I've been following this story for a while now and it still has me scratching my head. From the Phuket Gazette: PHUKET CITY: After spending more than five months in a Phuket jail, the German teenager arrested along with 43-year-old Briton Dax Young on child sex abuse charges in March is set to fly home next month. The 18-year-old, who …

I'm not sure when it happened as I've been out and about recently, but at some point this blog was "hacked" and some suspect code ended up causing a few problems. I've updated WordPress and resolved the issue. Posting frequency will still be down until I'm back to work and whatnot, but fear not, I shall return.

Please be advised that two hotels in Jakarta were bombed this morning. They are the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotel. Bombs detonated at these hotels five minutes apart from each other. 6 to 12 persons are reported as being killed with several others seriously injured. It is not known if the UN has sustained casualties in these incidents. Until the …

"We are concerned about [pedophilia and prostitution] because it is such a serious, grave and important issue for other countries, and yet our country responds like it is not a big deal. This will suggest to people from other countries that Timor-Leste is a place that practises pedophilia and prostitution, which will impact the state’s ethics and morals," said MP …

There was a story in The Times recently about a British couple who claimed they were scammed and falsely arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. There was a media outcry about the incident. The Times lead with: A British couple who were falsely accused of shoplifting in Bangkok airport and were forced to pay £8,000 in bribes to secure their …

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