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) Football: Bangkok U win the battle, but lose the war
SINGAPORE : Despite dominating the second leg of their 2007 RHB Singapore Cup semi-final tie at Jurong East Stadium on Thursday night, Bangkok University fell just short of overturning defending champions Tampines Rovers' 2-0 advantage from the first leg.The Thai side were 1-0 winners on the night, thanks to a 69th minute header from Teerayoot Seubsin, but it will be Tampines, 2-1 aggregate winners, who advance to the final, where they will face either SAFFC or Woodlands Wellington.
Both sides started the game nervously, with the Thais shading the first half.
The second half exploded into life when the Bangkok club introduced livewire Kittisak Siriwaen after 55 minutes.
They went up a gear and threatened the Tampines defence and were duly rewarded when Teerayoot nodded home with a little more than 20 minutes to go. More>>
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) Monday, September 24, 2007
The emergence of online travel agencies has made the lives of travellers more comfortable, where these portals offer cheapest air tickets and other suitable travel deals at the click of mouse. The nascent industry is growing rapidly to become a big money spinner in the e-commerce space in the country, finds out Shivani Mody. . More>> - (
) Canadian denies pedophile allegations: report
OTTAWA : The Canadian arrested in Thailand accused of sexually abusing boys across Southeast Asia denies the allegations, a news channel which interviewed him at a Thai police station reported here Saturday. The suspect, Christopher Paul Neil, said the evidence that Thai authorities have would not stand up in a Canadian court and he had a "good defence," according to a reporter for Broadcaster CTV, Steve Chao, who interviewed him in Bangkok. Neil was arrested in northeastern Thailand after investigators at the global force Interpol launched a rare public global hunt for a man seen in 200 Internet photos abusing a dozen young Asian boys. They identified Neil after decrypting photographs of the man, whose face was blurred out. Neil, 32, could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of abusing a nine-year-old Thai boy in Bangkok four years ago, Thai police said. More>> - (
) Famous café at centre of new ice-cream war
IT IS the spiritual home of Scotland's legendary ice-cream empire, where hordes of daytrippers on an outing doon the watter formed long queues for a scoop or a sundae.Like the summer heat, those memories have all but faded for Nardinis, with a lurid tale of creditors, debts and planning rows taking their place. For years, the art deco monument in Largs has been boarded up.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - A global manhunt for a Canadian teacher accused of sexually abusing more than a dozen boys in three Asian countries ended Friday when Thai police nabbed the suspect in a house he rented with a Thai transvestite friend.Christopher Paul Neil, 32, was captured in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima after police traced calls from the friend, whom they knew he had contacted on previous trips to Thailand."I think he knew we were coming," said police Col. Paisal Luesomboon, who was in the five-man team that made the arrest. "He knew that there was an arrest warrant issued and that his face was posted everywhere."He said that Neil acknowledged his name and nationality, but would not say whether he was the man pictured in more than 200 photographs having sex with boys as young as six in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.Several Thai boys had earlier come forward to say that they had been abused by Neil, and police - who had been tracing Neil's network of friends - had expressed confidence he would not escape their dragnet.Neil was in handcuffs and had a blue shirt draped over his head as officers led him into national police headquarters after he was driven to Bangkok, about 210 kilometres from where he was arrested.He made no comments to a waiting horde of reporters.He also remained silent when he was presented to journalists at a news conference, where the shirt was removed from his head but his eyes remained hidden behind a pair of sunglasses.Police, however, described how they had tracked him down.On Thursday night, they traced a phone call made by a 25-year-old Thai man whom Neil was previously known to be in touch with, said Col. More>>