Thailand – Police raid amateur sexvideo operation in Korat

Via: The Nation

Police yesterday arrested three Britons and six Thai nationals at a house in Nakhon Ratchasima for allegedly running an online sex show that fed footage for broadcast in a UK town.

Ina Radal Davies, a Welshman, said he earned around Bt100,000  each day from running the business for over a year  and did not think it was in violation of Thai laws. The two other foreign suspects are Englishmen Mark Sotell and Kieth Goovyer.

He said the Thais, four women and one transvestite – none of them under age – were performing of their own will and were paid Bt1,500 daily, He said he also earned Bt75 per minute of sex chats between the girls and clients, who want to talk apart from watching.

All nine suspects have been charged with distributing pornographic material, and the two Thai men – Kittisak Saetang and Issara Rakwiset – additionally with drug use, after their urine tests proved positive.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/Police-raid-amateur-sexvideo-operation-in-Korat-30165491.html

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100,000 baht per day x 30.30 = $30,300

$30,300 x 365 = $11,060,600 per year

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And the defense will be, “I didn’t think it was in violation of Thai law”

yeah, that should work

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Pattaya – “Mad” Norwegian Pours Out His Stuff At Police Station

Via: Pattaya Daily News

Pol. Lt. Col. Ratta Pratumkaew Deputy Superintendent Pattaya Police was notified about  was a confused foreigner pouring out his luggage; clothes,  notebook computers and various other items outside the police station in Pattaya.

At the scene a large Norwegian male, age 30 with a shaved head, dressed in white undershirt,  jeans, canvas shoes, carrying the luggage on his shoulder shouting, “Thai woman is not good!” opening his luggage to pour out:  two notebook computers, clothes and other items. He said he did not want the stuff anymore and left the police station without  a word.

Pol.Lt.Col. Ratta  Pratumkaew, Deputy Superintendent kept the Norwegian man’s belongings at the station and said that he didn’t know why the Norwegian man acted like he did. The police will look after his belongings and wait till he feels better and returns to collect his stuff.

http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2011/08/31/mad-norwegian-pours-out-his-stuff-at-pattaya-police-station/

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personal thought:

I believe Pattaya has the highest per capita population of ‘bat-shit insane’ people in the world, bar none!

But then again, the Norwegian didn’t take off his undershirt jeans, and canvas shoes; so he doesn’t count.

http://seattle99.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/breaking-news-pattaya-officially-changes-name-to-%e2%80%98the-infamous-seaside-resort-of-pattaya%e2%80%99/

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A Tale of Two Countries: Family Planning in the Philippines and Thailand

Via: (Manila) Inquirer

Same Starting Point, Different Outcomes

Essentially, the tale is how, starting from the same point in the early seventies, Thailand and the Philippines took separate routes, with contrasting results. Currently, Thailand has a much smaller population, a much bigger economy, fewer people living in poverty, and a better quality of life for the general population. What accounted for the difference?  “Thailand,” says Nibhon, “took family planning seriously.”

Thailand had a slightly smaller GDP than the Philippines in 1975, but it had roughly the same population size, a high population growth rate, a high fertility rate, and a high proportion of people living under the poverty line.

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Comparing the performance of Thailand and the Philippines over the last four decades, the following contrasts emerge:

- Thailand was able to radically reduce its population growth rate to 0.6 percent while the Philippines inched down to 2.04 per cent in the period 1970 -2010.

- During the period 1970-2008, Thailand’s GDP per capita grew by 4.4 percent, while the Philippines’ grew by 1.4 percent.

- By 2008, Thailand’s total GDP was US$273 billion while the Philippines’ was $167 billion.

- By 2010, there were 93.6 million Filipinos, or over 20 million more than the 68.1 million Thais. This gap of 25.5 million is the demographic advantage
enjoyed by Thailand - one that has made a vast difference in the economic performance and the quality of life of the people in the two countries.

- By 2008, owing to partly to its demographic performance, Thailand’s GDP per capita was US$4,043 or more than twice that of the Philippines, which stood at $1,847.

= By 2010, only 9.6 per cent of Thais lived under the national poverty line while 26.4 per cent of Filipinos did.

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Working towards the same effect is the high degree of female autonomy in the Philippines.  The only area of family life where there is a relative absence of female control is reproduction, and here it is not male macho that appears to be the problem but lack of knowledge or access to contraceptives. Nevertheless, male coercion is not absent, though it assumes the form of an ideological and political obstruction posed by the Catholic hierarchy’s opposition to state-sponsored family planning.  

The passage of the Reproductive Health, Family Planning, and Population and Development Bill (RH Bill) would severely weaken this patriarchal barrier to women’s reproductive control.

Finally, the effective use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS is one of the aims of RH bill, and Thailand’s successful campaign is something that the government can emulate.  In fact, we have no choice:  RH or no RH, there must be an aggressive move to distribute condoms along with public information campaign on their use to stem the rapid spread of AIDS, whatever are the doctrinal apprehensions of the Catholic Church hierarchy.

Asked to comment on how the Philippines could get a really effective family planning program going, Meechai answered, “Maybe you should get the bishops to take care of the babies being added to the population each year.”

I could not tell if he was kidding.

http://opinion.inquirer.net/8475/a-tale-of-two-countries-family-planning-in-the-philippines-and-thailand

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Via: wikipedia

PHILIPPINES - 94 million people, the world’s 12th most populous country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines

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THAILAND: 64 million people, the world’s 21st most populous country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand

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Again, 40 years ago, same-same.

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