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Las Vegas in Laos: the riverside city awash with crime
AFP, Published on 14/07/2025
» VAN PAK LEN, Laos - Rising from the muddy fields on the Mekong riverbank in Laos, a lotus tops a casino in a sprawling city which analysts decry as a centre for cybercrime.
Forgetting what democracy is for and all about
Oped, Published on 10/07/2025
» On June 2, I got a sense of history coming full circle in the Polish town of Sopot, on the Baltic Sea just a few kilometres from the Gdańsk Shipyard. Sharing a stage at the Plenary Session of the European Financial Congress with Lech Wałęsa, the legendary trade unionist who led the 1980 Solidarity strike at the Lenin Shipyard and later became Poland's first post-communist president, I felt I was witnessing the end of an era.
Tears, prayers, exultation: Diddy radiates relief after partial acquittal
AFP, Published on 03/07/2025
» NEW YORK - His gaze to the ceiling in exultation and hands miming prayer, Sean Combs appeared overjoyed as the jury foreman cleared the music mogul's name of sweeping charges that took a life-sentence in prison off the table.
‘Diddy’ guilty of prostitution offences, cleared of more serious charges
Published on 02/07/2025
» NEW YORK - Sean “Diddy” Combs was found guilty on Wednesday of prostitution-related offences but cleared of more serious charges, in a blow to prosecutors who had urged a jury to find him guilty of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
Jurors in Sean Combs trial reach verdict on all but one count
New York Times, Published on 02/07/2025
» NEW YORK — A jury in Manhattan reached a partial verdict Tuesday in the federal case against music mogul Sean Combs, but it did not announce its decision because it was deadlocked on a final charge of racketeering conspiracy. The jury left for the night and will return to continue deliberating Wednesday morning.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs used 'power, violence and fear': prosecutor
AFP, Published on 27/06/2025
» NEW YORK - Sean "Diddy" Combs used "power, violence, and fear" as the head of a decades-old criminal enterprise, a prosecutor said Thursday in closing arguments in his high-profile trial.
Transnational sex traffickers arrested in Thailand
News, Published on 19/06/2025
» Two Singaporean men and a Thai man have been arrested in Thailand on charges of transnational trafficking of women for prostitution in the city-state.
In a Ukrainian strip club, war is laid bare
AFP, Published on 12/06/2025
» KHARKIV, Ukraine - When Lisa, 20, laces into her ultra-high heels for her shift at a strip club in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, she knows that aside from dancing, she will have to comfort traumatised soldiers.
French man arrested in Pattaya denies child-sex charge
Published on 10/06/2025
» A 44-year-old French man has been arrested in Pattaya for allegedly paying for sex with a 13-year-old girl in the northeastern province of Nong Khai.
Frenchman arrested in Pattaya denies child-sex charge
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 09/06/2025
» PATTAYA - A 44-year-old Frenchman has been arrested in this seaside tourist city for allegedly paying for sex with a 13-year-old girl in the northeastern province of Nong Khai.