Most of the children are found in the northern province of Chiang Mai, where they came down to live in the city from the mountains, while almost 10,000 youngsters are living on the streets of the Thai capital of Bangkok.
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Although the plan is now only a proposal, construction is set to be complete before April 6, the anniversary of the enthronement of King Rama I as first king of the Rattanakosin era. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), or City Hall, believes that the building project will push the young homeless to move away from this gathering spot once construction starts.
“The public space here is not appropriately used. We’ve checked that two families are settled in the premises, and we are to move them out, and as where they’re residing will become construction sites, they definitely won’t be able to live here,” said the director of Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon District Office, Suachana Sudcharoen.
A 34-year-old Thai woman arrested for human trafficking was denied bail in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court.
Giang Brooderyk was denied bail as the court said she was a flight risk and would evade trial once she was out on bail, notes a report on the
site. She was arrested for allegedly assisting girls from Bangkok, Thailand, to enter the country illegally. She allegedly promised them work at her Thai massage parlour. Once they were in the country they were forced to work as prostitutes at her brothel in town. The court said she entered the country with a fraudulent visitor’s permit in 2000, and ever since she had been able to travel between Thailand and SA with fraudulent papers, due to connections she had in the department of home affairs, the police and the aviation industry.
Bangkok books that bring the city to life
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Lucky for fans of Burdett, “Bangkok 8″ is the first in a series of books following the escapades of Sonchai. Bangkok Tattoo and Bangkok Haunts are the sequels, and there may be more adventures in the future.
John Burdette reveals his favorite Bangkok haunts in this interview with CNNGo.
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The lead character, Jack Shepherd, is at first read an unlikable anti-hero, but his flaws are compelling, enticing the reader to follow his journey as his life as a professor in Bangkok is turned upside down.
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Warren Fellows’ biographical tale about life in a Bangkok prison set the standard by which similar books are compared.
The synopsis is simple: In 1978, 25-year-old Warren Fellows was sentenced to life for trafficking heroin. He served 12 years and all the horrible truth is laid out here for readers to gawp at, from pigs used as prostitutes to eating cockroaches as a source of protein.
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Authorities notified all tourists who entered the country in recent days not to eat any poultry that appears swollen, or lethargic. In an unprecedented move that shocked many, national police seized thousands of swollen cocks in an early morning raid across the capitol city of Bangkok.
“We have a severe out break to deal with and drastic measures are needed to keep these swollen cocks from falling into the wrong hands,” said Police Commission Kel Glans. “We feel this is just the tip! First, we’ll root out the cause, then we’ll get an immediate hand on this and beat back any chance that this will spread!”
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With-in 24 hours over 20 Members of Parliament, 75 members of the Buckingham Palace staff, Amy Winehouse, and over 700 prostitutes jammed centers in mid-town London demanding confirming tests and immediate medication.
BANGKOK, Jan 5 (TNA) – Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Tuesday reasserted that his government is ready to scrap the online lottery project, saying that contract made with Loxley Gtech Technology (LGT), as contractor, allows the government to end the project, while the amount of compensation should be agreed by both sides.
The premier commented as LGT, a subsidiary of Loxley, assigned by the ousted government of prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to install electronic lottery vending machines in Thailand, threatened to sue for Bt3 billion if the Abhisit government terminates the long-delayed project.
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The premier reasserted that he personally disagreed with the online lottery, reasoning that if he accepts the project, many questions will follow such as whether drugs problem and prostitution should be solved in the same pattern.
The Overstay: Bangkok squat, commune, and hippy hangout
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The Overstay’s website describes it as a “six tiered cake of fun and living”, albeit one situated in a haunted ex-brothel. It’s a hostel, it’s a bar, it’s a squat, it’s an artists’ studio; every floor has a different concept and use. The ground floor bar, honesty-run of course using stamps to record drinks bought in guests’ Overstay ‘passports’, is the venue for the regular club nights. Move up a level and it becomes a hostel, each room sporting an elaborately painted interior, whilst the second floor above is an open-plan art gallery and cinema. Homeless hippies can find a place to crash for free in the third floor’s so-called refugee camp, although the long-time residents’ rooms on the two uppermost floors are decidedly plusher. To top it off, there’s a hammock strewn rooftop.
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A 34-year-old Thai woman arrested for human trafficking has been denied bail in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court
Thai woman in court for human trafficking
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Monday, January 4, 2010
Giang Brooderyk was denied bail as the court said she was a flight risk and would evade trial once she was out on bail. She was arrested on November 26 for allegedly assisting girls from Bangkok, Thailand to enter the country illegally.
She allegedly promised them work at her Thai massage parlour.
Once they were in the country they were forced to work as prostitutes at her brothel in town.
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A 34-year-old Thai woman arrested for human trafficking was denied bail in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday as the court said she was a flight risk.
Giang Brooderyk was arrested on November 26 for allegedly assisting girls from Bangkok, Thailand, to enter the country illegally.
She allegedly promised them work at her Thai massage parlour. Once they were in the country they were forced to work as prostitutes.
The court said she entered the country with a fraudulent visitor’s permit in 2000, and ever since then had been able to travel between Thailand and South Africa due to connections she had in the department of home affairs, the police and the aviation industry.
… Before I came to Bangkok, I e-mailed the rabbi at Chabad House and asked him for help to reserve a hotel room. He e-mailed me back, confirming my reservation at the Viengtai Hotel across the street,” she says.
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Historians of Siam say the first synagogue was already established by Jewish merchants in Ayutthaya in 1601. Britain’s East India Company employed a Jewish interpreter here in 1683. Russian Jews fled to Bangkok from the Soviet Union in the 1920s, boosted by 120 German Jews who escaped the Nazis in the 1930s.
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Israelis mostly began arriving in the 1970s, attracted to Bangkok’s gem and jewelry trade, while others sought to advise the Thai government about methods of dry agriculture, security and other issues.
In 1972, four Arab “Black September Ali Taha Group” gunmen invaded the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok, denounced the “Zionist occupation of Palestine” and seized six hostages. After negotiations, the hostages were released and the siege ended peacefully. The guerrillas were given safe passage to Egypt, flying out on a Thai International plane.
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Inside Bangkok’s Chabad House
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Historians of Siam say the first synagogue was already established by Jewish merchants in Ayutthaya in 1601. Britain’s East India Company employed a Jewish interpreter here in 1683. Russian Jews fled to Bangkok from the Soviet Union in the 1920s, boosted by 120 German Jews who escaped the Nazis in the 1930s.
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Israelis mostly began arriving in the 1970s, attracted to Bangkok’s gem and jewelry trade, while others sought to advise the Thai government about methods of dry agriculture, security and other issues.
In 1972, four Arab “Black September Ali Taha Group” gunmen invaded the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok, denounced the “Zionist occupation of Palestine” and seized six hostages. After negotiations, the hostages were released and the siege ended peacefully. The guerrillas were given safe passage to Egypt, flying out on a Thai International plane.
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Richard S. Ehrlich is from San Francisco, California. He has reported news for international media from Asia since 1978, based in Hong Kong, New Delhi and now Bangkok. Read more about Richard S. Ehrlich
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