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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Thailand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma |
 | | With a well-developed infrastructure, a free-enterprise economy, and pro-investment policies, Thailand appears to have fully recovered from the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis. |
 | | In late December 2004, a major tsunami took 8,500 lives in Thailand and caused massive destruction of property in the southern provinces of Krabi, Phangnga, and Phuket. |
| www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/th.html (1292 words) |
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