603-pound Thai woman leaves apartment for first time in 3 years with help of forklift

603-pound Thai woman leaves home after 3 years

300 kg Thai woman takes crane to hospital

BANGKOK - Bangkok city officials Thursday deployed a heavy-lift crane to move a woman weighing 300 kg down from her apartment, two storeys up, to get to hospital.

Thaksin denies rumors of death due to cancer

BANGKOK - Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who has been living in self-exile, has denied rumors circulating on Internet that he is dead.

Spanish 16-year-old becomes country’s first minor to undergo sex change operation

Spanish teen undergoes sex change operation

Thailand mandates waiting period, cross-dressing to make sex change surgery more difficult

Thailand looks to limit sex change surgery

Thailand announces AIDS vaccine `breakthrough’

BANGKOK - Thai health authorities Thursday announced the first “effective” trial of an HIV/AIDS vaccine on some 16,000 volunteers, although the efficacy rate was not sufficient for use.

A world first: AIDS vaccine cuts the risk of HIV infection by 31 percent in big Thai study

A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

BANGKOK — For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.

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