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08 Nov 09
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Gay sex film banned in Thailand for political rifts Filmed in a Bangkok hotel room, the scene offers lots of out-of-focus flesh, lots of fast breathing, lots of hands pawing at tighty whiteys. But that’s not why Thailand’s Ministry of Culture banned the film. His film was censored, he said, for baring... |
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03 Nov 09
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Thailand's fugitive former prime minister tweets on the run Since fleeing Thailand last year, the self-exiled, billionaire ex-premier has zig-zagged the globe while stirring anti-establishment supporters from afar. He has incessantly needled the ruling party through in-country proxies, sarcastic Tweet messages and... |
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25 Oct 09
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Cheek Piercings (Warning, It is very Extreme & GRAPHIC) Devotees pierce their bodies to celebrate a Vegetarian Festival in Thailand. These are really extreme and very graphic. |
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24 Oct 09
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Fake Viagra sweeps over Thailand & Southeast Asia Pharmo-piracy sweeps Thailand, and the rest of Southeast Asia. It's a deadly problem. Little is real in Patpong, a glowing bazaar and sex district here in Bangkok. The Gucci is fake, the DVDs are pirated and the go-go girls tell every man he’s handsome. |
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22 Oct 09
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Thai Museum 'Hitler is Not Dead' Billboard Ad Draws Outrage A Hitler billboard in Thailand promoting a local wax museum has locals and foreign governments up in arms. The billboard campaign, which features photos of famous dead people, included a photo of Hitler making the infamous Nazi salute along with the... |
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19 Oct 09
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English Man Brutally Knocked Out In Bangkok Bar (Video) It's always a good idea to be respectful of foreign cultures when you're traveling. Especially if that culture produced Tony Jaa. |
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10 Oct 09
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Climate Talks End, Diplomats Look to Obama for Leadership Global climate change talks came to an end in Bangkok today in an atmosphere of distrust and recrimination, with the rift between rich and poor countries seemingly wider than ever. |
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09 Oct 09
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6 Jaw-Dropping Parkour Scenes From The Big Screen [Vids] From the 1930s, via France, Thailand, and Scranton we bring you the most jaw-dropping Parkour scenes from the Big Screen. |
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07 Oct 09
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Man Survives 165-foot Failed Bungee Jump In Thailand (Video) And surprisingly, it doesn't look that bad... |
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01 Oct 09
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7 Abandoned Cities and Wonders of Modern Asia From South Korea to North Korea, Cambodia to Thailand and Azerbaijan to Hong Kong here are seven amazing oriental and subcontinental abandonments from the Near East to the Far East, from skyscraper hotels and pod cities to shopping malls and amusement... |
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14 Sep 09
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Fighter Knocked Out With Epic Face (VID) This Muay Thai fighter knocks his opponent out so hard, he gives a new definition to 'facing' your enemy. |
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11 Aug 09
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Traaiin!! [PICS] Thailand has its fair share of interesting fresh markets Still, the market at Samut Songkhram, known locally as Mae Klong, has to bring home the bacon when it comes to unbridled excitement. |
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24 Jul 09
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Cops Scamming Tourists at Bangkok Airport At Bangkok's main airport, cops are accusing international visitors of shoplifting from the airport stores and then extorting money from them to drop the charges. Sometimes a "friendly translator" will help the desperate travelers, and then charge... |
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01 Jul 09
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You've been Punk'd. Thailand-style The Borat-Jackass-Punk’d prank comedy genre has proven that Western moviegoers can delight in jokes at a stranger’s expense. But in Thailand and much of Asia, non-confrontation is hard-wired into the culture. Each prank must be executed with care, ... |
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26 Jun 09
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Brutal Muay Thai Knockout To make things a little more fair, the gangly long-legged dude in this video is going to fight a giraffe next. |
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24 Jun 09
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How To Run A Protest Without Twitter This year's web wunderkind, Twitter, has been credited as a force in organizing protesters in Thailand, Moldova and, now, Iran. But in Iran, the government has clamped down on the mobile network and put up Internet firewalls, leaving us to wonder how... |
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04 Jun 09
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Kung Fu star Carradine found dead Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, BBC correspondent Jonathan Head has reported. |
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28 May 09
