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) Accolades For The Empire Hotel In Travel Poll
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Empire Hotel & Country Club has collected three accolades in Smart Travel Asia's 'The Best in Travel 2007' awards - an annual travel poll, a press release stated.The Empire Hotel & Country Club was voted in the Top 25 of three categories in a poll of readers. Readers ranked the resort 19th among Asia's Best Business Hotels, 18th among Asia's Best Conference Hotels and 12th of Asia's Best Leisure Hotels & Resorts. Other hotels and resorts featured in this reputable poll include The Peninsula Hong Kong, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay, Grand Hyatt Shanghai, The Datai Langkawi. JW Marriot Phuket Resort and Spa, Banyan Tree Phuket, One & Only Royal Mirage Dubai, Ritz Carlton Bali, The Oriental Bangkok and Pangkor Laut Resort. More>>
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) National/World
BANGKOK, Thailand - An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for a Canadian pedophile suspect accused of having sex with boys at his Bangkok apartment, a Thai police official said.Maj.-Gen. Wimol Powintara said authorities were trying to track down Christopher Paul Neil, the target of a global Interpol manhunt, through his network of friends in Thailand.
Police appeared to have few leads on exactly where Neil might be, though they had earlier expressed confidence that he would not escape their dragnet.
“He could be anywhere in Thailand. We have got calls from all over the place that they spotted someone who looks like him so we are dispatching policemen to find out more," Wimol said at a news conference.
The officer said posters of the suspect had been prepared and hotels and tourism agencies had been asked to help in the search. More>>
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) Pedófilos encuentran facilidades en Asia
BANGKOK—El año pasado el presunto pedófilo estadounidense John Mark Karr fue atrapado en Tailandia. Esta semana fue detenido en ese mismo país un canadiense acusado de abusar de cientos de niños en Camboya y Vietnam, mientras que otro estadounidense acusado de violar a su hija y difundir el video del episodio por la internet fue extraditado por Hong Kong.Con cada nuevo caso, surge una pregunta obvia: ¿Por qué todos estos individuos van a Asia a cometer sus fechorías?
La mayoría de los expertos en tráfico humano coincide en que son atraídos por sistemas legales corruptos, una pobreza endémica que obliga a la gente a hacer cualquier cosa para sobrevivir y comunidades dedicadas al comercio sexual en las que pueden encontrar refugio.
"Todo se les facilita aquí", expresó Rosalind Prober, presidente de Beyond Borders, una organización canadiense defensora de los derechos de la niñez, durante una visita a Bangkok. More>>
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) ABAC poll: 65% of respondents ready to sell votes
BANGKOK, Oct 21 (TNA) - Attempts by interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont to eliminate vote-buying during Thailand's upcoming general election are likely to be fruitless as a recent survey shows that two out of three Thais -- 64.6 per cent of the respondents in a new survey -- are quite ready to accept gifts or money in exchange for their votes.Assumption University ABAC Poll director Noppadol Kannikar said the poll conducted among 3,758 eligible voters aged above 18 in 14 provinces nationwide between October 15 -20 showed that almost 65 per cent of all respondents were willing to accept bribes in exchange for their votes in the December 23 election.
Only of 35.4 per cent of the respondents said they would not accept bribes or favours in exchange for their votes. More>>