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Saturday, 3 April 2010

Kyodo News - Story

Kyodo News - Story: "Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday sought Japan's acceptance of Beijing's planned execution of four Japanese men convicted in drug smuggling cases, saying drug smuggling is a ''serious crime'' and the planned measure is ''based on Chinese law.''"

English Tourist drugged and Robbed in his Central Pattaya Hotel Room | Pattaya One News

English Tourist drugged and Robbed in his Central Pattaya Hotel Room | Pattaya One News: "Mr. Paul Edward Metcalfe aged 60 from England made a report at Pattaya Police Station regarding allegations he had been drugged and robbed by a woman he had met on the street. The incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday Morning when Mr. Metcalfe was walking back to his Hotel located in Soi 12 off Pattaya Beach Road. He encountered a woman known as Khun Joy aged 30 who suggested the pair go back to his Hotel and engage in sexual acts in exchange for a payment of 1,000 Baht. Mr. Metcalfe accepted the deal and the pair went back to the Hotel. Following love-making Mr. Metcalfe began to feel dizzy and passed out. He awoke on Sunday Night and realized the woman had stolen his possessions, including, a Rolex Watch worth around 300,000 Baht, 6,000 Baht cash, two gold rings worth around 40,000 Baht and an IPOD worth around 10,000 Baht along with a 10,000 Baht Nokia Mobile Phone. The report was completed and the search for Khun Joy is now taking place."

Court agrees to extradite alleged British fraudster to Dubai

Court agrees to extradite alleged British fraudster to Dubai: "The court approved the public prosecutor's request to extradite Michael Bryan Smith, 43, to the United Arab Emirates even though Thailand has no extradition treaty with the country.
The UAE Office of the Attorney General issued a warrant for Smith's arrest in August 2008 for allegedly cheating the Dubai-based Limitless Company out of 150 million dollars while working there as a human resource manager.
Smith will appeal the decision, his lawyer said. The British national has been living in Thailand since 2008.
'Although there is no extradition treaty between the UAE and Thailand, the UAE has said they intend to reciprocate on the case,' the Bangkok Criminal Court said in its ruling on the Smith case.
Thailand and the UAE are currently negotiating an extradition treaty but the talks have not been finalized.
The Thai government is known to be keen to have such a treaty in place to press for the extradition of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who is living in Dubai.
'In the absence of an extradition treaty, courts can extradite on the basis of reciprocity,' Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thongpakdi said. 'So if we cooperate with the UAE on this matter (Smith), they should cooperate in a similar case,' he said.
Thaksin faces a two-year jail term in Thailand. In October 2008, the Supreme Court for Political Office Holders found Thaksin guilty of abusing his premiership in 2003 by allowing his wife to successfully bid on a plot of land in Bangkok at a government auction."

Briton hit US Marine, fined

Briton hit US Marine, fined: "Jonathan Graham Thomson Irving, 24, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of punching Mr Clayton Sharrard, 21, on his face under grave and sudden provocation at Orchard Towers on July 4 last year. The victim suffered multiple fractures as a result.
The court heard that a dispute broke out between the two men near an ATM machine at Orchard Towers at about 1.15am that day. Irving started to laugh at Sharrard who warned him not to mess with him. Sharrard then became aggressive and started to use profanity.
Shortly after leaving the place, the victim swore at Irving from across the road. Irving continued to laugh at the victim who then crossed the road to confront Irving. Feeling provoked and fearful of being attacked, Irving punched the victim in the face. The victim lost his balance, fell down the stairs and hit the pavement.
Pleading for leniency, Defence counsel Christopher de Souza told District Judge Lee Poh Choo that his client lost his job as a mechanical systems designer for oil rigs as a result of the incident.
Irving could have been jailed for up to six years for the offence."

Doctor accused of drug crimes

Doctor accused of drug crimes: "34-year-old doctor has been charged with drug and firearm offences after raids by organised crime detectives.
Detectives executed a drug search warrant at a house in Second Avenue in Mount Lawley, where prohibited glassware items were found.
The officers then searched a second house belonging to the man, where it is alleged a small amount of methylamphetamine was found.
That afternoon, a third premises used by the doctor was also searched and a loaded home-made pen gun and two ecstasy tablets were found.
The man has been charged with possessing an unlicensed firearm, possessing a prohibited drug and possessing a restricted item.
He is due to face the Perth Magistrates Court on May 19."

David Solomon, a 44-year-old British national who was alleged to have been in possession of five packets of the Class 1 drug yah ice totalling 6.36 g

Thursday afternoon senior police at the Soi 9 station held a press conference to showcase a motley collection of nine people, five men and four women aged between 18 and 44, who had been arrested in a sweep of the city and charged with drugs and theft offences. Standing out among this crowd was David Solomon, a 44-year-old British national who was alleged to have been in possession of five packets of the Class 1 drug yah ice totalling 6.36 grams. An 18-year-old Thai teenager was caught with 10 yah bah tablets, while the remainder had lesser amounts of the same illegal narcotic and one man, aged 24, was also caught in possession of a stolen motorbike. It looks as though the Pattaya Provincial Court is going to be busy over the next few days.