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Recession Hurting Prostitution Around the World From Bangkok to Nevada, even the world's oldest profession is taking a hit. |
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13 Apr 09
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Anti-Government Protesters Rampage Across Bangkok [PICS] Thousands of troops fired warning shots and tear gas at anti-government protesters rampaging across the Thai capital on Monday, forcing demonstrators to retreat and regroup for what organizers said would be a "final stand." For 12 hours, red-shirted... |
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12 Apr 09
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Thai Leader Declares State of Emergency in Bangkok Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in the capital and surrounding areas Sunday as his government tried to restore order after antigovernment protesters stormed the venue of a major regional summit the day before. |
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04 Apr 09
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Wonder Why They Call It 'Monkey Beach' — Oh Hai! (PICS) These photos from a staff photographer's vacation to the Phi Phi Islands off the coast of Thailand show some beautiful jungle shots. |
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02 Apr 09
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Thailand: The Future Home of Stem Cell Research In a skyscraper high above Bangkok, a fingerprint scanner bleeps, glass doors slide open and female technicians enter a humming lab. One unseals a cold storage tub marked “Thai StemLife,” sending white vapors billowing upwards. Another worker pal... |
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12 Mar 09
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Giant Stingray Could be World’s Largest In central Thailand an enormous freshwater stingray was captured, tagged and released during a National Geographic expedition. Dr. Zeb Hogan, a biologist from the University of Nevada, Reno helped tag and release the animal. It was estimated to be... |
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19 Feb 09
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Buddhist temple built out of one million beer bottles A temple has been built by monks in northeast Thailand who used over a million recycled beer bottles to make the walls and roof. |
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16 Feb 09
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'Astonishing Richness' in Polar Sea Species BANGKOK, Thailand – The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all. A marine census released Monday documented 7,500 species in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred that researchers believe could be new to science.... |
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08 Feb 09
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Bangkok will be submerged by 2030 “Right now, nothing is being done,” says Meteorologist Smith Dharmasaroja, head of Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Center. “And if nothing is ever done? Bangkok will be flooded.” By 2030, Bangkok will lie under 1.5 meters (5 feet) of seawa... |
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26 Jan 09
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Shit on King Bhumibol of Thailand - FREE JAILED AUTHOR! Australian writer Harry Nicolaides was sentenced to three years in a Thai prison for insulting Thailand's royal family in his 2005 novel "Verisimilitude," which sold seven copies. The offending passage was just a few sentences long and referred to the... |
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01 Jan 09
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'Dozens die' in Bangkok nightclub At least 53 people have been killed in a fire in a nightclub in the Thai capital, Bangkok, police said, quoted by Reuters news agency. More than 100 others were injured in the blaze, which broke out as people took part in New Year's Eve celebrations, the... |
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30 Dec 08
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Thai police to wear smiley-face masks For the first week of the year - and longer if people seem to be smiling back - highway policemen in Thailand will wear smiley-face masks "to lift the mood of motorists," according to police officials. |
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27 Dec 08
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iPhone nano knockoffs already on sale in Thailand (Photos) Those eagerly anticipating next month's Macworld and the prospects of a smaller iPhone should beware, as a slew of tiny clones are introducing confusion as they reach store shelves. |
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26 Dec 08
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Australian Arrested In Egypt: Smuggling 2,000yr Old Mummies An Australian teacher who stuffed his luggage with 2,000-year old animal mummies and religious figurines wrapped as gifts has been arrested, an Egyptian airport security official said. The man was heading to Thailand when a security official became... |
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13 Dec 08
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Lightning Strike -- BAAAAAAAM! -- In Bangkok, Thailand Photo credit: Shiraz |
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10 Dec 08
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Woman 'pregnant' with monkey convicted of smuggling A Washington woman who hid a sedated monkey under her blouse on a flight from Thailand was convicted of violating wildlife laws for smuggling the monkey into the United States, prosecutors said Tuesday. |
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03 Dec 08
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Empty aircraft fly from Bangkok The deal with protesters was reached after 7 days camp at the international Airport. |
