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Gerald Green, who produced [Oliver Stone]'s Salvador and the Christian Bale-led Rescue Dawn, faces 20 counts. [Patricia Green], who produced Diamonds, a comedy starring Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd and Lauren Bacall, faces 21 counts.
Prosecutors contend the Greens paid Juthamas Siriwan, the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, about $1.8 million, often disguised as sales commissions, to help secure the Bangkok International Film Festival and tourism-related deals, beginning in 2002. The Greens' lawyers said they never paid to get the contracts.
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... Maritime transport Telecommunications Tourism Thailand has entered into the seventh package of...
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... of the governments of Cambodia, Laos and Thailand to build a huge golf resort in a pristine forest a...
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... population and an outflow of refugees to Thailand and other neighbouring countries. . The situation ... announcements discouraging Canadian tourism to Burma and urging the business community not to ...
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From the splendour of Prague, a 1,000-year-old city preserved in time, to the gypsy violins of Budapest -- eastern Europe's liveliest and most cosmopolitan metropolis -- you'll treasure every moment of this memorable vacation. The delightful Danube sets the stage for an incredible cruise through the fascinating Main-Danube Canal between Budapest and Nuremberg. Enjoy a guided visit of Fisherman's Bastion with a welcome reception in Budapest, and guided sightseeing in medieval Regensburg, with a visit to the Old Chapel. Tour Melk's magnificent Benedictine Abbey (with wine tasting), experience the music, art, culture, and historical sights in romantic Vienna, and take part in a guided city walk in Durnstein, and more.
The tour includes; air from Winnipeg to Budapest and return from Prague...
...Thailand hopes a newly created drink called Siam Sunrays w...The Tourism Authority of Thailand unveiled the drink, calling ...
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Dr. Vishit, a Bangkok dentist and meditation devotee, introduces a dozen or so newcomers to the meditative arts. Like Socrates, he begins with questions. "Where's the mind?" he asks us. "Is it here?" He points to his head. "Or here?" He gestures to his heart. Someone (okay, me) suggests the stomach. "Very good," he replies. (I glow, a star pupil.) "The centre of your body is the home of your mind. The first cells attach to the abdomen, the heart and brain come after." To work and relax at the same time, he continues, we must learn to "breathe from the centre." As we diligently try to breathe from our middles, Dr. Vishit reminds us that no single emotion - not even happiness - should take precedence over the others. He then asks if anybody feels tired during the day. Hands shoot up. City...
...Nancy Wigston. KOH KRED, Thailand -- My favourite Bangkok newspaper headline reads: ... on travel in Thailand visit the Tourism Authority of Thailand Web site at www.itourismthai...
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From the pubs of Ireland to the casinos of Las Vegas, to the hedonistic pleasure palaces of Thailand," [Bob Sullivan] avows he "learned a great deal during my 12 months of isolation, degradation, depredation, inebriation, confabulation, masturbation, consternation, and elation.
In Ireland he learns to "drink like the Irish." And there's nothing sacramental or enlightening about his boozing. It's simple and straightforward: "I love being drunk. I love getting drunk."
Despite Bob's avowal that he "learned a great deal," there's little evidence his chronically "hammered" misadventures wised him up one whit.
...Last stop, Thailand, sex tourism capital of the world. Enough said. However, sudden...
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Lawyer Kevin McCullough said when such a request is made, the Thais may not get [Orville Frank Mader] back as fast as they'd like.
During Friday's court appearance, the slightly built Mader stood quietly in the prisoner's box in Abbotsford provincial court while Crown prosecutor Wendy van Tongeren Harvey and a duty defence lawyer discussed his next appearance with the judge.
If there is going to be a big extradition fight and there's sufficient evidence, it's probably a better alternative to have him face charges here in Canada rather than have a long, protracted legal battle," said [Benjamin Perrin], adding victims could testify from Thailand via video link.
... its relatively new law against child-sex tourism. Officials said Canada has not yet received a form...
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... Siriwan, the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand ("Governor Siriwan"), and he...
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A telephone interview, a resumé and a picture of the candidate is all we have," said Kim Soo-ho, an official at Englishwork, a teacher-recruiting agency in Seoul, South Korea.
"It's a very traditional pedophile strategy," said Bernadette McMenamin, head of the Australian-based advocacy group Child Wise.
"People who are offenders of all sorts are being able to move anonymously across borders," said Carmen Madrinan, executive director of Bangkok-based ECPAT International, a network of organizations working to fight commercial sexual exploitation of children.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The English-teaching circuit in Asia is filled ... in countries like Thailand where tourism drives the economy, puts pressure on schools to fi...