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The Swedish web pirate who walked the plank
Spectrum, Published on 04/10/2015
» It was Denmark’s biggest hacking trial, and in the dock sat Swedish Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. He’d racked up a bewilderingly complex string of charges and subsequent prison time following his Sept 8, 2012, deportation to Sweden from Cambodia, where he’d been hiding for four years.
Yes, we have no submarines
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 09/02/2014
» As tensions rose last week between China and Japan over control of the South China Sea, the prospects of its impact on Thai waters and the preparedness of the country's navy to deal with it has been brought into question.
No magical army, says twin
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 25/08/2013
» After the near-defeat of the Karen National Union (KNU) by Myanmar's government-backed military in 1997, twin boys Johnny and Luther Htoo inspired a group of its army's fleeing insurgents to fight for and protect their homes. The surviving Karen soldiers, devout Christians, hailed them as their holy saviours.
Invasion of the job snatchers
Spectrum, Published on 26/05/2013
» The tourism boom in Phuket over the past decade has seen a dramatic increase in Russian and Chinese visitors and also growing resentment from local tour guides who say illegal foreign workers are stealing their jobs.
No end in sight amid season of slaughter
Spectrum, Published on 23/12/2012
» For Kachin huddled into refugee camps in Laiza, the ethnic group's administrative capital, and others who have been driven into the jungle by the bloody conflict engulfing their state, the prevailing mood of this holiday season is one of fear.
When mum and dad are the kidnappers
Spectrum, Tunya Sukpanich, Published on 28/10/2012
» It was only a month ago, on Sept 28, that 11-year-old Michael was abducted from his school in Nonthaburi province by his own father. Lek, the mother left behind, has yet to hear any word of their whereabouts.
No easy answer to who lit fuse in bomb attacks
Spectrum, Published on 26/02/2012
» Since the bomb blasts earlier this month which struck Bangkok and New Delhi, and a failed attack in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, confusion over events on the ground has been compounded by a predictable war of words between Iran, widely viewed as behind the attacks, and its arch-enemy Israel, the apparent target.