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Traffickers in human misery
News, Published on 24/03/2012
» Trans-national criminal gangs which traffic in people get rich by exploiting the weak and vulnerable. Their methods range from shady job brokers who cheat workers by making them pay for non-existent jobs overseas to young women lured across borders to work in restaurants that turn out to be brothels or sweatshops. They intimidate the underprivileged and enslave migrants in factories and on fishing boats. By any definition of human wrongdoing, they are the lowest of the low.
Gay spa raided in Bangkok
Online Reporters, Published on 21/03/2012
» Police last night raided a gay spa in Bangkok and arrested its owner and manager for allegedly operating an illegal adult entertainment business and supplying prostitutes.
Thai women pilots
Jon Fernquest, Published on 19/03/2012
» 22 years after the first Thai woman co-pilot still only 30 to 40 female pilots (none at Thai Airways) & only 4 full pilots.
City needs two airports
News, Published on 17/03/2012
» Re: '' Single-airport policy ends'' (BP, March 16).
A World with out Suffering
Life, Karnjariya Sukrung, Published on 13/03/2012
» What would Lord Buddha do if he lived in this modern world? Ask this question, and it might lead us closer to Buddha's insights and transformation of modern crises, as Prof David R Loy tries to introduce in his book, Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution (now in Thai translation).
Transsexual Thai air hostesses: gimmick or equality?
AFP, Published on 12/03/2012
» With her crisp uniform, immaculate makeup and hair swept up, Mew looks like any other air hostess, but she's one of a handful of Thai transsexuals blazing a trail in the skies.
A mixed brew
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/03/2012
» While it is conventional for a novel to have both a main plot and a subplot, this reviewer notes that one generally distracts from the other, successfully.
Painting a picture
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 11/03/2012
» Plainclothes police are staking out the hideout, snipers lock on to their targets from the tops of surrounding buildings and a truckload of Swat team members are hiding nearby _ it's the quiet before the storm. Suspects all accounted for in the hideout, check. Certain evidence confirmed in the hideout, check. Communication lines secured, neighbourhood cleared, weapons locked and loaded, full metal jackets in place, check, check and check.
From Muay Thai to Hollywood star
Sports, Patrick Cusick, Published on 11/03/2012
» She's a Muay Thai superstar, an MMA top gun and the new action movie sensation.
Voices of the silent
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 11/03/2012
» Last Thursday was International Women's Day, an occasion that for a century has served for people to demand greater civil rights, representation and equality; to honour wives, mothers and girlfriends and the accomplishments of women; to call for an end to global hunger and poverty; and, increasingly, to highlight the plight of refugees and the displaced.