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Then, in January 2009, at least 64 New Year's revelers lost their lives in a nightclub in Bangkok, Thailand, after fire ignited its ceiling.

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Japan is out to recover in Thailand some of the ground it lost to main rival China at the previous games in Hiroshima.

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Thompson was genuinely in love with Thailand and its people, but any political influence he may have possessed was lost when Pridi was forced out by his strongman rival, Phibun Songkhram, in 1947.

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