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Chanapa answers porn charges A well-known actress and model
was yesterday given a suspended jail term and
ordered to pay a fine of Bt4,000 for appearing
in an illegal pornographic film distributed on
the black market between 2002 and last year.
Accompanied by a woman she described as her
lover, Kesarin "Nong Nat" Chaichalermphol
reported at Dusit police station.
1-8-2005
Soft
porn life of a Russian tycoon's wife The wife of a
powerful Russian banker has shocked Moscow high
society by posing naked for men's magazines.
Explicit photographs of Olga Rodionova, a
31-year-old businesswoman, have appeared in
dozens of publications, including Penthouse and
Playboy, and she now plans to star in a soft
porn film.
31-7-2005
Vietnamese domestic workers in Taiwan: Voices crying for help Many young
Vietnamese went to Taiwan seeking for a better life,
seduced by the Japanese movie "Osin" in which a maid
saved money and managed to make a new life for herself
after a difficult indentured life. But the reality, as
Viet Tide reports, turns out far worst than the movie,
and in many cases, tragic.
1-8-2005
Korea: Openly revealing a secret life When she was young, Kim Yeon-ja bellowed
like a man so no one would look down on her. She also
dressed like a man to get a "masculine" job more easily
in the days when women still carried sheathed knives ―
not for protection, but to kill themselves if someone
attempted to steal their virginity.
1-8-2005
How to find a Jewish boyfriend New York journalist Kristina Grish guides
fellow shiksa's into the world of finding a kosher man.
1-8-2005
Mumbai bar girls heading for Jaipur? Jaipur may soon turn out to be the refuge
of Mumbai's bar girls who were rendered jobless after a
ban on their trade by the Maharashtra government in
March. 1-8-2005
Yearning for some romance After her
previous outings as a corpse and spirit, actress Eugenia
Yuan now longs for something in the vein of a cheerful
romance. "I want to do the dark stuff that is harsh,
cruel and painful. But, as a girl, I love to watch
romantic comedies," says the American-born Chinese over
the phone from her home in Los Angeles.
1-8-2005
Japan: Population of males falls for 1st time Japan's
population stood at 126,869,397 as of March 31, up a
mere 0.04 percent from a year earlier, with the male
population down 10,680 - the first yearly decline since
the survey was introduced in 1968.
1-8-2005
Film
on Nanking horrors to be shown in the US The decapitated
heads of Chinese soldiers hang from poles. Women and
young girls are kept as sex slaves, gang raped and their
genitals are mutilated. Babies are stabbed with
bayonets. 1-8-2005
Dispelling ignorance and disinformation on Thailand's sex industry Whenever one
tries to understand any of the tragedies and injustices
that beset this tired old world, one encounters many
barriers. High on the list of these are ignorance and
its first cousin, deliberate disinformation.
30-7-2005
Ancient China also cared about female sexual pleasure For
more than 1,000 years, "The Art of the Bedchamber"
underlined the pleasure, sensitivity and desires of
both men and women, said Sumiyo Umekawa, a professor
with the Otsuma Women's College.
29-7-2005
Panel backs considering women for the Japanese throne An advisory
panel on the Imperial system said Tuesday that allowing
a female to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne should be
considered as an option to avoid an eventual succession
crisis.
29-7-2005
Korea: Court says nude teacher is not art In a case involving sexually explicit
material placed by a middle-school art instructor on his
Web site, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the
teacher had violated the country's laws against
disseminating pornography.
29-7-2005
Former sex slave wants official apology from Japan In 1938, the
then illiterate 16-year-old was destitute after running
away from an arranged marriage in her native Korea. She
took what she thought was a job with the Japanese
military, only to find she had been tricked into sexual
slavery. 29-7-2005
India: Jharkhand girls defy odds and law, get married Gaining
ground for gay rights in India, two young women in a
Jharkhand village defied society and law to get married
in a ceremony approved and arranged for by their family
members. 29-7-2005
Is Hindi cinema becoming more uninhibited? In two
recent releases, Kya Kool Hain Hum and Bachke Rehna Re
Baba, all stops seem to have been pulled out to
titillate the audiences with raunchy acts.
29-7-2005
Thai monk caught tricking women into sex A defrocked Buddhist novice who roasted a
baby to create a powerful ghost has been arrested for
allegedly tricking women into giving him cash and sex
during useless animist rituals, according to police and
anti-corruption officials.
29-7-2005
Commentary
The tourists who fuel a Thai tragedy Australia should be helping to clean up
the devastating sex trade it is driving, says Amanda
Fairweather. 29-7-2005
Iraqi women may lose basic rights under new constitution The
irony is not lost either amongst women's groups in
Baghdad or activists in the United States: Iraqi women
who enjoyed basic human rights under one of the world's
most repressive regimes headed by former President
Saddam Hussein are now on the verge of losing their
hard-won freedoms under a US-blessed administration in
the insurgent-ravaged country.
27-7-2005
Mumbai's dance bars shut down, ending livelihood of thousands Dance bars
in Maharashtra have begun downing their shutters in the
wake of the passing of bill to this effect in the
Maharashtra State Assembly last week. The move is likely
to cause immense hardship for both dance bar owners and
employees who face an uncertain future.
27-7-2005
Japan: City to pay damages after hospital refuses care over HIV fears The
Kofu District Court on Tuesday ordered the Kofu
Municipal Government to pay 1 million yen in
compensation to the bereaved parents of a Thai woman
over a municipal hospital's refusal to treat her on the
basis she was infected with HIV.
27-7-2005
Thailand: Man held for nude photos on internet A man was arrested Sunday by the Crime
against Children, Juvenile and Women Suppression
Division (CCSD) for posting nude pictures and the
telephone number of a girl on the internet.
27-7-2005
