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BANGKOK, Thailand — An emergency official says an explosion inside the Thai prime minister's besieged office compound has wounded 33 people.
A spokesman from the Narentorn Medical Center said early Sunday morning that five had been hospitalized.
Police have not yet responded to the compound that protesters have held since August.
An Associated Press photographer says the device was hurled from outside the compound. It was not clear what Read the rest of this entry »

Published October 20, 2008
University of Texas Medical Branch doctors have been using video-conferencing technology to see Brazoria County’s indigent patients since Hurricane Ike devastated the Galveston complex in September.
The Galveston Island medical facility is using the method to keep patients from coming onto its site, which is recovering from the storm, Brazoria County District Attorney’s Office Civil Division Chief Jim Wiginton said. Read the rest of this entry »