British man caught with class 1 drugs by Pattaya Police | Pattaya One News

British man caught with class 1 drugs by Pattaya Police | Pattaya One News: "Thursday afternoon senior police at the Soi 9 station held a press conference to showcase a motley collection of nine people, five men and four women aged between 18 and 44, who had been arrested in a sweep of the city and charged with drugs and theft offences. Standing out among this crowd was David Solomon, a 44-year-old British national who was alleged to have been in possession of five packets of the Class 1 drug yah ice totalling 6.36 grams. An 18-year-old Thai teenager was caught with 10 yah bah tablets, while the remainder had lesser amounts of the same illegal narcotic and one man, aged 24, was also caught in possession of a stolen motorbike. It looks as though the Pattaya Provincial Court is going to be busy over the next few days."

Thailand’s Journalist faces 50 years in jail just too late to erase his reader’s comments.

Reporters Without Borders calls for the withdrawal of all charges against journalist Chiranuch Premchaipoen, the editor of Prachatai.com website, who is facing up to 50 years in prison under the computer crimes for failing to remove comments from her site with sufficient speed. Posted by visitors, the comments are deemed to have insulted the monarchy.Arrested and charged on 31 March, Chiranuch was released after three hours when her sister stood guarantee for the 300,000 bahts (6,000 euros) in bail demanded by the judicial authorities.“Once again, the lĆØse majestĆ© and computer crimes laws are being used politically to control and intimidate people with dissenting views,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Amid the current political tension, the Thai public has greater need than ever to receive the kind of objective and quality news that Prachatai.com provides.”
The press freedom organisation added: “The charges brought against Chiranuch constitute a serious violation of free expression. They are not in accordance with the promises the authorities gave last January to combat abuses of the lĆØse majestĆ© law.”Chiranuch’s trial is due to start on 31 May. She has been charged before a criminal court under articles 14 and 15 of the computer crimes act. The charges concern comments posted on the website in 2008, which Chiranuch removed quickly as soon as they were brought to her attention
The press organizations which his jobs is to defend the Journalist works in the world ‘’Reporters without Borders’’ vow the Thailand’s Attorney to write off their defamations cases to Thailand’s Journalist women Chiranuch Premchaipoen who was face a 50 years to stay in Jail cause by her late decisions to erase her readers comments on her articles about the Thailand’s kingdom in her online media Prachatai.com.
The Thailand’s attorney charge the Journalist was doing a computer crime by did not erase the readers’ comments about the Kingdom and Politics in Thailand’s. Chiranuch will attend the courth hearing next May 31, 2010. The Thailand’s court will also charge other Journalist with the same charge, Tantawut Taweewarodomkul, an Webmaster of two website of (norporchorusa.com and norporchorusa2.com) which on their articles support the oppositions ‘’red t-shirt’’ stand to opposed the government.
About 10 Thai blogger were face the same cases, one of them is Suvicha Thakor who was sentenced in Jail about 10 years.

women seeking romance or were in ‘true love’ were less likely to use condoms than women seeking ‘purely physical’ or casual sexual adventure.

Sex tourism has been long conceptualized as foreign men traveling to South East Asia to have sex with female or male commercial sex workers and children. In the 1990s, research started coming out about female sex tourism in the Caribbean. From then-until now, most literature/research on female tourist sexual relations with local Caribbean males—known commonly as beach boy, rent-a-dread or snaky panky—have been to prove or disprove that these relationships are or are not “sex tourism.” Is this sex tourism, romance tourism or maybe companionship tourism? Based on these studies particular gaps and inconsistencies were apparent, which includes the rates that condoms were used in the sexual relations between the local men and female tourists. Due to multiple contributing factors, tourist areas are epicenters for the transmission of HIV/AIDS. The low levels of condom use in these relationships pose a health risk to local and foreign populations.

The actual interactions between the beach boy and female tourist are fairly consistent, but the interpretation is where the debate lies. Studies about the sexual relations between female tourists and local men have been done in Jamaica, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and the Gambia-among a few others. Rather than focusing on the debate and the details or their relationships (characteristics and motives of beach boys, the seduction process, and female tourist motives), I am going to combine information previously researched on the sexual relationships of female tourists and local Caribbean males, with research on the tourism industry, to gain insight and determine the rates of male condoms used to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS.

Female Tourists
Studies throughout the Caribbean have common conclusions regarding sexual activities of female tourists and local male populations.

