South Korea jails former hero pastor for sexually abusing North Korean teenage defectors
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Thai Land Bridge bid straddles a delicate US-China line
BANGKOK – Thailand hopes China will help build a US$2.8 billion, east-west highway and railway “Land Bridge” across the kingdom, linking the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand as a short-cut for oil and other international cargo currently sailing further south via Singapore and the Malacca Strait.
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South Korean Doctors Walk Out, Protesting Plan to Increase Their Ranks
Hundreds of interns and residents in South Korea walked off the job on Tuesday, disrupting an essential service to protest the government’s plan to address a shortage of doctors by admitting more students to medical school.
South Korean doctors submit resignations in spat with government over school admission quotas
Doctors’ groups and the government have been squabbling over a government plan to increase the number of medical school admissions by 2,000, starting from next year.
Thai ex-Prime Minister Thaksin, just freed from detention, may still face a royal defamation charge
BANGKOK (AP) — Thai prosecutors said Monday that further investigation is needed to decide whether to bring former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to trial for defaming the monarchy, just a day after he was freed from a prison sentence on other charges he was serving in a hospital.
South Korea doctors submit resignations in a spat with the government over school admission quotas
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Trainee doctors in South Korea began submitting their resignations en masse Monday in protest of a government medical policy, causing reported delays in surgeries and other treatments at hospitals.