Thailand reports 78 new Type-A (H1N1) flu cases, raising total to 1,132

Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said Friday that 78 new cases of Type-A (H1N10 influenza cases were registered, adding the total cases in Thailand to 1,132.
Of the new cases, 71 are students, he said.
Of the accumulated cases, 1,110 patients have been cured and discharged from hospitals, he said, adding that 22 patients are still in hospitals.

Flu death toll rises to 2

A-40-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man in Bangkok have become the country's first two fatalities linked to the type-A (H1N1) influenza virus, Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai announced Saturday.Witthaya told a press conference that the woman fell ill on June 8 and wa admitted to a private hospital seven days later with high fever and pneumonia.
She was given oseltamivir anti-viral drug for five days but she her condition worsened and she died on June 20.
The second victim fell ill on June 18 with fever and running nose.
He was admitted to a hospital on June 23 with high fever, coughing and pneumonia.
He was also given oseltamivir anti-viral drug but his condition worsened and he died on Friday.
Despite the deaths, Witthaya pleaded the public not to panic.
He said so far 1,209 type-A (H1N1) flu cases have been reported in Thailand. Of these, 1,190 patients have been cured and 16 are still inside hospitals.
He said 90 per cent of the cases recovered by themselves.
Witthaya said the type-A (H1N1) influenza has much lower fatality rate than normal influenza which killed about 30 to 40 per cent of patients.

Former K.Rouge foreign minister denied release

Judges on Friday rejected the former Khmer Rouge foreign minister's appeal for release from jail before his trial at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court.
Ieng Sary, 83, is charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes but asked to be released into house arrest on the grounds that his life in jail at the tribunal is making him ill.
"The request for release or modification of conditions of detention is rejected," said pre-trial chamber judge Prak Kimsan in a formal reading of the decision.
Detention was necessary to protect the former leader's safety, keep him from fleeing Cambodia and to preserve public order, Prak Kimsan told the court.
Ieng Sary, who has been rushed to hospital at least nine times since he was detained by the court in November 2007, shuffled in and out of the courtroom with the help of a cane.
His trial is expected to begin sometime next year.
Ieng Sary is one of five top regime cadres detained by the joint Cambodia-UN tribunal that was established in 2006, after nearly a decade of haggling over how to deliver justice for one of the 20th century's bloodiest episodes.
The court's long-awaited first trial has seen Kaing Guek Eav, better known by the alias Duch, accept responsibility for overseeing the execution of more than 15,000 people at the main Khmer Rouge prison.
Up to two million people died of starvation and overwork, or were executed, as the 1975-1979 regime emptied Cambodia's cities in its drive to create a communist utopia.
As the top Khmer Rouge diplomat, Ieng Sary was frequently the only point of contact between Cambodia's secretive communist rulers and the outside world.
He has denied any involvement in past atrocities but he was also one of the biggest public supporters of the regime's mass purges, researchers say.
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998 before facing justice, and fears over the health of ageing suspects hang over the court.