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Apr 30 2009, Michael Kerjman

A Buddhist leader in the Tai province of Chiang Rai has announced plans for a new set of guidelines to curb the behaviour of homosexual and transgender monks.

More than 90 per cent of Thais are Buddhists, and, according to the media, most young men...

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People in traditional clothes erect a maypole in Grossgmain, Austrian province of Salzburg, Friday, May 1, 2009. Following a century-old tradition, May Poles are set up on the first of May all over Austria.