000 permanent houses, over 100 air and seaports, thousands of schools and hospitals, as well as create national and regional tsunami warning systems by placing early detection buoys in the Indian Ocean.

In collaboration with other UN agencies, national and international organizations and in cooperation with the Discovery Channel, UNDP has made a documentary telling the story of how community engagement has been successful in the mending and rebuilding lives affected by the tsunami in the hardest-hit areas of Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Maldives.The film shows that many formerly marginalized groups are playing increasingly more significant roles in their communities as a result of recovery initiatives, such as job training for women in fish processing, as well as marketing and business.

The United Nations asks Laos for access to thousands of Hmong deported from Thailand

camp in Thailand

The United Nations refugee agency today asked the Government of Laos for access to some 4,000 ethnic Hmong Laotians who were deported from Thailand yesterday although many had been there for over 30 years and some were recognized as being in need of international protection.The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has no formal presence in Laos. Many Hmong living in the highlands of Laos took part in the conflict that engulfed the country in the 1960s and 1970s. When the Pathet Lao came to power in 1975, tens of thousands fled to Thailand in search of asylum, while others were resettled in Western countries such as the United States.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his concern that the deportations had taken place despite appeals from the UNHCR and the availability of third country resettlement solutions for those recognized as refugees. “He urges the Governments of Thailand and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to take all necessary steps to respect the rights of those concerned and to facilitate humane solutions,” he said in a statement issued by his spokesman.

Yesterday, High Commissioner António Guterres called on the Thai Government to halt the forced returns, but to no avail.Despite its long history as a country of asylum, Thailand deported the Hmong from two camps, one in the northern province of Petchabun and another in Nong Khai in the northeast. UNHCR was given no access to people in the first camp, while those in Nong Khai were all recognized by the agency as refugees.“UNHCR is also calling on the Government of Thailand to provide details of assurances received from the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic within the framework of a bilateral agreement between the two governments concerning the treatment of the returned Lao Hmong,” the agency said in a news release today.

“UNHCR has asked to be informed of steps taken by the Government of Thailand to ensure that commitments made under this framework are effectively honoured.”The agency said it has long maintained that the process of repatriation should be transparent and that no one with a valid protection claim should be forcibly returned to Laos.

35 tons of war weaponry from North Korea and the arrest of five foreigners

35 tons of war weaponry

BANGKOK The seizure in Thailand of some 35 tons of war weaponry from North Korea and the arrest of five foreigners charged with illegal possession of arms may prove a blow to efforts by the United States to negotiate a halt to Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions, observers said Sunday.Thai authorities, reportedly acting on a tip from their American counterparts, impounded an Ilyushin 76 transport plane, carrying explosives, rocket-propelled grenades and components for surface-to-air missiles, during a refueling stop at Bangkok’s Don Muang airport Saturday. Four men from Kazakhstan and one from Belarus were detained.Thai authorities took the action because of a United Nations resolution banning the transport of certain weapons from or to North Korea, Thailand’s Foreign Ministry said.

The latest sanctions were imposed in June after the reclusive communist regime conducted a nuclear test and test-fired missiles. The sanctions were aimed at derailing North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, but also banned the North’s sale of any conventional arms.

The seizure came just days after President Barack Obama’s special envoy made a rare three-day trip to North Korea on a mission to persuade Pyongyang to rejoin six-nation nuclear disarmament talks. Envoy Stephen Bosworth said the two sides had reached common understandings on the need to restart the talks.

“There is a possibility that the incident could have a negative effect on moves to get the North to rejoin the six-party talks and a U.S.-North Korea dialogue mood,” said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul’s University of North Korean Studies.Thai Air Force spokesman Capt. Montol Suchookorn said the chartered cargo plane originated in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, and requested to land at Don Muang airport to refuel.

There were differing local media reports about the plane’s destination, with some saying it was headed to Sri Lanka and others saying Pakistan.”I cannot disclose the destination of their plane because this involves national security. The government will provide more details on this,” Supisarn said.

North Korea has been widely accused of violating United Nations sanctions by selling weapons to nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thongphakdi said Thailand made the seizure because of the U.N. sanctions.

“Once further details have been finalized, and all the proper checks have been made we will report all details to the United Nations sanctions committee,” he said.Police Col. Supisarn Pakdinarunart said the five men detained denied the arms possession charges and were refused bail. They will appear in court Monday.

Local press reports said Thai authorities were tipped off by their American counterparts about the cargo aboard the aircraft. U.S. Embassy spokesman Michael Turner said the embassy would not comment on the incident.

Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said it would take several days to obtain details on the incident, which would be reported to the United Nations, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

“People should not be alarmed because the government will ensure that the investigation will be carried out transparently. The government will be able to explain the situation to foreign countries,” Suthep said.

Thai authorities said the weapons were moved by trucks amid high security Saturday night from the airport to a military base in the nearby province of Nakhon Sawan.

Baek Seung-joo of the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses said the seizure demonstrated a U.S. intention to continue to enforce sanctions on the North while also engaging in dialogue.

Arms sales are a key source of hard currency for the impoverished North. Baek said the North is believed to have earned hundreds of millions of dollars every year by selling missiles, missile parts and other weapons to countries like Iran, Syria and Myanmar.

In August, the United Arab Emirates seized a Bahamas-flagged cargo ship bound for Iran with a cache of banned rocket-propelled grenades and other arms from North Korea, the first seizure since sanctions against North Korea were ramped up.