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Ex-abbot admits to love affair
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 11/07/2025
» The former abbot of Wat Phra Phutthachai in Saraburi has admitted to a years-long romantic relationship with a woman known as "Sika Golf", saying he had even planned to leave the monkhood to marry her -- only to later discover she was also romantically involved with senior monks from other well-known temples.
China detains female ‘boys love’ writers in porn crackdown
Published on 09/07/2025
» BEIJING - Police in China have detained dozens of young women authors in a genre of gay erotica widely known in Asia as “boys’ love” during a nationwide crackdown on online pornography, lawyers and activists familiar with the cases say.
Tunics & turbans: Afghan students don Taliban-imposed uniforms
AFP, Published on 30/04/2025
» AFGHANISTAN - Since the start of the school year in March, Afghan boys have been required to wear new uniforms of turbans and long tunics, following an order to adopt outfits reflecting Taliban rule.
New generation of Afghan women shift from burqa
AFP, Published on 19/03/2025
» MAZAR-I-SHARIF (AFGHANISTAN) - Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women.
PM to visit South despite bombings
News, Published on 15/01/2025
» Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will visit the three southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat on Thursday despite recent bomb blasts in the area, according to Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai.
Award-winning police teacher, son slain from ambush
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 14/01/2025
» NARATHIWAT - An award-winning police officer who ran a remote school for children was killed, along with his policeman son, when their pickup truck was ambushed on Tuesday morning.
New releases for your streaming pleasure: Jan 8-14
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 08/01/2025
» Looking for a title to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!
Iran says student who stripped in public is ‘troubled’
Published on 06/11/2024
» A female student who stripped to her underwear at an Iranian university does not represent a security issue but is a “troubled individual” who is receiving treatment, a government spokesperson has said.
Cues from Iran on who to vote for
News, Marc Champion, Published on 03/07/2024
» The opposition just won a first round of elections, forcing a runoff in which everything depends on where third-party votes go. No, not in France -- in Iran. You could be forgiven for missing it amid all the excitement over the advance of the French hard right, President Joe Biden's car crash debate in the US and the coming immolation of the UK's Conservative Party. Yet Iran's experience is worth attention, not least as a reminder of what to vote for and why. Iran, to recap, is having a snap contest to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash. Raisi was also being groomed to succeed the 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the unelected post that -- as the title suggests -- matters most in the Islamic Republic.