Thai workers load cut rubber tree trunks into a pick-up truck at a farm in Thailand's restive southern province of Yala on July 4, 2009. Thailand's recession-hit economy should return to positive growth later this year with recovery by 2010, the country's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said recently. Getty Images logo Getty Images 31 months ago

Thai workers load cut rubber tree trunks into a pick-up truck at a farm in Thailand's restive southern province of Yala on July 4, 2009. Thailand's recession-hit economy should return to positive growth later this year with recovery by 2010, the country's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said recently.

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