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Belarusian sex-trainer 'treated like other female inmates'
King-oua Laohong and Online Reporters, Published on 01/02/2019
» Pattaya Remand Prison treated a Belarusian sex-trainer arrested in the seaside resort town last year just like any other female inmate, the Corrections Department chief said on Friday.
Australian rallies call for Thais to free footballer
Associated Press, Published on 01/02/2019
» SYDNEY: Scores of demonstrators rallied in Australia's two largest cities on Friday to demand that Thailand release a detained Bahraini football player who has refugee status in Australia.
Hong Kong seizes record eight tonnes of pangolin scales
AFP, Published on 01/02/2019
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong customs officers unveiled a record seizure of pangolin scales on Friday, the latest huge haul to underscore the city's central role in the lucrative and booming illegal wildlife trade.
Request for Bahraini footballer's extradition reaches court
Online Reporters and AP, Published on 01/02/2019
» Prosecutors on Friday asked the Criminal Court to approve the extradition of detained refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi to Bahrain. His lawyer said she would oppose it.
Pickup truck load of ganja seized after chase in Khon Kaen
Chakkrapan Natanri, Published on 01/02/2019
» KHON KAEN: A man was arrested after 495 kilogrammes of compressed marijuana were found in his pickup truck following a brief police chase in Nam Phong district.
Hip-hop turns 40 -- and its parents are beaming with pride
AFP, Published on 01/02/2019
» WASHINGTON - Forty years ago, hip-hop was little known outside its birthplace, New York -- until the Sugarhill Gang decided to record their rhymes, launching the genre's rise as a dominant cultural and commercial force.
Detention of football player ‘historic test’
New York Times, Published on 01/02/2019
» The global sports market is worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Now, this powerful industry is coming together to promote an unlikely cause: human rights.
Lower toxic dust levels throughout greater Bangkok
Online Reporters, Published on 01/02/2019
» Toxic dust levels fell in greater Bangkok on Friday morning, with the worst conditions recorded on Phahon Yothin Road in Bangkok's Bang Khen district.
Bring home the bacon: the Taiwanese woman living with four pet pigs
AFP, Published on 01/02/2019
» TAICHUNG (TAIWAN) - Every year is the Year of the Pig in Jenny Tsai's ninth-floor apartment in Taiwan's Taichung City which she shares with one fellow human and four pampered porcine housemates.