17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
From NotW:
* Bangkok's largest English-language newspaper, The Nation, reported in February on a raging war by coffin sellers in the southern Thailand city of Nakhon Si Thammarat. Eight shops are located across the street from the city's largest hospital, and bribes of hospital personnel for clients are common. A television station reported that one shop's agent sneaked into several hospital rooms to disconnect oxygen to terminal patients whose relatives were already known to the shop and thus might have given that shop their business.