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02 Dec 08
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Court ruling brings down Thai government BANGKOK, Thailand – A court dissolved Thailand's top three ruling parties for electoral fraud Tuesday and temporarily banned the prime minister from politics, bringing down a government that has faced months of strident protests seeking its ouster. |
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06 Nov 08
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Ex-MPAA and IFPI Anti-Piracy Enforcer Shot Dead A man described as an “anti-piracy hero” has been gunned down in Thailand. Kasim Cha Tong, a former director of the MPA and anti-piracy campaigner for the IFPI, died by a single shot from a sawn-off shotgun. The killer escaped. Police are investiga... |
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29 Oct 08
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Thai Temple Built From 1 Million Recycled Bottles The Wat Pa Maha Chedio Kaew temple has found a way to bottle-up Nirvana, literally. The temple, which sits in Thailand’s Sisaket province, roughly 370 miles northeast of Bangkok is made of more than a million recycled glass bottles. |
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10 Sep 08
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Top 10 Badass Hitmen Movies With the miss of Bangkok Dangerous we got an opportunity to reminiscence some of the best hitmen movies. |
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08 Sep 08
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'Dangerous' Looking to Bangkok at Box Office The top flick in the land was the lone new release this week: Nicolas Cage’s piece of junk Bangkok Dangerous. Yet it only made something like $7.8 Million. Not even eight freaking million dollars for a first-place movie!! Now that really is sad, folks.... |
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22 Aug 08
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How to Backpack Around Southeast Asia on $20 a Day Now that you have climbed Buddhist temple stairs, stood on the killing fields and partied in Bangkok, you can spread the word to all those smirky friends that backpacking in Southeast Asia isn’t just for college kids trying to find themselves. Or you m... |
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05 Aug 08
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Thailand Pulls Grand Theft Auto After Murder Sales of Grand Theft Auto have been halted in Thailand. On Monday, a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver in attempts to recreate a scene from GTA reports Reuters. The game's Thai distributor is pulling GTA from Thai game shops and... |
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04 May 08
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Thai Dog Rescue Two kids rescue a puppy trapped in an aqueduct in Thailand. |
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03 May 08
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Giant Stingrays Found Near Thai City [PICS] Recreational fishers and biologist Zeb Hogan hold a live, 14-foot-long (4.3-meter-long) giant freshwater stingray the fishers caught in the Bang Pakong River in Chachoengsao, Thailand, on March 31, 2008. |
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08 Apr 08
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Probably The Best Beer in Thailand One of the main tourist attractions of Lopburi, Thailand is the monkeys that are adding their mischievous character to the ancient city's scenery. |
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17 Mar 08
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Stunning Images Of Spring-Nature From Around World [Nat Geo] Beautiful mix of photos. From wildflowers of Petra, Jordan to close up of hummingbird seeking nectar; to 1 of oldest gardens in U.S. to poppies in Denmark & Thailand. Really simple yet vivid stuff. |
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14 Mar 08
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The 8 Most Endangered Coastlines in the World Coastal regions like Mallorca, Phuket and the Caribbean Islands are major tourist destinations, but they are also endangered by a shifting environment. From climate change to pollution to over-fishing, the following eight coastal regions face significant... |
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14 Feb 08
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No sex on Valentine's So says the Thai Police. The annual campaign to ensure good behavior on February 14 will see city officials turn on all lights at public parks in the capital Bangkok, while parents are urged to make sure their teenagers come home early. |
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09 Feb 08
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Referee gets beaten up by entire soccer team! "BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai soccer referee was beaten up by an entire team after sending off three of their players during a match to decide promotion to country's second division, local media reported on Friday. Referee Prakong Sukguamala needed 50... |
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04 Dec 07
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Joe Stump's epic tat (Manliness points + 1000) Joe Stump, lead architect at Digg and former "shred guitar supermo", went to Thailand a few weeks ago. He came back with a new addition to the guns show: an epic dragon that was bamboo tattoo'd on. It could probably eat you. |
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18 Oct 07
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Interpol tracks Canadian pedophile suspect to Thailand "For years, images of this man sexually abusing children have been circulating on the Internet," Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said. |
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