A Thai worker uses a chain saw to cut rubber tree trunks 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

A Thai worker uses a chain saw to cut rubber tree trunks 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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