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) Accessible Asia: Three countries, three cultures, three weeks
River cruises. Fresh beer. Strong coffee. French baguettes. Bike rides along shaded canals. Cooking classes in secluded villas. Five-star hotels with sky bars and rooftop pools. Paris, Venice, London?Try Hanoi, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.
If it's your first time or your tenth, surprises await in modern Southeast Asia. More accessible and easier to travel around than ever, it's a place where English is widely spoken and the dollar still packs power. Beginning Monday, join in online as travel writer Carol Pucci reports from Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. Follow her dispatches, see her photos and offer your own comments and tips.
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) David Copperfield cancels shows in Southeast Asia amid FBI probe
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Magician David Copperfield has canceled shows in Southeast Asia following legal troubles in the United States.That's according to the organizer of shows in Thailand.
Copperfield had been scheduled to perform in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand in coming weeks.
The cancellations come days after FBI agents searched Copperfield's warehouse in Las Vegas and a casino hotel theater where the magician regularly performs.
Allegations are that he "forced himself" on a Seattle woman. Details have not been revealed.
Copperfield's Las Vegas lawyer -- David Chesnoff -- has says the allegations have to be false because he says David Copperfield has never forced himself on anyone.
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) Myanmar in a tense situation
BANGKOK: A group of Malaysians who just returned from a five-day social visit to Myanmar painted a picture of a country that was tense and restless.The group of seven, who travelled to Yangon, Mandalay and Lashio, spoke of having to relocate to safer hotels and being subjected to curfews.
They also said Internet access had been cut and only certain telephone calls were being allowed through. Flights into and out of Yangon have also been rescheduled.
The group flew into Yangon on Sept 24 and immediately flew to Lashio via Mandalay.
The protests are mostly in Yangon and Mandalay. When we arrived in Lashio, everything was peaceful and safe, although we still had to adhere to a curfew and had to go back to the hotel by nine every night, said group member K.C. More>>
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) Thai court orders alleged Canadian pedophile held for 12 days
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A Canadian schoolteacher suspected of having sex with dozens of young boys will be held in a Thai jail for at least 12 days, a court ordered Saturday, pending a trial on molestation charges.Christopher Paul Neil was arrested early Friday at a house in the rural northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, which he rented with a Thai transvestite friend whose phone calls police had traced.
A judge in the Bangkok Criminal Court signed a police order to extend his detention to 12 days, and could move later to keep him behind bars up to 84 days. After the brief hearing, Neil was incarcerated at the Bangkok Remand Prison. - AP
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