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67 arrested in crackdown on triad-controlled prostitution ring in Hong Kong
Published on 11/08/2025
» Hong Kong police have arrested 67 people after an undercover operation found a triad group running membership clubs and bars that brought in sex workers from Thailand, Taiwan and mainland China.
Three nights of film frights kick off today
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 04/07/2025
» The Bangkok Horror Film Festival debuts today at the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority's Maen Si building in Bangkok. Running from today until Sunday, the free event features outdoor screenings, horror exhibitions, short film contests and stories from filmmakers, actors and others. It runs from 5pm to midnight.
Polish vote framed as ‘clash of civilisations’
AFP, Published on 30/05/2025
» WARSAW - Warsaw’s pro-EU mayor and a nationalist historian held their last day of campaigning on Friday for Poland’s presidency, with opinion polls predicting a close race in Sunday’s vote, which will determine the direction of the key central European EU and NATO member.
Laughable justice
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/05/2025
» Re: "Justice must ditch the glitz", (Editorial, May 13).
Pattaya police arrest 13 foreign prostitutes
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 09/05/2025
» PATTAYA — Thirteen foreign nationals have been arrested in this beach town for prostitution and immigration offences.
Belgium's green light for red light workers
AFP, Published on 30/04/2025
» ANTWERP — A police station in the historic sailors' quarter of the Belgian port of Antwerp is surrounded by sex workers' neon-lit red-light windows.
Paradise lost
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/04/2025
» In Grand Tour, Miguel Gomes' beguiling travelogue set in 1917, a British diplomat in Burma journeys across Southeast Asia, hopping from country to country, to avoid an encounter with his fiancée. Edward (Gonçalo Waddington) is a colonial officer who, struck by an inexplicable premonition or a case of cold feet, decides to flee Mandalay just before his sweetheart Molly (Crista Alfaiate) is due to arrive. He boards a ship to Singapore, then a train to Bangkok -- it derails on the way, but still makes it -- and onwards to Saigon, Manila, Osaka and Chongqing. Molly, pursuing him, would repeat a more or less similar route.
Ugandan prostitutes nabbed in Phuket
Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 25/03/2025
» PHUKET: Police arrested five Ugandan women on Tuesday and later fined them for prostitution in the Patong area of this resort island.
Peru ex-official denies running Congress prostitution ring
AFP, Published on 27/12/2024
» LIMA - A former Peruvian congressional official on Thursday denied having set up a prostitution ring in the legislature providing sexual favors to lawmakers in return for votes.
End of the Dubai dream for Europe's drug lords?
AFP, Published on 16/12/2024
» PARIS - Drug lords like Sean McGovern, a top lieutenant of the Kinahan cartel, and Faissal Taghi -- son of the infamous head of the Dutch-Moroccan Mocro Maffia -- used to hang out and party in Dubai's glitzy hotels and restaurants without a care in the world.