Canadian accused of pedophilia in Thailand arrested in Vancouver airport

A Thai police officer, Pottaput Kamho, said today that he received confirmation from police in Bangkok that the Canadian Orville Frank Mader, 54 years old, had been arrested on wednesday in Vancouver airport. Mader is accused of sexually abusing on 8 years old boy in Pattaya.
2 days ago, Thai police discovered new details about this case. The boys went to Pattaya shopping mall at 10 pm to meet some friends. After that he went down to city's gay district, the way to go home. At about 12 am he was kidnapped by a Thai man who rent his room to Mader to have sex with the young boy.
A police officer said the alleged encounter lasted for about an hour, between 1 am and 2 am.
The following day, the boy's father filed a complaint with the police when he asked him where he got the money.
Canada has an extradition treaty with Thailand so the Canadian sex tourism should be extradited to Thailand to face the charges.
Mader is the second Canadian currently facing child sex charges in Thailand. Christopher Paul Neil was arrested earlier this month after an international manhunt. He reportedly stayed in the same Pattaya hotel as Mader. Surveillance cameras have captured images of them at the Ben Mansions hotel.
Some Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, are visited by pedophiles due to lax law enforcement, corruption in the justice system and the easy availability of young boys and girls who are forced into prostitution by poverty.

Thai Police found 17 bombs in Hatyai

Thai Police found 17 small home-made bombs set up in Hatyai, the commercial capital of southern Thailand's and the biggest city in southern, local newspaper Bangkok Post reported today. The police sweep also took 29 rifles, bomb-making materials and counterfeit vehicle registration plates and illegal amphetamine.
A police officer said that five bombs were discovered close to the Prince of Songkhla University on Poonakan road. Another 12 bombs were discovered outside a restaurant in downtown Hatyai.
If the bombs had gone off it would had created a panic in the center of Hatyai. The policeman declared the bombs that were discovered was low-pressure bombs, which would only cause chaos to the area rather than deaths. It is also believed the bombs that were discovered were the same as a device that exploded last week near the army headquarters in Bangkok, which injured two soldiers. The tourists are already advised from there Embassy to stay away from the tourism area.
On last september, police forces discovered five bombs at a public park in Hatyai. Intelligence warnings deducted a possible attack in the once-bustling tourist city of Hatyai, has spurred the authorities into beefing up security patrols.
Southern Thailand has been the prey of Muslim insurgency since january 2004 that has killed more than 2.500 people. Most of the rebel activity, including attacks on school teachers, Buddhist monks and almost-daily bombings, is located in the neighbouring provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala.

Thai cops fear "Hello Kitty" punishment !

The Japanese animation character "Hello Kitty" has found a new job in the Thai police department. Policemen who break or bend the rules in Thailand will be required to dress in a pink "Hello Kitty" suit.
Pongpat Chayaphan, the chief of the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok, who instituted the new humiliation a couple of days said : "Simple warnings no longer work". And he added : "This new twist is expected to make them feel guilt and shame and prevent them from repeating the offense, no matter how minor. Kitty is a cute icon for young girls. It's not something macho police officers want covering their biceps".
If the "Hello Kitty" punishment doesn't work, a panel comprising 18 warrant officers will decide on an appropriate punishment, which could be standing guard, or detention.
The cartoon character Hello Kitty was first created by Japanese company Sanrio in 1974.
The lovely cat has been popular for years with children and young women.

5 Bombs and gun battles killed 11 and injuring 10 in south Thailand

Early morning on wednesday, eleven people killed and at least 10 persons injured.
In Narathiwat province after rebels staged an ambush and set off bombs, two soldiers and five suspected Muslim insurgents shot dead in the battle, official said.
The ambush happened on road along the railway. Rebels opened fire on a unit of soldiers on a search operation in the Bannang Sata district where Muslim insurgency has been particularly active.
Later in the morning four rebels sprayed dozens of bullets into a house in Narathiwat province, killing two men.
In Narathiwat town, two civilians were killed and six wounded when a bomb attached on a motorcycle parking in front of a Kasikorn Bank explosed. Police officer said it was one of five bombs that exploded in several areas in the town this day.

9 leaders of Bangkok anti-coup demonstration ordered jailed

Thailand's prime minister said saturday that political tensions in Bangkok will likely ease after the arrests of leaders of an anti-government protest that turned violent and resulted several hundreds of injuries.
Bangkok police chief Adisorn Nonsee said the courts had been asked to issue arrest warrants for the leaders of the Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship (DAAD), as the protest movement calls itself.
Nine leaders of an anti-government demonstrators were jailed charging with organising an illegal demonstration, instigating unrest and obstructing police.
Police proceeded to take them into custody and asked the court to approve their detention pending more investigations.
Most of the suspects are senior members of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's disbanded Thai Rak Thai party.
Jakrapob Penkhair, a former Thaksin spokesman, refused to acknowledge the court decision, saying: "There is no justice in this country."
Another protest leader, Jatuporn Phromphan, declared "We are ready to be in jail so as to show that we have been tricked by the court to come and then fall into the police's trap".
The former National Security Council head, Prasong Soonsiri, told yesterday :"The situation has turned increasingly violent because there is still a lot of financial support (from Thaksin) coming in through various networks to make political changes because he is being prosecuted for several corruption charges".
Police carried one protest leader, former judge Manit Jitchanklab, out in his chair after he refused to leave the courtroom.
The nine prisoners are Veera Musigapong, Jatuporn Phromphan, Jakrapob Penkair, Natawut Saikua, Weng Tojirakarn, Wiputalaeng Patanapu-mithai, Manit Jitchanklab, Apiwan Wiriyachai and Jaran Ditapichai.
More than 1.500 soldiers are deployed around Thailand’s capital to reinforce security amid fears of fresh violence during anti-coup demonstration, a junta spokesman said today.

Bangkok police arrest 7 anti-coup demonstrators

More than 6.000 demonstrators opposed to Thailand's military-installed government clashed with police Sunday evening in the most violent protest since a military coup ousted the country's elected government in 2006 september.
The protesters, mainly supporters of Thailand's ousted prime minister, staged a rally outside the home of Prem Tinsulanonda, chief adviser to King Bhumibol Adulyadej, accusing him of masterminding the coup last September that ousted government chief Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thousands of protesters and police officers squared off Sunday in the Thai capital, leaving 150 officers and 80 demonstrators injured. Three police officers were severely injured, said Adisorn Nonsee a police commandant.
Bangkok's Narenthorn emergency center said 109 people had received treatment for mostly minor injuries, including 79 police.
The clash came when police tried to disperse the crowd, the protesters hurled rocks, bottles and other objects at them. But the most serious fighting occurred when the police tried to detain protest leaders as they spoke from a makeshift stage on top of a truck.
Thai police arrested seven protesters.
Authorities today confined any protests or rallies to approved areas and banned street marches.
Police have video and other evidence that those detained were involved in “attacking police and damaging public property” declared Adisorn Nonsee, and he added : “We have been very patient in the past. But last night, the protesters reached an unacceptable point”.
The suspects were charged with "causing chaos, obstructing the work of authorities, and damage of state property, and they include a
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Protest leader, Noparut Worachitwutikul said to the local press : “This is not the end, and we will continue to fight for the return of democracy”.