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Nepalese protesters stage anti-rape street drama
AFP, Published on 07/01/2013
» Hundreds of Nepalese campaigners protested for a 10th day Sunday over the alleged rape and robbery of a maid by government officials and other cases of violence against women.
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Filipino needs $1m to escape Saudi beheading
AFP, Published on 15/11/2012
» A Philippine worker condemned to death in Saudi Arabia for murder has won a four-month reprieve to raise four million riyals ($1.066 million) and avoid execution by beheading, officials said on Wednesday.
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Govt seeks help to locate key witness in Saudi case
News, Published on 01/11/2012
» The government will seek cooperation from a neighbouring country to get a key witness to testify in its revived probe into the disappearance of a Saudi businessman more than 20 years ago.
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Surapong in talks to repair Saudi relations
News, Published on 27/09/2012
» NEW YORK : The tense relations between Thailand and Saudi Arabia is likely to ease somewhat after the official bilateral talks were held for the first time in more than two decades.
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Dead child walking
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 22/07/2012
» Just returned from a visit to Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang prison, Toshi Kazama is ready to talk about criminal justice. On a rainy evening at the Foreign Correspondents' Club last week, the Japanese-born photographer shows slides of his photographs of juvenile offenders and speaks about the complexities of capital punishment. He has been photographing young people on death row since 1996, mostly in the US, where he has lived since the age of 15, and more recently across Asia.
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Tunisia's Ben Ali gets life 'for complicity in murders'
AFP, Published on 19/07/2012
» Tunisia's ex-strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for complicity in the murders of 43 protesters in the 2011 revolution that toppled him, a judge said on Thursday.
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The real thing
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/07/2012
» It is one of this author's peeves that contemporary authors writing about a variety of subjects throw in Islamic terrorists in the hope that it makes stories more exciting. This ploy doesn't work. To be sure Islamic terrorism is the flavour of the 21st century, heinous and vile, but ought to be written about in context.
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Conspiracy of errors has saved Bangkok thus far
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 16/02/2012
» Thailand continues to play a bit role in the Mideast conflict and, as the Valentine's Day bomb debacle in Bangkok has shown, the country also seems to attract mostly second-string operatives in the violence.
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Iran buries scientist slain by 'CIA and Mossad'
AFP, Published on 13/01/2012
» Iran on Friday buried a top scientist it said was killed in an Israeli-American covert campaign against its nuclear programme, as a US-led drive for crippling sanctions ran into opposition even from allies.
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Famous murderers receive royal pardons
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 08/12/2011
» Many people have been surprised – even shocked – to learn that among the 26,000 prison inmates receiving royal pardons this year are four of the country’s most notorious murderers.
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