BANGKOK - Thailand's fiery chillies, a vital ingredient in the kingdom's renowned cuisine, have reportedly become the latest casualty of the bird flu outbreak as farmers run out of the bird manure needed to grow them. Hundreds of chilli farmers in Hua Rua district of north-eastern Ubon Ratchathani province are in crisis, owing to a lack of manure to nurture their crops, the Bangkok Post reported yesterday. 'We can't use chemical or other organic fertilisers. It must be chicken manure,' a grower in the district famed for its chillies, Mr Chantai Khamdee, told the English-language daily. Farmers were using their...