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) Thailand Cautions Against Travel To Myanmar
BANGKOK, Sept 27 (Bernama) -- Thailand is warning its nationals to take great caution if travelling to neighbouring Myanmar following the eruption of violence with five persons reportedly shot dead and nearly 100 injured when shooting began after nearly 10 days of growing Buddhist monk-led demonstrations in the former capital, Yangon. Evacuation plans for the Thai community -- officially about 250 but unofficially as many as 400 -- are now in place as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns Thais not to visit Myanmar in the face of likely further violence, TNA said in its report. Thailand has prepared for the contingency that Thais must be evacuated in case of wider violence taking place as Buddhist monks and laypeople assert their displeasure with an increasingly desperate economy in a country which has been ruled by the military for 45 years. More>> - (
) Technology aided hunt for accused pedophile
BANGKOK - With the help of a computer program, German police digitally unscrambled the swirls that obscured the face of a man depicted having sex with boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.With the reach of the Internet, an unprecedented worldwide appeal by Interpol brought hundreds of responses via e-mail to the French-based police agency.
And with the aid of traced cellphone calls, Thai police tracked the suspect to a house well off the usual tourist trail, in northeastern Thailand.
The high-tech police work resulted in the arrest yesterday of Canadian schoolteacher Christopher Paul Neil, suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys, after a three-year global search.
Neil, 32, was detained at a house that he had rented with a friend in the rural province of Nakhon Ratchasima. More>>
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) Global manhunt ends; sex suspect arrested
BANGKOK, Thailand - A three-year global manhunt for Christopher Paul Neil, a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys, ended Friday when police arrested him at a house in northeastern Thailand. They tracked him through phone calls made by a Thai transvestite roommate. . More>> - (
) China trounce Myanmar 7-0 in World Cup qualifier
BANGKOK, Oct 21 (Reuters) - China got their World Cup qualifying campaign off to a flying start with a 7-0 rout of Myanmar in their first-round first-leg match in Foshan on Sunday.Keen to make amends for a disappointing Asian Cup, the Chinese moved an inch closer to reaching their second World Cup finals with striker Qu Bo scoring the first and last goals of the game to condemn Myanmar to a near-certain early exit.
Despite missing their European-based players, China dominated the match and went ahead on 17 minutes when Qu converted Sun Xiang's cross from the left. . More>>
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) Narjeet, lord of the ring
P NARJEET Singh got India a gold medal in the boxing ring, as he out punched Germany's Marcel Schneider 12-8 in a keenly contested bout at the World Military Games on Saturday.The Indian started slowly. In fact, he was behind in the first two rounds, but towards the end of Round 3, he gathered momentum and then never looked back.
Said Narjeet after the match: "I had studied his semifinal bout yesterday. He is short, so I played counter till the third round. Towards the end of Round 3, I started to attack."
From there on, Narjeet become very aggressive, leaving his opponent with no chance. The Indian was trailing 3-5 after Round 2 but went ahead 5-6 in the subsequent round.
Narjeet's next target is qualifying for the Olympics. "That's my next target," the National Games gold-medallist said. More>>