Many female tourists who travel alone engage in sexual relations with local populations (Forsythe, Hasbun & De Lister 1998; Herold, Garcia & DeMoya 2001; Taylor, 2000).

“True Love” or trusting relationships have a lower rate of condom use than “pearly physical” relationships (Taylor, 2001; Herold et al., 2001; Padilla, Guilamo-Romos, Bouris, & Reyes, 2010).

Female tourists are less likely to use condoms when engaging in sexual relations than male tourists (Forsythe et al., 1998; Taylor, 2001).
In the Dominican Republic, Herold et al. (2001) found that there is a common belief among beach boys that women who travel alone are seeking sexual relationships with local males. In this study, the beach boys estimated 70% of these women who travel alone would have a sexual relationship with a local male. This equaled about 1/3 of the women the beach boys approached. Taylor (2000) found that almost half of single tourist women in Jamaica had sexual relations with local men.

HIV/AIDS and Tourism
The UNAIDS (2009) reports that throughout the Caribbean region heterosexual transmission is the leading source of HIV infection rates, which can be tied sex work. Often when discussing sex work, the literature focuses on female sex workers or men who have sex with men (MSM). It is not until recently that there is a growing body of literature focusing particularly on male heterosexual sexual relations with female tourist populations. The thriving Caribbean tourist economy poses a considerable risk for local and foreigners. Risky sexual behavior among female tourists and local Caribbean males could lead to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and/or HIV/AIDS. The effect of STDs and HIV/AIDS transmission are continually a threat to the people of world. In the Caribbean alone 240,000 of the population is infected with the deadly virus (UNAIDS, 2009). The Caribbean has the second highest rate of HIV infections after Africa; Jamaica alone had a 9% infection rate among sex workers, in 2005. Padilla (2010) suggests that tourist areas are geographical, socially, and behaviorally distinct spaces that increase the risk associated with HIV/AIDS transmission (p. 71). Padilla (2010) points out that this increased risk for HIV transmission in tourist areas are due to four main reasons described as follows:

high HIV prevalence rates among sex workers and their clients,

high rates of HIV risk behaviors in tourism areas,

demographic changes resulting from labor migration, and

alcohol and drug use in tourism areas (p. 71).
According to Kempadoo (2004) and Padilla (2010), HIV rates are high among sex workers and migrant populations. The majority of young men working in tourist areas migrated from rural areas in search of economic advantages. Migration for labor purposes are often tied to sex work especially in tourist areas.

There have been concerns that the high rates of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean could discourage tourists visiting the islands and affect the tourism industry. Forsythe et al., (1998) study in the Dominican Republic explored this concern. The research found that some tourists who engage in sexual relations believe HIV/AIDS rates are much higher than the actual prevalence; therefore, in these cases, the risk of HIV did not discourage sexual encounters. Single women traveling alone perceived their personal risk higher than men traveling alone. It was these people who perceived that their risk was high that would be the most receptive to HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns in the country. When making travel plans, the majority of tourists did not consider HIV/AIDS infection rates in the destination country.

Condom Use
When evaluating literature regarding the Caribbean in particular, there are inconsistencies in the actual rate that condoms are used among female tourists and Caribbean males. For example, Herold et al. (2001) found that in the Dominican Republic the beach boys response to how often they use condoms with female tourists was contradictory to the female tourists interviewed. The beach boys responded that condoms were mostly used during their first sexual encounter but decreased as the relationship progressed. The female tourist’s claimed using condoms every time they were involved in sexual activities. Common beliefs among beach boys were that overweight women were economically stable and less sexually experienced; therefore, the risk of contracting an STD or HIV/AIDS was reduced. Forsythe et al. (1998) interviewed hotel workers of those who engaged in sexual relations with female tourist and 95% of these hotel workers said they used condoms every time they had sex.

Taylors (2001) study, in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic found that 67% of the female tourist’s claimed using condoms as protection, much less than the previous studies suggested, while 15% used no protection at all. Interestedly, women seeking romance or were in ‘true love’ were less likely to use condoms than women seeking ‘purely physical’ or casual sexual adventure. Also, the women who had multiple partners or who acknowledge ‘helping’ out the beach boy financially were more likely to use condoms. Previous studies have pointed out the age of the tourist, saying that older women are normally more financially stable and willing to give gifts or payments; many have purely physical motives, which in turn may lead to more condom use (Taylor, 2001).

This research is consistent with global studies that have documented the link between trusting relationships and decreased condom use (Padilla et al., 2010). Overall research on tourist relations suggests that female tourist use fewer condoms than male tourists, while engaging in heterosexual relationships with local populations. This research states that 75% of female tourists who have sex with local partners use no condom, while 42% of males do not use condoms (Forsythe et al, 1998).

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