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...world's extreme poor, offers plenty. The bust and stagnation of the past few years only made the problem worse. The ILO estimates that the flesh trade has mushroomed into a major regional industry, accounting for 2% to 14% of GDP in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand...
...taken 330 wickets in 70 Tests, quit after mounting injuries. VISAS REVOKED. Of SHAWN CRISPIN, 33, and RODNEY TASKER, 56, Far Eastern Economic Review reporters, by Thai police; in Bangkok. The pair face expulsion from the country and possible criminal charges primarily because of an article alleging tensions between Thailand's King and Prime Minister. CONVICTED. FRANCOISE SAGAN, 66, French author whose debut novel Bonjour Tristesse, written at the age of 19, became an international best-seller, of tax fraud; in Paris. Sagan was given a one-year suspended jail sentence for failing to declare...
...Thailand, Buddhist temples often adopt a certain constituency?teachers, sailors, doctors?and become its spiritual sanctuary. Wat Bang Phra, an hour's drive west of Bangkok, has taken in nakleng?hit men, gang members, ex-cons, professional hoods, the kind of people you wouldn't normally go to temple with...
...homecoming in Rabbit-Proof Fence feels real, it is partly because it has also been one for Doyle. Leaving his hometown of Sydney at 18 to join the merchant marine, the maverick Australian worked on a kibbutz in Israel and spruiked Chinese medicines in Thailand before falling in love with Hong Kong, its energy and women. There a freewheeling new cinema was taking off and, faster than you can say Chungking Express, the self-trained Doyle found himself at its center. The journey took him to Hollywood, where he added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred...
When Suthichai Yoon, editor-in-chief of Thailand's Nation Multimedia Group, picked up the phone last Wednesday, the caller wouldn't give his name, but said he was a banker with interesting news. He had received an order to investigate a list of people for possible violations of Thailand's money-laundering laws. According to the mystery banker, Yoon had been named, along with members of his family, editors and columnists of the Nation group and other journalists...