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) Cyber-technology, citizen power enable Thai police to nab suspected paedophile
BANGKOK, Oct 19 (TNA) � World-wide attention broadcast by contemporary media and Internet technology from Interpol and the Royal Thai Police enabled local residents in upcountry Thailand to identify a Canadian schoolteacher and inform the authorities of his location.The arrest of Canadian schoolteacher Christopher Paul Neil, a former school chaplain, was made in the home of a Thai man alleged to be responsible for enabling the foreigners sexual encounters with young Thai boys.
Covering his head with a shirt, Mr. Neil was led by police officers through a crowd of media, and later appeared at a Royal Thai Police press conference wearing dark glasses.
The suspect did not speak and was led away without being interviewed by the media.
Following a flurry of publicity from Interpol and the Thai authorities, Thai police in the northeastern province of Nakorn Ratchasima arrested the Canadian, charging him with sexual crimes against children not only in Thailand and but in several other Asian countries. More>> - (
) Thai police arrest Canadian paedophile suspect
BANGKOK - A suspected Canadian paedophile was arrested Friday in northeastern Thailand after a worldwide manhunt launched when police reconstructed a digital photograph of him abusing young boys.
Christopher Paul Neil, 32, was arrested in Nakhon Ratchasima, around 270 kilometers northeast of Bangkok, and was being brought back to the capital, a senior police official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
It came a day after a Thai court issued a warrant for his arrest, following a groundbreaking global appeal by Interpol for help in hunting him down.
Neil is accused by Interpol of sexually assaulting 12 boys and posting 200 pictures of the crimes on the Internet.
He was tracked down to Thailand after hundreds of people around the world responded to its unprecedented appeal for help in finding the man shown in the pictures. More>> - (
) Study: Some Cities Face Risk From Rising Seas
Cities around the world are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change. Of the 33 cities predicted to have at least 8 million people by 2015, at least 21 are highly vulnerable, says the Worldwatch Institute. They include Dhaka, Bangladesh; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Shanghai and Tianjin in China; Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt; Mumbai and Kolkata in India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in Japan; Lagos, Nigeria; Karachi, Pakistan; Bangkok, Thailand, and New York and Los Angeles in the United States, according to studies by the United Nations and others. More than one-tenth of the world's population, or 643 million people, live in low-lying areas at risk from climate change, say U.S. and European experts. Most imperiled, in descending order, are China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, Egypt, the U.S., Thailand and the Philippines. More>>