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Bolivia's jaguars facing threat from Chinese fang craze
AFP, Published on 06/04/2018
» LA PAZ - Bolivia's once-thriving jaguar population is loping into the cross-hairs of a growing threat from poachers responding to growing Chinese demand for the animal's teeth and skull.
Resting stars isn't a bad idea after all
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 08/04/2018
» Wiggins' World used to think that the practice of NBA teams sitting out healthy players was a downright abomination.
Almost 1m meth pills seized after pursuit
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 11/04/2018
» SONGKHLA: A large smuggling operation of almost 1 million speed pills with a street value of 48 million baht stowed inside a pick-up truck has been thwarted by authorities on its way to the three southernmost provinces.
Hear her roar!
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/04/2018
» Katy Perry, pixie-haired and ever ebullient, roared through her second appearance in Bangkok on Tuesday night with professionalism, humour and ease. This pop-spectacle is as much a visual experience as it is an aural one -- in fact, the visual overwhelmed our attention for the most parts of the 120-minute gig. The stage -- and wardrobe -- dripped with red at one point, shimmered with silver at another, and Perry's team deployed a full arsenal of wacky props, girlish delight and zany sight gags. We even had a fart joke at one point, perhaps the first I ever heard live on the stage from Impact Arena. Perry's appeal cuts a broad swathe across the demographic, and we had a rainbow of humanity thronging the hall: office types, teenagers, party animals, hipsters, Cosplay queens, the LGBT camp, celebrities, people who think they're celebrities, girls in candy-coloured wigs, parents and children -- I mean, first-graders and stuff, lots of them in fact, arriving in cheerful anticipation and looking tired when the proceedings advanced past 11pm. In all, it looked like a cross section between the crowd at a Madonna gig and Disney On Ice. Such is the strange pull of Perry.
How the families of 10 massacred Rohingya fled Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 12/04/2018
» KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh: Rehana Khatun dreamed her husband came home. He appeared without warning in their village in western Myanmar, outside their handsome wooden house shaded by mango trees. "He didn't say anything," she said. "He was only there for a few seconds, and then he was gone." Then Rehana Khatun woke up.
Only Thailand overcharges
News, Postbag, Published on 15/04/2018
» Re: "No discount for farang", (PostBag, April 13).
Group sex bust fires blanks
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/04/2018
» Police raided a gay sauna in Ratchadaphisek area after a tip-off that an activity of debauchery would be held on Sunday night, involving 100 Thais and foreigners.
Group sex bust fires blanks
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 17/04/2018
» Police raided a gay sauna in the Ratchadaphisek area after a tip-off that an act of group sex would take place on Sunday night, involving 100 Thais and foreigners.
Tourists tapped to fight human trafficking
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 17/04/2018
» At Bangkok's main Suvarnabhumi airport, a video repeats scenes of tourists visiting Thailand's sunny beaches and its vibrant nightlife, but at the end comes a warning.
Heavenly homestays
Life, Story and photos: Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 19/04/2018
» Aree Sairaya never thought she would one day convert her house into a homestay. Her three-bedroom stilt house in Ban Sam Chong Nuea, a small coastal community in Takua Thung district in Phangnga, is tidy and clean.