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In this photo taken Oct. 27, 2011, a sign along Highway 29 welcomes visitors to the Napa Valley in Oakville, Calif. Napa Valley wine producers will go a long way to protect their good name, all the way to Thailand if necessary. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Thai-born American Joe Gordon answers a reporter's question upon his arrival at a criminal court in Bangkok on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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** FILE ** Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra answers reporters questions during a joint press conference with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Damir Sagolj, Pool)
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** FILE ** U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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A Bangkok driver navigates his three-wheeled motorcycle taxi through floodwater that has stayed in Thailand more than a month. (Associated Press)
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The Grand Hall stands Nov. 8, 2011, after heavy flooding in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand. (Associated Press)
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Residents wade through a flooded street beneath portraits of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit in the Rangsit district on the outskirts of Bangkok. Water has been a virtual obsession for the king for the past four decades. Flooding this year is the worst it's been in 50 years. (Associated Press)
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Workers ride on their vehicle through a flooded road in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Thailand's catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Saturday. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Water from Rangsit canal overflows in an area in Pathum Thani province, central Thailand, on Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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Floodwaters inundate the Wat Chaiwatthanaram temple in Ayutthaya province in central Thailand on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. (AP photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Prisoners at Ayutthaya province prison in central Thailand wade in chest-deep water to board a bus Thursday during an evacuation as storms continue to flood the area. Other countries in Southeast Asia also have endured the worst flooding in 50 years.
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Chuvit Kamolvisit's pose in a coffin during a news conference in 2005 was to signify that his old life as Thailand's "Massage Parlor King" was over. Now a member of parliament, he is rooting out police corruption. (Associated Press)
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Thai prime minister-to-be Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Aug. 1, 2011. Recently elected Thai lawmakers gathered for the official opening of parliament Monday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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A Cambodian police officer (right) stands near the 11th-century Hindu Preah Vihear temple, near the disputed Cambodia-Thailand border in Preah Vihear province north of Phnom Penh. The U.N.'s highest court on Monday ordered troops from both Thailand and Cambodia to immediately withdraw military forces from disputed areas around the World Heritage temple straddling their border. (Associated Press)
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Happy Sermsri, from Thailand, and Betty Giarratana, from Fredericksburg, Va. stay cool under an umbrella near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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Yingluck Shinawatra (center), leader of Thailand's Phue Thai opposition party, waves to supporters after a press conference at the party headquarters in Bangkok on Sunday, July 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichkorn)
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Yingluck Shinawatra gives a traditional "wai" greeting after a news conference. Her apparent victory paves the way for her to become Thailand's first female prime minister. (Associated Press)
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Thais queue up at a polling center to cast their votes in Thailand's general election on Sunday, July 3, 2011, in Bangkok. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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** FILE ** In this March 1, 2011, photo, a Thai man has tattoos inked into his back at Wat Bang Pra in Nakhon Chaisi, Thailand. Thailand's Culture Minister Niphit Intharasombat has announced that foreign tourist should be banned from getting religious tattoos while visiting Thailand, saying the practice is culturally insensitive. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A volunteer village guard holds a gun behind a bunker at a school in Surin province, northeastern Thailand, on Tuesday. Officials said Tuesday the worst fighting between Thai and Cambodian forces in years has spread, with both sides exchanging artillery and rifle fire near another temple in a disputed zone along the border.
