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20 Bangkok prison officials linked to Chinese VIP inmate scandal
Online Reporters, Published on 22/11/2025
» About 20 officials are facing investigation for arranging special privileges — including prostitutes — for Chinese inmates at the Bangkok Remand Prison, according to the head of the Department of Corrections.
Andrew ‘had 40 prostitutes brought to Bangkok hotel’
Published on 01/11/2025
» Disgraced former prince Andrew once had 40 prostitutes brought to his five-star hotel over four days during a taxpayer-funded trip to Thailand, his biographer has claimed.
'A kind of freedom': Amsterdam celebrates 750 years
AFP, Published on 28/10/2025
» AMSTERDAM — World-famous city of canals, bikes and tolerance, Amsterdam celebrated 750 years since its founding Monday, but the Dutch capital is now grappling with the very modern problems of overtourism and a housing shortage.
How Hong Kong pair landed in Myanmar scam farm 'living a life worse than death'
South China Morning Post, Published on 21/10/2025
» HONG KONG — Having lived in safe Hong Kong all her life, Nancy never imagined that an overseas job would lead to forced labour in a scam farm, a harrowing experience that lasted for half a year before she could be reunited with her family.
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.
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.