Child pornography and other explicit films are still being sold openly along Sukhumvit Road despite a police promise to crack down on the illicit sales. After the Bangkok Post Sunday …

Chinese women’s vulnerability to contracting AIDS has almost doubled in the past 11 years, the latest figures show. By the end of 2009, women accounted for more than 30 percent …

A 40-year-old housewife in Singapore has been charged with seven counts of maid abuse. Koh Bee Choo allegedly hurt 33-year-old Catalina Galvez Calibayan in a flat at Block 711 Tampines …

Anyone selling tobacco products to underaged people in Finland faces fines and a possible six-month sentence. “FINLAND banned selling and giving cigarettes to people under the age of 18, part of …

A woman in the northern province Phetchaboon was arrested last month for cutting off her husband’s penis and throwing it into a trash can at the local bus station. Buariow …

According to reports voiced at a recent Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) seminar in Qatar Thailand currently holds a 38% stake in the world’s medical tourism market, the largest of …

The vast majority of former child sex workers surveyed on behalf of a local NGO said their main clients were Cambodian men. The executive director of the NGO that commissioned …

Tiger Woods looks set to appear at a one-day skins tournament in Thailand next month, the event held to mark His Majesty the Kings 60th jubilee as Thailand’s monarch.Organisers of …

Seventy suspects were indicted at Sundsvall district court on Tuesday for their involvement in the largest doping ring ever uncovered in Sweden. The charges involve people who smuggled, sold and …

Swedish industrialist and scholar Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who made a substantial fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, established the Nobel Prizes in his will.  His 1895 testament stipulated …