Russian couple Antonina Pavlova, 23, and Denis Skvortsov, 31, have been accused by Pattaya police of a series of robberies at upmarket Pattaya hotels.

 Russian couple Antonina Pavlova, 23, and Denis Skvortsov, 31, have been accused by Pattaya police of a series of robberies at upmarket Pattaya hotels. Ms. Pavlova would meet a hotel guest, go to his room and have sex, steal the room key and hand it over to Mr Skvortsov who would come in later and steal belongin...

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Five people were killed and at least five were injured when a bar fight in Bangkok triggered a high-speed vehicle chase

 Five people were killed and at least five were injured when a bar fight in Bangkok triggered a high-speed vehicle chase and car crash, police said. Investigators said the chase followed a dispute in the X-Zyte Pub where two groups of people were drinking. Passengers in a Civic allegedly tried to shoot out the tires of the truck when both vehicles crash...

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Police have found bomb-making materials in another house rented by Swedish-Lebanese terror suspect Hussein Atris

 Police have found bomb-making materials in another house rented by Swedish-Lebanese terror suspect Hussein Atris in the Mahachai area of Samut Sakhon. Voranai Vanijaka writes: At the end of the day, as an ordinary citizen I have no idea what's going on, other than that the whole ordeal stinks, and I have a feeling that the real conspiracy here is the concerted effort by the Thais, Israelis, Americans, Swedes and Hezbollah to confuse the hell out of ...

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Huge Billion Baht Drugs Haul

 Police have seized 3.8 million methamphetamine tablets in Thailand's largest drug bust in years. The haul was estimated as worth more than one billion baht ($31.7 million). Police Maj. Gen. Comronwit Toopgrajank said the pills and 71 kilograms of crystal meth were found hidden in an empty house in Bangkok's northern outskir...

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A grisly event in South East Asia highlights the region's developing meth-driven drug war

 The Mekong River in Thailand Photo via By Jed Bickman 10/11/11 | Share Uppers Rock the World New Life for Asia’s Golden Triangle China Unveils Radical New Approach to Drug Treatment Vietnam's Rehab Gulag Revealed Spinning to Cambodia! In one of the grisliest incidents of the drug war in South East Asia in recent memory, the corpses of thirteen Chinese sailors have been found by Thai authorities on the Mekong River. The victims, including two female cooks, were blindfolded, bound, and shot dead. They're believed to be the crew members of two Chinese cargo ships that were hijacked last week by Thai drug gangs—the boats were recaptured in a firefight with Thai police and 950,000 methamphetamine pills were discovered on board. It's unclear whether the meth was loaded onto the boats by the...

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Switch to olive oil for better health

 Indian households should completely switch to olive oil as a cooking medium as its nutritional value is very high, it is rich in monounsaturated 'good' fats and, when used daily, can bring instant and easy wellness to a family's diet, celebrity chef and noted cookery expert Nita Mehta says. "Even though we have such a wide range of olive oils in our market, people don't seem to use them because of their mental block that the flavour of olive oil doesn't gel with Indian flavors," Mehta said at the launch here Satuday her latest book, "Indian Cooking With Olive Oi...

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