Word: ganges
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...Chuwit's popularity springs from an unlikely transformation. Twenty months ago, a gang of thugs destroyed a strip of bars on a plot of land he owned. Police arrested Chuwit on suspicion of hiring the gang to muscle out unwanted tenants. Chuwit loudly proclaimed his innocence and lashed back at the police, publicly detailing the protection money, expensive watches and free massage services he claimed to have provided to officers over the years. He mounted an autobiographical one-man stage show (titled Chuwit, Alone and Shabby: Talk Show of the Year), published two books (The Golden Bath and My Confession...
...program, promising not to prosecute those who turn in firearms before Sept. 30. So far, 145 guns and a grenade have been handed over. But few expect the grace period will do more than convince a few civilians to come forward?Taiwan's gangsters won't be participating. "Most gang members say there are only two things that matter in the Taiwan underworld: money and firepower," says Ko-lin Chin, a Rutgers University professor who has written extensively about Taiwan's organized crime. "They won't hand over what they need for their survival." True enough. When police in southern...
...SERGEY MAXIMISHIN for TIME PART OF THE GANG: Alexei, at right, in St. Petersburg's Arts Square along with two other Schultz88 members, is awaiting trial on charges of violent assault...
...sense of dread is spreading among members of Russia's ethnic-minority communities. Just four days before Girenko's assassination, a group of neo-Nazis killed an Azeri passerby in Saratov, some 1,400 km south of St. Petersburg; and in May, human-rights groups claim a neo-Nazi gang beat a Pakistani student to death in Ulyanovsk, 350 km northeast of Saratov. According to the Moscow-based daily Izvestia, neo-Nazis have violently assaulted at least 15,000 people over the past seven years. A recent report by the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights says 20 to 30 victims...
...alleged Mossad spies for passport fraud. Whittaker's thrilled: "I think we've got a story that will get us out of trouble." Harvey rings back to confirm the sentence involves a donation to charity. "This has got it all," Whittaker tells her. "We have to go gang-busters on this." Within minutes a local reporter is assigned to visit the old Sydney address of one of the Israelis, while the Canberra bureau starts chasing a response from Australian authorities. Harvey, meanwhile, will still be going gangbusters at two the next morning when, after filing several front-page pieces...